Hacker News: engtech

New comment by engtech in "Steve Jobs Introduces the iPhone 6 and Apple Watch"

engtech — Fri, 12 Sep 2014 02:01:04 +0000

That was a great article.

I love the idea of the heartbeat feature. Is that a real feature of the iwatch?

Ask HN: Corporate software reuse assets database?

engtech — Tue, 02 Sep 2014 16:23:10 +0000

Are there any OSS projects for building a database of metadata about software reuse assets?

We're in a work environment with multiple revision control systems, and I'm looking for a way for the different groups to be aware of what the other groups have created.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8258501

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

New comment by engtech in "How to exploit home routers for anonymity"

engtech — Fri, 18 Apr 2014 19:27:49 +0000

You'd think, but most consumer equipment is abandonware and the firmware isn't updated once a newer model is out.

Ask HN: openSSL/heartbleed for internal company apps?

engtech — Wed, 16 Apr 2014 16:38:48 +0000

Are you bothering to check openSSL versions for internal apps like:

- revision control - wikis - tool installs like perl, python (because of LDAP authentication)

Looking around it seems like Perforce and Subversion had heartbleed vulnerabilities for specific configurations.

Looking through various LDAP plugins for different tools, they may use a version of openSSL that is vulnerable.

Should we be patching openSSL on all of the linux boxes and not just web servers?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7598809

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by engtech in "Panopticlick – How Unique, and Trackable, Is Your Browser?"

engtech — Sun, 29 Dec 2013 17:30:28 +0000

Forgive me if I'm wrong, but it looks like if you could install a system font on a computer then you could create a unique fingerprint for that computer that is detectable by any website?

I am uniquely identifiable out of the 3.7 million samples because of my system fonts.

Goldiebox construction-themed board game targets engineering for girls

engtech — Wed, 20 Nov 2013 18:24:53 +0000

Article URL: http://www.adweek.com/adfreak/3-girls-smash-gender-roles-smithereens-toy-companys-glorious-debut-ad-153969

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6769892

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Threat Level: Silk Road Raided, owner allegedly tried to hire hitman

engtech — Wed, 02 Oct 2013 20:01:37 +0000

Article URL: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/10/silk-road-raided/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6484898

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by engtech in "Rat Park: addiction caused by living conditions?"

engtech — Mon, 23 Sep 2013 13:44:15 +0000

http://www.stuartmcmillen.com/comics_en/rat-park/

Rat Park: addiction caused by living conditions?

engtech — Mon, 23 Sep 2013 13:43:32 +0000

Article URL: http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20130910-drug-addiction-the-complex-truth/all

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6430775

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

Declassified Documents Prove NSA Is Tapping the Internet

engtech — Thu, 22 Aug 2013 01:25:06 +0000

Article URL: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/08/nsa-tapping-internet/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6254507

Points: 214

# Comments: 76

New comment by engtech in "Google Chromecast"

engtech — Thu, 25 Jul 2013 19:47:07 +0000

I have a boxee and I'd been thinking about how to implement this for a while.

It seems like it should be possible to have a box act as a web server proxy where it mirrors a web page to several displays.

It would be pretty slick if you could get a simple http proxy to support screen mirroring like this, because then it wouldn't matter what combination of set top box / phone / tablet you have... you could mirror anything.

New comment by engtech in "Bye-bye Boxee: how a startup failed to conquer the living room"

engtech — Fri, 05 Jul 2013 13:15:13 +0000

except for the fact that you couldn't tell up from down in the dark because it was symetrical.

It was really annoying when you went to pause, and instead turned netflix on.

New comment by engtech in "Bye-bye Boxee: how a startup failed to conquer the living room"

engtech — Fri, 05 Jul 2013 13:13:49 +0000

do you have Netflix working on that setup?

New comment by engtech in "Bye-bye Boxee: how a startup failed to conquer the living room"

engtech — Thu, 04 Jul 2013 18:56:34 +0000

xbox 360 media player was never able to handle mkv files (unless there's been an update in the 2 years that I've had my 360 powered down)

There was also that xbox 360 dashboard update that downgraded the playback quality of avi files.

New comment by engtech in "Bye-bye Boxee: how a startup failed to conquer the living room"

engtech — Thu, 04 Jul 2013 18:53:01 +0000

"There also seems to be some performance problems arising. But nobody has been pushing any updates to fix that. So you need to reboot the device every now and then."

I've been having the same problem. I've configured it to stop scanning my Windows PC network shared and that seems to have fixed the "endlessly rebooting every 30 seconds" problem I was having... but I'm still having a problem where if I leave it on for over a day then it will lock up or lose internet connectivity.

My other big gripe is that when I use the menu to shutdown it just locks up the box instead of shutting down.

I've be consider giving the hacked boxeeplus firmware a try, but I haven't bothered because I know it's not supported either.

New comment by engtech in "Ubisoft hacked, account data compromised"

engtech — Tue, 02 Jul 2013 18:11:59 +0000

I was happy that they included the "you should change your password on all other websites if it is the same" line.

I find that's the biggest hurdle that average users can't grasp, it's not about one website getting hacked.. it's that if your ubisoft password is the same as your email address password then they can now log into your email address, which means they can probably take over every online account you have.

New comment by engtech in "Weddings Used To Be Sacred And Other Lessons About Internet Journalism"

engtech — Thu, 27 Jun 2013 20:56:43 +0000

57kb of raw text without the images -- text is cheap. :)

New comment by engtech in "WikiLeaks Volunteer Was a Paid Informant for the FBI"

engtech — Thu, 27 Jun 2013 17:54:06 +0000

I'd trust gwern's speculation.

http://www.gwern.net/

   The content here varies from philosophy to poetry to programming to prosaic FAQ. It is everything I felt worth writing for the past few years that didn’t fit somewhere like Wikipedia or was already written - "…I realised that I wanted to read about them what I myself knew. More than this - what only I knew. Deprived of this possibility, I decided to write about them. Hence this book."2 I never expected to write so much, but I discovered that once I had a hammer, nails were everywhere, and that supply creates its own demand3. I believe that someone who has been well-educated will think of something worth writing at least once a week; to a surprising extent, this has been true. (I have added ~130 documents to this repository over the past 3 years.)

http://www.gwern.net/About

New comment by engtech in "Adblock Plus “typo correction” feature adds affiliate IDs to links"

engtech — Wed, 26 Jun 2013 14:38:22 +0000

You have to enable the typo option and the amazon referrer rewrite happens.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5946194

New comment by engtech in "Adblock Plus “typo correction” feature adds affiliate IDs to links"

engtech — Wed, 26 Jun 2013 14:37:02 +0000

You have to enable the typo option and it happens.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5946194