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by arkem 14y ago
Early Blizzard employees have given at least one interview where they said that Warcraft and Starcraft were inspired by their love of the Warhammer and Warhammer 40k universes.
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by arkem 14y ago
You're also not using their service. Is turning your phone off and leaving it in a drawer for a month also breaking the agreement?
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by arkem 14y ago
This sounds like a run of the mill peering negotiation[1]. The unusual thing here is a company getting press coverage for it. I have no idea how Google's peering arrangements are set up but I doubt that this is the only transit arrangement
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Hardcode 2013 – Student Secure Coding Competition(code.google.com)
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by arkem 14y ago
You could take photos and submit them as potential portal locations (you can share the photos with ingress from the android camera/gallery). That could encourage more people to play and give the current players more to do. The downside is t
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New MC Frontalot song and video (including Hacker News reference)(boingboing.net)
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Google and Syscan are running a secure coding competition for students(googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com)
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by arkem 14y ago
Nothing, 20% time is still alive and well.
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by arkem 14y ago
Safeway has done home delivery since at least March, so it's not an unknown service here in the US.
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by arkem 14y ago
The article was written in 1998 when such slang was common, as was the design elements used (like animated gifs). I don't think being disdainful of Microsoft is interesting either but it makes more sense in context.
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by arkem 14y ago
A pedantic note: In the title "EVE" should capitalized as "Eve"
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by arkem 14y ago
In California the contract is often modified to include something like "except where prohibited by law" which means that the company gets IP assignment any time that 2870 doesn't apply.
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by arkem 14y ago
An interesting technique, I think it's cool. I doubt any technical control will solve the ephemeral picture problem because of the analog hole. For this specific technique, if a photo of the screen doesn't defeat the dithering (in my quick
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by arkem 14y ago
Congratulations to Parisa! It's good to see security represented on the list, and Parisa's work at Google makes her a brilliant choice.
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by arkem 14y ago
Both AAPL and MSFT pay dividends with the yield being around 3.5% for MSFT and 2% for AAPL. Dividends seem to be a new post-Jobs thing for AAPL and may not continue into the future.
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by arkem 14y ago
Uber isn't a taxi company. The supply being talked about isn't necessarily about the limited number of taxi medallions issued. Instead, it's about how private car operators don't want to work in NYC right now but might be induced to work if
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by arkem 14y ago
While http://dragonmount.com is a Wheel of Time community they sell the entire range of DRM free TOR science fiction novels (among others). Definitely a good place to shop.
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by arkem 14y ago
Applying new laws retrospectively makes me nervous. Why should anyone be compelled to follow laws that don't currently exist?
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by arkem 14y ago
If you're wondering if H-1b (and E-3) workers are paid less than American workers you can find out for yourself. The US Government publishes the employer, location, title, and salary of every H-1b application (whether accepted or declined)
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by arkem 14y ago
For number 3. I don't believe that the US government has indicted, charged, or has otherwise show interest in Julian Assange. The best information I can find on the topic are quotes [1][2] from the US Ambassador to Australia saying that the
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by arkem 14y ago
Having moved from Perth to Silicon Valley I've got to second this. In Australia I'd get approached about jobs maybe every couple of months while in Silicon Valley I get approached every couple of days. While I primarily do security rather t
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by arkem 14y ago
I'm not sure what you're getting at exactly but it is well known that Blizzard's titles were directly inspired by the Warhammer and Warhammer 40k universes[1]. While the visual similarities haven't causes Games Workshop to complain about in
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by arkem 14y ago
Having a broad license is not the same as owning the copyright (especially a non-exclusive license).
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by arkem 14y ago
True but the reward is now up to US$20,000 in some cases. http://www.google.com/about/company/rewardprogram.html
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by arkem 14y ago
While porn sites might be riddled with malware it is unlikely that they'll be zero days. More likely you'll see exploits for bugs that are publicly known but not yet patched everywhere. The value of a zero days is largely rooted in the fact
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by arkem 14y ago
Due to the strange syndication/franchise model that Riot has used in the past when setting up in regions other than North America. If I remember correctly the franchisee gets source access and can write their own game lobby code if they lik
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by arkem 14y ago
Parent is talking about the League of Legends North American region which does not necessarily share its authentication code base with the European regions which were the ones compromised.
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by arkem 14y ago
At the moment an attacker doesn't even need to take control of the servers since all the code is sent without SSL so a MITM attack would be enough. Edit: though of course if the javascript is never requested again it limits the window of op
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IOS 5.1 Security Hardening Guide from the Australian Government [pdf](dsd.gov.au)
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by arkem 15y ago
Police shouldn't need a warrant to observe people from public property (or in any situation where you don't have an expectation of privacy), in the same way that citizens don't violate the law by observing people or places from public prope

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