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Bill Cheswick re: On Doing #Security Work For The Government
A job in Washington? The upside: the government certainly has smart people working on interesting projects. Some of the ideas and technology are astonishing. Most of the problems are well-worth solving. Some friends even get to carry guns. What are the downsides? I made a list, as I heard discussed at the conference: It’s hard…
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Cure Yourself of Female Weakness with Sharum’s Vegetable Tonic!
See also: CONSTIPATED 66 YEARS! From Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, 1904. Don’t wait until you’re worse!
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What it looks like inside Amazon.
What it looks like inside Amazon.. – Imgur. wow.
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Alash Ensemble with Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, 12.12.08 #tuva
The theme is “Dyngyldai”, also recorded by Huun Huur Tu on “Where Young Grass Grows”.
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Residential Data Feeds, Inc. # Bill Cheswick Home Automation #MUSTREAD (+ includes @stephenfry) /ht @wcheswick
Our home intercom has been connected to a computer for about fifteen years. The auxiliary input of the intercom is connected to the audio output of the server. We almost never use the other intercom inputs. The computer has been supplying us data about the outside through canned announcements and text-to-speech. What sort of data?…
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Pierre Curie has an entry in the 1922 Larousse Universel Encyclopaedia. Marie Curie does not.
She gets a mention. Under her maiden name. In her husband’s entry. With no separate entry for herself, even. Hmm. Context
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The World of Larousse Universel
When I had the pleasure of visiting Chez Gravier recently, I discovered Nicole’s 1922-edition Larousse Universel, which I then monopolised as a conversation piece for the rest of the trip. The images are fantastic, and not entirely politically correct by modern standards: …but I’m clearly not the only person to appreciate them in context. One…
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BtrFS Hash Collision Attack – one for @darrenmoffat to compare? #ZFS #Solaris #Security
Then, I computed the time to create those 4000 empty files in the same directory, whose names were however chosen in order to hash to the same CRC32C value. This operation fails after 5 (!) seconds and creating only 61 files. In other words, this first attack allows an adversary, in a shared directory scenario,…
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Inside NASA’s Mysterious Rubber Room
Ever since learning about the Rubber Room and Blast Room deep below launch Pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center I had been hopeful that I would one day get to photograph this mysterious remnant of the Apollo Program. I had seen very few photos of this room online and by talking to friends at KSC…
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“What is this if not proof that the political class should not be allowed within a mile of regulating the press?”
As the Telegraph reports: "When a reporter approached Mrs Miller’s office last Thursday, her special adviser, Joanna Hindley, pointed out that the Editor of The Telegraph was involved in meetings with the Prime Minister and the Culture Secretary over implementing the recommendations made by Lord Justice Leveson. “Maria has obviously been having quite a lot…
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Note to self: EXT4 Filesystem with MySQL on Ubuntu under VirtualBox is toxic; use ‘nobarrier’ mount option
Am running WordPress importers; that which required more than 30 minutes to import – utilising less than 2% CPU for the whole time – suddenly required less than 3 minutes after adding the nobarrier option to the root mountpoint and rebooting. barrier=<0|1(*)> barrier(*) nobarrier This enables/disables the use of write barriers in the jbd code.…