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vwuon··on Self Sabotage: The Swiss History of Rigging Vital Infrastructure to Explode
It's an army we are talking about here; even if Switzerland is not expected to ever face a serious threat, let's be serious.
vwuon··on Self Sabotage: The Swiss History of Rigging Vital Infrastructure to Explode
Uh? And what's the difference between what you said and what he said? I mean it's expected that, if they refuse, they'd have to pay a fine. Otherwise nobody would go
vwuon··on 20K Workers Will Be Jobless in Indian IT Sector, Thanks to Infosys and Cognizant
The other person being honest would have helped much more.
vwuon··on Millennials earn 20% less than baby boomers did–despite being better educated
When everybody has a degree the value of a degree plummets. It's... logic?
vwuon··on Fraudulent tech-support sites cause Firefox to freeze, displaying scary message
I was under the impression that Firefox already shipped with an ad blocker by default?
vwuon··on Fraudulent tech-support sites cause Firefox to freeze, displaying scary message
It's not 403, it is 401.

>But Firefox seems to be somewhere you get rewarded for introducing new features rather than fixing bugs.

Something else they are copying from Google!

vwuon··on Fraudulent tech-support sites cause Firefox to freeze, displaying scary message
Seems like these scripts are triggered by malvertising -- if your ad blocker is properly configured this should never happen.
vwuon··on The IRS has granted nonprofit status to a daily newspaper
Not anymore http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/football/nfl-no-longer-non...
vwuon··on The Windows Update Marathon in a VM: From Windows 1.01 to XP
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20071224-00/?p=24...
vwuon··on Unofficial Windows XP SP4
When I didn't have an SSD, I spent a lot of time configuring the system so it wouldn't do as much IO in the background. Lots of services, as you say, do that by default, and it's unbearable. You'd be using the computer normally and all of a sudden it would start crawling for no apparent reason.
vwuon··on Unofficial Windows XP SP4
Windows XP running on the hardware of the time was much more responsive[] than 10 running on modern hardware.

[] if we don't count accesses to the disk, of course

vwuon··on Half of us have quit our job because of a bad boss (2015)
That's cool because it means you can actually do that if your manager is bad. In some countries there are no jobs so all you can do about having a bad manager is... nothing.
vwuon··on I tried to adjust the time on my alarm clock
That's what I was thinking. This guy is one of the most reputable software developers in the world, bearing the weight of the Windows Shell on his shoulders, with a career that spans decades... and he bought... an alarm clock with wifi? Was he drunk that day?
vwuon··on Windows XP minimal-requirement experiments (2006)
From my own computer. Haswell CPU

https://i.imgur.com/5xPvoPA.jpg

vwuon··on Fortnite Pastoral
I'm pretty sure everybody knows Fortnite by its BR mode, so this only applies to you and a handful of other people.
vwuon··on Windows XP minimal-requirement experiments (2006)
I've seen many BIOS that allow you to do that
vwuon··on The AdaOS Operating System (2000)
That's what the owner of the project uploaded. Sourceforge allows you to host repositories like github/etc, but the repo of this project is empty: https://sourceforge.net/p/adaos/code/ref/master/
vwuon··on Adding Client-Side Scanning Breaks End-to-End Encryption
>The simplest possible way to implement this: local hash matching. In this situation, there’s a full CEI hash database inside every client device. The image that’s about to be sent is hashed using the same algorithm that hashed the known CEI images, then the client checks to see if that hash is inside this database. If the hash is in the database, the client will refuse to send the message (or forward it to law enforcement authorities).

The image could be scanned when it's received, and not when it's sent. That way you can't use hacked clients to send forbidden images.

vwuon··on Shared Cache Is Going Away
>When you visit my page I load www.forum.example/moderators/header.css and see if it came from cache.

Why can your page know if a certain resource came from cache? Can't that hole be plugged, instead?