Hacker News: D9u

New comment by D9u in "Thank You for Being Expendable"

D9u — Mon, 26 May 2014 23:35:24 +0000

"War is a racket" by 2 time CMOH recipient Maj. Gen. Smedley D. Butler (USMC) details how corporate interests profit from warfare.

http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html

When I went through infantry training at Ft Benning I learned that the term "infantry" referred to a nation's ability to field soldiers, which is dependent upon the birth rate.

More infants = more soldiers.

Thus, by extrapolation, soldiers, especially infantrymen, are considered to be expendable.

Sadly, bureaucracy has allowed the care given to our veterans to fall short of expectations, but for many of those with military experience such treatment is par for the course.

New comment by D9u in "China bans use of Windows 8 on government computers"

D9u — Tue, 20 May 2014 18:23:04 +0000

  > The alternative to Windows 8 is presumably some older Windows.

Not necessarily. There are other, more secure, free, operating systems.

New comment by D9u in "Show HN: Where Adblock+ injects 20K CSS rules, HTTPSB injects one"

D9u — Mon, 19 May 2014 17:42:59 +0000

With AdBlock+ and HTTPSB you still get the network traffic from unwanted sites.

AdSuck, from the good folks at Conformal, blocks unwanted connections and thus decreases unwanted network traffic.

https://github.com/conformal/adsuck

New comment by D9u in "FCC approves plan to consider paid priority on Internet"

D9u — Fri, 16 May 2014 10:12:15 +0000

The FCC doesn't even agree with ISPs on the definition of what, exactly, constitutes "Broadband" connectivity.

Meanwhile the monopoly in my area continues to receive my payments, no matter what they do.

New comment by D9u in "Europe's top court: people have right to be forgotten on Internet"

D9u — Tue, 13 May 2014 10:35:05 +0000

The NSA, etc, never forgets...

New comment by D9u in "Your Friendly Neighborhood Drug Dealer"

D9u — Wed, 23 Apr 2014 21:03:46 +0000

http://www.democracynow.org/2011/2/8/headlines/hilary_clinto...

New comment by D9u in "Did Israel steal bomb-grade uranium from the United States?"

D9u — Sun, 20 Apr 2014 05:34:47 +0000

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/11/25/milchan-...

It's also commonly known that Israel is one of the more active espionage opponents of the USA.

http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2013/01/13/israeli-spy...

New comment by D9u in "Did Israel steal bomb-grade uranium from the United States?"

D9u — Sun, 20 Apr 2014 05:17:18 +0000

  > just commit such a fucking big crime that...

Kill one man, and you're put in prison.

Kill a million and you're the Emperor.

New comment by D9u in "GoDaddy Released My Personal Information to a Spammer Troll"

D9u — Wed, 16 Apr 2014 15:54:18 +0000

The spammer appears to be a religious hypocrite, so why not spam the spammer with religious hypocrisy right from their own playbook?

I would begin with Isaiah 45:7 "I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things."

New comment by D9u in "For $45 Per Month, All the Coffee You Can Drink"

D9u — Wed, 16 Apr 2014 15:07:41 +0000

Not one cup of coffee in over 50 years...

When someone offers all the beer I drink for one low monthly price, I'll be signing up.

New comment by D9u in "U.S. Daily Temperature Anomalies 1964-2013"

D9u — Tue, 15 Apr 2014 18:35:39 +0000

Thank you... Not sure why I didn't notice this initially. (blames outdated mobile device)

New comment by D9u in "Ubuntu 14.04 LTS: the cloud platform of choice"

D9u — Tue, 15 Apr 2014 18:28:26 +0000

Ubuntu still phones home too much for my liking.

That said, I appreciate how much the OS has improved since I first gave "Breezy Badger" a spin a few years ago, and Ubuntu is the obvious choice when I recommend an alternative OS to my non-tech savvy acquaintances.

New comment by D9u in "Bitcoin promoter Shrem indicted in NY for money laundering"

D9u — Tue, 15 Apr 2014 09:00:01 +0000

What's really creepy is the fact that the big bankers can get away with laundering billions in drug cartel profits, yet not a single person has yet to answer for these crimes.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/apr/03/us-bank-mexico-...

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-06-29/banks-financing-mex...

New comment by D9u in "Show HN: Poor Man's VPN With a Cheap VPS"

D9u — Mon, 14 Apr 2014 17:41:41 +0000

I've been using the ssh -C -D 8080 -fN user@server.tld for years now, no VPS needed if you use a free shell account.

Free != lazy

Also, lazy people dislike having to manually configure their web clients.

New comment by D9u in "A Statistical Analysis of the Work of Bob Ross"

D9u — Mon, 14 Apr 2014 17:32:20 +0000

I arrive at the same conclusion... My girlfriend loves to watch "The Joy of Painting," yet she doesn't paint.

It's got to be his soothing tone.

New comment by D9u in "U.S. Daily Temperature Anomalies 1964-2013"

D9u — Thu, 10 Apr 2014 17:22:19 +0000

Too bad the graphics only show the lower 48 states.

Sure, some will claim that, "Alaska is always cold, and Hawai'i is always hot," which is a typical fallacy.

People surf in Alaska, and it snows in Hawai'i. (We just had a hailstorm a few weeks ago.)

http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/25102371/flash-flood-watc...

Back in the 1970's I remember seeing snow fall halfway down the slopes of 13,796 foot Mauna Kea, something we don't see too often anymore.

New comment by D9u in "Spiped + SSH = Secure Proxy"

D9u — Wed, 09 Apr 2014 21:38:46 +0000

Wouldn't -C (compression) help to speed an ssh connection?

New comment by D9u in "Spiped + SSH = Secure Proxy"

D9u — Wed, 09 Apr 2014 21:34:30 +0000

Maybe I'm missing something here...

On my FreeBSD and Linux systems, the ssh -f parameter sends the process to the background, and the -N prevents remote command execution.

New comment by D9u in "Spiped + SSH = Secure Proxy"

D9u — Wed, 09 Apr 2014 21:24:26 +0000

From the link to the OpenSSL vulnerability;

  Unfortunately, there's nothing users can do to protect themselves

Um, how about a VPN, or ssh with dynamic forwarding?

I would do something like;

ssh -C -D 8080 -fN user@server.tld

Then it's as simple as setting your web connected applications to use the localhost proxy on port 8080.

New comment by D9u in "Working Ridiculously Long Hours is a Sign that Something is Wrong"

D9u — Sun, 30 Mar 2014 19:56:02 +0000

John Carmack used to put in marathon sessions coding asm for DOOM... As with many other successful people, sometimes the work just flows and you forget about things such as time.

Could it be that those failing are failing because their ideas are just not as great as they had imagined?