@ScottPack No, @Simon needs his face edited more. It's vomit-inducing in the current state.
I think it would be a fair statement to say that if a computer ever does something that's actually non-deterministic, that computer is broken. — Schilcote2 hours ago
@Simon If @kalina wants to spend her time improving the quality of questions, then I am approve. If you want to go cleanup the questions instead and beat her to it, then how about you go do that.
I edit a lot of posts every day. I often run across posts with 'Hi' and 'Thanks' on the top and the bottom of the post respectively. I also run across things like:
--User
Should these items be removed during the editing of the post by an editor?
@Adnan That's the "random" channel of 4chan. it's where anonymous comes from, as well as all manner of awful. It's what happens when you remove identity from a community; nothing to lose, nothing to gain, no inhibitions. Just try to attract attention.
@DavidFreitag I study computer security, and am particularly interested in identity. But Reddit vs 4chan is an interesting case study; one allows you to maintain a false identity, one has no identity mechanism at all.
@DavidFreitag There was in interesting academic study that I'm having trouble finding about mechanics of how online attention works. One of the major things examined was the average lifetime of a post on /b/ and whether it got attention. I think she said it was on the order of a third of a second or something.
I'm sure the world would be a better place without it, but you have to wonder what would take its place
@DavidFreitag Obviously it's impossible to tell. But there have been reported instances of people posting their intentions there before doing something horrible, like going off to kill someone (e.g. the Connecticut preschool incident). And then everybody just say "do it" because the that's the nature of the place. So... would things have happened different otherwise?
But before that, they used to post their intentions on some underground vampire forum or whatever. So maybe having all the crap consolidated into one cesspool is a good thing? Who knows.
I am an Electrical Engineering Master's student. My research area is hardware security. After graduating, I would like to pursue a PhD. I know the term "best" can be subjective, but in your opinion, which US university has the best PhD program in hardware security?
About 7 months ago, I went through the domain questions and sorted them into dns or active-directory. There were 11 questions.
After doing so, I noticed a comment warning about doing such mass edits.
For the record, let's please be careful about retagging these. You don't want to do more than a handful at a time, and let them get to the bottom of the front page before doing another batch. Also look at the front page before doing a set in case someone else has already done some recently. — Scott PackMay 1 at 17:10
I know, it's a general comment. It's not directly about me making the edits.
@TerryChia @Adnan's messed it up a bit with re-tagging so there's loads of those active-directory and dns-domains questions on the front page. I haven't seen any of your answers there (didn't check all of them tho), so maybe time to do proof-reading on some gooden oldens of yours and correct grammar and spelling on them? Still, it's Sunday so it might not matter that much, last few were dead as a dodo.
And, mind you, they weren't suggested edits. I had 4k at that point (IIRC)
So, yes. We did take a different stand on this case for the reasons I stated earlier. We did treat it differently. Especially the exact same person who ridiculed the practice 6 moths ago (I said 7 first, I'm bad at simple math, apparently).
With that wall of text, this will be the last time I speak of this incident. Now, back to normal (whatever that is).
@ManishEarth I think it's because since Adobe was using ECB mode, you can pick up certain "patterns" in the encrypted password. It's not so much two columns but a much longer password?
@ManishEarth each block is 8 characters (or more precisely 8 bytes, but most people stick to ASCII in passwords anyway). Every block but the last one contains 8 password characters, and the last one contains 0 to 8 characters plus some padding (I haven't seen which padding mode they use, the range may be 0–7 or 1–8 or 1–7)
@DavidFreitag I bought a set of Westone 4 2 years ago that retail for about $500. The cabling broke a couple of months ago so I got them reshelled for about $200. (Prices in USD)
@DavidFreitag Well, apparently, mofo is used instead of 'motherf*****'. I used it because you were jokingly implying I'm not polite. The reason I said molo instead of mofo is because I wanted it to resemble motherlover more than the other one.
@Terry - what brand did you go for? I'm looking to properly set up my on stage wireless gear, and will need to have wireless in ear monitors in order to run around as much as I want
and are they the ones moulded from your ear canal? I'd need them, as standard in ear phones hurt - guessing my ear canal is non standard (pre-imperial)
@Gilles About the KeePass tag. I used to hold the same opinion regarding using our own words for the long description, but then I saw that it's very inefficient. Writing a small essay for each of our tags is not a great idea. The description provided by KeePass themselves is acceptable. As for the excerpt, I don't think we need to tell somebody hovering over the tag about what platform keepass supports. One thing I believe you were right about is the second half; it's bad.
@Kalina - as mentioned before, while edits are welcome, pleasemake sure they are substantive (ie not just removing 'thanks') and please don't do 20 at a time - it kills our front page. A couple a day works well, and lets new questions get the attention they need.
Wasn't calling you out @Adnan- I just saw the entire front page was Kalina's - with a range of very old posts in there as well as newer ones
sometimes it can be useful to bring an old post to the front page if it deserves more attention, but generally doing it this way just makes things difficult
@Adnan in my experience copy-pasting from the official site or from Wikipedia results in a poor tag wiki. Yours is no exception. There's a lot of irrelevant fluff and little about how the concept relates to our community (in this case: security)
@Lamia Yup, the tool your mentioned doesn't exist.
That was a good atheism joke. Self-highfive.
@Lamia But, seriously, AT commands are quite easy.
There is a tool can be installed on a cell phone to control another cell phone (nothing needs to be installed on the target phone). I don't remember the name. I'll try to find it.
So if i wanted to map something.ourwebsite.com to an ip address in our domain using only our DNS, do i need to create a new zone, or just a new A record?
An A record would be fine. Creating a new zone would only be useful if you're delegating responsibility down or will have a bunch of A records with the same subname.
Mark knows his stuff, but I like to poke him with bad realm names so that he can stay nice and frothy for when I need to pull him in to chastise someone for doing it wrong.
@Simon There was. The worst of it was all south of here.
Trick or Treating was quite windy and drizzly, though.
@DavidFreitag Should be pretty fast. It'll have to be replicated between the DCs. There is a replication interval but some things replicate "instantly" and I'm not sure if DNS is one of them. Anything that's caching may wait a little bit as well.
If you're changing an A record then you'll have to wait for the TTL to expire.
Sometimes.
All A record responses must have a TTL, but the clients or recursive servers are not required to honor the TTL.
"On June 18, 1980, she demonstrated the multiplication of two 13-digit numbers 7,686,369,774,870 × 2,465,099,745,779 picked at random by the Computer Department of Imperial College, London. She correctly answered 18,947,668,177,995,426,462,773,730 in 28 seconds."
If you're changing it you'll have to wait for the TTL. If you're adding it then you're not really changing it.
We had a case a few years ago where we consolidated a server from a department's closet into the central data center. The website it hosted was a CNAME with a 30 day TTL, and the A record that the CNAME pointed to was also a 30 day TTL.
For those keeping track at home that migration took up to 60 days for the records to propogate.
I had to draw a flow-chart for them to really get it. They weren't schlubs but we discovered they didn't really get how the different bits of DNS worked together.
It's weird. DNS itself really isn't all that complex. It's just so distributed, even internally, that it's awkward to think about how the different components react to each other.
@ScottPack Well, it's not complex if you are a sysadmin that deals with it on a daily basis. If you are an outsider looking in, it's pretty scary with all the different record types and such.
That's what I mean, it's a fair big like Legos. All the different pieces are fairly small and make sense. They just have to be sometimes plugged together in weird ways to make your wall work.
I edit a lot of posts every day. I often run across posts with 'Hi' and 'Thanks' on the top and the bottom of the post respectively. I also run across things like:
--User
Should these items be removed during the editing of the post by an editor?
I am an Electrical Engineering Master's student. My research area is hardware security. After graduating, I would like to pursue a PhD. I know the term "best" can be subjective, but in your opinion, which US university has the best PhD program in hardware security?
![It was bound to happen eventually. This data theft will enable almost limitless [xkcd.com/792]-style password reuse attacks in the coming weeks. There's only one group that comes out of this looking smart: Everyone who pirated Photoshop.](http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/encryptic.png "It was bound to happen eventually. This data theft will enable almost limitless [xkcd.com/792]-style password reuse attacks in the coming weeks. There's only one group that comes out of this looking smart: Everyone who pirated Photoshop.")
