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Re:Password expiration is dead, long live passwords on Monday June 03, 2019 @01:57AM (#20080709)
These “baseline rules” come from NIST SP 800-63B, Appendix A, which is a surprisingly digestible document: https://pages.nist.gov/800-63-3/sp800-63b.html#appA
Re:Steve Singh stepping down as Docker CEO on Wednesday May 08, 2019 @12:45PM (#19860616)
Xerox PARC!
Re:Stripe Acquires Touchtech on Thursday April 18, 2019 @02:42AM (#19689192)
You’d still have to handle the complete flow for the case where the exemption has been used multiple times since the last authentication though.
Re:Luarocks.org Security Incident March 2019 on Saturday March 09, 2019 @04:02AM (#19345220)
Very serious handling of the issue!
Re:Notes on the Amazon Aurora Paper on Tuesday February 26, 2019 @04:17AM (#19252991)
CockroachDB is made up of several layers to implement SQL and transactions on top of a distributed key-value store: https://www.cockroachlabs.com/docs/stable/architecture/overv...

TiDB has a similar architecture: https://www.pingcap.com/docs/architecture/

Unfortunately, with trackers such as the Like button embedded in every web page and shadow profiles, social media is definitely not opt-in.
Re:Removing Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior from Russia on Thursday January 17, 2019 @06:17AM (#18929931)
“Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior” is a nice euphemism!
Re:FoundationDB Record Layer on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @05:23AM (#18910112)
DynamoDB with strong consistency turned on works pretty nicely for us.
Re:FoundationDB Record Layer on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @03:08AM (#18909515)
This is powering CloudKit. Very cool!
Most payment gateways offer a card fingerprinting feature. Here’s Stripe’s: https://stripe.com/docs/api/cards/object#card_object-fingerp....

It’s fine with PCI DSS as long as it is not reversible.

Re:How to dump 3000 pounds of confetti on Times Square on Saturday December 29, 2018 @03:30AM (#18782645)
> The confetti thrown at midnight is made from recycled material that would otherwise be discarded, and all of it is biodegradable.
Re:Electron 4.0.0 on Friday December 21, 2018 @10:46AM (#18733997)
⌘+F “performance” or “memory” does not show anything :-/
Re:Going Head-To-Head: Scylla vs. Amazon DynamoDB on Friday December 14, 2018 @04:28PM (#18684967)
Quorum reads will always be much faster in the same AZ :-(
Re:Going Head-To-Head: Scylla vs. Amazon DynamoDB on Friday December 14, 2018 @04:17PM (#18684870)
> The global reservation is divided to multiple partitions, each no more than 10TB in size.

I think this should be 10GB partitions.

By the way, maybe it’s worth mentioning adaptive capacity? https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/how-amazon-dynamodb-ad...

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