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cjg_··on Some OS X Applications Vulnerable to MITM Attacks
Mou, Pocket, Sequel Pro
cjg_··on Stripe now supports ACH payments
Ah yeah, but many issuers push it down to the consumer, basically the same case as when you've given the card PIN away.
cjg_··on Stripe now supports ACH payments
Online transactions using Visa's 3DSecure/Verified by Visa or MasterCard SecureCode will shift liability to consumer though.
cjg_··on Now Open – AWS Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region
Not that strange that they not are offering previous generation hardware at new locations.
cjg_··on Now Open – AWS Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region
That's just a Direct Connect location right? Not the actual Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region.
cjg_··on CloudStats – In-Depth Server Monitoring and Ping Check on a Friendly Dashboard
And now it is down with db issues.
cjg_··on Exploit to get root on OS X 10.10 fits in a tweet
Enabling FileVault is an easy countermeasure.
cjg_··on Show HN: Parsing CSV files with GPU
Heh, you cant even DMA 750GB from memory to the graphics card (assuming 16GB/s, using 32 lanes) in 14s.
cjg_··on Optimizing TLS for High–Bandwidth Applications in FreeBSD [pdf]
The only reason they could do 40 GBps without SSL was kernel zero copy. Copying it over to the GPU and back will definitely not be faster.
cjg_··on Theo de Raadt on OpenSSL vulnerabilities coming on the 19th
It is weird, two of them (CVE-2015-0288 and CVE-2015-0209) are listed here also with links to patches, https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/o... Why have embargo on the vulnerabilities if you publish patches anyway? Which makes me think that the patches has not been committed yet and that the embargoed are different ones than these.
cjg_··on HBO’s New Streaming Service, HBO Now, Exclusive to Apple at Launch
Well, depends where you live, HBO Nordic is available in some nordic countries (at ~$10). However not on AppleTV I believe.
cjg_··on 77% will not download a Retail app rated lower than 3 stars
The survey was about retail apps, which Facebook is not.
cjg_··on The Weirdness of 50s Bomb Shelters
And the last photo is from Bahnhof's datacenter in central Stockholm (which is a former command centre). See this Wired article about it, http://www.wired.com/2012/11/bahnhof/
cjg_··on Aurora - New MySQL-Compatible Database Engine
For the claimed 5x performance and 6 way replication, it seems pretty cheap.
cjg_··on Aurora - New MySQL-Compatible Database Engine
Good question.

"Storage consumed by your database, up to 64 TB, is billed at $0.10 a GB per month and IOs consumed by your database are billed at $0.20 per million requests"

Sounds like the replication is included in this, but Amazon really should clarify that.

cjg_··on Aurora - New MySQL-Compatible Database Engine
If you need a smaller instance you are probably fine with regular MySQL instance though.
cjg_··on Aurora - New MySQL-Compatible Database Engine
Just slightly more expensive than the same instance with MySQL on RDS ($0.24)
cjg_··on MeetBSD California 2014 – Agenda
Anyone knows if these talks were filmed?
cjg_··on Firefox 33
DNT only has the effect that the browser sets the Do Not Track header on each request, basically begging the server to not track the user.
cjg_··on Contact Lost with Planes One by One as FAA Fire Spread
Also from the article it says water damage to equipment which made it sound like they didn't have inert gas fire suppression systems installed (or that it couldn't handle the fire).
cjg_··on Contact Lost with Planes One by One as FAA Fire Spread
Separate rooms with separate access control for redundant systems. Preferably made so fire from one room does not spread to the next.
cjg_··on Bhyve – BSD Hypervisor
Actually, OpenBSD just replaced nginx with their own httpd.
cjg_··on ISA showdown: Is ARM, x86, or MIPS intrinsically more power efficient?
Think we have the answer in the source article's abstract,

" Our methodical investigation demonstrates the role of ISA in modern microprocessors’ performance and energy efficiency. We find that ARM and x86 processors are simply engineering design points optimized for different levels of performance, and there is nothing fundamentally more energy efficient in one ISA class or the other. The ISA being RISC or CISC seems irrelevant."

http://research.cs.wisc.edu/vertical/papers/2013/isa-power-s...

cjg_··on WWII Atomic Bomb Project Had More Than 1,500 "Leaks"
Apparently that one isn't the most correct one though, this (very long) article is a nice read about a guy who recreated the inner details of the two bombs. http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/12/15/atomic-john
cjg_··on Netflix's Open Connect Appliances
Newer revisions use 4 or 6 TB drives and such 15K SAS drives does not exist from what I can find.

See http://oc.nflxvideo.net/docs/OpenConnect-Deployment-Guide.pd...

cjg_··on Netflix's Open Connect Appliances
They are actually using standard SATA drives, see spec here, https://www.netflix.com/openconnect/hardware
cjg_··on Tesla Model III to challenge BMW 3 Series
If Ford is suing them for Model E, they would undoubtedly sue them for Model T.
cjg_··on LibreSSL's PRNG is Unsafe on Linux
It does copy the PC. Actually it just return from the fork call twice, one in the parent and one in the child, with different return values, the pid of the child to the parent and zero to the child.

See http://linux.die.net/man/2/fork for more details

cjg_··on Amazon Zocalo
They have a sync application,

"You can install the Zocalo client application on your desktop and laptop computers running Windows 7 or MacOS (version 10.7 or later) and designate a folder for syncing. Once you do so, saving a file to the folder will automatically upload them to Zocalo across an encrypted connection and sync them to your other devices. You can also access Zocalo from your iPad, Kindle Fire, and Android tablets."

This post has some more details https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/zocalo-doc-storage-sharing/

cjg_··on TrueCrypt suggesting migration to BitLocker?
There was a lot of unrelated changes, this release was most likely just cut off their development branch.
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