... and fingerprint authentication has problems too

2016-07-29 Thread Tom Roche
Following the recent deprecation of 2FA over SMS (thread head here[1]), I was interested to note this NPR article[2] (dated 'July 27, 2016 2:34 PM ET'): "Police Use Fingertip Replicas To Unlock A Murder Victim's Phone". Basically, a team @ Michigan State University found a way to replicate a

happy sysadmin day

2016-07-29 Thread der.hans
moin moin, remember to thank those who keep your systems running. http://sysadminday.com/ ciao, der.hans -- # http://www.LuftHans.com/http://www.PhxLinux.org/ # "MacGyver himself off Mars." -- pretty well every geek who # has read "The Martian"

Re: Wordpress programming question

2016-07-29 Thread James Dugger
​For reference WordPress refers to the page (post) load sequence as "The Loop" see here: https://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop Here are a couple of WordPress Stack Exchange questions that may help.

Re: youth activities for SCaLE

2016-07-29 Thread Victor Odhner
Oops. Downtown Pasadena? You didn’t mention that part. You mentioned ASU which implies a local event. What am I missing? Jupiter should be back around by next March, and it will show through anything. But it won’t be rising till well into the evening, in early March, so the moon (first

Wordpress programming question

2016-07-29 Thread David Schwartz
Is anybody here really familiar with how Wordpress functions internally? If so, this question is for you. I’m looking for any documentation that explains the “message loop” that WP follows starting when it gets a request to load a page. The server gets a request to load a URL with a PageID on

Re: youth activities for SCaLE

2016-07-29 Thread der.hans
Am 29. Jul, 2016 schwätzte Victor Odhner so: moin moin, Is this just a daytime thing? I acquired an 8” computerized telescope, In this case, mostly. What I'm talking about is daytime, but there's a game night activity on Saturday night. It's still in downtime Pasadena, so not too much dark

Re: 2FA over SMS considered harmful

2016-07-29 Thread Victor Odhner
I’m just glad we have a Social Security office here in our northeast Phoenix neighborhood. I have never used “My Social Security” and don’t mind once every few years spending 45 minutes in their waiting room. I have also actively rejected my medical providers’ offers of handy online access to

Re: youth activities for SCaLE

2016-07-29 Thread Victor Odhner
Is this just a daytime thing? I acquired an 8” computerized telescope, giving stargazing parties for kids, but it has to be at least a little dark for that to be any fun. (If anyone is interested in this, even outside of SCaLE, I might be available for some random opportunities.)

youth activities for SCaLE

2016-07-29 Thread der.hans
moin moin, SCaLE is the first weekend in March next year. Once again it will have a Next Generation track on Saturday. In conversation with the SCaLE team I suggested a youth room with activities for kids. As can happen, it was suggested that the suggester, me, implement said suggestion :).