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tempVariable··on Signs of Liquid Water Found on Surface of Mars, Study Says
Interesting. I read that in Jeff Goldblum's voice as well. Were there any missions that lifted off Mars and came back to Earth ?
tempVariable··on Give Google Contributor a try: Pay to remove ads
It is just short of mafia protection money.

The concept that as a user, I don't know the ultimate bribe cost. Plus constant worry that it may go up or worse, the rules have changed and prices( read bribes ) went up. What a backwards way of shimmying your way into what should be : consumer + producer relationship.

I want to live in a reality where I know your costs and you tell me how much divided amongst your users is my share to pay. Let's get Google out of the equation.

What if we had mandatory HTTP headers: "Content-Cost: 0.02" and my browser had a credit card linked against it and I will decide if your content is good enough to buy.

Ads are evil. The industry is evil. And I don't mean it in a bible-churchy-preachy way. These are not people I will ever support with my coin.

tempVariable··on Fukushima
Exactly. OP is throwing in a red herring into a discussion that isn't about it at all. Instead of detracting from what it is about, talk about what it is about - human failure to create safe conditions for people who live around that area.

While I am not an expert,- this is evident from what I read about on the Fukushima topic in the past written by other investigators. From what I remember, the lost cooling capacity caused by overwhelmed backup system could have been prevented if the rushing water could not reach it. I think it was GE and whichever other participating bodies there at the time that made the engineering and budgeting decisions to design it that way. In an earthquake prone zone, with danger of tsunamis no less.

Thanks to Arkadiusz for posting what is an actual list of facts as they are today, not what is filtered by layers of communication and media relation.

tempVariable··on Unhackable Kernel?
That is $15 for non-members. First Google result for "Comprehensive formal verification of an OS microkernel" is a PDF link on ssrg.nicta.com.au. Good enough for me.
tempVariable··on 'Hackers' at 20
Not to band-wagon it up, but I agree that Swordfish felt like an overly produced Mad TV sketch of a techno-action movie. Expensive cast - cringe worthy though.
tempVariable··on How we cracked millions of Ashley Madison passwords
As far as I know, that is correct.[1] Any change, whether for work factor or algorithm in code still waits for the user to come back and attempt a login, at which point you update the database stored attributes and the hash.

I think that if you can update a user's password without them inputting, then you have two problems.

[1]not authoritative advice.

edit: seems that comments suggest doing the md5(bcrypt(hash)) can be used to upgrade across the board

tempVariable··on How we cracked millions of Ashley Madison passwords
Like protecting your business with an industrial grade door locks on a building made of hay. Just a whole lot of cheating going on over there, ouch.

edit: I don't know if this came up before, but based on how they stupidly tried to cache the login session tokens with md5, instead of running through the 12 work factor bcrypt, I can assume that they saw this as a bottleneck.

Instead of dropping the work factor or doing this caching baloney, could a service be made that runs on extravagantly fast hardware, which provides an API for strong, high work factor bcrypt, pbkdf2 based authentication.

I can assume that at around 10 rounds, each attempt takes about 50 - 100 millis

Thoughts ?

tempVariable··on Who Hacked Ashley Madison?
I'm not asking for a public post, but can you send info how to acquire the AM data dump via EM?
tempVariable··on Who Hacked Ashley Madison?
I know it's a giant long shot, and the Zhu is not using his own IP/ISP, but could the FBI use the screenshot showing his desktop with Twitter, Youtube, Google and do an intersection of IPs on those services for the pattern that matches his use on those services ? The twitter user Zhu, who listened to Thunderstruck and went to Google within a time period.

edit: I'd like to have 1% of the $500k bounty wired in Dogecoins please

tempVariable··on Unity Comes to Linux: Experimental Build Now Available
My first thoughts were indeed of the Unity desktop. Then as I read the article, the confusion and realization set in.
tempVariable··on Google plans monthly security updates for Nexus phones
I have bought a Nexus 4, it has giant issues where you are unable to hear recipients, intermittently until you reboot. This has been reported to Google via so many ways.

Being able to talk on a phone is kind of important. Is it also important to Google ? Since I don't want to shell-out another two bills for a different phone - please let it be!

tempVariable··on Reddit: A Nine-Year Case Study in Absentee Management
I'm not not parent, but - I've purchased a few time-blocks for a different campaigns over last few years and it brought in significant traffic, a bit more conversions, but despite being able to target a subreddit, it is still hard to get your money's worth if you are promoting a brick and mortar store. Unless that store offers tangible goods sold online as well. Location constrained and in-person transaction type of services saw less of a bump in revenue. That is probably true for online advertising overall. My 2 cents
tempVariable··on What happens when you talk about salaries at Google
I've read that you can award a $150 bonus to another colleague, at which point a manager can approve or block the award. The second part,- manager blocking her from getting the bonus is what sparked the additional controversy.

edit: sibling comment says $100, could be either or.

tempVariable··on Introducing Disque [video]
Thank you for providing yet another project to the open source community Salvatore.
tempVariable··on The time has come to stand up for the GPL
Donated. Please do so as well.
tempVariable··on 42 as a Service
I'm interested in seeing the price plan and cost of the 'Pro' account.
tempVariable··on Holder limits seized-asset sharing process that split billions with police
I remember a radio show on Canadian CBC, which talked about the danger of having goods, cash or otherwise being confiscated by less savoury deputies of the law in U.S.

It aired just last year, but I don't remember the exact name of the broadcast.

tempVariable··on Remember broken Nexus telephony? This is how Google treats it's customers
I'm on CM11 with 4.4.4 and I need to reboot daily to get around this issue. CM just posted an upgrade to CM12 nightly for Nexus 4 and I'm thinking of biting the bullet and taking on that upgrade
tempVariable··on Docker Image Insecurity
Docker should not show the '...Verified...' message,- I agree. I have not used it in a while. I also remember that when I used it,- I was aware that it was not verifying the images. That was my responsibility, to double check and peer review the tool which I'm using. Docker is not meant to be used by your grandma and certain level of responsibility is expected on your part.

Now, I don't care one way or another , but your message history clearly points that you troll like a maniac in each Docker thread. With all this time spent, why didn't you research a better approach, create a merge request or Docker-type of RFC post proposing a single improvement.

If you already did - great!

While I haven't contributed yet, I have read the source and saw this entry on GH: https://github.com/docker/docker/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md So there is no excuse not to!

tempVariable··on The State of JavaScript in 2015
This and the related reddit post put some more libraries on my radar and the cycle continues. That is probably the most useful thing for me out of this debate.

I have not dipped my toes into a production app with ember or angular because of the same list of concerns put forward by folks here and on the other-webs.

tempVariable··on Representing Trees in PostgreSQL
In addition to expensive insert/update, it is necessary to keep the left and right boundaries across ALL of your entries in perfect order. If the boundaries get out of whack, fixing the tree is a nightmare scenario.

I worked on a multi-tenant application with distinct trees present in one table and with one tree per table and so on. Fun fun fun!

tempVariable··on Your developers aren’t slow
Ed,

Can you elaborate on peer review and code review ? I have worked with and without these steps and can quantify the hours required and the quality shift in having these steps.

Do you think that these two can be disconnected from the development workflow with acceptable consequences? Or is it that there might be other standards or development measures which are no being met, such that there IS a need for review ?

tempVariable··on Doxxing defense: Remove your personal info from data brokers
Dude, there is absolutely no mention of price, cost , whether it's FREE or NOT anywhere on that site, before I give you my information, and that includes the terms of service copy. I looked and the only headline in the ToS that kind of address it is "You have to pay us in order to use some of our Products". If that is a base-case you start with for new customers, then thanks but no thanks.
tempVariable··on SlimerJS – A scriptable browser for Web developers
>https://registry.hub.docker.com/u/vvoyer/docker-selenium-fir...

Awesome. I've been running headless selenium firefox with virtual frame buffer.

tempVariable··on Ubisoft's Game Developer 'Limbo'
I don't want to repeat what other already have said, so here's another point: this 'opportunity' is about 40% sponsored by corporate government aid. I know first hand from a person who is going to Quebec next month as a 'digital artist' to work on a great project and he is fully aware that the company will receive about 40% of his salary back from citizens of Quebec and Canada.

That 'career vector limbo' is more of an anomaly corporate credit conditions that are very favorable in that region. It distorts market salary conditions so much so that they are willing to poach other bodies to ship them to Quebec.

I am not surprised at all to see this story posted.

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