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greedy_buffer
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Comment #30830035
Clearly not, but this is a circular argument. As companies expand in size they naturally increase both their needs and their resources. Are you arguing that using SaaS developer to…
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Comment #29009731
Try "Chief executives and legislators"
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Comment #28637980
You're not alone with this specific gripe. Some of my colleagues include sites similar to https://nohello.net in their staff directory page.
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Comment #20251767
While this may be a serious problem it doesn't actually seem relevant to this breach - if a CRA has an incident of this severity, most ID schemes are still going to end up with a p…
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Comment #19943939
The blog post and cloud provider's website both say the servers are bare metal.
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Comment #17960032
If they were personalised it would be hard for sites like camelcamelcamel.com to exist, right? I would speculate that they don't personalise. Offering price discrimination as a ser…
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Comment #16221130
Running a few product lines at a loss is a classic way for a large company to put competitors out of business, in general terms. Once the competition is gone there maybe an opportu…
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Comment #15665419
This is happening inside cities though. I'll take some arrogance and selfishness to reduce the incidence of dengue.
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Comment #15623586
Didn't know much about this conflict, thank you for educating me. One other difference between those combatants and a theoretically nuclear armed Ukraine is that that war is more w…
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Comment #15621813
> The conflict was low intensity warfare, which nukes are not particularly well suited for. Firstly "was" is not the right word, the war is ongoing: http://tass.com/world/965974 Se…
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Comment #15579105
One could even go as far as calling the title clickbait.
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Comment #15404892
Doesn't this assume maintaining existing usage patterns? There could be enough flexibility in workloads that with an economic incentive they will be run at peak production times wi…
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Comment #15397897
As Brian Krebs reported in the "dumpster fire" article the response site was setup by their PR company. Perhaps they did not want to give away ownership of part of their domain... …
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Comment #15397870
Maybe. The separate domain might be explained by lack of trust in their PR company though. See Krebs' article: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/09/equifax-breach-response-...
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Comment #15397759
about:config -> media.autoplay.enabled Some sites are buggy with this preference. Hopefully you will not lay that at Mozilla's feet.
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Comment #15397717
If you release your tools under GPL it is less likely anyone will get paid to improve them. If you release under MIT, commercial users will try to upstream their changes so they ca…
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Comment #15327915
Your second paragraph makes it seem like those weren't really humans - "cleared out", really? And having been decimated by plague diseases makes shooting the survivors equivalent t…
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Comment #15325048
Might be interesting to look at the study itself. It doesn't say if it was summer or winter when it was undertaken. I wonder if results would be much different for other non-electr…
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Comment #15224762
Depending on who you are pitching, it might turn out something like http://getcoleman.com/
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Comment #15214453
I don't know if there should be more or less credit, although it sure seems like an improvement to reduce fraud and have less people up to their ears in debt. Even if the companies…
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Comment #15214034
Could argue that industries with low startup costs are much less likely to suffer a proliferation of Apache Struts. Increased competitive pressure to improve an information product…
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Comment #15213996
And a big fuck you to everybody that has made efforts and sacrifices to improve their credit rating, they can take the same (higher) interest rate as everyone else?
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Comment #15198035
> If there's a history of these execs selling similar amounts of stock in other quarters That's what 105b-1 trading plans are for. If they had used them there would be no questions…
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Comment #15001248
Not to mention the captive portal redirect URL
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Comment #15001243
For Google to collect data on their platform customers' layer 7 traffic would be a pretty big breach of trust (i .e. hacking if they were using HTTPS) If they are just collecting T…