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You can go really cheap: AMD 8300+$40 mobo/stock cooler +500w psu + gtx 970 + generic mouse/keyboard/monitor + $30 case + 8GB ram + $20 SSD and come out around ~$600. For an upgrad…

CFAA is very broad. "intentionally accesses a computer without authorization or exceeds authorized access, and thereby obtains— C) information from any protected computer;" A court…

I love that the deer has figured out teleportation and the humans haven't figured out how to notice a deer.

15 years ago, that standard set used to be wget something from packetstormsecurity.org. If no wget: curl it. If no curl: just lynx it. else: move on to the next vulnerable server. …

I plead the fifth. CFAA/RICO/Patriot Act. My hint would be: before decentralized worms, there were IRC hubs. The 'owners' would typically use their native language for the various …

Its interesting how many HN users seem to be missing the point of a honeypot. He set this up deliberately to understand the frequency/types of attacks on a random machine on the in…

This is my dream job. Yet, offering a 65-75k salary for what is essentially a penta-glob of DBA/ops/programming/testing/manager positions is really weak. Using most of the tools, i…

2016 Q3/Q4's new fancy toy may not be a RiftV2 and may have a minimum requirement of a Pascal GPU or Skylake/Broadwell-e CPU. Its just a really horrible time to buy computer hardwa…

If you're not an early adopter enthusiast: it may not be a great idea to purchase this right now. You will probably need a PC upgrade to match your new $675 toy. The new generation…

http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/videocard/ That is pretty damning on the amount of users with a 970/780ti/980/980ti/titan x. My 560ti plays most games at a decent resolution…

Here are my thoughts on the situation: 1) First generation devices are usually flops/riddled with bugs, but usually exploitable if you don't upgrade firmware/etc. 2) I would probab…

Irc bots just disconnected. Site inaccessible. SSH/DBs down. Linode's website is down.

Big thanks to John Carmack (and team) for Quake1 modding and replying to my emails. It was a gateway drug.

I sadly got bit today. I bought a Freedompop hotspot. After entering my billing information, and after the processing screen, a screen showed an offer for a $30 phone. I intended t…

The appliance industry has it figured out. The parts are so discrete and they control the finite supply. Not worth counterfeiting/cloning, because there are too many models/factors…

My uni offers summer classes, but mostly for intro classes. This means if you transfer in or are a second year student, you have slim pickings in the summer offering. I would have …

How does Zenefits handle if a Employer paid check does not match the Zenefits charged amount? ie: reconciliation portion. Employee X terminated, check is $22.8k instead of $23k. Em…

I've provided a link to the skills a kindergartener is expected to know in Texas. The most interesting one to me: 'counting from 20 to 0 backwards.' It touched my indexing heart wh…

From a player perspective, Zelda is harder due to: --Larger world with set of objectives which must be completed in some order. IE: You need the bow, before you get the lance, befo…

I don't know why this is getting down voted. I've come across near duplicates of this code and its always "that's how we did it after punch cards."

Sometimes creativity is the only thing holding people back from exploiting the natural insects of the web. Case in point, ever wonder why those captchas include street addresses or…

I believe so. I still remember being in the local uni's lab over wifi and firesheep had ~80 entries for facebook/gmail/etc. Click a profile and hijack their session.

I am very thankful for Hover and Pinball. They made me want a faster and less buggy computer. This resulted in wonderful mishaps -- deleting Win system files, recovering into Vecto…

I have lived in Waco for 5+ years. Never experienced a 'biker gang' or heard of biker related violence here. I had my run with the law that disenchanted me. I saw a city worker ste…

I do not really have this association due to the events that took place with the ping scenario. I just assumed they felt they were doing the right thing and negating any side effec…