redspectre

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by redspectre 9y ago
I found your assessment out of context. The context of this article was essentially: "Should we force hackers to come work for us via selective service, even if they are older than the current cutoff age? Should we change the cutoff ag
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by redspectre 9y ago
These attacks are not interesting. They require superuser functionality. Can't believe this wasn't mentioned. If someone has superuser access on your database, it's game over. The real solution is not to go around making DBAs
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by redspectre 9y ago
The problem is, USD is the only legal tender. When I sell Intel stock, that where I made profit in USD. I pay tax on that. But if I trade BTC for DOGE, I haven't made any money. All I have done is swap tokens. And just because someone
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by redspectre 9y ago
The military is the antithesis of hacking culture: - Play by the rules, even if they don't make sense, because I said so. - Listen to people above your paygrade, even if they are clueless, because that's the way we do things
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by redspectre 9y ago
>But I don't and trying to remedy that is proving to be a huge uphill battle. I have six years of college. I worked at a Fortune 200 company at one time. I was one of the top students of my state. You're right, none of this ins
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by redspectre 9y ago
Generally, airports are out of the way from the usual populations that commit these crimes and don't see a lot of traffic from them.
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by redspectre 9y ago
"... has challenged the widely-held assumption that diamond prices could only go up." Did people really believe this? Sounds like these people are as delusional as cryptocurrency folks. No bubble lasts forever. When will people le
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by redspectre 9y ago
I don't understand how the stellar case and the bitcoin case differ in a network partition. You said "if Stellar fell apart and became partitioned, you would stay on DB's side." How is that different from a network fork
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by redspectre 9y ago
If you really need to collaborate on the same file, can't you just share a session in tmux?
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by redspectre 9y ago
There's no free lunch. You're paying for it.
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by redspectre 9y ago
Isn't it sad that we can't have an exciting new technology because the threat that some outsider will blow themselves up? Is there really nothing we can do about this, either now, or in the future?
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by redspectre 9y ago
I mentor plenty of people, women included, thank you very much. I am always willing to help. What I am not willing to do is stick my and my families' neck on the line and take unnecessary career risks. I don't run in fear of women
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by redspectre 9y ago
I'm a male at a tech company, and since the #METOO incident, I have taken defensive steps to ensure I am not embroiled in any career-ending accusations of sexual harassment. I have: - avoided directly talking to female coworkers othe