Things that make you go "Hmmmm…"

[Brian-E]

Originally Posted by ewmayer

People Kept Complaining This Restaurant Sucked, Look What They Found Out…

Digital wankerdom has its price.

You can imagine some of the reviews being written. "I'm sitting in this restaurant now, and it's taken me five minutes to even get the hang of the restaurant's wifi. That's one bad point anyway. The menu looks colourful. Hang on, WTF, I'm in the middle of writing this and this waiter's already come up and asked if I'm ready to order. Seems pretty pushy to me. The food seems okay from what I can see on other tables, I'll upload a few of the photos which I've just been taking of other tables when I've finished this review. Anyway, I suppose the worst thing I notice about this restaurant is the slow service. I've already been here ten to fifteen minutes and my order still hasn't been taken. Clearly their staff need better trainiing."

[axn]

No name of the restaurant, and no link to the Craiglist post where this transcript was supposedly posted. Seems legit.

[kladner]

.....so please try not to run into them? (Manufacturer altered the design without notice. Feds slow to respond.)

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/13/bu...ates-say.html?

By last month, state transportation officials in Missouri said they had seen enough.
Federal highway officials had long insisted that guardrails throughout the state were safe. But some guardrail heads had apparently malfunctioned, in essence turning the rails into spears when cars hit them and injuring people instead of cushioning the blow, Missouri officials said.

“The device is not always performing as it is designed and intended,” a Missouri transportation official wrote of the problematic rail heads in an internal communication.
Because of its safety concerns, Missouri banned further installation of the rail heads on Sept. 24. It joined Nevada, which prohibited further purchases in January, and was followed six days later by Massachusetts. Lawsuits say the guardrails were to blame for five deaths, and many more injuries, in at least 14 accidents nationwide.

[sonjohan]

Originally Posted by axn

No name of the restaurant, and no link to the Craiglist post where this transcript was supposedly posted. Seems legit.

It was deleted from craigslist.
http://web.archive.org/web/201407121...562386373.html

[axn]

Originally Posted by sonjohan

It was deleted from craigslist.
http://web.archive.org/web/201407121...562386373.html

Still no name of the restaurant. Unfortunately, the fact that it was deleted from Craigslist actually makes it *even more* suspicious. Looks like drive-by trolling. If someone can point me to where an actual restaurant takes credit for this, I'll be convinced. Until then, I'll chalk it up to Social Etiquette Warriors (TM).

[only_human]

Originally Posted by axn

Still no name of the restaurant. Unfortunately, the fact that it was deleted from Craigslist actually makes it *even more* suspicious. Looks like drive-by trolling. If someone can point me to where an actual restaurant takes credit for this, I'll be convinced. Until then, I'll chalk it up to Social Etiquette Warriors (TM).

I'm skeptical too. Here is a skeptical write-up the day after it hit Craigslist:
http://firstwefeast.com/eat/busy-nyc...list-about-it/

Take your best guess as to what restaurant wrote the rant (which we’ve posted in full, for your convenience, below). Let us know what you think in the comments section. We’re giving a iPhone 5s to whoever guesses correctly.

Here are some more links as it went viral. Nothing illuminating in the comments

http://www.coloradonewsday.com/news/...estaurant.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...estaurant.html

[ewmayer]

Hi-tech overload: First case of Google Glass addiction treated

[Xyzzy]

http://www.sfgate.com/news/us/articl...rs-5823459.php

[only_human]

Browsers may fall back to SSL 3.0 when retrying failed connections and then the plaintext of snooped authentication cookies can be calculated.

'POODLE' Web Flaw: How to Fix Your Browser

An attacker snooping on your Wi-Fi traffic could use POODLE to capture the "cookies" that authenticate your secure Web connections, such as to Facebook or to a bank website, then re-use those cookies to take over your accounts, at least temporarily.

[ewmayer]

Originally Posted by only_human

Browsers may fall back to SSL 3.0 when retrying failed connections and then the plaintext of snooped authentication cookies can be calculated.

'POODLE' Web Flaw: How to Fix Your Browser

The recommended FF fix doesn't work for me - don't see anything like security.tls.version.min in the about::config list, not even a security.tls category.

And let's not forget to give credit where credit is due:

SSL 3.0 is still used because Internet Explorer 6, which shipped with Microsoft Windows XP and had a five-year reign as Microsoft's flagship browser, is still used. IE6 can't use SSL 3.0's successor, TLS 1.0. Hence, millions of Web servers keep SSL 3.0 alive just so that millions of Windows XP users who never upgraded to IE 7 or IE 8 can see those sites.

Thanks, MSFT, first for giving us history's crappiest 64-bit OS rollout - the reason I insisted on XP in the Lenovo laptop I bought in 2008 and never considered upgrading - and for helping to promulgate an apparently unpatchable-in-situ security bug due to shitty crypto. If I didn't know better I might think MSFT is deliberately releasing such stuff to make life easier for its government-spook pals, but fortunately I'm not that cynical.

[retina]

Originally Posted by ewmayer

The recommended FF fix doesn't work for me - don't see anything like security.tls.version.min in the about::config list, not even a security.tls category

My FF 3.6.28 has:

security.enable_ssl3