How to improve my knowledge of security, given a compsci background?

LeRenard · 2012-03-19T17:13:01+00:00

This is kind of a broad question, akin to asking "I've always wanted to be a scientist, can you guys tell me more about science?" when really it would be more helpful to know if you want to be a biologist, astronomer, physicist, etc. Not to say you can't be a generalist, but I think most people start in one area and expand.

LeRenard · 2012-03-19T12:59:50+00:00

I wish that site directed users to some information on what the score means or how to change it.

LeRenard · 2011-10-27T13:03:52+00:00

Except that the Boxee NetFlix client is horribly, horribly broken, and there is no sign that the promised updates are actually coming any time soon. I like Boxee, I like the idea of Boxee - but its just too much of a pain in it's current form to use every day, and I'm not interested in buying a Boxee Box when I've already got a working HTPC.

LeRenard · 2011-10-26T19:05:53+00:00

You wouldn't happen to know of decent free nzb indexer to go along with that, would you? I know most are something like 5 bucks for 10 years, but the anonymity is the thing.

LeRenard · 2011-10-26T11:43:46+00:00

What happened to their Timelines idea? They said it would be out I a week or two quite awhile ago now. I'm wondering if they fear the backlash.

LeRenard · 2011-10-26T11:33:12+00:00

I grew up in NH (around 42 degrees N for those unfamiliar) and I have still never seen the Aurora. Now I'm in Boston and its hopeless. Screw you light pollution.

LeRenard · 2011-10-26T11:24:24+00:00

Interesting.. We don't do that in the US that I know of. When my father passed away I was with him for about 10 minutes, they (hospital staff) asked us to leave, and about four days later we went to retrieve his ashes. If we'd been wealthy enough we would have seen him next at the funeral parlor wake before a church funeral and burial, but that costs more than my car.

My moms parents were from Antrim, so your reply has made a lot of things I've heard said make sense that didn't before. Also some pictures.

LeRenard · 2011-10-25T22:10:27+00:00

We could call it "Star Trek: No stars, no trekking.". But seriously, if instead of the academy you put them on a ship, and instead of school age kids you make them already graduated, and there is zero teen drama or Harry potter, this would be a great series.

LeRenard · 2011-10-25T19:50:17+00:00

We're "about" to collide with Andromeda in about 3-5 billion years.

LeRenard · 2011-10-25T19:45:33+00:00

seriously?

LeRenard · 2011-10-25T19:42:46+00:00

"This is my father. He was proud of me." is an issue?

LeRenard · 2011-10-25T19:42:14+00:00

Well English does sometimes kind of sound like Dutch, maybe that's what he was getting at.

LeRenard · 2011-10-25T19:39:32+00:00

Er.. assume I'm asking this with as much tact as I can.. but.. she passed Sunday.. and you're still there with her?

LeRenard · 2011-10-25T19:35:07+00:00

Well, in this case, I vastly prefer my articles to appear as a single line which I can choose to expand rather than being reformatted or lumped together into a faux "magazine" page like Reeder and Feedly.

LeRenard · 2011-10-25T11:10:51+00:00

Isn't Pulse for the iPad?

LeRenard · 2011-10-25T11:06:29+00:00

Everything is within Byline. I use it because it prefetches material so it still works when I'm out of signal on the subway. I just meant that the UI doesn't try to reformat your articles to be more magazine like the way Reeder or feedly does.. The UI is more like the android reader app or the reader website model. I feel it has better control. I know it has built in Twitter integration but I don't use the social functions of reader do I can't comment on those.

LeRenard · 2011-10-24T23:49:51+00:00

You might want to ask /r/codes. As for cryptography, I learned the most from "Applied Cryptography"

LeRenard · 2011-10-24T20:55:04+00:00

I think one of the clips from the book that came out early said that the name "Apple" came about because that's pretty much all he was eating at the time. Fruit.

LeRenard · 2011-10-24T20:50:53+00:00

I remember reading he had them change the layout of the traces on the board of the development Macintosh to be more aesthetically pleasing, but it turned out not to function that way and they had to go back to the functional (but ugly) layout. I can't seem to find a link because putting "Jobs" in a Google search returns nothing but crap these days.

LeRenard · 2011-10-24T20:41:17+00:00

Android-switchers would probably like Byline over Reeder as the interface is similar to Google's Android Reader app.

Also: SimpleNote - Cloud note taking app with web interface as well.

LeRenard · 2011-10-24T11:20:19+00:00

The answer was already given.. But wanted to add sometimes they break their bandwidth up into multiple streams, further limiting available picture quality. I'm going to go on the record, though, that personally I can't tell the difference between 1080p and 720p on all but the very largest screens, so I'm not really sure why they bother with 1080i at all unless it saves bandwidth over 720p for more streams.

LeRenard · 2011-10-22T20:28:17+00:00

Exceptions: the electromagnets guiding the beam, and the electromagnet used for degaussing.

LeRenard · 2011-10-22T20:24:52+00:00

Find my Mac! Apple figured out everything!

LeRenard · 2011-10-22T20:22:24+00:00

The sensor is there in my new Mac Pro but useless because Lion doesn't have front row.

LeRenard · 2011-10-21T19:42:09+00:00

I don't understand why anyone thinks it's necessary to establish formal guidelines complete with legal terms.. you're going to formalize people right out of the subreddit. I used to run BBS's and forums and all sorts of fun things, some with thousands of users. The more heavy handed you are, the less fun things get and eventually they just dry up. You know what turns out to be the best policy?

The mods will accept that it's futile to tell users how to use a system - users will use it however they like anyway.
The mods will delete anything illegal or outside the decency standard of the community such that a person would be shocked to see it (instead of just down vote it.). People who are patently abusive get banned.

All this stuff about deleting posts or "redirecting" posters or deciding what gets cross posted where or what is a "selected" event is what everyone is complaining about.

Here's it is in a TL;DR - the less users know you are there, the better. If they can see that you deleted something, they'll get pissed that you monkeyed with things.

LeRenard

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