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by wmt 10y ago
This not an anti-Trump story. The story is about the DA and the police filing obviously wrongful felony charges. Sure, a bigger number of protesters also got similar charges, but that's not a big news because it's everything but o
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by wmt 10y ago
The workdays in Europe are your pretty typical 8 hour days, the difference I think comes from the 15-30 annual vacation days per year, plus all the public holidays.
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by wmt 10y ago
The cloth diapers are also a nice touch! We ended up using mostly cloth diapers until the baby started eating solid foods.
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by wmt 10y ago
No other reason than that it systematically sucks at stopping malware campaigns compared to pretty much everyone else on independent third party comparisons such as https://www.av-test.org/en/antivirus/home-windows
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by wmt 10y ago
The Nordics, where having kids also increases your happiness, are also very high on individualism as opposed to collectivism. The key difference to the US are the public policies that allow families never to stress about things like arrangi
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by wmt 10y ago
How much more? I always imagined that it's more likely for a standard user to open every email attachment and execute it than it is to get targeted by a malicious attacker who knows what software your users are running and writes explo
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by wmt 10y ago
Typical AV for Linux is for server products serving mainly Windows clients, and the Windows clients are more probable to run random binaries. Linux malware, outside of someone trying to crack the computer, largely doesn't exist because
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by wmt 10y ago
Why not radios? I don't see any obvious benefits in using sound waves over the RF spectrum.
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by wmt 10y ago
>Yet, Tor pages I've read certainly weren't describing themselves as a tool of U.S. intelligence agencies funded by their fronts. I'm not sure DARPA or Naval Research Laboratory are really intelligence agency fronts. http
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by wmt 10y ago
Do you care if the results are garbage or not? Because that's why they're booting them out, all Edison results from 2014 and 2015 were voided. http://www.wsj.com/articles/theranos-voids-two-years-of-edis...
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by wmt 10y ago
I wonder how does that even work? If someone drops in an injured person and leaves, will the hospital just let the injured person die on the floor? If bystanders doing nothing raises headlines in India, I'd imagine hospitals doing that
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by wmt 10y ago
Does someone really believe that cognitive dissonance is a bad thing, as the article suggests at the end? I've just always imagined that feeling bad for poor decisions is how you learn not to do poor decisions.
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by wmt 10y ago
I always though it was a reference for covering the ground around strawberry plants with dry straws. Strawberries especially go bad if the berries touch moist ground, gathering mold or fungus, and you'll also want to avoid weeds, so a
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by wmt 10y ago
About those tests, you should know that the testing orgs are using an array a computers with up-to-date AV solutions, and then making them all go to e.g. websites dealing malware right then as soon as they find a new sources of malware atta
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by wmt 10y ago
The only tests against real malware out there I've seen are done by AV-Test and AV-Comparatives, and the top products are pretty good at blocking them. Calling them useless sounds more like your hopes than facts, like calling seatbelts
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by wmt 10y ago
It's a really sad truth that to this date the only effective way to almost fully stop malware is to take away the ability from people to do what they want with their computers. All operating systems that have some way to allow people t
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by wmt 10y ago
The funny thing is that we can measure reality with all kinds of instruments, and based on those measurements have been able to make theories (in the scientific meaning of the word) that have taken us to other planets of our solar system. S
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by wmt 10y ago
Agile and was indeed the OOP Design Patterns of the late 2000s. Sure, there's many smart things in it, and many of those will survive, but when consultants started selling cargocultish dance moves you have to do to succeed, and where a
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by wmt 10y ago
So the NYC HFH idea was indeed to use millions of federal money to kick out low-income families to the street in order to build houses for families who are better off than them? Damn, that's some ice cold ruthlessness.
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by wmt 10y ago
It was in the 90s, especially after the Dr Dobbs article about it, and tons of late 90s and early 2000s games, like Grim Fandango, Baldurs Gate and Escape from Monkey Island used Lua due to its hotness.
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by wmt 10y ago
Why would you want to do that with ruby script instead of your favorite editor, or tr/sed on the commandline? And why would you write a "Close file" comment before file.close?
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by wmt 11y ago
If you just read the reasons why you shouldn't use it for comparisons, you should also understand why it's pointless to use VT for testing if you bypass AV or not. To quote: -VirusTotal's antivirus engines are commandline v
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by wmt 11y ago
"Americans who went to college and graduate school did well. They scored above their peers with similar degrees in other developed countries. For young adults with a high school diploma or less, things did not look so good. These Ameri
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by wmt 11y ago
The focus on Apple writing the OS is something I've wondered about the whole debate, as the core of the issue was never about writing the code, but signing it. The FBI also could've ordered Apple to sign their house-made FBIOS for
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by wmt 11y ago
There you go again, misunderstanding what was actually said. I never questioned your understanding of the technology, but your understanding of what Krebs says. Krebs also understands the technology, and quotes David Qu from Foscam about ho
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by wmt 11y ago
Maybe you should read the story again. The core focus of the criticism is directed at punching holes through firewalls by default, and in this case you cannot even disable it. "This is a concern because the P2P function built into Fosc
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by wmt 11y ago
On Windows version big repositories are now noticeably faster than with the old version, which makes this feel like an improvement despite its glaring flaws, like the hassle for the mandatory registration with a bogus mailinator email-addre
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by wmt 11y ago
Finland still carries horse meat, but it's still a rarity, as nobody grows horses for making meat, and it's just adult horses that were put down for some other reason. The nice thing about it being so rare is that it's really
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by wmt 11y ago
I’ve worked 80-hour weeks for the past decade (occasionally 100-hour weeks) Wow. This if anything will screw you up. 12 hours of work + 8 hours of sleep per day 7 days a week leaves you with 4 hours for commuting, showering, making dinner
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by wmt 11y ago
So it was an inside job!

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