mperd

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by mperd 12y ago
Thanks, I did not know about that kind of worms or about the Welchia worm.
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by mperd 12y ago
Good point. So I guess one would have to combine that with another vulnerability to be able to get root privileges. We could also imagine a worm contacting the owner of the server and asking her to fix it.
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Ask HN: Could we use Shellshock to patch vulnerable systems?
15 points by mperd 12y ago|9 comments
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by mperd 12y ago
I don't want you to listen to my arguments, I was simply answering to your question about stats. I have often found out that convincing people that didn't want to be convinced took way too much energy.
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by mperd 12y ago
Why I don't understand when I read your comment is the generalization over "men". These articles are not about how each and every single man harrassed, raped or killed a woman. It's the other way around: it's women
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by mperd 12y ago
Not everything in life can be apprehended through stats, and sometimes we should be able to simply acknowledge the fact that others are having a hard time because of the way we're shaping our society. But anyways, here's something
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by mperd 12y ago
I think we should treat someone that's receiving death and rape threats on a daily basis differently than someone who does not. That we should treat someone that's more likely to be raped or killed differently than someone who is
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by mperd 12y ago
Your comments in this thread are about dismissing the message of the article, by reversing the roles (you talk about men being "harassed" by this article), by using rhetoric analysis (which looks to me like an excuse to share two
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by mperd 12y ago
I haven't been reading HN for that long, but I'm rather impressed that this thread didn't get that much similar comments. I think it shows community maturity and also that these subjects are getting through in the IT crowd.
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by mperd 12y ago
If you consider an object as something to be acted upon, of the 4 ways of representation you cited, only the first usually applies. Other ways of representation, in the examples I can think of, are often of active characters, either the cor