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by bonzoesc 13y ago
If you're looking for deadly munitions and you find just a scrap of raw explosive compound without any mechanism to explode it and make it deadly, that's a false positive.
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by bonzoesc 13y ago
Bitcoin transactions are irreversible, but so are cash transactions. Wrapping either currency with a transaction model that introduces a delay between commitment and transfer allows reversing during the delay. Paypal transactions are revers
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by bonzoesc 13y ago
> You can retrieve data from the device with special equipment after opening the phone. This is beyond the typical "geek". Citation needed.
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by bonzoesc 14y ago
Gate codes might be more appropriately stored on a piece of paper that you keep in your car or with your keychain.
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by bonzoesc 14y ago
"Git" is the system of software, protocols, metaphors, and storage. "git" is the executable. It's similar to "Perl" and "perl": http://perldoc.perl.org/perlfaq1.html#Whats-the-difference-b...
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by bonzoesc 14y ago
Do people who accuse a passionate writer who wants equality of going "off her meds" represent the tech world? > "the anonymous white male militia that threatens to rape and kill us when we speak up" This is a thing that happens. You don
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by bonzoesc 14y ago
Have you ever boarded an airplane before? For me it's about two minutes of waiting behind people putting up bags, 30 seconds of stowing bags and sitting down, and then fifteen minutes of going through all my chats and social sites hoping so
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by bonzoesc 14y ago
And even then the "next page" button wanted to play peek-a-boo with me.
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by bonzoesc 14y ago
Yup, way to put a centralized control on your decentralized "currency."
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by bonzoesc 14y ago
Without making that database universal it just means some poor merchant that accepts bit coins is going to get stiffed.
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by bonzoesc 14y ago
GitHub already did that: > Thanks to our new servers, known bad keys from Debian and Ubuntu are now blacklisted. We estimate that about 1000 keys in our database were impacted by this. If you get authentication errors using keys that wo
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by bonzoesc 14y ago
The Steam overlay uses WebKit, as well as every Source game that renders HTML.
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by bonzoesc 14y ago
Fiat you can spend is more useful than fiat you can't. > I myself and many of people I know are not going to sell a single Bitcoin unless any sort of personal or global disaster. In the case of global disaster, who's going to be buying
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by bonzoesc 14y ago
I doubt it. They're trying to patent this because the economic incentive is to patent everything regardless of if you plan to use it.
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by bonzoesc 14y ago
Riak provides key-value services for Riak CS, and there's nothing stopping you from configuring the same Riak cluster for both the Riak CS application and another application. Riak CS doesn't use any Riak functionality you can't use yoursel
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by bonzoesc 14y ago
> A real hacker would not whine about missing code. Hackers see missing code as an opportunity to build. Hackers like to build. Fuck you and fuck your "no true Scotsman" bullshit. Who appointed you to be king of hackers?
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by bonzoesc 14y ago
Sparrow did try some Dropbox integration (and it worked pretty reasonably), so I suspect Dropbox wants to really nail that this time around.
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by bonzoesc 14y ago
People with money can be assholes too, and a social media conference with zillions of attendees is a great way to bully yourself into a soapbox with relative anonymity.
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What's up with CloudFlare today?(cloudflare.com)
1 points by bonzoesc 14y ago|0 comments
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Color and Web Browsers(blog.brycekerley.net)
2 points by bonzoesc 14y ago|0 comments
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by bonzoesc 14y ago
Egor, thanks for your writing about the OAuth 2 standard! I've implemented that a few times in the last year and would be in serious trouble (not immediately, but when somebody notices) without your writings.
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by bonzoesc 14y ago
> Now think for a second - what if the guy puts everything he downloaded (sourcecode, etc) in a torrent, or pass the pdfs they were so willing to protect on wikileaks? What if he start using his knowledge to create not "giant hacks", bu
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by bonzoesc 14y ago
This happened in Australia so it might be totally different, but if it happened in the US: a warrant for search and seizure of evidence requires less cause than a warrant for arrest, especially in the case where it's digital evidence that c
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by bonzoesc 14y ago
> "I was treated like a criminal," he complained to me, looking back at the raid. Today we learn several lessons: 1) Don't break in to computers of American corporations while living in a country that has historically been very friendly
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by bonzoesc 14y ago
The two popular platforms are mostly closed to external contributions, that's why there aren't any "true cross-platform file systems" that aren't decades out of date like FAT32.
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by bonzoesc 14y ago
They could also raise the ticket price. The demand is high, the supply is limited, and having lots of digits keeps people from flooding the registration page.
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by bonzoesc 14y ago
> “Half-decent”. Is this what you want to output? To be known for? I can’t understand why, if you have an ounce of pride, you’d not want everything you release to be the best you could do? Sometimes the software is a means to an end. I'
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by bonzoesc 14y ago
There are many tools that automate the compile step. I've used the "guard" Ruby gem, the built-in compass watcher, flat out built static sites in Rails which recompiles on demand, and played with JetBrains WebStorm which can even do some tr
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by bonzoesc 14y ago
> Why is Sheldon such a douchebag? He is socially incompetent but does he have to be an asshole too? Have you ever read Hacker News comments?
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by bonzoesc 14y ago
I played Eve prior to Goonfleet, and I get a similar impression: they're an entity run by adults who are smart and find meanness hilarious, instead of the usual Eve alliance management of European teenagers.

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