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Uh, paying for DNS isn't uncommon? Examples off the top of my head: - Akamai DNS - AWS Route 53 - Azure DNS - Cloudflare (excluding personal/hobbyist plan) - Google Cloud DNS And m…

I'm a bit rusty on this but from memory the overhead is by and large specific to the Win32 environment. Creating a "raw" process is cheap and fast (as you'd reasonably expect), but…

If they're integrated into the OS they have to be supported at the same level as the rest of the OS, which entails the same rigorous processes w.r.t. updates, bug fixes, etc... By …

Hence the Delay option.

Uh, that may not be the best example. Are you aware of a reliable way to retrieve the OS version across all POSIX OSs? Because if you are, I would love to hear it.

Sure, but the degree of usage of cmd makes Silverlight's usage look like a hobby project. It's used everywhere , including all over Microsoft's own software. It'd easily be the sin…

Because it's well known by anyone interested in this area? There's been a barrage of "Windows 10 Telemetry/Privacy" related stories since its release. It's also publicly documented…

Agree that the phrasing could have been a lot clearer, but really, Microsoft removing cmd just doesn't pass even a basic sanity check. I remember seeing the original news articles …

It's certainly a lean web site. Or rather, the 503 is lean.

It appears to be a support library for dfp.exe, which is the "Disk Footprint Tool". I never knew it existed until now, but it seems to be a potentially quite handy utility with a p…

I've found Stow to be outstanding. When I initially started actually maintaining my dotfiles properly I looked at what others were doing based on public repositories and most at th…

It's not inherently bad, but choice for choice's sake is generally not a good thing for security software in my view. Saying you support more features in non-security software migh…

What options are superior to XTS? As I understand it XTS does have some weaknesses, but is still the superior option versus LRW & CBC w/ secret IVs. I'm not aware of any other well…

What are you talking about? Cygwin provides packages for bash, dash, fish, tcsh, zsh, and others. It's not a crutch, these are the exact same shells you run on Unix(-like) systems.…

IE7 shipped with Vista. I've seen a few organisations that started deploying Vista and updated their XP systems to IE7 so all their workstations are running the same IE version. Ad…

I think you've possibly misinterpreted the argument the author is making. My interpretation wasn't that he was being critical of the FBI for shutting it down; of course they had to…

I'm sorry, but that's absolute rubbish. I rarely post on HN, but I feel compelled to do so here. People rarely live in a vacuum, they engage with society, and those interactions ha…

Considering she explains in detail how she has had to take him to hospital multiple times with the assistance of police to restrain him, and further admits that pressing charges ag…

Looking at the current list, the CCC contributes a substantial slab of resources to the overall network. It's a pretty suboptimal situation that the network performance could be im…

Firstly, we'd need a massive expansion of the Tor network. While Tor might be quite well known among the more technically inclined, the network itself is of course largely composed…

Most of the responses to the question seem to be "sort of" correct but missing important parts of the overall picture. Further, a complete answer to the question is going to be sub…