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Re:Uber Closes in on Its Last Frontier: Airports on Tuesday May 26, 2015 @10:24AM (#9605045)
Free: https://archive.is/hfbkz

I tried to catch an Uber ride from Heathrow before, and it was a total nightmare in terms of not knowing where to go, having come out of the wrong exit, and the driver ending up in a car park. Really, the airports benefit from allowing them too, as they reduce traffic congestion and the number of confused people milling around looking for where their ride is...

Re:Geeknet to be acquired by Hot Topic on Tuesday May 26, 2015 @10:20AM (#9605011)
I remember when thinkgeek had a wide variety of genuinely interesting stuff and not just the latest pop culture 'geek' merchandise (sure, they've always had some of that, but years back it wasn't the overriding theme like it is today). This is a sad moment, but probably to have been expected.
Re:The Secret Lives of Homeless Students on Wednesday May 06, 2015 @04:27AM (#9497236)
Sometimes people don't comment because they don't have anything interesting/useful to add, but still found the article interesting and want it to be more visible, so they upvote it and move on.
Re:Grepping logs is terrible on Wednesday May 06, 2015 @03:51AM (#9497133)
Price, mostly. It's good, but there are alternatives that aren't as ridiculously expensive.
>'Cyber'

Literally laughed out loud. It's just become too much of a joke now.

Re:Grepping logs is terrible on Wednesday May 06, 2015 @03:40AM (#9497089)
People don't want it because it's binary, not because you can't grep it.

* you need to use a new proprietary tool to interact with them

* all scripts relating to logs are now broken

* binary logs are easy to corrupt, e.g. if they didn't get closed properly.

>You can have a binary index and text logs too! / You can. But what's the point?

The point is having human-readable logs without having to use a proprietary piece of crap to read them. A binary index would actually be a perfect solution - if you're worried about the extra space readable logs take, just .gz/.bz2 them; on decent hardware, the performance penalty for reading is almost nonexistent.

If you generate 100GB/day, you should be feeding them into logstash and using elasticsearch to go through them (or use splunk if $money > $sense), not keeping them as files. Grepping logs can't do all the stuff the author wants anyway, but existing tools can, that are compatible with rsyslog, meaning there is no need for the monstrosity that is systemd.

Re:Death of a Programmer, Life of a Farmer on Tuesday May 05, 2015 @12:09PM (#9493274)
I had the same feeling - plus the broadband there was terrible. I would never live in a suburb even if I was paid to. The middle of nowhere though, would be even worse than a suburb as it's the same problems but more so and without the (relative) proximity to work.
Not the first time it's been done.

Of course, it's only worked some of the time it's been done, I guess.

Mildly misleading title there; the dishes are all in the southern hemisphere IIRC.

That said, Jodrell Bank is a very interesting place. Good article: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/03/25/geeks_guide_jodrell_...

Hasn't the US done this too, even if not recently then at least historically?

The Royal Navy still does this today though.

Re:SSH Agent Forwarding considered harmful on Friday April 24, 2015 @09:41AM (#9433184)
Are people only just realising this?

I would only ever use agent forwarding to a trusted host exactly because of what it does - put a socket on that host that responds with your SSH key... Anyone on that host with root has access to your key.

The article says it uses a second vuln that forces the device to connect to a specific network.
Re:Project Fi by Google on Thursday April 23, 2015 @07:07AM (#9425900)
I would love this... if it wasn't by google. I'd rather not have them digging through yet more personal data :(
Re:Keeping Your Car Safe from Electronic Thieves on Monday April 20, 2015 @09:28AM (#9407884)
>I hope to god those contactless credit cards can't be just cloned with a long range rfid reader or else this is gonna be a very funny few years

They can. That's why they require your PIN every N tries (N is configurable by the issuer, I think). All the money spent up to and until N is reached is just lost though, I guess.

This is why I have an RFID-blocking wallet.

Re:Keeping Your Car Safe from Electronic Thieves on Monday April 20, 2015 @09:26AM (#9407875)
Same as the "internet of things" - they are with security where Microsoft was in the 1990s. Security by obscurity is their watchword.

Always remember: "Internet Of Things is also called IOT, because you'd have to be an IDIOT to believe they're secure".

Re:US Navy develops cannon-launched 'swarming' drones on Friday April 17, 2015 @04:26AM (#9392910)
It's been happening since the 70s with cruise missiles, which are a basic drone that just flies into a target and explodes.
Re:Keeping Your Car Safe from Electronic Thieves on Thursday April 16, 2015 @08:24AM (#9387415)
You could get an RFID-blocking wallet (should anyway, really) and put the key in that.

I have one from http://difrwear.com/; I've tested it and it's never leaked any signal from cards inside; should work fine with keys too.

Re:Keeping Your Car Safe from Electronic Thieves on Thursday April 16, 2015 @08:19AM (#9387387)
Free version: https://archive.today/WyCdu

This is why I despair at all these new keyless cars. I would pay money to have a normal key over one of those, because it's more secure.

Also, one huge reason I would never want a keyless car: I can't check if it's locked before I walk off; I just have to trust that it will lock once I'm far enough away and before someone else jumps into it and drives off.

Good for them. About time someone stood up to surveillance in a meaningful way - hit the government where it hurts (in the wallet) is a tactic that should be used more.
Use it. 7.1a has been shown safe. Watch https://truecrypt.ch/ for news about any developments (CipherShed and/or VeraCrypt) as well as being a trusted source for 7.1a.
Sadly, there are still plenty of real servers that badly secured.
He wanted to make sure it was really chmoded.
On their public site? It's also written in such an amateurish style anyway...
Re:Australia outlaws warrant canaries on Friday March 27, 2015 @09:25AM (#9276072)
Australia seems to be leading the world in oppression in a way even the US has yet to manage.
That's why I don't understand the concept of living in such a precarious place.
Free version: https://archive.today/0akQW

I'm amazed anyone ever chooses to live somewhere that precarious, and that their first thought is "well, we'll get a lot of time to evacuate" - sure, but you've still lost your home, anything you didn't take with you, possibly your job, and have to now find somewhere else to live and completely change your life. I guess for some people that wouldn't be so hard, but I could never do it.

1. open bash

2. set -e

3. type an invalid command or run one that returns non-zero

4. "crap, where did my shell go?"

"systemd" and "sane" only ever go in the same sentence as "sane people don't use systemd".

It looks like a bug in the init script; runnign it as squid's user wouldn't have triggered destroying the whole filesystem; likely just squid's config and anything under its /var.

The CA system is fundamentally broken. Centralised authorities are bad.

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