Maxious

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by Maxious 13y ago
Amendment 27 Section. 1. The forth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed.
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by Maxious 14y ago
This One Microsoft Excel Error Helped Spark Mass Riots Across Europe http://www.policymic.com/articles/36071/this-one-microsoft-e...
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by Maxious 14y ago
He will not be treated as a normal citizen and will be interviewed by the "high value detainee interrogation group" https://twitter.com/abc/status/325417178927083524 edit: Carmen Ortiz (prosecutor in Aaron Swartz case and now Boston Bombi
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Cuttlefish - FOSS email manager like Mailgun/Sendgrid(github.com)
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by Maxious 14y ago
There was a corruption scandal in Australia where government employees were recieving sizable kickbacks for ordering 40 years worth of toner at 3 times the retail price http://www.itnews.com.au/News/260705,vic-govt-stung-by-print...
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by Maxious 14y ago
Isn't development hardware is usually licenced as property of the supplier? eg. "A Perth man's house has been raided by police after he allegedly tried to sell a prototype of Microsoft's new Xbox gaming console" http://www.news.com.au/brea
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by Maxious 14y ago
Newsblur's puppy has a much better emotional connection - pay for this app and the dog gets to eat.
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by Maxious 14y ago
And then "There were occurrences of Lish [the Linode Shell] passwords in clear text in our database."
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by Maxious 14y ago
You mean like Google Now which seems to show the same cards as the glass demos http://www.google.com/landing/now/
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by Maxious 14y ago
Would you like Federal Information Security Amendments Act, Cybersecurity Enhancement Act or Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA)?
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by Maxious 14y ago
It's SMS-CB with some magic numbers to activate the Text To Speech and alarms https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/opt/tel...
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by Maxious 14y ago
Have you tried java? Let me show you my TimeDateAccessObjectFactory.
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by Maxious 14y ago
Not to mention Google Public DNS http://wilmer.gaa.st/blog/archives/58-Google-Public-DNS.html...
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by Maxious 14y ago
Oh dear. In one of Schneier's previous posts, he mentions graduate students learning the security mindset though analysing everyday products. One of these products was 24/7 video monitoring for elderly care... and the CEO of that company to
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by Maxious 14y ago
Prenda Law. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5204665 They were caught recently trying to use the identity of a janitor they knew as a defendant. http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130402/12223322549/deep-d...
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by Maxious 14y ago
Interesting to see how Mojang/Valve's "work on what you want" policy might be Considered Harmful. Not wanting to finish a game, tune a webserver that processes your sales or freeze and document an API because it's hard. Even with the API wh
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by Maxious 14y ago
See previously John Carmack on the importance of static analysis http://www.altdevblogaday.com/2011/12/24/static-code-analysi... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4543553
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by Maxious 14y ago
A small business bought $200,000 of Segways for tourists to ride around the local lake. The road authorities discovered Segways were classed as vehicles but could not meet the roadworthy requirements so the use had to be banned. The governm
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by Maxious 14y ago
In Australia, they're reviewing this area of patent law to see if the parameters are right http://www.ipaustralia.gov.au/about-us/public-consultations/... Novartis said in their submission "Generic companies should be able to compete with
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by Maxious 14y ago
More obviously, maxhardcore's name servers are all usdoj.gov while defcad's are not.
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by Maxious 14y ago
"Sexism" does not appear once in the blog post. So uhh there's that. The concern with "offensive" discussions/jokes at developer conventions is it can give the sense that some people are not welcome there - if you don't like it, go somewher
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by Maxious 14y ago
In this situation, nobody was kicked out of PyCon or at all sanctioned http://pycon.blogspot.com/2013/03/pycon-response-to-inapprop...
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by Maxious 14y ago
It was unacceptable that Adria indirectly got someone fired by their employer so lets demand a direct response from her employer?
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by Maxious 14y ago
Don't worry, even if you pick a good title a HN mod will come and change it to whatever they fancy.
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by Maxious 14y ago
scipy/numpy has compile time dependencies which can take some time to resolve.
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by Maxious 14y ago
NewsBlur was funded as part of YCombinator Summer '12 http://blog.ycombinator.com/newsblur-yc-s12-takes-feed-readi... http://blog.newsblur.com/post/27033939756/introducing-blurbl...
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by Maxious 14y ago
Great, I changed it to one of the katakana ranges and flipped the canvas http://jsfiddle.net/muV99/1/
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by Maxious 14y ago
Turning off any further comments on that bug is cute.
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by Maxious 14y ago
These seems to be the most short sighted bit - they had the techarati 1% visiting a Google social media property multiple times a day and yet they neutered it (rather than integrating properly) to work more on Google+.
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The co-op features do not work http://www.quartertothree.com/fp/2013/03/05/why-this-is-not-...

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