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Some models you can literally just pull a fuse for the telemetry modem and the car will be offline. Worth considering.

I believe you mean Marcus Aurelius

I was hit by this. It looks like my laptop had not been syncing correctly for a couple months, then GDrive overwrote my local “My Drive” folder with the old cloud copy.

Check out JSON-RPC. Jimson is a good JSON-RPC client for Ruby. http://github.com/chriskite/jimson

No, indeed it is not. If the problem is that people are getting phished because they type their info into a spoofed login page, how would making one standard login page be the answ…

I released the first public version of Phactory yesterday, and I'd like to get some feedback from developers here on HN. Phactory was born from a desire to have something like Fact…

"Password hashing scheme" refers exclusively to the algorithm used to transform a plaintext password into a ciphertext value (whether it's a hash or derived-key). The rest of your …

If you're offering it for public scrutiny, then the good news is you've just gotten a good bit of it from an experienced security professional. Perhaps instead of calling tptacek a…

Actually, slow in this case does not at all mean "this operation isn't implemented in hardware or optimized assembly". The slowness of an algorithm like bcrypt is a tunable propert…

Do you have a reference for this? I'd be interested in reading it.

In what way is pushing 20K requests/second "concurrency fail"? Node.js doesn't make it easy to share state between processes, but once you're scaling to multiple processes, the jum…

If Opera started charging $3 for Opera Mini in the App Store, would you be upset? You're paying for a nicer interface to something that is free, not the content of HN.

Interesting. I haven't played with CoffeeScript before, I'll have to try it out. I stuck to straight JS since I'd like the source to be simple for most developers to understand.

Interesting concept, but it would be more useful if I could limit it to my city. Without a local context, it is mostly noise and no signal. An ideal visualisation would be to show …

"Supercar" seems a little generous seeing as how it has a top speed of 30mph.

If the alleged pedophile is savvy enough to use Tor, won't he be running his web traffic over SSL, rendering this sort of attack useless?

"Oh well, better for the rest of us." Do you really think so? I'd prefer to live in a society where everyone was well-educated, or at least enjoyed learning. I think you'd find the…

Perhaps they should have announced the monthly fees before the delay. I'm more than a little disappointed to find out that I'm not getting it on time, and that I might unexpectedly…

I think it's odd that you have such a problem with co-opting the use of "Re:" (even though you admit he is using it in the original sense), but you don't have an issue with him co-…

Have you played with Scala? It reminds me in some ways of Ruby, you might find it to your liking.

> Either given enough people poking at it intelligently, or a enough computers brute forcing it nearly anything can be cracked. That's technically true, but the time frame it takes…

Jargon arises because it is useful for compressing information exchanged within a given culture. If this really was an internal posting which was accidentally exposed, what is the …