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91.
by andyv 16y ago
Assuming truncating division: Round down: discount = 33 value / 100; Round up: discount = (33 value + 99) / 100; Round to nearest: discount = (33 value + 50) / 100;
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by andyv 16y ago
My favorite PS moment: Seller: "I want $850" PS: "Not going to happen. $400" Seller: (pauses, deadpan) "$850" PS: "I hate it when people know what their stuff is worth. Let's write it up".
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by andyv 16y ago
Since the girl is a person and not a thing, it should be "... girl who hacked hbgary". r11t copied the mistake from Forbes-- How do national magazines make grammatical errors like this? Don't these people have editors who at least earne
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by andyv 16y ago
I thought Martha was more of an inside trader...
95.
by andyv 16y ago
Actually, its pulp fiction without the pulp!
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What happens when you stick your head into a particle accelerator?(todayifoundout.com)
3 points by andyv 16y ago|0 comments
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by andyv 16y ago
My strategy for years has been to run SSH on port 22, visible only to hosts inside my local network via a firewall (iptables) rule. Connecting on port 22 is not allowed from the outside. SSH also listens on port 2222 and can be connected
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by andyv 16y ago
> but this title aggrandizes what's actually happening. Hey, I toned it down. Jamie's headline was "Wherein the Empire Expands"... Jamie has always been a good read over the years and I am amazed as well that he has stuck through all
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Jamie Zawinski forks his business(dnalounge.com)
55 points by andyv 16y ago|26 comments
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by andyv 16y ago
But if CEOs and banker fail to please their customers, the company will do badly, and their boards will fire them. Government schools have no such constraints. They can waste money with impunity.
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by andyv 16y ago
The author seemed to think that more money would fix the problem as well. But the faith in money to fix things is pretty blind-- the only thing that fixes problems are people who care, and anyone who tries here will end up in a fight with
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How I Beat Scratch-Off Lottery Tickets(theatlantic.com)
2 points by andyv 16y ago|0 comments
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by andyv 16y ago
They not only parsed the search queries, they also copied Google's results and added it to their own results.
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by andyv 16y ago
NAT64 works fine if you have an ipv6 client and want to talk to ipv6. That's just regular old network address translation. But if your server is on ipv6, NAT64 still needs an ipv4 address so that people there can get to you. The ipv6 add
105.
by andyv 16y ago
The last thing the lottery people want is a lot of attention to the flaws in their games. Threatening the whistleblower would cause that.
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by andyv 16y ago
But if you only buy an ipv6 address, the people who are only on ipv4 can't get to you. By itself, the ipv6 address is nearly worthless. The only people who have them now are people who also have an ipv4 address. ipv4 isn't going away any
107.
by andyv 16y ago
If you've decided on stealth, why would you have a website?
108.
by andyv 16y ago
The more common term is "Corporate Welfare", which this most certainly is.
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by andyv 16y ago
Nonces aren't cryptographically secure random numbers. They merely have to be different for each encryption, which is why even a counter suffices. The problem was, the counter was being incorrectly reset to zero. It's just as secure t
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by andyv 16y ago
I get irs.gov at the top as well, and all the results are relevant. Are you logged into google? If so try logging out and retrying-- it would be interesting to see if the results are tailored to individuals.
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by andyv 16y ago
A netflix linux client does exist-- the roku box. But that's more of an embedded system.
112.
by andyv 16y ago
Although it was more like "The Week MAME Save My Ass"...
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by andyv 16y ago
The Nazis were facists, which is to say that there was "private property", but the state could tell you what you had to do with "your" property. In socialism, the state owns the property. It's a distinction without much of a difference, t
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Canon camera signatures cracked(news.cnet.com)
10 points by andyv 16y ago|2 comments
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by andyv 16y ago
Krugman thinks that Social Security is on financially sound footing...
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by andyv 16y ago
Perhaps something along the lines of "Use the radar to look for the bird flying at 600mph"...
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Dear Airline, I'm Leaving You... (Megan McArdle)(theatlantic.com)
6 points by andyv 16y ago|1 comments
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by andyv 16y ago
Cool-- since it has a kink to it, there is an "easy" side and a "hard" side...
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by andyv 16y ago
Central databases are vulnerable to this sort of attack. I wonder if there is a way to do a distributed name lookup service... It could bootstrap by falling back to regular DNS. I supposed the main problem would be resolving conflicts.
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by andyv 16y ago
Or maybe getting paid to watch a video feed of naked children?

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