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by jcape 7y ago
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/circuitbreaker.asp
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by jcape 10y ago
According to https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/immigration/reports/... it's 285bn USD over 5 years to deport them, and GDP would decrease by 1.45% over 10 years without undocumented/illegal im
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by jcape 11y ago
Because it is treating all of these intended side-effects of using a shell as though they are security vulnerabilities. The problem is that there is a way for untrusted user input to ever touch a shell in the first place. Seriously, I chall
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by jcape 11y ago
I think anyone who follows that method has no idea how things work. I was actually personally offended when Ximian started handing that out as a way to install Mono a decade+ ago, because it is absolutely the worst practice you can imagine:
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by jcape 11y ago
Yes, that thing that is designed to execute commands could possibly result in commands being executed. Similarly, the intended use of a setuid binary is to escalate your privileges. I'm asking you why you thought the knife would stop c
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by jcape 11y ago
If your ~/.bashrc is a SYMLINK to a bash or sh script, bash will AUTOMATICALLY EXECUTE that script on login. If you give rsync command a source or destination with an unescaped colon, it will read an ENVIRONMENT VARIABLE to figure out
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by jcape 12y ago
By analogy, you could say that the Inquisition was inherently unchristian, in so far as Christianity has an ideological character beyond simply "Christ worship". Similarly, if we do the obvious thing and conflate "left wing&q
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by jcape 12y ago
They typically ask that you perform some step of the transaction using an e-mail address tied to the domain, so it's not quite that terrible. The 700USD EV certs actually require corporate registration paperwork, tax IDs, etc. and are
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by jcape 12y ago
tl;dr: Other environments are insecure out of the box, and require applications specifically opt-in to security. Java requires you opt-out of the security. HTTPS is built on top of PKI, which involves a list of trusted root authorities who
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by jcape 12y ago
No. HTTPS should be secure out of the box. If you want to break HTTPS then you should have to do work.
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by jcape 13y ago
The anti-vaccination groups didn't exist at the time, so it's quite likely that Wakefield was just as startled by paranoiac monster he'd nurtured as anyone else. No member of the public (before or after Wakefield) actually kn
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by jcape 13y ago
...and here is Mr. Nichols explaining why even if Iraq did eliminate it's (nonexistent) weapons of mass destruction in 2003, the U.S. would've been right to invade because Saddam had been lying (about WMDs) and willing to invade h
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by jcape 13y ago
Andrew Wakefield owns a patent on a single-measles vaccine, which would be a competitor to the MMR vaccine, and most people who are aware of that suspect that's why he published that shoddy nonsense about autism in the first place. In
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by jcape 13y ago
I'm disappointed that this comment was downvoted so severely. It's a perfect satire of the original article.
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by jcape 13y ago
There is so much weapons grade arrogance in this essay, I wouldn't be surprised if Hans Blix bought a house nearby to cut time from his commute. Seriously, it's a link of this: "Oh my goodness, Google University means people
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by jcape 13y ago
The phrase to describe this view is "false dichotomy": the answer is either someone sticks their fingers in my pants or taxis are allowed to drop people off at the stairs to the plane, 1950s style. There are shades of gray, and co
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by jcape 13y ago
Typically those sorts of things are required for compliance purposes. Stockbrokers (broker-dealers) are required by the SEC to record all text-based electronic communications, keep 7 years worth of backup on write-once, read-many media (e.g
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by jcape 13y ago
Are you seriously incapable of distinguishing "hang on, you are getting numbers that look bad using statistical chicanery" from "Github = teh awesome"? Pointing out that someone whose point I agree with is using bad math as evidence is not
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by jcape 13y ago
That isn't fair at all. It's 99.770% for a single month, immediately following a major event. If you sampled yesterday (or tomorrow, assuming no further issues) it would be higher. If you just look at today, it's at the much lower at 95.871
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by jcape 13y ago
Firefox made sure the "break the entire Internet" button is not easy to find. Those bastards!
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by jcape 13y ago
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah. gasp hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.
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by jcape 13y ago
Nonsense. No project, open or closed, needs a non-contributing pain in the ass, injecting his (and it is always his) nonsense into every single discussion, forcing every conversation back onto whatever topic they felt they lost the last tim
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by jcape 13y ago
FC seemingly goes out of his way to act like an ass, and he got himself banned from a bug reporting tool for it. According to another link in these comments, he was also banned from pidgin's IRC channel, and a friend of mine banned him from
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by jcape 13y ago
@filipec: Dude, that was two years ago. You're still on about that?
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by jcape 13y ago
The terminal is a power-user feature. Unfortunately, there's too much fragile nonsense undergirding Linux to be able to do away with the CLI in the default install right now.