You know you've spent too long answering questions when you go to clean up your tabs and you've opened the US Census Bureau, security news from 2006, several toxicology studies, the datasheet for an ARM CPU, and a linux kernel mailing list archive thread about usb3.
@RоryMcCune I finished all the parts in your guideline (added one more about general interests and non-technical side of myself) except No. 2. I have no idea how to list my qualifications? Is it simply listing my "skills", like "Web app security, .Net, C++"? Or is there more to it?
@Adnan Well for me IIRC I had some key skills in the opening para, the qualifications bit was more around certs (e.g. CISSP, CCT, MCSE that kind of thing) it's useful for HR word match games
Oh, a reminder: On Sunday, it'll be Restaurant Day. Basically, a chance to show your spouse/friends how adventurous and culturally diverse you are. Plus, it's a nice way to try interesting food for moderate prices.
@RoryAlsop Oh no no, I just meant it as a chance to impress the young lady.
It wouldn't really work if you guys are married for several years
Plus, I really like the whole Restaurant Day thing. If you opt to try non-commercial places, you get to taste authentic homemade food. I liked it in Germany, a lot.
It's so sad. Many churches in the United States fund those local churches in Finland and Sweden. They basically recruit unemployed and lonely African immigrants to go door to door in the cold, dreaming of the commission they'd get if they get you to go to the next meeting.
There should be some laws that prevents religious institutions in the United States (since they're the biggest players) from doing stuff like that. Especially things like funding anti-gay groups in Africa.
That essentially end up spreading hatred that encourages physical violence (in some cases, killing) against homosexuals.
@Xander yeah I bought an ASA 5505 a while back and then found out 'cause I'd just bought it from a reseller I couldn't get a Cisco support login or patches!
@RоryMcCune Yeah, HP has just moved to that same model for their servers and they're catching flack for it. I doubt it'll make them change their minds though...Shareholders seem to enjoy fat revenue streams.
@RoryMcCune So did you get one of the APs from the UniFi line?
@Xander yeah enterprise stuff sucks from the perspective of smaller co's
@Xander yep got a pro seems good so far
might be interesting to try and extend the network with more of them apparently you can just set them up once, then move them to another bit of the house that's not on the wired network and the wireless network will integrate them in...
@RоryMcCune Ah, like repeaters? Interesting. I've gone from three APs in our last house to only one here, as I haven't run cabling yet. It works, but coverage isn't ideal. I need to figure out what I want to do about the network in general for the long term.
@RоryMcCune That sounds like fun. :-) Enterprise-y switches with PoE are utterly ridiculous though. My company switched phone providers and the new handsets are PoE only (on A/C adapter input at all) so I looked into my options since I work from home. I ended up with a single PoE injector for the phone, because the switches I found were either bargain basement consumer models I didn't really trust, or started at several thousand dollars.
Hopefully there are some nice middle of the road options that do exist, and I just missed them.
@tylerl @Iszi This is what I found: Community doesn't add bounties. Both of the bounties that are currently attributed to Community were actually added by a user who has since been deleted. When the user was deleted the bounty was transfered to Community's ownership.
I decided on poking around some profiles and I hit the Community user. I knew that Community was a background process but then I noticed that it had set some bounties. What criteria does Community follow to know what questions to set bounties on? Are these questions with a lot of views or upvotes...
@tylerl Notice & bounty added has the same timestamp, just like in the MSO post. Notice added has no attribution while the bounty notice is attributed to Community, just like MSO. What am I missing?
@tylerl the second one was already awarded and the first one wasn't yet, that "Notice added Reward existing answer by" is just the reason for the bounty, it doesn't mean it was already awarded
I'm trying to explain to a customer why not to use "magic quotes". My argument ends with "It turned out to be an absolutely disastrous feature leading to no end of security vulnerabilities, bugs, data corruption, and general pandemonium."
I am building a system comprised of a few separate applications, each of which has the ability to emit events via AMQP when a "suspicious action" occurs. Suspicious actions include ending up down a code path that has a very high probability of being malicious in origin.
I've done a bit of search...
And I had pretty much the same thing down as well. I just ... tinkered with it. Because I do that. And I give no fuck about efficiency when I just want to do some fancy graphs.
@Adnan you get it on the site it's migrated to tho, plus there's a tiny loophole that those that upvoted you here can upvote you again on the destination site
As I understand from the ISO-OSI model, MAC addresses operate on a different layer than IP addresses. This is clear to me.
I can accept that Ethernet (LAN) just does not make use of IP addresses to do communication, but uses MAC addresses. I understand that these MAC addresses cannot be used for...
@Adnan That's about our rate now on space, but we're in cruise mode most of January so I consider it OK-ish. But our overall stats are much better, and the number of questions will pick up too, we provide good answers IMHO and often well researched, vetted and more of them to chose from. Tor doesn't seem to have that.
@Adnan I think 15 questions a day is a bit optimistic. I don't think there are many, if any beta sites that hit that. For that matter, over our history, sec.SE is only a bit over 10 a day.
@kalina After one week, when it's being seeded. Let's see it keep that up. Though if any site is likely to have a ton of questions, that's probably it.
@AviD Is ignoring somebody on Chat.SE client-side or server-side? Meaning, will I receive their message but the Chat.SE JS code will hide it, or will the server not deliver the message to me altogether?
@TildalWave Perhaps. As @Gilles has mentioned though, most of the recommendation questions we get are crap, and probably won't be a good fit for SR. We'll have to see if they can really curate it properly, or if it devolves into trashbin of SE.
@TildalWave Oh, you're sure of that? How many times have we migrated something out only to hear someone complain "but I wanted an answer from security folks"?
we'll hold onto our "software" tag on space tho, we just had it as our topic of the week last week, and I don't see it being answered properly on a non-specific site
@TildalWave To this point, it seems to me, we've tended to close recommendation questions with extreme prejudice. It might be nice to find a happier medium that would allow us to do that.
@kalina Aww, thanks! I think it's because I was being a dick to him just a bit ago. Only yanking his chain, of course. Apparently he's in a sensitive mood today.
@Iszi it was a snide remark on what he learned, by saying whom from :P If I said that'd be The Big Bear then, I'd unwittingly suggest that he's learned something useful, wouldn't I?
@kalina it's pretty simple actually, see that magnifying glass icon? click on it then go over some element you're interested in, then move from there, mostly by inspecting values on the right hand side of the dev tools window (use tabs next to the magnifying glass icon)
@Adnan it is, but if you understand how things work, and just wanna know specifics of some implementation, you'll find it quite easy to work with (relatively speaking, comparing with FF / Opera tools ... and I don't even wanna mention ... the other browser)
@TildalWave Inspect elements, modify some CSS, use jQuery to hook to some events and override the page's default behaviour, and do some automation tasks (calculate values on a page that has a table that doesn't provide the calculations she needs.
and that's my cue. Was lovely talking to you guys. Nice seeing you here @KnightOfNi. I think this is the first time we interact. Hopefully there will be more.
it's more morbid when you see many that you know are from the same country float away at the same time, there were a few times when I'd go check the news because of that
if i sniff all traffic leaving my router, if botnet traffic is present will it be IP traffic or does any malware use other protcols such as SSH, FTP, TFTP, etc?? do antivirus software programs routinely perform exit traffic pattern analysis? would it be useful to create a utility that does routin...
