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by ax0n 16y ago
And as people find new and interesting ways to encapsulate and tunnel traffic through their mobile carriers, I'd bet "uncategorized" traffic will get billed at an obscene rate that makes it less desirable than just horking over 5 EUR per mo
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by ax0n 16y ago
He brings up some good points for those who agree with his stance. While they sometimes have a bit of wisdom to impart, I have a tendency to not listen to the jaded and disenfranchised old guard once they begin whining.
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by ax0n 16y ago
Alas, I stand corrected. Thanks. At the same time, the author does have a good point that very slow algorithms are fundamentally better for security, but I'm glad you pointed this difference out. Classic case of me not thinking things all t
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by ax0n 16y ago
In a case like the Gawker incident, it isn't safe. If the source code to the password hashing algo is compromised (it was) then the salt becomes useless. In short, just use bcrypt.
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by ax0n 16y ago
Indeed. Blowfish is also standardized and has withstood peer review, cryptanalysis and has otherwise been baptized by fire. Plus, if it's good enough for people as picky as Theo DeRaadt, it's probably good enough for you.
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IKEA surprises Portland employees with free bicycles(blog.oregonlive.com)
2 points by ax0n 16y ago|0 comments
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by ax0n 16y ago
I came here to say that line cracked me up (and that most of the direct links on that page are broken)
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by ax0n 16y ago
And don't forget that if it bleeds, it leads. That's yet another facet of modern journalism I hate.
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by ax0n 16y ago
Bike Ninjas are usually that way out of paranoia... you know the type: dark clothes. dark bike. no lights. no reflectors. sometimes riding against traffic like they used to teach us in kindergarten. Most of them think that motorists really
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by ax0n 16y ago
Yikes! Mine wasn't nearly that destroyed. How badly was the rest of you hurt? The bike?
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by ax0n 16y ago
No, I just don't feel like paying that particular price. I lurked on HN for years before I signed up. All the content here is free for the consumption of the world. I really just don't want to have yet another company with my email address
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by ax0n 16y ago
I have to use some kind of euphemism to describe them to convince myself I still like bike commuting. I'm still picking scaly pseudo-scar material from my elbow. Of particular note: the first big crash was due in part to me being inexperien
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by ax0n 16y ago
Note: if something is being given to you for "free", but you still need to sign up, the product is YOU. I suppose I could go trawl BugMeNot.com or something, but eeh.
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by ax0n 16y ago
I can't see the whole text, but I've been in a few pretty good crashes. Once ( http://is.gd/hZVO2 ) shattering a few teeth and my maxilla after being edged off the road by a motorist. More recently ( http://is.gd/hZWdH ) I ran over a movi
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by ax0n 16y ago
To counter this, places like Portland and Seattle get their electricity almost exclusively from Hydroelectric. For those who are really willing to subsidize the advancement of our independence on foreign oil, I suppose it could make some se
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by ax0n 16y ago
If they're not about saving money, why do people get concerned about their effective miles-per-gallon? If people were concerned about the environment, we'd be rallying the EPA to talk about the amount of greenhouse gases being laid out by t
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by ax0n 16y ago
Then there's the fact that the Volt's battery pack will likely need to be replaced no less than twice (and likely at an extravagant cost) by the time it gets to 210,000 miles, and we all know that the rest of the car wouldn't last long enou
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by ax0n 16y ago
Hypothetically: You just spent $41,000 on a Volt. Let's assume you drive this thing to the very limit of its electric-only range pretty much every work day, or 35 miles (advertised). You'd spend about $225 on electricity over the course of
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by ax0n 16y ago
And never mind the fact that in the vast majority of the US, you'll be burning coal, petroleum or NG to recharge it.
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by ax0n 16y ago
Isn't this somewhat how time-coding vinyl is configured (i.e. Final Scratch and Traktor?)
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by ax0n 16y ago
Race to the bottom: You're doing it right.
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by ax0n 16y ago
First Amendment doesn't carry any weight on private territory. Business owners can boot rowdy loiterers. pg can ban people from here. I can squash trolls on my servers, and XBL can enforce arbitrary rules at will. You can have your freedom
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by ax0n 16y ago
I generally assume they're worth exactly zero million dollars a piece, because that's what they're actually worth. A few places I've been have tried to pass off this whole "half your salary in stock options" rubbish while still giving me an
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by ax0n 16y ago
The second paragraph is almost verbatim to the statement I was about to say in response to the OP. Blacklists do not work. Antivirus software checks for a hundred thousand individual known problems, yet viruses and malware continue to evolv
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by ax0n 16y ago
I'm guessing he is one of the few that really doesn't mind the TSA's new backscatter opt-out policy.
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by ax0n 16y ago
There's definitely a story here. I haven't experienced it myself. I met him a loooong time ago, and he seemed as normal as anyone else at DefCon (back in the late 1990s). But I've heard the stories, too, from multiple people.
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by ax0n 16y ago
One thing, though... make sure you politely decline if he asks if you want to do anything involving massages or exercise. Unless you're into having sex with old men, and there's absolutely nothing wrong with that.
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by ax0n 16y ago
Sup dawg. I heard you like incubators.
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Facebook is lying(flyingpenguin.com)
3 points by ax0n 16y ago|1 comments
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by ax0n 16y ago
I used it to register a complaint even though I have no blood in this game. In general, I agree with Google's stance on this one, despite the fact that the motives are anything but altruistic as their verbiage tries to imply.

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