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To be picky: >Immediately after the maintenance, users will only be able to access Public PAIR through URLs beginning with HTTP, such as http://portal.uspto.gov/pair/PublicPair . Past URLs using HTTPS to access Public Pair, such as ... A URL beginning with HTTPS ALSO begins with HTTP
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Please provide rationale showing that the associated risks outweigh the immense fun of "meatspinning" coworkers. "Don't do this" is probably not very convincing.
https://it.slashdot.org/story/08/06/18/2213232/man-fired-whe... Don't be the person that gets someone fired, arrested, jailed, and in lifetime legal trouble because some asshole thought it would be hilarious to display porn on their computer at work. (Yes, I'm equating "meatspinning" to malware. Argue if you like about that, but the main point stands: If you meatspin someone, you're taking a chance of ruining their e…
Not to defend "meatspinning" (first time I've heard the term), but don't you think the real problem here is that people can be fired/jailed/etc without due process is the problem here? This was just some drive by malware, imagine what you could do to someone's life if you intentionally targeted someone?
The USPTO databases have to be one of the most torturous services to their users in the whole of internet. The UI of both the patent and trademark search is archaic, but not in a HN way but in a really bad way. In patent search, there is no "search" box. Instead, the "quick search" forces you to specify two (and exactly two) text queries on the database columns with obligatory boolean operation.[1] Even if you happen…
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If you look at the url, you notice they are using CGI and Win32 EXEs
You can't know that. It could have been redeveloped in anything, but kept the original url scheme for backwards compatibility.
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Does F5 do any special secret sauce that can't be replicated with an equally powerful set of hardware and a good HAProxy config? Not unless you think "extract a lot of money from clueless execs" is secret sauce. That, and support contracts - you know, throats to choke when it all goes wrong.
BigIP's iRules (Tcl) are pretty nice. ( https://devcentral.f5.com/irules ). I hear HAproxy has Lua support now, but I don't know how comprehensive it is compared to iRules. Also, F5 load balancers have real hardware failover capability, and can even synchronize TCP session state across instances. That's a pretty nice feature.
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https://it.slashdot.org/story/08/06/18/2213232/man-fired-whe... Don't be the person that gets someone fired, arrested, jailed, and in lifetime legal trouble because some asshole thought it would be hilarious to display porn on their computer at work. (Yes, I'm equating "meatspinning" to malware. Argue if you like about that, but the main point stands: If you meatspin someone, you're taking a chance of ruining their e…
> Don't be the person that gets someone fired, arrested, jailed, and in lifetime legal trouble because some asshole thought it would be hilarious to display porn on their computer at work. Not to defend "meatspinning" (first time I've heard the term), but don't you think the real problem here is that people can be fired/jailed/etc without due process is the problem here? This was just some drive by malware, imagine w…
If he was fired for meatspin or lemonparty, he would publicly accuse them of homophobia on twitter and things would be different ;)
To be picky: >Immediately after the maintenance, users will only be able to access Public PAIR through URLs beginning with HTTP, such as http://portal.uspto.gov/pair/PublicPair . Past URLs using HTTPS to access Public Pair, such as ... A URL beginning with HTTPS ALSO begins with HTTP