@RoryAlsop excellent - now we just need to get Hendrik to make the hop over, and drag @JeffFerland halfway across the world, and we'll have the whole set
I'm m about 20 minutes drive from the edge of TA, at least that much more to cross the traffic to the hotels area.
most of them are along the beach... you know already where you're staying?
@ScottPack Yeah, I'd like to get together with a tabletop group again sometime. DnD 4 is really all I know, though. Around here, I usually end up being the oldest at the FLGS gatherings. Plus, the dependents typically make it a bit difficult for me to regularly have time in my schedule for it.
@ScottPack Seen it before. Strangely, my wife - who's really not that much into sci-fi things - follows George Takei on Facebook. I think he sent it out awhile ago, and she shared it with me. Still, really awesome.
I feel bad for my boss today. Apparently, I'm supposed to be getting some sort of award or something this afternoon. He wanted it to be a surprise, but it seems just about every woman that knows the both of us is determined to totally spoil it. First his wife brought it up while I was waiting for him (we carpool) in his apartment. Now, one of our female coworkers sent me a congratulatory e-mail while still somehow managing to not say for what.
From the e-mail she sent, it appears that he let everyone else know about whatever this is while intentionally leaving me off the distribution list. Somehow, everyone got the clue except her.
@ScottPack Sacha Guitry (French actor from a few decades ago) told that "for women of the 17th century, keeping a secret meant repeating it to only one person at a time"
Depending on your culture it's actually possible to make a distinction between malicious and non-malicious racism. Presumably that could be extended to misogyny.
I'm more thinking culturally ingrained thought patterns that are largely considered racist, but do not stem from an inherent distrust, dislike, or other negative thoughts related to the subject in question.
Like the old woman that still uses the term "Negro", but uses more because that was just the term used in her history and readily changes language when told that it's no longer culturally acceptable.
@Iszi oh lord. I glanced at that while typing our conversation about misoginy, and apparently I misread the last word, because I assumed it was from militant feminist anti-males who were intent on pulling a Bobbit.
For instance, if I say that Black people run faster than White because they have higher muscular density, then this is technically true (statistically) but non-scientists may find that offensive (because they do not quite grasp the concept of statistics and averages).
(The reverse also works: Whites swim better, because dense muscle does not float well; just follow the Olympics and you'll get the idea, because Olympic games are a marvelous extractor for the edges of bell curves)
gets 10x worse when discussing historical genetics, where you have to explicitly make links to particular genealogical lines that are closer to pre-modern man in terms of genetics.
@AviD Perhaps, but the content of the conversation essentially boiled down to "girls suck at computers", with sexual overtones thrown in.
I had a conversation with two militant feminists that refused to believe that a high percentage of women were living happy "normal" lives, because they'd both suffered abuse and because I was "part of rape culture" because I'm male.
There is a very big probability that the owner of a gravatar for an email address is also the owner of that email address that is associated with SO account.
So if a user wants to recover an account for an email that he can no longer access but still has access to the gravatar account the issue ...
> User completes a form, and an administrator gives a random hash number. User goes to gravatar and changes the avatar with an image with that hash number.
in this case it wasn't arbitrary or trivial - it was a discussion about gender roles in society. which frustrated me more, because I actually really care about getting more gender equality in computer-related jobs.
My real question is how are patches and updates authenticated in general. But for example how does windows know a windows update is really a windows update, does it just trust the URL or is there some kind of certificate?
@TerryChia I have nothing against a blog post on my answer but I would prefer that somebody else writes it: apparently, my employer would like to get an internal meeting for the "attack knowledge in advance", so, while it is OK that I have published it on SE, I would prefer not to actively propagate it any further myself for the next few days (but I am all for other people chanting my glory far and wide, of course).
@ThomasPornin To be honest, your answer is already blog-worthy. How about @RoryAlsop publish a blog post quoting your answer wholesale as a separate post. And Jeff or someone else can do the writeup on the carding question for the QOTW.
@TerryChia I could do that. From your comment above, @Thomas, are you happiest if I mention your name in the blog post, or just leave people to find it if they go through to the question itself?
So, apparently it only takes a week for the FBI to come up with a plausible cover story that includes a real scapegoat company. redtape.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/09/10/…
For those who haven’t been following Juliano Rizzo and Thai Duong, two researchers who developed the BEAST attack against TLS 1.0/SSL 3.0 in September 2011, they have developed another attack they plan to publish at the Ekoparty conference in Argentina later this month – this time giving them the ability to hijack HTTPS sessions – and this has started people worrying again.
Security Stack Exchange member Kyle Rozendo asked this question:
And the community expectation was that we wouldn’t get an answer until Rizzo and Duong presented their attack. …
@David Just for reference since it has been flagged a few times: I'm leaving it up but in a closed state. I think the current answer + not constructive close does us more benefit than deleting it.
@ThomasPornin Don't recall if it was here or elsewhere, but I recall someone saying that the only thing we hate more than something that is inexplicably broken, is something which has become inexplicably fixed.
@JeffFerland That deep freeze question you closed? I don't think NC is quite right. Probably more OT. Or, if you've got a special mod-only "closed for ToS violation" option, that might be great.
If you detect activity on port 3389 (the mouse starts moving) What is the first steps you should take from a security standpoint, and who should be notified?
IMHO if you sit close to such paranoid, you can actually lost your life, if you live in US and he keeps gun in the drawer, and has PSTD at the same time
My real question is how are patches and updates authenticated in general. But for example how does windows know a windows update is really a windows update, does it just trust the URL or is there some kind of certificate?
I have used deep freeze software. but it also allow virus.
May i have another software like deep freeze also from torrent?
If you detect activity on port 3389 (the mouse starts moving) What is the first steps you should take from a security standpoint, and who should be notified?
