ZoFreX

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by ZoFreX 13y ago
Sometimes they are spreading a political message (I've seen more Syrian hackers than Turkish on defaced websites recently, incidentally) so they want to spread their identity. Just like hacking groups that are in it for infamy spread t
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by ZoFreX 13y ago
You reminded me of this: > What is a program? Several answers are possible. We can view the program as what turns the general-purpose computer into a special-purpose symbol manipulator, and does so without the need to change a single wir
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by ZoFreX 13y ago
There are two modes of marketing mail I've seen increase massively over the last year or two (note: completely subjective 'study' based on my own inbox): 1) "Screw your choices" spam - despite figuring out the Mensa
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by ZoFreX 13y ago
My bank (NatWest, terrible) told me to never give my information to anyone who calls me and asks for it. Every time they ring they then ask me for my details for 'security purposes'. Then again, that seems mild now that I've
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by ZoFreX 13y ago
This copy-paste job adds nothing to the original article: http://bgr.com/2013/12/26/mac-pro-windows-diy-cost/ Edit: And the article they copied from is a shorter write-up of the actual original: http:&#
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by ZoFreX 13y ago
> I can't imagine any other profession where basic stuff is executed so cluelessly unless it's a deliberate scam. Off the top of my head: Electricians. I've seen first-day-on-the-job-level mistakes in every single property
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The Moto X's interactive print advert(youtube.com)
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by ZoFreX 13y ago
In my experience non-techy people of any age think he still heads up Microsoft, and blame him when Word crashes.
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by ZoFreX 13y ago
Spring has dropped quite dramatically in most of the tests, I wonder what changed.
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by ZoFreX 13y ago
Every ATM I've seen running Windows XP was running Windows XP Embedded. I didn't know about Windows CE being componentized so I looked it up and XP Embedded is the same way, which is something I guess.
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by ZoFreX 13y ago
Small point of order: a feminist programming language would not be a genderised programming language. Men can be feminists too.
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by ZoFreX 13y ago
Sadly it's not very clear, and it wasn't a random representative sampling, but it's the closest thing we have to any actual figures right now (AFAIK)
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by ZoFreX 13y ago
> I can't even imagine about what privacy is going to look like in 20 years, or how society will adapt to deal with it. You might like the book "The Light of Other Days"!
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by ZoFreX 13y ago
This article is ridiculous. They have a theory and a model that says, for example, that 6 chunks of rock hit Europa. Of course we don't know that they did! This is unfalsifiable twaddle.
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by ZoFreX 13y ago
40% hacked, 36% revenge porn, 12% photoshopped, 12% self-submits.[1] [1] http://www.xojane.com/it-happened-to-me/charlotte-laws-hunte...
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by ZoFreX 13y ago
Libel too presumably, in the cases of the photoshops^Wimages manipulated by Adobe Photoshop(R)
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by ZoFreX 13y ago
Naked pictures of me have leaked three times - once from hacking and twice from people spreading them. Why should I stop having my fun just because there are bullies out there? They can bite me, my ass, and the picture of my ass that's
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by ZoFreX 13y ago
> Coverage of Mandela is a testament to the prevailing powers' ability to rewrite history. I agree. It's quite amusing to see politicians that were definitively not on his side coming out after all these years in favour of him:
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by ZoFreX 13y ago
Shuttle software: "the last three versions of the program -- each 420,000 lines long-had just one error each. The last 11 versions of this software had a total of 17 errors. Commercial programs of equivalent complexity would have 5,000
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by ZoFreX 13y ago
It's not new that black box reverse engineering is allowed, I was taught this in my IT classes (I'm in the UK).
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by ZoFreX 13y ago
I repair computers for friends and families and the majority of the time I get a broken external to look at, it's the enclosure that's at fault and the drive is absolutely fine. I encourage people to buy their enclosures and drive
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by ZoFreX 13y ago
> We are the most survillienced nation We are? I hope you have a better source for that than yelling something about CCTV and 1984 before running away (which is the extent to which most people can make the argument). I do agree with the
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by ZoFreX 13y ago
IMO that statement is actually misleading and the FDA made the right call.
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by ZoFreX 13y ago
I have no problem voting non-anonymously, but I'm not happy that I would have to share my friends list. That's too much.
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by ZoFreX 13y ago
Not only does GTA IV run perfectly smoothly, but there are community patches to make it look jaw-droppingly gorgeous. Very similar story there to this one, actually.
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by ZoFreX 13y ago
The spin in mainstream media always puts the blame squarely on the hackers, and in my anecdotal experience typical users have no interest in the argument that the companies that were hacked are to blame.
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by ZoFreX 13y ago
> I do not think or trust they can design a sensor that would deploy when it needs to without misfiring all the time. And if it fires, you have to buy a whole other one. Rather than merely speculating, one could look into it, given that
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by ZoFreX 13y ago
That sounds a lot more similar to the airbag vests used in motorbike racing than the Hovding. Of course, in both the ones that actually exist, activation is automatic and not manual!
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by ZoFreX 13y ago
It's always friendlier to first look for an official data dump before thinking about scraping - and in this case, SO does have one[1] :) [1]: http://www.clearbits.net/creators/146-stack-exchange-data-du...
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by ZoFreX 13y ago
Stop cutting and pasting and start typing. I try to copy from memory, but even writing it out while looking at the original still seems to help retention.

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