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> BTW, if people haven't tried PXE booting before, it's pretty easy with dnsmasq. You can basically read the sample config file and uncomment a few lines. You don't even need a config file. Here's a command line sni
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For developers interested in a Lisp that cooperates with Objective-C (and C), I always recommend Nu -- http://programming.nu .
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I second this. Every couple of weeks, ejabberd will attempt to eat all of the RAMs. Scheduling restarts was easier than trying to figure out why that was happening. Since switching to prosody, we've seen much better stability.
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The government mostly outsources now (a problem Snowden identified in terms of information control) or develops in-house with vendors. There are a lot of fingers in that pie. Oracle, for example, has a National Security Group, whose job i
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openssl rand 48 -base64
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> I wonder if this is also true if you are a foreigner visiting the US. It won't work on Customs and Immigration. When you're talking to them you're not "in the US" yet. After that, yes, the privilege against s
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> Are there any examples of crimes that many people have probably committed? Have you ever ordered anything off Amazon? Did you declare and pay the appropriate use taxes for what you bought? Did you ever discuss with anyone that buying
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> The default port for the internet is 80, so if there’s no port in a url, that means it’s 80. The Internet has no default port; 80 is for HTTP. If the port is omitted, then the default for the scheme[1] is assumed. </pedant&g
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> It's not a meme. It's fact. Those are not mutually exclusive.
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> Is there any value in diversity for its own sake? I don't know. How would you test that hypothesis? My unfounded speculation is that, like genetic diversity helps produce a healthy and robust organism, so does diversity of perspecti
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> Correct me if im wrong ... You're wrong. Wordpad on Windows and TextEdit on OS X can open .odt files. I've just tested in Mountain Lion and Windows 7 to verify it.
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> how is that a surprise or relevant to the discussion Lots of people will have _some_ photos that would be a bad idea to post on Flickr. Anyone with children, for example, will certainly have photos that obviously shouldn't appear on
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> How much longer until we can develop native applications without Objective-C entirely? You already can -- Lisp: Nu Ruby: MacRuby/RubyMotion Basic: Objective-Basic
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The problem is that you got the .onion address from an unsecured web page. Someone between you and that unsecured web page could've changed the .onion address and when you went there you would be visiting a Strongbox hosted by the NSA rathe
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> Linux will soon have btrfs, which is as good as (if not better than) ZFS. It may be awesome, but I'd say "soon" is a pretty optimistic timeline. Our testing pretty conclusively demonstrated that btrfs was still a long way from produ
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Enterprise anti-theft tools.
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> this self reference is a very distinct quality http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/little-schemer
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> Is releasing photos of someone and accusing them of murder really not considered libel in the US? It depends on the particulars of the accusation, but probably not. Saying "I think you killed her" is a statement of opinion. If that
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The box labeled "You" is not just a web browser. It should include a local (as in local to the machine running the browser) Tor proxy like Vidalia. See https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html.en for an example.
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> Am I the only one who is more confused about why there are compiled java classes and AMI BIOS updates in the www directory than about the hacking itself? Sysadmins being lazy. Somebody needs to get a file from a workstation to a rem
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> the dance group MIAIRIRIS That's not 'I', it's '|' -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MARRS
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> All the features of HTML beyond that get in the way by obscuring the plain text and the information plain text conveys. I don't see any obfuscation happening in the emails shown in this article. Rather, the article's suggestions giv
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> Most of the NES games I bought cost $49.99 plus tax. Wolfram Alpha says[1] that's ~$90 today. 1: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=50%20USD%201990%20in%20...
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> Stuff like this reminds me that at some point people really did give damn and that you can still buy quality if you're willing to look. I agree with this, but it's getting pretty hard. I've got an HP Laserjet 4 -- It's a brute; A be
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> My opinion is based on that flow chart. That chart is a serious oversimplification of the actual process. Even knowing which steps to take and which forms to fill out -- among many with similar, obtusely worded instructions -- takes
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Anybody who said GCC was forever doesn't know their history very well. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Compiler_Collection#EGCS_fo...
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Being Chinese in China has almost nothing to do with the government. It's a cultural belief that's persisted for centuries. Don't expect that to change at "at the drop of a hat". It's not a particularly unusual belief, really. All cultures
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> This is not true for all social levels of China. I somewhat disagree. That type of "reverse genocide" only works in East Asia. One of the reasons for the ongoing conflict in Xinjiang is that the local Uyghur, Kyrgyz, et al. don't look
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> I'm sorry you took such offence... You're sorry he took offence? That's a pretty passive-aggressive apology isn't it? You used the phrase wrong. He corrected you. I don't think you're allowed to claim any high ground here. > I
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> If the model is based on generating a secure (in terms of entropy) token that is then stored on the device or in the iOS cloud it's fine. That's about a likely to happen on your phone as any given website is to have secure password
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