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Re:CNN.com quietly turned on TLS/HTTPS over the weekend on Monday April 02, 2018 @01:43PM (#16736984)
Searching for an announcement, I found an ironic result:

http://money.cnn.com/2016/09/08/technology/google-chrome-fla...

And, despite money.cnn.com being one of the Subject Alt Names on their certificate (as well as plenty of app, api and some staging domain names), that domain in particular rejects connections to port 443.

Maybe their transition is incomplete and they're not ready to announce yet?

Re:Escaping Docker container using waitid() – CVE-2017-5123 on Friday December 29, 2017 @01:52PM (#16031130)
Note: The present solution replaced the goto with a return:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...

Re:Pro-Neutrality, Anti-Title II on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @12:24AM (#15804782)
That's like mailing a postcard to a company that puts it in an envelope for you.
This morning an article I visited from the front page had only been around 21 seconds and already had 60 comments.

http://imgur.com/1oyIv2d

Re:Left-pad as a service on Thursday March 24, 2016 @10:57PM (#11358233)
I get an error changing the example request from 68 to 67 characters:

https://api.left-pad.io/?str=paddin%27%20oswalt&len=67&ch=@ {"message": "Could not parse request body into json: Unrecognized character escape \'\'\' (code 39)\n at [Source: [B@38ac0021; line: 2, column: 21]"}