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Container checkpointing -- very cool from a forensics use case! I hope someone produces a useful "container diff" tool to make visualizing differences between checkpoints easier!

Location: Auckland, New Zealand Remote: Yes Relocate: No Technologies: C, C++, SAN, SCSI, Ruby Linkedin: https://nz.linkedin.com/in/nathanb-nz Email: nathanb+hn@vt.edu I have 8 yea…

This is an excellent point. Your communication is only as secure as the weakest endpoint (in the same vein, perhaps your correspondents might be of the opposing viewpoint and might…

That seems pretty cool. How long have you been doing this? For your primary email? How has it been working for you?

"Build and develop cross-platform applications using this application that only works on one platform"

So what if I were, say, a US citizen living abroad? I am legally able to work in the US and in my home country, but of course since I'm not actually living in the US some companies…

A fair comment. I think it's important to note that a fear or anxiety reaction may not, as you say, keep us safe. When I'm calm and rational, I make better decisions than when I'm …

Yeah, that paragraph was where she completely lost me. The desire to ensure the poor are taken care of and given opportunities for advancement is not mutually incompatible with the…

I work for a company which makes network devices. We've detected many hostile intrusions in our network. If you make hardware or software that runs in enterprise datacenters, someo…

Not sure why you're being downvoted. It's not unprecedented, but I also don't think a lot of the companies that get hit by something like this talk about it so publicly.

Can someone explain this to me? Windows version: x64 Mac OSX version: x64 Linux version: x86 Why? Why do companies not release 64-bit versions of their programs for Linux? This see…

This is interesting, because you're ignoring the fact that the author worked in this exact business for some time and claims that it did once work and doesn't anymore. Either he wa…

Either the article doesn't make it clear or I'm bad at reading, and the YT Red site itself just tells me it's not available in my country: I assume this is $10 US a month?

Let's not lose sight of one thing -- this doesn't make chip-and-pin less secure than swipe-and-sign, it just makes it no more secure, in the worst case.

That's a very positive spin on the message. The way I read it is that developers and maintainers are encouraged to make Emacs work better on free than non-free platforms. This is, …

Thanks for the advice. I was not aware this was an option.

Is it "silly" to buy a house when you don't have $50k in your emergency fund? I have been very financially lucky, but I'd still have to sell a lot of stock -- dipping significantly…

It's kind of scary that something of this magnitude would depend on the kindness of the claims inspector. The one I dealt with was professional yet friendly and helpful (and climbe…

When one of my upstairs toilets started leaking in my house in the US, it finally got so bad that I noticed a stain on the garage ceiling. The insurance inspector said that insuran…

Seriously. I don't know a lot of people for whom a surprise $50k bill would be "unfortunately" rather than "disastrously".

This is actually really cool. I can't tell you how many people I know whose livelihood essentially depends on their single, aging vehicle not dying. These are often folks whose uni…

Even more so with paywave, which is all over Australia and becoming more common in New Zealand. I don't think I actually inserted or swiped my card more than once a week in Brisban…

I like where your head's at

If a picture contains comic sans, I don't need to view it that badly. I smell an opportunity for a new browser extension ;)