Grandma manages fine. Given that she ran a microelectronics education resource center in her pre retirement days, I think she'll be ok. Grandpa doesn't need to manage any more. That's how cancer works.
Presumably the malware was sending ip packets home, via a path other than tor, so the feds could see the IP address of the local NAT router.
This is a gaping privacy hole in the interwebz that could be fixed several ways in the local stack. E.G. by sandboxing a VM in which the browser sits and preventing its traffic going by a path other than tor. You'd need to prevent sandbox escape malware too, which is not so easy given the way that big software is built.
Maybe, but you can see an edge if you change the angle where the existing angle and the new angle meet. This tells you to back down a little. I guess the opposite could happen with the angle getting gradually shallower. It's not been a problem yet though. I'm not a high volume woodworker.
100 channels makes it sound like the awful days when I had a dish. There mere many channels, mostly crap.
Now there are no channels, there are programs and you watch them by choosing the programs. Channels are an artifact of radio transmission and have no place in internet streamed media.
Why are credit unions better? There're still made up of people, just like normal banks. Why does everyone praise credit unions so highly? They never explain their praise...
~An ignorant millennial
One of the things I didn't miss when leaving the UK is the UK banks.
In terms of sheer utter awfulness it goes UK Banks > US Banks > US Credit Unions.
Credit unions aren't supporting a stock price on the stock market. So they don't pull nearly as many stunts as banks. They tend to be more localized as well which somehow makes them better.
I meant 4000 or 8000 grit sandpaper. The stuff you get in automotive shops.
I use 3 diamond plates and a strop with green goo at the end, but I didn't always have that. The sandpaper route is expensive if you use it each time, but as a one off cost it's a lot less than buying diamond plates. I got by with sandpaper for a while for both sides of the blade.
I think I got them nice and shiny at 4000 or 8000 grit. The other side of the cutting edge does not need super high grits to cut well - you can but it's diminishing returns. Technically you don't need either side at a super high grit, a wavy sharp edge still cuts, but there's a strongly satisfying psychological effect with having shiny blades when you start.
You generally only need to do the back of a chisel or plane blade once if you look after them. The easiest path in my experience, without using a flat stone or diamond plate is sandpaper on glass. Get grits 200/400 ish up to as high as they go in the thousands. Stick them to a sheet of glass (which is cheap) and wet polish the backs to a nice mirror. The internetz is full of demos.
> the median diamond grade is 0.25 carats/tonne of rock mined. Finding a 1-carat gem-quality stone within that is really rare given that the median size
The only use I'm aware of for a 1 carat diamond is to hang around a naive person's neck.
Epitaxially layered diamond sheets are fantastically useful. Diamond dust is a fine abrasive and is common used in sharpening plates. Correctly cut small diamonds are handy in diamond anvils. Industry is well served with the available diamonds, but they're expensive. Artificially created diamonds would be much more useful since they would be cheaper and are more pure than mined diamonds and would be build to the required dimensions.
On planes I bring a mouse with me rather than use the Lenovo track pad. It's that bad.
Why don't you just take your MacBook Pro?
When I'm traveling on business I need my work laptop (the Lenovo) and I don't want to carry two laptops.
Right because Apple don't make a good enough laptop, you can run Windows and Linux on them but in the end they are not even remotely comparable in terms of performance anymore. If you want a laptop that looks nice then sure, go for Apple but if you want one that performs well, sadly Apple don't make one anymore.
That makes no sense whatsoever. (A) It's wrong. Apple and non Apple laptops use the same CPUs and memory chips. The performance is always in the same ballpark. (B) You are implying that performance is the reason to take a work laptop on a work trip when it is actually VPN and email access. (C) The axe you are grinding has nothing to do with my axe - take it to an grindstone that's relevant.
the rest is from the Podesta email dumps, which as we all should know, can be cryptographically validated via the DKIM signatures.
No they cannot. DKIM does not validate the sender or receiver.
Here's a quote from one of the DKIM authors, posted to the Metzdown crypto mailing list.
DKIM doesn't do what is claimed for verifying email athenticity. A DKIM signature is from the "administrative domain" which is not the same thing as the domain part of the sender. Virtual hosting, many other infrastructure things make it so that the administrative domain is neither one-to-one nor onto email domains in the general case.
It means that legitimate users of a given system can forge messages from some other user and they'll get a DKIM signature on them. Yeah, perhaps you can detect from headers and other things that the message was "forged" but perhaps you can't. I put scare quotes around forged because there are many situations where a user sends a message with some other name on it that are legitimate and in many cases this isn't a bug, it's a feature.
The DKIM signer simply stamps outgoing messages somewhere in the outgoing pipeline, it doesn't have user authenticity in it as anything other than guidance.
Moreover, the DKIM signing keys have to be sitting on some server that processes outgoing email.
This means that in a case where someone has hacked a system, if they have the email stores, they probably also have the DKIM signing key. If they have the DKIM signing key they can create whatever messages they want and sign them, with backdating and anything else they want.
If you're using DKIM signatures to verify a hacked mail store, you're (e.g.) assuming they have the user maildirs, but not the server config files.
Lastly, this property -- that DKIM doesn't provide author/message authenticity -- is a *GOAL* of DKIM. When we were making it, we were very concerned that the legitimate needs of spam fighting etc. would turn it into a tracking and surveillance system. DKIM is designed to make the connection between the DKIM signature and author authenticity tenuous at best.
Here's a short description of the DKIM use case: DKIM allows Gmail to know that a message for Alice from her bank was created by her bank, even when it is forwarded through her university alumni email address.
My personal laptop is a mac for that reason. I can open a terminal, type make, compile my latex into a document, write C or python unimpeded by the environment, sed and awk to my heart's content, edit with vim and generally use the unix muscle memory I've developed over the past 30 years.
Windows runs on my work laptop, but it spends 100% of its operational time plugged into monitors on a desktop, with VNC and terminal windows open to boxes running Linux somewhere in a datacenter, where I do my work designing things and writing documents.
So windows is a thin client, back from the early 90s.
I wonder what a showrunner is. Since I'm not involved in the production of TVs or Movies in any way, I don't have the first clue. Maybe TFS would explain this term before using it?
It's like the DM.
So the showrunner has an extensive collection of dice?
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My eyes glazed over. I only use the command line in an ssh window.
Grandma manages fine. Given that she ran a microelectronics education resource center in her pre retirement days, I think she'll be ok.
Grandpa doesn't need to manage any more. That's how cancer works.
My PC's real IP address is 192.168.0.101.
Presumably the malware was sending ip packets home, via a path other than tor, so the feds could see the IP address of the local NAT router.
This is a gaping privacy hole in the interwebz that could be fixed several ways in the local stack. E.G. by sandboxing a VM in which the browser sits and preventing its traffic going by a path other than tor. You'd need to prevent sandbox escape malware too, which is not so easy given the way that big software is built.
Maybe, but you can see an edge if you change the angle where the existing angle and the new angle meet. This tells you to back down a little. I guess the opposite could happen with the angle getting gradually shallower. It's not been a problem yet though. I'm not a high volume woodworker.
100 channels makes it sound like the awful days when I had a dish. There mere many channels, mostly crap.
Now there are no channels, there are programs and you watch them by choosing the programs. Channels are an artifact of radio transmission and have no place in internet streamed media.
I used to use a guide. It's quicker and easier to just do it by hand. My guide lays idle.
Right, if they were common, we wouldn't be hanging them around people's necks.
Why are credit unions better? There're still made up of people, just like normal banks. Why does everyone praise credit unions so highly? They never explain their praise...
~An ignorant millennial
One of the things I didn't miss when leaving the UK is the UK banks.
In terms of sheer utter awfulness it goes UK Banks > US Banks > US Credit Unions.
Credit unions aren't supporting a stock price on the stock market. So they don't pull nearly as many stunts as banks. They tend to be more localized as well which somehow makes them better.
Designing chips these days is fun. There's a lot more space than there used to be.
You can't write ogham on a quipu you insensitive clod!
I meant 4000 or 8000 grit sandpaper. The stuff you get in automotive shops.
I use 3 diamond plates and a strop with green goo at the end, but I didn't always have that. The sandpaper route is expensive if you use it each time, but as a one off cost it's a lot less than buying diamond plates. I got by with sandpaper for a while for both sides of the blade.
I think I got them nice and shiny at 4000 or 8000 grit. The other side of the cutting edge does not need super high grits to cut well - you can but it's diminishing returns. Technically you don't need either side at a super high grit, a wavy sharp edge still cuts, but there's a strongly satisfying psychological effect with having shiny blades when you start.
You generally only need to do the back of a chisel or plane blade once if you look after them. The easiest path in my experience, without using a flat stone or diamond plate is sandpaper on glass. Get grits 200/400 ish up to as high as they go in the thousands. Stick them to a sheet of glass (which is cheap) and wet polish the backs to a nice mirror. The internetz is full of demos.
> the median diamond grade is 0.25 carats/tonne of rock mined. Finding a 1-carat gem-quality stone within that is really rare given that the median size
The only use I'm aware of for a 1 carat diamond is to hang around a naive person's neck.
Epitaxially layered diamond sheets are fantastically useful. Diamond dust is a fine abrasive and is common used in sharpening plates. Correctly cut small diamonds are handy in diamond anvils. Industry is well served with the available diamonds, but they're expensive. Artificially created diamonds would be much more useful since they would be cheaper and are more pure than mined diamonds and would be build to the required dimensions.
Says the poster using a quantum-mechanics based machine to access the internet.
I am a quantum mechanics based machine you insensitive clod!
And this is the government that kept up a pretense of wanting to join the EU.
On planes I bring a mouse with me rather than use the Lenovo track pad. It's that bad.
Why don't you just take your MacBook Pro?
When I'm traveling on business I need my work laptop (the Lenovo) and I don't want to carry two laptops.
Right because Apple don't make a good enough laptop, you can run Windows and Linux on them but in the end they are not even remotely comparable in terms of performance anymore. If you want a laptop that looks nice then sure, go for Apple but if you want one that performs well, sadly Apple don't make one anymore.
That makes no sense whatsoever. (A) It's wrong. Apple and non Apple laptops use the same CPUs and memory chips. The performance is always in the same ballpark. (B) You are implying that performance is the reason to take a work laptop on a work trip when it is actually VPN and email access. (C) The axe you are grinding has nothing to do with my axe - take it to an grindstone that's relevant.
the rest is from the Podesta email dumps, which as we all should know, can be cryptographically validated via the DKIM signatures.
No they cannot. DKIM does not validate the sender or receiver.
Here's a quote from one of the DKIM authors, posted to the Metzdown crypto mailing list.
DKIM doesn't do what is claimed for verifying email athenticity. A DKIM signature is
from the "administrative domain" which is not the same thing as the domain part of
the sender. Virtual hosting, many other infrastructure things make it so that the
administrative domain is neither one-to-one nor onto email domains in the general
case.
It means that legitimate users of a given system can forge messages from some other
user and they'll get a DKIM signature on them. Yeah, perhaps you can detect from
headers and other things that the message was "forged" but perhaps you can't. I put
scare quotes around forged because there are many situations where a user sends a
message with some other name on it that are legitimate and in many cases this isn't
a bug, it's a feature.
The DKIM signer simply stamps outgoing messages somewhere in the outgoing pipeline,
it doesn't have user authenticity in it as anything other than guidance.
Moreover, the DKIM signing keys have to be sitting on some server that processes
outgoing email.
This means that in a case where someone has hacked a system, if they have the email
stores, they probably also have the DKIM signing key. If they have the DKIM signing
key they can create whatever messages they want and sign them, with backdating and
anything else they want.
If you're using DKIM signatures to verify a hacked mail store, you're (e.g.)
assuming they have the user maildirs, but not the server config files.
Lastly, this property -- that DKIM doesn't provide author/message authenticity -- is
a *GOAL* of DKIM. When we were making it, we were very concerned that the legitimate
needs of spam fighting etc. would turn it into a tracking and surveillance system.
DKIM is designed to make the connection between the DKIM signature and author
authenticity tenuous at best.
Here's a short description of the DKIM use case: DKIM allows Gmail to know that a
message for Alice from her bank was created by her bank, even when it is forwarded
through her university alumni email address.
On planes I bring a mouse with me rather than use the Lenovo track pad. It's that bad.
Why don't you just take your MacBook Pro?
When I'm traveling on business I need my work laptop (the Lenovo) and I don't want to carry two laptops.
What is this fiction that the Lenovo trackpad is ok? There is no comparison with the trackpad on the MBP retina.
On planes I bring a mouse with me rather than use the Lenovo track pad. It's that bad.
An engineer. If everyone else stops buying them I will be the majority also.
My personal laptop is a mac for that reason. I can open a terminal, type make, compile my latex into a document, write C or python unimpeded by the environment, sed and awk to my heart's content, edit with vim and generally use the unix muscle memory I've developed over the past 30 years.
Windows runs on my work laptop, but it spends 100% of its operational time plugged into monitors on a desktop, with VNC and terminal windows open to boxes running Linux somewhere in a datacenter, where I do my work designing things and writing documents.
So windows is a thin client, back from the early 90s.
I wonder what a showrunner is. Since I'm not involved in the production of TVs or Movies in any way, I don't have the first clue. Maybe TFS would explain this term before using it?
It's like the DM.
So the showrunner has an extensive collection of dice?
Don't cross the Maginot scan line.