Hacker News: revmoo

New comment by revmoo in "FCC won’t delay vote, says net neutrality supporters are “desperate”"

revmoo — Tue, 05 Dec 2017 16:02:01 +0000

> comments being written by russian bots .

Let's tone down the McCarthyism a bit shall we?

New comment by revmoo in "How the CIA made Google"

revmoo — Fri, 01 Dec 2017 16:30:39 +0000

Might want to read the article.

New comment by revmoo in "An in-depth security review of the Intel Management Engine"

revmoo — Mon, 20 Nov 2017 19:53:40 +0000

So does this updated firmware remove the backdoor or just re-secure it so it can't be removed?

New comment by revmoo in "Microsoft Presenter Gives Up on Edge, Installs Chrome"

revmoo — Tue, 31 Oct 2017 14:57:22 +0000

> nobody is taking them seriously

Because it's 2017 and I'm STILL having to write workarounds for IE.

New comment by revmoo in "How the Elderly Lose Their Rights"

revmoo — Tue, 03 Oct 2017 17:46:44 +0000

Racketeering, kidnapping, elder abuse? Yeah.

New comment by revmoo in "The Equifax disaster points to a much bigger problem"

revmoo — Fri, 22 Sep 2017 11:59:23 +0000

> Loudermilk said Friday that his bill “is aimed at curbing frivolous class action lawsuits against businesses under the Fair Credit Reporting Act,”

Has this ever even happened?

New comment by revmoo in "iTerm2: Please disable 'Perform DNS lookups to check if URLs are valid'"

revmoo — Tue, 19 Sep 2017 22:22:28 +0000

Thank you.

New comment by revmoo in "Amazon to Build Second HQ in North America"

revmoo — Thu, 07 Sep 2017 12:27:56 +0000

My city (Louisville) would be a prime candidate due to proximity to UPS WorldPort, and Amazon already has a bunch of facilities here.

That said, screw these guys. I'll make sure to have my voice heard if my city tries to offer them tax rebates to come here. Everyone needs to pay taxes, especially gigantic corporations. I hate that companies like this even have the nerve to expect these sorts of breaks.

New comment by revmoo in "Build command line apps using PHP 7"

revmoo — Sun, 03 Sep 2017 20:40:48 +0000

Agreed. Also cli apps with Laravel are amazing if you need to schedule jobs.

New comment by revmoo in "Exploit broker Zerodium ups the ante with $500k to target Signal and WhatsApp"

revmoo — Thu, 24 Aug 2017 00:16:15 +0000

As bad as these things are, you wouldn't want them to be illegal.

New comment by revmoo in "More people riding bikes makes cycling safer for everyone, major new study finds"

revmoo — Sat, 05 Aug 2017 21:39:27 +0000

> This is a common misconception among folks who don't cycle. Cyclists are actually safer on the street.

Heard this a thousand times and I don't buy it for a second. The speed differential between cyclists and pedestrians is an order of magnitude different than the speed differential between cyclists and cars. And the argument about driveways and intersections falls 100% flat on it's face if you use the incredibly basic assumption that cyclists should (a) use crosswalks and (b) shoulder check when crossing driveways.

New comment by revmoo in "How a VC-funded company is undermining the open-source community"

revmoo — Mon, 24 Jul 2017 11:39:16 +0000

How much content are they auto-completing? Seems like this could easily end up with some other organization's proprietary code auto-filling inside your project. This is very dangerous; it's either only auto-completing single standard-library function names in which case it doesn't need cloud connectvitiy, or it's auto-completing actual code which opens up users to IP issues.

New comment by revmoo in "Bitcoin swings as civil war looms"

revmoo — Thu, 20 Jul 2017 15:40:11 +0000

Not a chance. The volatility surrounding this event was at or below the normal levels of BTC volatility.

New comment by revmoo in "The perk companies should be offering employees: Help with housing"

revmoo — Wed, 19 Jul 2017 19:46:48 +0000

Agreed, this is a terrifically dumb idea. It's bad enough that you usually lose your healthcare after being let go.

New comment by revmoo in "The Facebook Algorithm Mom Problem"

revmoo — Wed, 12 Jul 2017 23:04:33 +0000

I have been paid to write an algorithm like this. It matched you to relevant content, but then a manually configured weighting table would skew results to more popular sources. It went as far as taking into account the number of leads we had sent each partner that month as a percentage of their quota

New comment by revmoo in "Windows 10 will use protected folders to thwart crypto ransomware"

revmoo — Mon, 03 Jul 2017 16:10:36 +0000

Countdown to malware using this feature to prevent removal

New comment by revmoo in "Ubuntu displays advertising in /etc/motd"

revmoo — Thu, 29 Jun 2017 17:00:46 +0000

A couple thoughts:

- Why did you copy/paste this on the bug tracker (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/base-files/+bug/17...) and find/replace 'Ubuntu Community' with 'HackerNews community'? Doesn't that seem a little bit patronising to both parties

- Why didn't you actually address the issue? You said a lot of words but at no point did you say whether or not you would be removing this "feature" OR keeping it.

New comment by revmoo in "Ubuntu displays advertising in /etc/motd"

revmoo — Thu, 29 Jun 2017 11:39:23 +0000

It has to make unauthorized connections to pull down ads. No, this is not acceptable.

New comment by revmoo in "Another Ransomware Outbreak Is Going Global"

revmoo — Tue, 27 Jun 2017 17:16:27 +0000

Yep, forced updates + NSL = they don't need 0days anymore.

New comment by revmoo in "WSJ Ends Google Users' Free Ride, Then Fades in Search Results"

revmoo — Mon, 05 Jun 2017 19:58:40 +0000

Agreed. Seems simple to me; if you stop providing the content those users are coming for, they stop coming. Why is this hard for NYT to understand?