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Global Internet Map 2012(telegeography.com)
2 points by casca 14y ago|0 comments
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The Curious Case of Internet Privacy - Cory Doctorow(technologyreview.com)
4 points by casca 14y ago|0 comments
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by casca 14y ago
This could be very useful, but it doesn't install on a 3GS because it requires a gyroscope? Seems a curious requirement given the functionality.
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The Underground Economy of Twitter Followers(cs.ucsb.edu)
1 points by casca 14y ago|0 comments
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by casca 14y ago
That naked short selling is allowed is an anachronism coupled with the lobbying of the self-interested. In the olden days, it was reasonable to give a time delay to deliver the physical paper that proved ownership. Now everything is electro
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by casca 14y ago
Is it just me or does this look like a massive advertisement for Steve Blank's books and program? That's not to say that the books and programs aren't necessarily good, but still.
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Hacking the Kindle Touch(wiki.mobileread.com)
33 points by casca 14y ago|15 comments
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IP Repudiation - crowdsourced malware detection(labs.alienvault.com)
1 points by casca 14y ago|0 comments
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by casca 14y ago
So people are threatening to leave a free service because they're looking for ways to make it sustainable?
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Using these words online will have the Department of Homeland Security after you(s3.amazonaws.com)
1 points by casca 14y ago|0 comments
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by casca 14y ago
With the masses of metrics being collected in all the lean startups, it would be spiffy if this assertion could be supported by something other than rampant speculation. This might feel true because a small number of customers generate the
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by casca 14y ago
TL;DR - designers and project teams need longer periods of unbroken time to get things done.
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by casca 14y ago
The only good thing about the UK plug is that it's possible to push a standard 2-pin EU plug into the socket.
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by casca 14y ago
http://downloads.gosquared.com/help_sheets/12/helpsheet_supp...
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by casca 14y ago
For some reason, there's a popular myth that Myers-Briggs has any scientific basis. It doesn't. Please don't use it and thereby perpetuate this insult to the genuine social science research that is done.
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How long would it take to crack your password?(nakedsecurity.sophos.com)
2 points by casca 14y ago|0 comments
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A technical analysis of current Adobe Flash Player Vulnerability(blogs.technet.com)
8 points by casca 14y ago|0 comments
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The security hole in sudo(nakedsecurity.sophos.com)
50 points by casca 14y ago|75 comments
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by casca 14y ago
This looks like the next iteration of Moxie Marlinspike's Convergence[1] project. For anyone who doesn't understand why SSL for browsers as deployed is broken, a quick exercise is to look at how many CA certificates come trusted with your f
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by casca 14y ago
These is completely a political move. The history of this is that for many years, the UK ISPs told the Government that implementing filters was too difficult and expensive. Last year TalkTalk broke ranks and launched their HuaweiSymantec-ba
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by casca 14y ago
Car drivers have come to expect a certain level of convenience when fueling their vehicles. The primary difficulty in the widespread adoption of electric cars is that this level of convenience is being reduced([1]). These stations are an in
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by casca 14y ago
This has been coming for a while and there has already been a lot of activism on it. For more information on the background: http://wiki.openrightsgroup.org/wiki/Intercept_Modernisation This event discussed it last month: http://scrambli
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by casca 14y ago
Why would Apple want to "fix" Radar? It seems to meet _their_ requirements quite well: - Developers have a place that they can report things which is industry best practice - They don't need to put in as much money to staffing it If it's a
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by casca 14y ago
Most companies are "Technology Companies" because they would fail to function in a meaningful way if their technology no longer functioned correctly. To divide companies in the way the author has is perfectly reasonable, as are many other a
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by casca 14y ago
This could be a good push for interoperability, but it is more likely to end up being another vector for inadvertent data disclosure as the majority of people just click "Yes" when asked for permission.
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20 years of SMS, now serving 4 billion people(guardian.co.uk)
1 points by casca 14y ago|0 comments
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by casca 14y ago
1) Fundamentals of Emotional Intelligence 2) Understand the Business of your Customer 3) Minimum One Programming Language for each Mainstream Development Paradigm 4) Know your Tools 5) Standard Data Structures, Algorithms and Big-O-Notation
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by casca 14y ago
My argument was that DRM _could_ be used in such a way to negate most of the experience issues that people have. The objections that the author makes are valid in the implementation, but it is possible that it could be implemented another w
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by casca 14y ago
While I don't like DRM and will always choose an alternative product that does not have it, I don't buy these arguments. So looking at his points: "DRM Is Anti-Reader": There's no reason that DRM could allow the easy transfer of a book from
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by casca 14y ago
As a long-time Thinkpad user and keyboard fan, I'm still finding it hard to care. If anyone is looking for a working image [2]: http://images.tweaktown.com.nyud.net/news/2/3/23890_09_spott...

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