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Oh wow, I remember workman now. At least I had university Internet, even if the whole country's net was taken down once when someone tried a video chat.

It must have been a year or two later that I wired a doorbell between DTR (I think) and CTS on a Sparc workstation, with a program that broadcast a UDP packet to a Tcl/Tk program running on multiple lab machines whenever tcdrain() unblocked.

Even PowerPC can be both 32-bit and 64-bit, and has operating systems like AIX and Wii U. I'm guessing one of those ports would be a bit harder.

My favourite is car tyre sizes. 215/60R16 means the maximum width is 215 millimetres, the aspect ratio of the cross section is 60 percent, R is both a separator and a code for radials, and it's made for 16 inch rims.

The compromise of technet.microsoft.com, while a very big deal, would be an order of magnitude worse if it was *.microsoft.com.

I guess this is a reminder that writing secure C is actually really, really hard.

Chrome ignores Trusted Root Certificates when checking certificate pinning.

Less sunlight being absorbed by eumelanin in the skin means more sunlight left to be converted to vitamin D. Window glass also blocks most of the UVB part of the sunlight that would be converted to vitamin D.

Apparently(1) EMET prevents this Flash vulnerability from working. Might be time to install it from (2) with the extra "Popular Software" settings on your own PC and any you control.

(1) https://twitter.com/SwiftOnSecurity/status/55846182290312806...

(2) https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/jj653751

Any rocket that could deliver nuclear waste to the sun would use an awful lot of fuel, given the density of the waste, and would be a very big problem if there was a failure shortly after launch.

Also, anything that could deliver radioactive waste to the sun could deliver it to a major city just as easily.

The news is that I found it after giving up on trying to use regexes to parse what our users think their phone numbers are, and I thought it would be useful for other devs. I don't remember seeing it here, but maybe it was in the back of my mind when I was looking for solutions.

Thanks for the link to the older discussion.

Serves me right for not reading through all the slides. I would argue that it's one of the more misleading function names out there, though.

Is it really wise to choose a random number generator based on RC4, which is known to have remarkably strong biases? Surely it would be better to use something based on ChaCha20, Keccak or Spritz if you have the choice?

The "Hello" client seems to be getting rolled out incrementally. You can force it by setting loop.throttled to false in about:config.

I assume that https://twitter.com/safety/status/465797191869554688 is in relation to this, where they call it a bug. I'm very surprised that they don't have any automated tests for this functionality, though.

It can be reimplemented from scratch in a few hundred lines of code?

It's not really the same thing, though. CDB provides a single key -> value mapping in a single file, with updates by replacing the entire file; SQLite is a relational database with updates, locking, transactions, SQL, etc.

Ctrl-Shift-T still works, or you can turn the menu bar back on and use History → Recently Closed Tabs.

Both are PowerPC 750-based according to Wikipedia, which is part of why the Wii U runs games released for the Wii.

Note that PowerPC, as used in the Wii, Wii U and old Macs, is not exactly the same as POWER, as in this announcement. The POWER architecture is used by IBM AIX and AS/400 servers, and by the PS3 in its Cell variant.

Should I stop feeling guilty now about debugging Java programs on Windows using Process Monitor?

It's potentially useful for TLS over UDP, aka DTLS, which is A Thing. I've seen DTLS used for VPNs, but I think it can be used with things like SIP and WebRTC. I don't know if TLS heartbeats are used in any of these protocols, though.

In retrospect, I think using TCP_KEEPALIVE would be a better solution to this specific use case. Are TLS heartbeats truly indistinguishable from normal traffic?

One of the bigger sites using this would be https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/.

Who should do this kind of audit? The GAO is part of the legislative branch, not the executive branch, but presumably they wouldn't have enough "clearance".

The article mentions that Microsoft’s systems support silently forwarding email to a “shadow account”. Here’s Google’s announcement of the same functionality, theoretically only available to Google Apps administrators:

http://googleappsupdates.blogspot.com/2010/05/new-api-releas...

Any significance to the timing?

Almost all lights here in Christchurch have buttons to request that the lights change, except for a few like https://www.google.com/maps?ll=-43.553027,172.663193&spn... where the button does nothing, and you have to stand on the yellow pad until the lights change, or have a metal bike.

Not everyone understands that you need to keep standing on the pad, or that the bike crossing doesn’t last long enough to walk all the way across.

That would be the Google Drive Realtime API, https://developers.google.com/drive/realtime/, discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5403021. I don’t know enough about either of them to know how they compare.

Edit: Actually, they’re really different things.

Free accounts are only sort-of suspended. Once you’re registered, you can get back in without going straight to the payment page.

See https://getsatisfaction.com/newsblur/topics/free_accountis_n..., for example.

I don’t know why the Reader on WordPress.com isn’t mentioned more often. It looks just right for a small, carefully chosen set of subscriptions.

Wikipedia describes it briefly at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_tunnel#HTTP_CONNECT_Tunnel.... The most recent standard for it appears to be RFC 2817 section 5.2, http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2817#section-5.2, and it’s also in the HTTPbis Semantics and Content drafts, currently at http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics-2....

You’ll start running into browser limits at somewhere from 2048 to 2083 characters: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/208427

The original story is at http://www.3news.co.nz/SPCA-teaches-dogs-to-drive/tabid/367/..., though I don’t know if it’s available outside New Zealand.