ZoFreX

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by ZoFreX 14y ago
Which is hilarious, because "big pharma" own the big "alternative" "medicine" companies too - it's a multi-billion dollar business, of course they want a slice of that pie!
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
I would highly recommend throwing some Stephen Baxter on there, especially "Light of Latter Days" (a collaboration with Arthur C. Clarke). Its examination of the death of privacy in the face of increasingly intrusive technology developments
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
Thank you for the very informative post :)
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
I've been trying to examine the suitability of Go as a language for creating video games in, which is extremely difficult to search for, for exactly that reason. If anyone on HN who is familiar with Go has any thoughts on that, I would love
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
If you like this sort of thing, you might enjoy the book "Physics of the Impossible", which examines the feasibility of various science fiction technologies (such as FTL) from a pop-sci level.
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
Obviously I can't speak for Teller but based on the fact the reasoning he presents in the OP article would not apply to the linked video, I don't think he would have a problem with it. The article specifically mentions treating a magic act
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
But then again, those side-effects are no worse than an average SSRI anti-depressant, so for those struggling with abuse, anxiety, stress disorders etc this may turn out to be a viable treatment option.
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
> The thunder lights up when the program doesn't end property (return 0). Inspired! Did you come up with that part?
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
Did you read the article? That is not the same video or trick that Teller is suing over. Article version: > Against a crimson curtain, Bakardy had erected an easel with what looked like a large pad of white paper on it. Perhaps six feet
940.
by ZoFreX 14y ago
I find it amusing that geeks worry so much about browsers and the security of them at a software level, when every computer I've repaired in recent memory was owned by user stupidity (I would call it social engineering, but smiley packs and
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
A couple of notes: * I think the inconsistent application switcher icon / app title display issue is due to intents. If you click an image in your GMail it uses the Gallery to display it, but you are still in the GMail app. At a technical l
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
Once in complete exasperation at the total absense of copy from a client I offered to write it for them for a modest extra fee, and then rang their phone number (one of the few pieces of text I did have) and interviewed one of their call ce
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
And maybe throw in some modifiers if it's raining (or has recently rained) and if it's dark or foggy.
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
Yes, it is presumably doing some inverse kinematics in there somewhere. I wonder how they stabilised it.
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
Unrelated to the content but if you do insist on chunking your articles up into pages, at least break them at paragraph boundaries! Or even sentence boundaries - breaking them mid-sentence is atrocious.
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
This is perhaps the best false promise corp-speak I've heard in relation to an exploit: > any word on supporting longer passwords eventually? > Nothing as of right now but it's something we may definitely look into in the future. Th
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
1/3 of mine have duplicated digits.
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
My thoughts exactly. When they first brought these things into the UK they said the machines weren't even capable of retaining images. Soon afterwards there was a scandal because staff had been saving them, and they shifted the goalposts to
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
Looks fine in FF on my MBP!
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
Important to note that 100% of passengers surveyed preferred them to frisking, rather than being happy with them objectively.
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
I can't wait for the inevitable EU blog post explaining why it's not Brussel's fault these are being removed - http://ec.europa.eu/unitedkingdom/blog/index_en.htm (for those outside the UK, the EU is the political boogeyman, and is freque
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
If you write your shell scripts in Ruby they do come in handy. I certainly wouldn't use them outside of that context.
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
I didn't even know it was going to be $0.99 a year after the first year. I only started using it a few months ago and I already feel a little locked in, I doubt 9 months from now I would bother switching to something else for the sake of a
954.
by ZoFreX 14y ago
Actually, SMS spoofing is arguably easier than WhatsApp spoofing.
955.
by ZoFreX 14y ago
Yeah, it requires specialized equipment, but that's really the biggest barrier. From a protocol standpoint it isn't really any better.
956.
by ZoFreX 14y ago
Yes, it's insecure by the standards we would normally apply to software. But let's be honest - this is competing against SMS, not XMPP, Skype, et al. How hard do you think it is for someone to sniff an SMS?
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
TorrentFreak is the Daily Mail of IP law news - take everything they say with a very large dose of salt, as they definitely have an agenda to push.
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
I don't know what you guys do to your keyboards but I don't want to ever touch them...
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
The statistics lacking is a very good point, and a large oversight on my part. However, I wasn't saying that we should be trying to stop this. I meant to show up, conversely, that a lot of the existing security is there merely for show.
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
Hi - I noticed English isn't your first language, and just a minor style note, it's typical to capitalise "I" wherever it appears in the sentence.

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