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This World of Ours(research.microsoft.com)
2 points by blumentopf 12y ago|0 comments
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by blumentopf 12y ago
Döpfner is trying to pivot the Axel Springer publishing house into a digital media company but their efforts are laughable. They sold some of their newspapers and magazines and are investing the money in dotcoms, but compared to Google or e
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by blumentopf 13y ago
Related: Counterexamples of good ccTLDs: https://gun.io/blog/secure-your-domain-where-is-safe-to-regi...
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by blumentopf 13y ago
Your zones need to be either online-signed by the authoritative DNS servers for these zones or offline-signed (using e.g. OpenDNSSEC) and then pushed to the authoritative DNS servers. Offline-signing is obviously more secure but signatures
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by blumentopf 13y ago
There are so-called "sustainable banks". The largest in Europe is Triodos, they also have a British subsidiary. Globally they are networked through the Global Alliance for Banking on Values ( http://gabv.org ). Key featu
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by blumentopf 13y ago
> it doesn't paint Stallman very well as the head of a project Is this news to you? Cf. e.g. http://www.jwz.org/doc/lemacs.html
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by blumentopf 13y ago
Germany here. My impression is that there are some hotspots (e.g. Berlin) with enough users on OkCupid that using the site actually makes sense. In the rest of the country the user base seems to be relatively small. In areas with US Army pr
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by blumentopf 13y ago
"The LAN interface includes both 10BaseT and 10Base2 connectors." http://alliancetesteq.com/equipment/agilent-hp-1670a So an off-the-shelf Ethernet switch will do. Contemporary 10GBase-T products are generall
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by blumentopf 13y ago
"The new default in Git 2.x is ‘simple’. It means that when doing a git push without specifying a branch, only your current branch will be pushed to the one git pull would normally get your code from." Hello? Why wasn't it ca
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by blumentopf 13y ago
Apart from the outages, the favicon is missing since a few days.
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by blumentopf 13y ago
Further ways to contact the Customer Assistance Center (not in the PDF): phone: 00800 1 777 7777 e-mail: cs.deutschland@cac.mercedes-benz.com
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by blumentopf 13y ago
Exactly. Time for another HN meetup. :) Thanks for sharing this Momo.
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by blumentopf 13y ago
One recommendation regarding taxes: Do it yourself. You're not obliged to enlist the help of a Steuerberater. If you've just got an Einzelunternehmen or GbR, you only have to file a list of earnings and expenses (Einnahmenüberschu
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by blumentopf 13y ago
In the 1990s every O'Reilly book (except for the extremely think ones like Sendmail or Unix Power Tools) used the awesome "RepKover" lay-flat binding which was later done away with. Guess that was a result of the "financ
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by blumentopf 13y ago
Demographics. When the Green Party emerged in the early 1980s, they made it into the Bundestag pretty quickly because they could draw votes from a large base of young voters (the babyboomers). Nowadays young voters are a tiny fringe group s
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by blumentopf 13y ago
English is a Germanic language and I would argue that it is particularly difficult for Native speakers of Romanic languages to pick it up. I'm German and my experience has always been that English is a very simple language and yet vers
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by blumentopf 13y ago
Starting from which version? CoreText 1.0.4 is not affected.
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The free Web program that got Bradley Manning convicted of computer fraud(washingtonpost.com)
134 points by blumentopf 13y ago|35 comments
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by blumentopf 13y ago
Regarding DNSSEC, it should be noted that ECDSA was specified in April 2012 (RFC 6605) and resolver support started with Unbound 1.4.17 (May 2012) and BIND 9.9.2 (Oct 2012). So this was very recent and the percentage of resolvers on the Int
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Rooting SIM cards(srlabs.de)
64 points by blumentopf 13y ago|14 comments
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by blumentopf 13y ago
Problem is, even if DDG would be hosted in, say, Europe, the NSA would still be able to snoop on the traffic. As has been recently revealed, the German BND may siphon off up to 20% of the traffic at DE-CIX (Internet exchange in Frankfurt) a
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PRISM scandal: Internet exchange points as targets for surveillance(h-online.com)
3 points by blumentopf 13y ago|0 comments
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by blumentopf 13y ago
This seems to be the original story (HT Fefes Blog): http://www.privacysurgeon.org/blog/incision/former-nsa-contr...
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by blumentopf 13y ago
The situation isn't really better in Germany. The Constitutional Court (and current Justice Minister Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger) is our last, best and only line of defense against the security hardliners in the conservative par
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by blumentopf 13y ago
In Germany, the data retention law was ruled unconstitutional by the German Constitutional Court on March 2, 2010. Data retention was allowed in general by the court, but only with significant restrictions. The German government failed to
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by blumentopf 13y ago
Is the rationale behind PRISM really terrorism? Here in Germany there's a lot of talk that PRISM is ultimately a tool for industry espionage. The Boundless Informant world map shows Germany in bright orange. People are wondering: Is Ge
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by blumentopf 13y ago
Being in the same age bracket as OP, I think the youth craze in the IT industry contributes to "older" engineers feeling sidelined and burned out. Basically with 35 you've jumped the shark. It's arguably worse than the fashion industry or s
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by blumentopf 13y ago
True. And I would actually go so far as to reject some of the advice, e.g. the strict separation between home and work and the timeboxing: I often take a pause during the day to do some stupid housework. This lets me toss around a problem i
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by blumentopf 13y ago
"M-x replace-string RET" Try M-% instead.
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by blumentopf 13y ago
This seems to be the only top-level comment that actually gets what pg is driving at: Simplicity. Ferdinand Alexander Porsche's philosophy was that design should be honest . The car shouldn't pretend to be more than it really is. Reduce th

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