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Website in question: http://www.tundefashola.com

"According to information technology experts, www.tundefashola.com, created by the firm for the former governor, is a WordPress website and an upgrade could not have cost more than N300, 000."

Favorite song on the album: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNj2BXW852g

You may want to rethink the pricing. I have several server variants that I effectively clone in different datacenters across my deployment. Since the base images are static I would really only need to run the agent on n servers (where n is the number of server variants that I have) to ensure that my entire deployment is protected.

I'm not sure if you would consider this unethical. I would probably feel differently about the pricing if it were tiered levels related to the entire size of the deployment (e.g.: 1-50 servers: $x/mo, 50-250 servers: $y/mo, 250+ servers: $z/mo).

I use Vassal to play and spectate Twilight Struggle -- hell of a lot easier than trying to find people in my area who are willing and able to play :)

Side note: interesting example of how not to manage a delayed Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/559431060/twilight-stru... -- the vitriol in this thread is pretty ridiculous.

The push notifications and tap to accept (no transcribing 6 digit codes!) is game changing. +1 for Duo!

Might be an unpopular language but "Learning Perl" was pretty helpful for me when I was coming up.

Anyone else think it's interesting that this is functionally a cross-promotional blog by the mattress startup Casper.

If the laptop turned off and the drive was encrypted by what basic method could they extrapolate the same information as if the computer was decrypted and powered on? Are you referring to some kind of memory attack? Wouldn't they need to be prepared to do that kind of forensic work in the extremely near term (or have some equipment on-hand to preserve the memory at least)? I'm pretty uninformed in this area and would appreciate a lesson.

The idea is that typically people expect a laptop to remain powered when the cord is unplugged (due to the battery), and so in a situation where the laptop is grabbed the power is cut immediately (and unexpectedly) and the hard-drive is no longer decrypted. As another commenter pointed out, a forensics team could then probably grab whatever they needed from the system memory (presuming they acted fast enough), but as I understand it the problem becomes significantly more complicated.

For the uninitiated: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K99OWlAWeN4

What always gets me is how (in this situation) he would ever operate a laptop that was usable without being plugged in... If he had simply removed the battery and kept the thing plugged then the laptop would have powered off immediately after it was grabbed.

The DFW quote is from the following Harper's article: http://harpers.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/HarpersMagazin...

  A vacation is a respite from unpleasantness, and since
  consciousness of death and decay are unpleasant, it may 
  seem weird that the ultimate American fantasy vacation
  involves being plunked down in an enormous primordial 
  stew of death and decay. But on a 7NC Luxury Cruise, we 
  are skillfully enabled in the construction of various
  fantasies of triumph over just this death and decay. One 
  way to 'triumph' is via the rigors of self-improvement
  (diet, exercise, cosmetic surgery, Franklin Quest time-
  management seminars), to which the crew's amphetaminic
  upkeep of the [ship] is an unsubtle analogue. But 
  there's another way out, too: not titivation but
  titillation; not hard work but hard play.

Important to note that this uses the public-read ACL by default.

Yeah, awk can be tricky. This tutorial[0] was posted awhile back and I bookmarked it because I found it to be very useful. Check it out if you haven't seen it.

[0] http://ferd.ca/awk-in-20-minutes.html

I just tried this on an extremely active logfile and it didn't work very well for me. I'd recommend multitail for watching constantly changing files.

Wow--thanks! The "How Thirsty Is Your Food" infographic from the first link is really incredible. Definitely makes me think differently about eating handfuls of almonds, or a huge amount of broc with dinner.

Hate to be that guy but do you have a source for this? That's pretty incredible and I'd want to read more.

nevermind: the parent article pretty much covers it

It would be interesting to know how much that it cost (in terms of fuel) to pull off this prank...

I appreciate this as an avid user of daemontools (http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html) -- thanks for the link!

We've actually been working on improving relevancy for queries like your example ("vegetarian restaurant new york") -- check it out!

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=vegetarian+restaurant+new+york

A low tech solution is to use a laptop that doesn't have a battery and keep it plugged in all the time. When they grab the laptop the cord invariably comes unplugged and the thing turns off. Bonus points if you have a fake battery so the weight doesn't give the game away.

Can this be used to perform a high speed recovery from a pg_dump?

You might want to put a warning before or after that link to indicate that it contains some pretty disturbing content...

As a major Twilight Struggle fan I urge any newbies to check out: http://twilightstrategy.com/!

(I am not affiliated with twilightstrategy.com in any way)

I would recommend this one for historical purposes: http://insecure.org/stf/smashstack.html

"The only catch was, he couldn’t tell anyone what he was doing. Bartos’ company depended on the trust of customers, and if word got out that the company had been hacked, they could lose clients."

It's unfortunate that still today the attitude is "cover it up" rather than disclosure. I would hope that any company that I entrust with my data would be forthright about breaches so that I, as a customer, would have the opportunity to take whatever precautions were necessary given the details of the breach.

Shoot us an email: open@duckduckgo.com and we'll take care of that.

This quote specifically:

"This was followed by a dimly lit museum corridor with a T-rex coming around the corner and slowly but menacingly approaching me. The model was very detailed and well animated, which really sold it. It wasn’t scary per se, but when it got close and roared right at me, I was definitely teetering on the edge of feeling like I was near a living creature. Why take kids to museums when they can travel back to the era of dinosaurs? VR in education is going to be huge."[0]

Reminds me so much of this clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1_bp8YKUPU

[0]http://www.roadtovr.com/hands-on-oculus-rift-crescent-bay-pr...

Another great one is "Gates of Fire" by Pressfield

Siddhartha is great--if you like Hesse I would also recommend that you check out "Steppenwolf" (same author), and if that also appeals to you, then "The Stranger" by Camus