XparXnoiAx
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Comment · 9 years ago
Do a search for "Obama Antichrist" and you'll see plenty of examples. "Obama devil" gets some hits, too.
Comment · 9 years ago
The worst election result is losing the house, senate, and presidency all at once. Look at who has power, not the votes.
Comment · 9 years ago
For instance, the "alternative facts" comment/incident is being talked about everywhere
That's exactly why they said it. Notice how it distracted everyone from talking about the marches? Trump knows how to change the media narrative.
Comment · 9 years ago
2 factor authentication is great, but it won't stop an attacker from using an XSS attack to get the authentication cookie.
In general, security isn't something that can be tacked on as an afterthought, it has to be built in from the beginning.
Comment · 9 years ago
Not to mention, it doesn't matter if things are kept up to date when Wordpress takes months to issue a patch for critical security problems.
Comment · 9 years ago
Yeah, I wish I could recommend WordPress to people because it's really nice at what it does, but the security flaws are too serious.The fact that it takes months for them to fix serious vulns reported to them only makes it worse.
Seriously, there are youtube tutorials about 'How to Hack Wordpress.' It can't get much worse than that:
Comment · 10 years ago
Yeap, you're right, I misread. Here is a quote from the paper: "15% of these exploits were created before the disclosure of the corresponding vulnerability." So there's a lower bound.
Comment · 10 years ago
The study says that most vulnerabilities were being exploited before being disclosed.
Comment · 10 years ago
It should be pointed out that most vulnerabilities are, in fact, being exploited before they are patched. Citation in this article: https://medium.com/@xParXnoiAx/irresponsible-disclosure-52d0...
Comment · 10 years ago
No, absolutely not. Even if their intentions are good, they still have shown some questionable competence, for example:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/03/31/trend_micro_patches_...
http://www.pcworld.com/article/3020327/antivirus-software-co...
Comment · 10 years ago
I'm curious whether any physicists here have read this book and found its claims justified.
Which claim in particular? I recommend the book, not so much because of its conclusions, but rather because of its excellent history telling.
Comment · 10 years ago
"The End of Physics" is a good one. You may also re-think your desire to learn physics. If you get through the book and still want to learn, then you will do it completely without illusions.
https://www.amazon.com/End-Physics-Myth-Unified-Theory/dp/04...
Comment · 10 years ago
I'm doubting the sentence quoted.
Comment · 10 years ago
"And it's not possible to shift a person people into all of those categories, it's mostly inborn"
You're making a helluvan assertion there. You're going to need a citation, because psychology has no clue about this.
-signed, A Psychopath
Comment · 10 years ago
Democracy works as well as the voters.
It hasn't stopped working, for an example close-to-home, look at the corruption in SF, that has been there for over a century. As long as voters don't pay attention, we'll have lousy government. Voters are the watchdogs.