markcampbell
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Comment · 10 years ago
This is a very important aspect of the study. They did not do a true randomized survey as participants were self-selecting (online surveys have this inherently -- well, mostly).
Comment · 11 years ago
Does anyone have a link to the Twitter lawsuit mentioned in the slides and talk?
edit: found it (I think) http://www.theverge.com/2015/3/21/8270585/twitter-gender-dis...
Comment · 11 years ago
He/she would only have to pay 3.28 times his normal payment in order to pay it off in 1/5th of the time. It's paid off more quickly because by paying more, you reduce the amount of interest that accumulates.
On a $100k 20 year loan at at 5.7% (I know, example), interest paid would be around $67k (so total $167k). By paying 3.28 times more per month ($2300 per month versus the $700 normal rate), the interest paid ends up being only around $12k.
Comment · 11 years ago
Being fired for cause in this case refers to misconduct at the job, which is quite different from just being not good enough at your job.
I won't repost the list, but you can find the definition and the most common list on their website here:
http://www.servicecanada.gc.ca/eng/ei/information/misconduct...
Comment · 11 years ago
Manitoba Pharmacare exists for prescription plans and is income adjusted. Similar story in Ontario with the Trillium drug plan. I'm certain other provinces are similar.
People with true emergent cases are seen quickly. You may not, but it's probably because it's not an emergency.
Comment · 11 years ago
This example is flawed. What is the max take home pay of someone on unemployment benefits in Belgium? In Canada under EI (employment insurance) it's about $500 per week (~$2000 CAD per month).
Comment · 11 years ago
3-6 months of salary is not the measurement. You need an emergency fund of 3-6 months of expenses. That amount is easily achievable for someone who is a few years out of college which is generally someone who is young, no mortgage, and no dependents.
If someone wants to make the commitments of mortgages or dependents, then that's on them and they still need to have that 3-6 month emergency fund, except the amount will be higher because of the added responsibilities.
Comment · 11 years ago
It's not vimeo. Downloading the video and playing it locally with VLC yields the same problems.
Comment · 12 years ago
I've left some comments on the Disqus thread on the blog, but I'll reiterate my concern about the security of the cookie being set.
The cookie being set is unsigned according to the documentation[0] on rails, so a user could modify it and send it back to get a different cached response. Say that they saw that the user level was being set in there (like in the blog post) and they change the value to the 'staff' value to get the staff cached response. Probably not a good idea!
With that said, I don't think that this technique is adequate right now when you have user access level concerns and you're relying on that piece of unsigned information to not be tampered with.
[0] http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionDispatch/Cookies.ht...
Comment · 12 years ago
Hi, I'm the author -- feel free to ask any questions :)
Comment · 12 years ago
I don't think persistence in memory was the selling point. The other selling point is that doing comparisons are faster because `:a == :a` can compare on a memory address while `'a' == 'a'` requires comparing the data at the different memory addresses.
Someone tell me I'm wrong.
Comment · 12 years ago
There already is a $5.4 million initiative by the Linux Foundation that will audit OpenSSL as one of its goals[0].
[0] - http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/05/openss...
Comment · 12 years ago
Step 1. Enable 2 factor authentication
Step 2. Change password
It's definitely going to be more low-key than what I've seen from the BSides Winnipeg crew (now The Long Con https://thelongcon.ca ) but I still expect it to be also a lot of fun, especially with the existing talks we've got lined up.