alexjeffrey

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by alexjeffrey 13y ago
although all the rain on the camera makes it difficult to watch :(
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Man throws away hard drive containing £4m worth of BTC(news.sky.com)
2 points by alexjeffrey 13y ago|1 comments
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by alexjeffrey 13y ago
sounds exciting - I've pinged you an email and am keen to check it out!
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by alexjeffrey 13y ago
I think this is more targeted at people who don't push towards more aspirational work - e.g. staying in a 9-5 job as a web developer and paying the bills rather than developing a business and being ambitious. They may feel as though th
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by alexjeffrey 13y ago
as a Brit I totally agree with the notability thing and it's a crying shame - the UK has always been such a key player on the world stage (not always in a positive light, mind you) until WWII. It seems pretty crazy that Germany has sin
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by alexjeffrey 13y ago
I attempted the very same in my first year of college (in the UK, so about the same age). I only got as far as a memory manager, FAT16 filesystem driver and basic bootloader though so congratulations for making it so far! Here's some g
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by alexjeffrey 13y ago
Hey, love the look of the site - I'll try it out tonight when I get home. I reckon it'll be great if you did as good a job on this as you did on the iDitty app ;)
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by alexjeffrey 13y ago
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=i+have+a+dream&p... thank god for those who don't respect overzealous copyright holders.
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by alexjeffrey 13y ago
a recent example of this taken to extremes would be the film "Mermaid: the body found" - pretending to be a documentary claiming evidence of the existence of mermaids, until the credits roll and reveal that the whole film and most
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by alexjeffrey 13y ago
this is beautiful; this will definitely come in handy when I start machining...
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by alexjeffrey 13y ago
it sounds like this first phase is more market testing than the final product - I suspect if interest is high then they will have enough data and potential buyers to formulate a business plan.
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by alexjeffrey 13y ago
that may not always be practical though - how would you go about stripping the power of the employer over the employee? without an employer's power to say, decide whether an employee gets fired or a raise, the relationship would no lon
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by alexjeffrey 13y ago
Imagine how slow progress would be if for every different condition you had to either create a new query or alter an old one, with the latter potentially meaning you have to add new JOINs, adding weight to all other queries based off that s
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by alexjeffrey 13y ago
I understood the article as less saying "People are only using personal computing devices for trivialities!", more saying "Entrepreneurs are building businesses with little to no real positive impact on the world". Obvio
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by alexjeffrey 13y ago
it is when used correctly within quotes (and used with common charsets, but that's a different story altogether). There is no publicly known way to inject the following when the database is encoded in ISO-8859-1 or UTF-8: "SELECT
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by alexjeffrey 13y ago
in this case it was supposedly done using SQL injections: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL_injection#Incorrectly_filte...
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by alexjeffrey 13y ago
the idea that NASDAQ might've been hacked using an SQL injection is pretty scary, as it's a pretty trivial attack to protect against in most cases (mysql_real_escape_string?) - is security in stock exchanges really so lax?
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by alexjeffrey 13y ago
some of these are really interesting ideas. I have one to add to the mix: go implement them! As technologists we all have unprecedented power to create change at our fingertips and I'd love it if you could come back with a list of grea
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by alexjeffrey 13y ago
what can you even say to this? a system so corrupt and biased towards women accusers that a callous ex-wife can ruin her ex-husband's life with very little chance of punishment, with the full help and support of the police, the law and
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by alexjeffrey 13y ago
To quote: “This old lady is giving some of her money away for free to charities she picks. Obviously, she doesn’t care to keep her money, so it can’t possibly be a big deal that we take the rest of her money without giving her a say about i
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by alexjeffrey 13y ago
The use of "offline-born" in this article is very disconcerting and seems to express something of a "superior-us vs. inferior-them" mentality. While I agree with the majority of the article and the need to preserve the r
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Valuable rare metals up for grabs in cities(stirling-westrup-tt.blogspot.co.uk)
2 points by alexjeffrey 13y ago|0 comments
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List of Bug Bounty programs(bugcrowd.com)
1 points by alexjeffrey 13y ago|0 comments
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by alexjeffrey 13y ago
it's still called signal vs. noise, but they use the name as heavily any more. From the page header: You’re reading Signal vs. Noise, a publication about the web by 37signals since 1999.
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by alexjeffrey 13y ago
I believe it depends on the encoding - UTF-32 has a limit of 2^32 characters, but UTF-8 could potentially expand infinitely (ignoring the current arbitrary 4-byte limit).
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by alexjeffrey 13y ago
the UKIP (United Kingdom Independence Party) is gaining traction over here, on the back of a single policy - get Britain out of the EU. It's not all holding hands and dancing round the may pole: - Much of our legal system is now amende
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by alexjeffrey 13y ago
arbitrary length passwords simply aren't necessary though, and are unlikely to be used - if you were to cap passwords at, say, 128 characters, who would run into that limit? I'm not arguing that if this functionality were already
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by alexjeffrey 13y ago
no it doesn't remove any security, but why implement a feature that doesn't add anything?
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by alexjeffrey 13y ago
this doesn't add extra security - the first hash becomes a substitute password. A cracker could modify their steam account to take said hash as input and sent it directly over the wire.
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by alexjeffrey 13y ago
while not exactly similar in terms of objective, http://js1k.com might tickle your fancy - the aim is to write a javascript app within some category or definition which is provided at the start of the contest, and to use no more

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