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ne0n | 4 years ago | on: Heroku was Down

It was, but I don't know why. I'm curious to hear if Heroku releases any information about how this happened. Heroku's DNS was returning a single 100.64.x.x address which is in a reserved range.

ne0n | 7 years ago | on: House Oversight Committee Report on Equifax Breach [pdf]

> Equifax, however, did not fully patch its systems. Equifax’s Automated Consumer Interview System (ACIS), a custom-built internet-facing consumer dispute portal developed in the 1970s, was running a version of Apache Struts containing the vulnerability. Equifax did not patch the Apache Struts software located within ACIS, leaving its systems and data exposed.

1970s? Am I reading that right? HTML wasn't even developed yet.

ne0n | 7 years ago | on: Activist Publishes 11,000 Private DMs Between Wikileaks and Its Supporters

It's right there in the article.

> “When Emma contacted me saying the source sent her the same docs too, I took a hash of my original HTML file and it checked out, so she has a copy of the same file as me,” Lee told Motherboard in a Twitter direct message. A hash is a cryptographic fingerprint of a file; if someone has tampered the file at all, those hashes won’t match.

> Lee said his source provided an HTML file of the DMs, and then Lee logged into the Twitter account himself and downloaded the direct messages with an automated tool.

> “I confirmed that they were authentic (Twitter itself would have had to doctor them) and that the source didn't modify the content in the copy he gave me,” Lee told Motherboard.

ne0n | 8 years ago | on: Bankrupt Mt. Gox may soon be able to pay its creditors

If MtGox only had enough funds to cover 15% of deposits, and they paid back each creditor 15% of their claim a year ago, the creditor could have bought Bitcoin with what was refunded and be in the same situation now. Instead, they seem to be dragging it out. I think most creditors would rather have something last year than nothing right now. Additionally, there's no upside for creditors if Bitcoin becomes $5,000.

ne0n | 9 years ago | on: Amazon's Antitrust Paradox

Sure, and then there's Prime, which they're reveiving revenue for and providing many different services. That revenue is probably not counted as shipping, yet they have costs to send out those free Prime packages.

ne0n | 9 years ago | on: Amazon Restaurants

Realistically, pizzas are a pretty poorly shaped thing for a drone to carry since it would block all of the propellers and it would definitely be way more effort to keep warm. Self driving cars are probably perfect for this, though. In California, self driving cars are classified as neighborhood vehicles which can't go over 25 which is probably fine for restaurant delivery.

ne0n | 9 years ago | on: Walmart Paid Its People More to Get Cleaner Stores and Higher Sales

Part of the problem is that employers like Walmart aren't hiring people full-time at 40 hours a week because that requires the worker get benefits. So they hire mostly part-time work at 30-hours a week or less, which isn't enough for people to live, so the workers have to try and get a second job.

ne0n | 9 years ago | on: Master Plan, Part Deux

Generally, having an electric car would push your electric bill into much higher usage tiers where the power is most expensive. Solar panels make the most sense for people who use the most electricity and pay the most for it. I've seen first hand that people who drive electric cars like to talk about clean energy and if they've got solar panels on their roof, it refutes the argument about burning coal to generate the electricity. As solar panels continue to drop in price, it starts to make more sense for the rest of the population, too.

ne0n | 9 years ago | on: Amazon software engineer interview

Most will fail. Amazon actually has an internal hiring standard that the candidate should be better than 50% of their peer employees in the position they're interviewing for. This goals helps Amazon strive to always hire more talented employees..

ne0n | 10 years ago | on: Can't sign in to Google calendar on my Samsung refrigerator

I was reading recently that there's a special type of paint you can use on the walls of your house to block wifi signals, essentially keeping your wifi contained within your walls and keeping the noise level down by blocking your neighbours' wifi.

ne0n | 10 years ago | on: Users Have Been Betrayed in the Final TPP Deal

I have a question that's off topic from the TPP/TTIP debate. I have another friend that is interested in this topic. Do you think it's possible to create a computer parsable Domain-Specific Language for legal documents? Or maybe to cover a certain subset of legal document types?
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