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by 46Bit 15y ago
Not when they're programmed by people.
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by 46Bit 15y ago
No. Of all the things you can describe the stock market as, rational is not one of them - and that's before you consider the amount of computer trading.
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by 46Bit 15y ago
Would tend to agree. This new generation of repo sites for the most part has learnt a lot of lessons about how to do things. In some ways, linking to individual tweets feels a bit like bitching at people - perhaps understandable, but not re
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by 46Bit 15y ago
Banks hopefully encrypt them, but even a cursory glance when logging in to most nowadays shows they don't hash them (asking for individual characters). Or at least, you hope they aren't storing hashes of individual characters of your pass
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by 46Bit 15y ago
Quite possibly, and certainly I think they could get it if they really wanted. Certainly it can't be much worse that typical public email providers where law enforcement seem to pretty much just have to type an email into a form to browse y
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by 46Bit 15y ago
I think it's fair to surmise that those intelligence agencies that care have probably had the algorithm for a long time and searched for weaknesses. Bear in mind that at one time they were complaining about it's use by criminals to avoid ph
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by 46Bit 15y ago
This is damned good. If organisations continue transitioning, hopefully it'll up the pressure to keep updating browser versions and internal resources.
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by 46Bit 15y ago
The thing to bear in mind is that a lot of 'Mac Antivirus' software has overwhelmingly consisted of signatures to stop you passing on Windows malware, rather than necessarily much that will protect your system. EDIT: Just to be clear, I'm n
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by 46Bit 15y ago
No expert, but I always thought Ubuntu was probably the distro least likely to have a large % of GNU thanks to all the extra stuff that comes with it. Would be interested to see this for Debian or etc.
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by 46Bit 15y ago
As you'd know if you'd tried it, it then redirects back to the https version - or at least FF & Chrome do, too late to actually check the headers.
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by 46Bit 15y ago
Anyone else getting an untrusted SSL Cert error from the link?
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by 46Bit 15y ago
All the time - use it to check my answers to pretty much every calculus question I do, then if I get any wrong just use the Steps to work out better approaches in future. Never really looked into Google Calc though.
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by 46Bit 15y ago
It's not a search engine. It's an information engine. Enter what you want, not just two random words with no 'question'.
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by 46Bit 15y ago
The problem with all the bemoaning of hackers, fraudsters and so on is that this is the real world. In real life, there's dodgy places you don't go because you're worried about crime, and there's always the risk that someone on a street wil
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by 46Bit 15y ago
I think the last year has been interesting. In it we've seen 3 strikes legislation undemocratically thrown onto the UK books with as good as no worthwhile debate, the USA starting to arbitrarily abuse their control of DNS, etc. People just
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by 46Bit 15y ago
It might help if you explain what you're actually complaning about, rather than ... forgive me, babbling incoherently. As far as I can tell, you're angry because the Next button isn't working and because people have preferences?
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Ask HN: Freelancing vs agency role as a summer job
3 points by 46Bit 15y ago|1 comments
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by 46Bit 15y ago
A problem that's immediately been raised by shop owners I know is that of theft - regardless of how much of a brick it might be to them (strong non-numeric passcode etc). You can't just walk off with a cash register, or at least fence it ea
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by 46Bit 15y ago
This exactly. If you have a paper book, then removing that book (except via court, anyway) is theft. If it's digital and Amazon issues an arbitrary delete to Kindles, you've agreed to them being able to do it already. This sort of thing is
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by 46Bit 15y ago
Exact same story here. Linode seem to have Slicehost/Rackspace-like uptime, for less money, and with a much more fully featured control panel.
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by 46Bit 15y ago
Having rented an 'emergency' VPS to demo something, I can confirm they credit you automatically, at least as of last month. Not sure if it's by hour or day though.
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by 46Bit 15y ago
If you mean the raw server requests, a lot of that will come from bots/etc without a javascript engine. Blocking GA is probably a growing thing, but it doesn't yet seem to be huge.
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EllisLab CEO on improving company culture(ellislab.com)
1 points by 46Bit 16y ago|0 comments
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by 46Bit 16y ago
Flash really is that bad. As a potential malware vector & as something where most users are probably hopelessly out of date (and not by their own fault).
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by 46Bit 16y ago
Pretty good job at first glance. It's got definite utility, though I do have doubts about it's potential users. Either way though, best of luck. You might want to check it at 1024x768 - the design is thin enough to fit on that resolution, b
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by 46Bit 16y ago
This feature bloat is exactly my issue with a lot of commercial software - especially Photoshop. With each release, it includes a load of junk most people don't want, but new ways to make files incompatible with old ones so that people have
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by 46Bit 16y ago
For you and me, it's a good thing. But, for the same reasons that the government never gives it's support to encrypting all web traffic, it's bad for when they want to pin charges on you. My ideal storage has some sort of wipe-from-a-jail-c
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by 46Bit 16y ago
I've been really looking for good alternatives to Google Apps recently - ideally, self-hosted with backup (highly encrypted) to S3 or such. I'd use my server for this, but I've yet to find an email interface which even approaches Hotmail, l
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by 46Bit 16y ago
I think it's as simple as this: witnesses aren't reliable. When you think about how often you turn out to remember little details wrong, it's clear that more often than not you'll pick out the wrong man in a lineup - especially when so trau
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ESA space concepts enter competition(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by 46Bit 16y ago|0 comments

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