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by bazzargh 12y ago
Whoah. Article is worth reading for the Sint Pieters Leeuw tower staircase alone. Looking forward to the rest!
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by bazzargh 12y ago
From previous releases of files, we know that others also had the job of testing people by chatting to them, plying them with drink and so on - eg Noreen Riols, whose book mentions the Fifi story. But Fifi was more notorious because suppose
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Status of Response to 2014 California Drought(acwa.com)
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by bazzargh 12y ago
Last time I visited a hospital, there were gel dispensers beside every single door, already. I googled and those are under $10 for twice the capacity of the PullClean... so 1 PullClean vs 20 wall-mounted dispensers? I think they'd real
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by bazzargh 12y ago
Unflagged and upvoted. Good stuff.
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by bazzargh 12y ago
Thanks for trying to do the right thing.
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by bazzargh 12y ago
Flagged for removing all authorship info from the images. eg it has this one from graphonaute http://www.graphonaute.fr/post/66574508654/inspired-by-https... and this by Rebecca Mock http://rebeccamock.
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by bazzargh 12y ago
But we have had this battle in the UK, and not just with BT. Most of the ISPs have at some point or other been accused of throttling BBC's iPlayer: http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2009/06/02/why-bts-n
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by bazzargh 12y ago
Sancoff began contemplating ways to give back to his country. To him, that meant shifting his focus from medical devices to weaponry. That's a disappointing comment.
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by bazzargh 12y ago
You're storing 6-char base-32 values, so 1073741824 possibilities, but you've got 50-50 chance of collision after 38582 values - that's not a lot, the birthday paradox bites again! Using much larger random values or hashes gi
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by bazzargh 12y ago
Not sure this counts as a replication, yet. This is an un-refereed conference paper, I'd really want to see a proper publication. The other strange thing in the paper, but not mentioned in the article, is that the 'null device&#x2
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by bazzargh 12y ago
Well, one reason would be that your web font would be 134Mb or so? (looking at the size of the comprehensive Noto download) The other is simple practicality - these things take time to develop, you can either wait until all the glyphs are d
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by bazzargh 12y ago
BTW, this is why it's being rushed through: https://www.openrightsgroup.org/ourwork/reports/briefing-to-... ...it's not that there is some terrorist crisis, but that there's a judicial review in pro
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by bazzargh 12y ago
This exists - for bikes. For a few years now, Cyclestreets have been offering 'fast' vs 'quiet' routing (quiet being the stress-free option on a bike) http://www.cyclestreets.net/journey/ It tries,
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Open Addresses: Discovery Phase(theodi.org)
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by bazzargh 12y ago
"Over a six-month period the National Crime Agency alone estimates that it has had to drop at least 20 cases as a result of missing communications data," she said in a speech on Tuesday. "Thirteen of these were threat-to-lif
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by bazzargh 12y ago
That applies for passwords (where you hope the data is fairly random, and unknown) but there are only 13,237 taxis in new york, and you can download the list! You'd simply try each one. The author only took hours to crack the list be
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by bazzargh 12y ago
Yes, increasingly poor, but converging on 1/e. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_problem#Deriving_the_...
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by bazzargh 12y ago
That's the style in C-like languages. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_loop#C.2FC.2B.2B ... also used in Java, Javascript, Perl, Php, Bash (and many more I'm sure).
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by bazzargh 12y ago
This famously came up in cyclist Tyler Hamilton's 2005 suspension for doping, casting doubt upon the identification of his blood: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/10/health/10bloo.html?pagewan... It&#
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by bazzargh 12y ago
Would be interesting to apply it to a group of friends. Since they're likely to be similar ages, you should be able to get an improved guess from combining the distributions for all of their names.
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by bazzargh 12y ago
OTR messaging gives perfect forward secrecy. So you can't attack the history without breaking AES entirely: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_forward_secrecy The bigger attack on OTR is social engineering, you
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by bazzargh 13y ago
Depends what it is, but commonly - no. There's been research on this: http://mcis.polymtl.ca/publications/2013/msr_jojo.pdf What percentage of submitted patches has been integrated successfully, and how much
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by bazzargh 13y ago
The churnalism sites have been around for a while, this looks like a better summary of what's new (eg of interest here, a switch from Python to Go, plus a browser extension) http://mediastandardstrust.org/mst-news/
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by bazzargh 13y ago
Finding it easier to read through the commit log here than in cvsweb: http://freshbsd.org/search?q=libssl
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by bazzargh 13y ago
(inserts tongue firmly in cheek) I think there would be more money for a site that helps you argue your position from available data, the truth be damned. I'm thinking "How to Lie With Statistics"[1] as a service - tell it yo
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by bazzargh 13y ago
You could get a ballpark figure by looking at Crossrail: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossrail 73 miles of track, 40 stations, 26 miles of tunnel under London. £16bn ($27bn-ish). So, for your project, I'd handwav
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by bazzargh 13y ago
Exactly the same as #includes and #defines in C - they let you organize your code in multiple files, be more concise, and shoot yourself in the foot, repeatedly. They were useful for document editing use cases - remember this was before SOA
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by bazzargh 13y ago
Well, with me its a coin toss, I've had many days where the home internet was unusable, and the cafe's ok for my needs (mostly just ssh) - except when a bunch of teens come in and open up youtube simultaneously. It's too nois
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by bazzargh 13y ago
Working from home on a team feels different. My work hours are more constrained, to align with the office-bound team. I'm on video calls with the team several times a day, and need to be available for that. I think the morning ritual i

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