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The recent attempt to decriminalise non-payment of the license fee failed:- http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-31151821

Sky rep lies about basis of security feature? Could be.

If you cancelled out the cyclical/reciprocal debts then you'd still have the same amount of working capital as you'd pay back $X but also get $X back as a creditor.

Mikefax anyone? (Ha, seems I've mentioned Mikefax a while ago... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4687527 )

Indeed. It's .ch because that's the initialism of the Latin name for Switzerland: Confoederatio Helvetica. The Latin name is used to avoid favouring any one of the four official la…

> How RAM Scrapers Work > Once on a targeted system, RAM scrapers work by examining the list of processes that are running on the system and inspecting the memory for data that mat…

Occasionally, usually over zealous stripping back of machines in very controlled environments[1]. 1. I don't do much work with these kinds of customers any more as I chose not to g…

I just can't get excited about vim plugins (no matter how good they are, no matter how much I love vi/vim - and no disrespect to their authors). I can imagine how they could increa…

http://www.live-footballontv.com/ Is where I got for football fixtures for the UK, albeit not JSON.

Indeed. The biggest weakness is that users aren't well trained in ensuring that the page they're typing their username/password into (to access one of the public access points) may…

Not quite, the difference between the two situations is the difference between accuracy and precision. E.g. http://academics.wellesley.edu/Chemistry/Chem105manual/Appen... The Chin…

Thanks for the clarification. I know Strava takes the issue of privacy seriously!

Can't remember the terminology they use but Strava allows you to define privacy areas (within a configurable radius of a point) where no points are shown on your individual routes.…

One of the last things I'd want is lots of drivers near me to be even more distracted saying "Hello? Hello?" into their phone and repeatedly looking at it to see if they're still c…

Can't put in words how much better I sleep after moving to decaffeinated coffee. I do like a nice coffee but I'm content with instant[1] decaf (and even if I have 10 cups a day it'…

From the original post: > This patch is a variant of what we've been using to help protect customer keys for a decade. So it protects keys against heartbleed, but not other HTTP re…

And who runs their webserver as root? (Or who changes the permissions on /etc/shadow to allow it be read by a non-root process). Having to be root to be able to bind to a TCP port …

You now know the two primes (p,q) which multiply together to make n (the public key modulus). We also know e (the public key exponent). d (the private key) is:- d = e^-1 mod ((p-1)…

It shouldn't be about it eventually being overwritten, sensitive information like that (which isn't needed for runtime) should be actively scrubbed before the block of memory is fr…

Didn't have any spare time to have a go at this, here's how I was going to do it:- 1) Create a VM with the same version of Linux, nginx, openssl. 2) Create a self-signed SSL certif…

Irony would be such a patch leaking information about the state of any random number generator leading to more easily guessable session keys or the like. (Of course, creating suita…

You give a URL that exists on an HTTPS webserver you control that you've patched to send SSL Heartbeats that have a payload size much greater than the real payload. If the client c…

Slow and steady. At 2Mbps upload it's only about 12 days.

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> how Would you explain all this stuff about averages to the daughter of the man whose bike got ran over by a truck The greatly increased chances of seeing any grandchildren I may …