Kadin

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by Kadin 17y ago
It says in the article that he had to use forensic / recovery software to extract the images from the drive. That suggests to me that they were deleted, just not overwritten. It's just like "deleting" a file off of your desktop PC; it's un
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by Kadin 17y ago
It's not just copiers. Most office printers these days contain their own servers, with hard drives for the spool. It would be just as simple to analyze the drive from one of them and grab whatever's left. And there you'd just be dealing w
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by Kadin 17y ago
Yeah, whether they mean it to be or not, this could easily be the kiss of death for ODF. Now, if you save in Word's native format, you have to buy a copy of Word (which is a sunk cost to most people anyway). But if you use ODF, you have to
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by Kadin 17y ago
While they may well have a way for you to submit archives, I think the greater question to ask is "why?" URL shorteners are bad enough on their own, but arguably a necessary evil -- encouraging everyone to set up their own is in no way a go
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by Kadin 17y ago
Has anyone ever tried to track down "Mel"? Not that I doubt the veracity of the story, it'd just be interesting to read an interview with the guy, if he's still alive. I guess if he was programming in the late 50s odds are against him stil
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by Kadin 17y ago
I don't think it's all that trivial; whatever a program does when run without options should be a big clue towards the primary use case that it is designed to handle or fulfill. In the case of curl, it writes to stdout; wget writes to a fil
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by Kadin 17y ago
So when is it going to start preserving filesystem modification times? That's only been on the TODO list for what, close to ten years? I'd really like to see that (which has existed in branches) before some sort of massive effort to keep u
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by Kadin 17y ago
Well, we would have, but we made the extraordinarily shortsighted decision to sell off our helium reserve when there was stuff a lot of it around. If we'd sat on it for a few more decades, we would have been in much better shape (and our sc
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by Kadin 17y ago
You can't get HepA from dirty words. You can get it from having someone's shit-covered feet all over a surface that you eat off of, though.
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by Kadin 17y ago
> but then I remembered that bash has built-in tcp support! You have to be careful making that assumption anymore, though; the version of bash that's included with Debian (and downstream variants, e.g. Ubuntu) has /dev/tcp and /dev/udp
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by Kadin 17y ago
Sadly Google seems to have dumped SearchWiki. I noticed last week that the "X" button (which removed a particular page from the resultset) is no longer there. You can only upvote, not downvote ... which is stupid. I used the "X"-to-remov
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by Kadin 17y ago
If that were to happen, someone could fork the site using the last CC-licensed data dump. I would hope that would happen immediately upon any change in licensing away from CC/GPL/GFDL/similar. It's not impossible but they can't just make o
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by Kadin 17y ago
Roman numerals are best thought of less as a numbering system (as we think of our modern system) but a semi-overgrown counting system. If you start out with hashmarks and sort of let it evolve, you can see pretty easily how they got to w
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by Kadin 17y ago
Um, no. I think the point is that the Japanese electronics manufacturers were (and are) very good at producing standalone devices, but missed the boat on devices (like the iPod) which get their power from their tight integration with the PC
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by Kadin 17y ago
Most of the cheap iPod-lookalikes don't have anything like the level of integration that the iPod has with iTunes. And that's what set the iPod apart from the beginning, and has probably been the key to its success. The iPod wasn't the fir
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by Kadin 17y ago
The $50 "ZipIt" device (linked above) is pretty close to what you're describing, although the included OS load doesn't look very customizable, so no custom apps. It's designed to connect to Wifi and do IM and SMS, not a whole lot else ... b
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by Kadin 17y ago
Yeah that's a bit of a bummer. I understand the need to hit the $99 price point, but it's a bit less compelling when you realize it's effectively a $140 device with no SD card slot, once you buy and install a WiFi card. Still, I applaud th
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by Kadin 17y ago
Unless they're under NDA I don't really think Garmin has much of a say about that. A J2EE app server stack with AJAXy client side doesn't exactly seem like it would qualify for trade-secret protection. Making use of Garmin's trademarks (ev
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by Kadin 17y ago
> feels more like a skills list you would put on a resume Well, yeah; the website is a resume, for the entire team. It's just describing the site they built as an example of past performance. So including every framework they even l
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by Kadin 17y ago
So they intentionally introduced a gaping DDoS vulnerability into their software? That doesn't exactly make me feel warm and fuzzy. The buck stops with Ubisoft, regardless of whether it's a DDoS or not. There's no good software engineerin
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by Kadin 17y ago
Amen. Also, although some of the quasi-planned economies (where "winners" were picked and subsidized) in Asia have been remarkably successful, it doesn't necessarily follow that the relationship is causative, or that they wouldn't have been
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by Kadin 17y ago
I agree with the article's overall thesis, but the example used -- Hartford, CT -- wasn't convincing. Having lived in Hartford and knowing quite a bit about the history there, I think the proliferation of parking was just another symptom r
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by Kadin 17y ago
As others have pointed out, this is very different from saying that atmospheric CO2 levels have not increased. It does not claim that, in actuality far from it. The gist of the article is about 65% of emitted CO2 is "sunk" into plant and
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by Kadin 17y ago
I think his suggestion #3 (more competition) is sort of the crux of all the problems. Zipcar is the only game in town, doing what they do. If you don't like them, your only resort is taxis or daily rentals (or owning your own car). The so
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by Kadin 17y ago
The method (rainbow tables) is not new, no. There have been several efforts to produce a complete set of precomputed tables for GSM's A5/1 algorithm. What he did was finish the tables. I haven't watched the video of the talk but I'm curio
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by Kadin 17y ago
That might make sense if they're talking about the mass of the entire fuel rod assemblies (which all become high-level waste, since we don't reprocess in the U.S., instead treating reactors as furnaces that simply "burn" Uranium). However,
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by Kadin 17y ago
Nothing is "absolutely safe" -- certainly, fossil fuels aren't. Conventional uranium reactors aren't. They're extremely safe, far beyond what I consider a reasonable cause for the fear that they're treated with, but they are not "absolute
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by Kadin 17y ago
At least in software, I don't think this is nearly as much a problem as in other industries. I know a lot of very good developers who are in their 30s and 40s (not too many who are in their 50s, although I'm sure they exist and there will b
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by Kadin 17y ago
It's a pretty stupid line to put in a license. What the hell does it even mean? Without defining "evil" in the context of the license, it could mean anything -- who gets to decide what constitutes "evil"? The original author? In that ca
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by Kadin 17y ago
When a browser pops up too many false-alarm warnings like that, users start to regard the browser as broken. And given that commercial certs change fairly frequently (they expire every year or two, in most cases), you would have a lot of

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