When your headline takes up half the page
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History of the browser user-agent string
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In the beginning there was NCSA Mosaic, and Mosaic called itself NCSA_Mosaic/2.0 (Windows 3.1), and Mosaic displayed pictures along with text, and there was much rejoicing…
Have you ever wondered why every major web browser identifies itself as “Mozilla”? Wonder no longer…
NISTs new password rules what you need to know
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It’s no secret. We’re really bad at passwords. Nevertheless, they aren’t going away any time soon.
With so many websites and online applications requiring us to create accounts and think up passwords in a hurry, it’s no wonder so many of us struggle to follow the advice of so-called password security experts.
At the same time, the computing power available for password cracking just gets bigger and bigger.
OK, so I started with the bad news, but this cloud does have a silver lining…
How Learning To Be Vulnerable Can Make Life Safer – Empathy increases Shell oil workers’ safety by 83%
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Men who worked on oil rigs lived by certain rules. They were tough. They worked under any conditions. They didn’t ask questions. It was this way as far back as Tommy Chreene, 60, who started working on rigs in the Gulf of Mexico back when he was 15, can remember.
Back then, it wasn’t unusual to see someone die on an oil rig. Chreene remembers the death of one man who had just finished a shift. He was standing before an enormous pipe that the workers twisted into the ground and held in place with a handle. The man kicked the handle, and the tension on the pipe released. It caught the man’s ankle as it whipped around…
Ellipse
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The Asexual Succubus
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Breaking https’ AES-GCM (or a part of it)
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The coolest talk of this year’s Blackhat must have been the one of Sean Devlin and Hanno Böck. The talk summarized this early year’s paper, in a very cool way: Sean walked on stage and announced that he didn’t have his slides. He then said that it didn’t matter because he had a good idea on how to retrieve them…
Note #7372
#FirstSevenLanguages
Basic (Locomotive, Q, Visual)
Z80 Assembly
Pascal/Delphi
Perl
PHP
Java
C
Yup, I don’t really use any of them nowadays.
The network is reliable
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In the spring of that year, my travels brought me upon a previously undiscovered civilization. The people called themselves Ossians, and they lived in an isolated collection of villages in a remote part of South America.
Being remote as they were, their level of technology was understandably primitive. But I was surprised by the locals’ recent obsession with new forms of communication. It all started, they told me, when one of them discovered that by attaching a rope between two clay pots and stretching the rope taut, a voice uttered into one side could be heard on the other. (I neglected to tell them that even as a boy I had done this very thing with tin cans.)…
20 Ways To Slice A Continent
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Review of Power Banks RAVPower 26800mAh Portable Charger
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Powerful, heavyweight battery: great, but wish the ports were labelled!
Big, powerful battery, but still (barely) small enough to fit in large jeans pockets alongside a phone, for charging-on-the-go. Never seen it run dry, despite charging two phones each night of a two-night camping trip. Only downside is the the ports aren’t labelled and some (by design) have their maximum output limited, so if you don’t know which ones those are by heart – or carry the manual around! – then you might find that some devices charge slower than they ought to. Still a great device, and even comes with a set of USB cables (A to B-micro, as used by most smartphones) for your convenience.
Review of Pierre Calvini Luxury Stripe Cotton Rich Sock
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Good value socks
Perfectly fine socks at a fair price. Because losing or wearing holes in socks is sort-of my superpower, I stocked up (or should that be “socked up”?) with these and they’ve served me well.
The Illusion Of Truth
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Dan Q couldn’t find GC6NWBN Pansy’s Cache
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Nope, no luck this morning. Thought I’d be in with a chance of an FTF for sure, but I can’t find the cache.
Both my GPSr and my phone seem to think that the posted coordinates are about 18m directly onto what’s clearly private property (and Google Maps agrees too, not that it’s always as accurate as a real life observation at GZ). Either the GPS gods aren’t smiling on me this morning, or the posted coordinates are off. :-(
Dan Q posted a note for GC6NWBN Pansy’s Cache
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Having difficulty getting closer than 18m away (according to my devices): looks like it’s in someone’s garden! Gonna assume that the coordinates are off (or the satellites hate me today) and just start searching in a wide area…