pdsh FTW

You forgot to add "winmodems" -- the software-defined modem that only shipped with flaky Windows drivers.

I agree that 4 -> 5 was difficult, 5 -> 6 and 6 -> 7 was easy, but 7 -> 8 is difficult again. Mostly due to app server containers like Tomcat and JBoss -- specifically the JSP compiling part needs a lot of love for Java 8 in servlet containers.

On that note, fasting can be good for you.

Salting is nice, but when the attacker gets both the hash and the salt, they can attack specific users. Still, the 100k rounds of SHA256 seem decent.

Would bcrypt be any better than PBKDF2 here?

But how do you sell the budget for an unknown, even if good, movie?

"I want 150 mil for this great movie!"

"Ok, what are you going to call it?"

"Waterworld"

(I actually liked Waterworld, but it's the classic example of over-spend to un-deliver at the box office.)

Re: Minecraft server monitoring, it reminds me of psDoom where you could "kill" your processes by fragging them.

Got a github repo for that minecraft hack?

Is there a market in the world for strong cryptographic file sharing? Meaning only the end users control their private keys and the "network" just connects users -- it never knows the keys.

Or does that only work on the small scale such as one user sharing some files with a few friends. If that same user shared those files with ten thousand friends, then would the sharing would be public as the keys would be "leaked" by nature of lots of people having them? (And thus those files could be examined for copyright infringement.)

And since some characters have different lengths, even counting characters might not be good enough. (Can't use max_bytes=80, nor max_chars=40.)

The message could be "displayed" in memory with the chosen font and size to calculate it's length, then truncate the string in character mode to fit within the limited area.

There are multiple layers of virtualization that could be used. A BSD jails approach could be used for sandboxing and library dependency (lib X.Y for Jail 1, lib X.Z for Jail 2). A Docker style approach could be used. Or whatever awesome new micro-virt someone can come up with that's not as heavy as a traditional virtual machine.

The VM for each application is a good idea. Android got close, by at least creating a user for each app using the standard unix permission model where each user can't see another user's files so each app is separate. But they still have all the "what APIs does this device allow" and "what APIs have this program implemented" problems similar to "what libraries does this distro have".

I know of one large company that maintains it's own "drop" like service where you can upload confidential files, and share them with other employees or clients. There are sensible defaults for the maximum allowed users as well as a time delay (after X days the files are deleted).

Here is another option if you want to outsource: https://www.sendthisfile.com/i...

Linux Package Deployment

I don't think the parent was complaining about not being able to modify his own linux desktop because there are other shared users. I think the problem might be around distributions that only release certain versions of software. For example, I run an "old" Ubuntu 10.04 LTS release. It is nearly impossible to install the latest Chromium build due to package dependencies and management. However, I can run the latest Firefox since I can download the tarball directly. (And no, I shouldn't have to upgrade the entire operating system just to run a simple userspace program.)

Maybe linking up these simulators in multiplayer could be a new sport that only uses electricity instead of fuel and tires.

Spectators could choose their viewing angles (or multiple at once) as well as spectate in the "cockpit" like we do for FPS games.

Power is killed, but the magnetron keeps spinning and some microwaves can escape. Best to hit the stop button and wait a second before opening the door.