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When both AES-256 and AES-128 are enabled, many servers prefer AES-128 because "it's faster".

paralelogramon Hacking BIOS chips isn't just the NSA's domain anymore

In my opinion it isn't a bad thing because in the future, when Microsoft disallows disabling secure boot, using BIOS vulnerabilities will be the only way to install an unsigned operating system.

paralelogramon Ask HN: What are comp.* USENET message boards worth following (progr. related)?

comp.unix.programmer

paralelogramon You Can Spend $750 in International Data Roaming in One Minute on AT&T

"Teenager checking Facebook in Antigua runs up £9,000 phone bill": http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2353904/teenager-ch...

"Woman hit with £12k holiday phone bill for downloading BBC sitcom": http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/517556/12k-holiday-phone-bi...

"VC’s mobile phone bill sets alarm bells ringing": http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Coimbatore/vcs-mobile-ph...

"Alberta PC leadership hopeful Thomas Lukaszuk dialed up $20,000 in data roaming charges on 2012 international trip": http://www.calgarysun.com/2014/08/25/alberta-pc-leadership-h...

"Holidaymaker faced eviction after phone giant Orange took almost £1,000 from her bank account for bill she racked up by checking her emails in Thailand": http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2716750/Holidaymaker...

"'Orange billed me £1,477 for £48 worth of data'": http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/household...

"Arnaldo Brown’s million-dollar phone bill due to ‘roaming’": http://loopjamaica.com/2014/10/30/latest-jamaica-news-arnald...

paralelogramon Command-line tools can be faster than your Hadoop cluster

LC_ALL=C makes grep faster because text matching is normally locale-sensitive, for example 'S' ('\x53' in Big5) is not a substring of '兄' ('\xA5\x53' in Big5).

paralelogramon Google broke telephony for many Nexus users

http://www.androidpit.com/how-to-downgrade-a-nexus

paralelogramon Pastebin, Dailymotion, GitHub Blocked After DoT Order in India

https://twitter.com/buzzindelhi/status/550225247455035392

paralelogramon VNC Roulette

It's not possible to use IBM SPSS Statistics over an RDP connection without paying for a multi-user license, even if there is only one connected user.

paralelogramon NSA Reports Improper Surveillance of Americans

Europeans are by definition not subject to American laws

This isn't true.

"Richard O'Dwyer, a computing student at Sheffield Hallam University, faces a potential 10-year term in a US jail despite never having been to America or using web servers based in the country."

http://www.theguardian.com/law/2012/jan/13/piracy-student-lo...

paralelogramon Possible upcoming attempts to disable the Tor network

193.23.244.244: Germany, Chaos Computer Club e.V.

194.109.206.212: Netherlands, XS4ALL Internet BV

154.35.32.5: United States, Cogent Communications

131.188.40.189: Germany, Friedrich Alexander Universitaet Erlangen Nuernberg

199.254.238.52: United States, Riseup Networks

171.25.193.9: Sweden, Foreningen for digitala fri- och rattigheter

128.31.0.34: United States, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

82.94.251.203: Netherlands, NAH6 BV

86.59.21.38: Austria, SILVER:SERVER GmbH

208.83.223.34: United States, Applied Operations, LLC

paralelogramon Yahoo Rick-rolls dead Geocities links

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http://www.limetorrents.cc/

http://kickass.so/

paralelogramon Regin: Nation-state ownage of GSM networks

If you're a mobile network operator, you use microsoft windows to access and administer the base stations out in the field.

It doesn't change much because the base station software probably has more security bugs than Windows.

paralelogramon What Xfinity Internet Data Usage Plans will Comcast be Launching?

Unlimited bandwidth is better for me because I can use the connection without worrying that watching too many videos or downloading too many game updates will cause me to lose the internet access for the rest of the month or get an extremely high bill.

AWS bandwidth usage is not an issue because when the traffic to my websites increases, my ad revenue increases too.