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by casca 13y ago
Can you please elaborate on this? The ANC (Mandela's political party) including Mandela himself certainly committed a wide range of violent acts in response to a vast display of vile force from the ruling South African government. Howe
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by casca 13y ago
Mandela reminds us that it's possible for a single man to create peace amidst a huge push for war. Forgiveness is the first step in changing a society, without it we are doomed to repeat the failures of our ancestors. He continues to b
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How You Walk Can Increase Your Risk Of Being Mugged(isciencetimes.com)
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Swedish prisoner escapes to visit dentist(thelocal.se)
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by casca 13y ago
A significant difference is that a major part of the value of getting into YC is having successfully completed the selection process. There's a reason that when hiring and looking for funding, companies will usually include the year th
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by casca 13y ago
The potential impact of something like this on the whole system is to push up the prices of all online advertising. Given that advertisers will continue to pay to present ads as long as the return is justified, it's almost "a vict
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by casca 13y ago
It will be interesting to see whether Valve can encourage the move to Linux gaming. Their biggest asset at this time is the distribution model of Steam, but that's not sufficient to get the big publishers to develop for OSX, never mind
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by casca 13y ago
The media companies need to do something against "piracy", otherwise it looks like they're complicit. The MPAA/RIAA/equivalent are industry bodies that are funded to protect their members. These members want to see
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by casca 13y ago
Try im.save("/tmp/artsciimg.png"). This will most likely show that it's a local permission error. Then identify which directory it's trying to write to with os.system("pwd") and chmod 777 that directo
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by casca 13y ago
In the UK, Waterstones (equivalent to Barnes and Noble) have announced a competing product: http://blog.waterstones.com/?p=15525
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by casca 13y ago
A more interesting question is why hasn't Google, Microsoft, Samsung or Apple bought them for their patent portfolio. They've been doing mobile for a long time and historically did things that could genuinely be considered innovat
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by casca 13y ago
The Gartner Magic Quadrants are treated very highly by senior management who often don't trust vendors or their own staff. They tend to be vacuous and of awful quality - I've started keeping historical ones so that at some point I
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Time for more European countries to facilitate entrepreneur visas(tech.eu)
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by casca 13y ago
TL;DR: Renault has a clause in the contract that allows them to remotely stop their EV from charging This is an interesting issue but the article overstates the case. "... [electric cars] collect reams of data on how you use them, and
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Finding Cryptolocker Encrypted Files using the NTFS Master File Table(securitybraindump.blogspot.ru)
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Security Headers on the Top 1,000,000 Websites: November 2013 Report(veracode.com)
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The importance of the User-Agent in the Botnets connections(behindthefirewalls.com)
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by casca 13y ago
Worth a read, skip the tracking link: http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405270230433740...
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For cybercriminals, everything hangs on a nickname.(psmag.com)
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New OSX/Crisis or Business Cards Gone Wild(intego.com)
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Malicious PDF Analysis Evasion Techniques(blog.trendmicro.com)
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by casca 13y ago
Workaround: if ($request_uri ~ " ") { return 403; } The issue is the handling of unescaped spaces. These are illegal but nginx accepts them. The workaround is to throw an error any time someone sends the inval
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by casca 13y ago
Wishing you all the best for the biopsy. Being young and living in a place with good healthcare mean that there's every chance that you'll live a long and meaningful life, regardless of what they find.
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by casca 13y ago
Why does Google use the term "Off the record" when there is a product called Off the record[1] that has been used for end-to-end encryption of IM that pre-dates Google Talk? Google does many good things, but it would be unreasonab
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by casca 13y ago
This is a very strange action. It's almost as if they thought that some simple technical tricks could remove things from the Internet. Now there will be even more interest in comparing what they've said in the past with what is sa
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by casca 13y ago
This seems like a very convoluted way of coming to the valuation. Revenue != profit. I can easily create business that generates $1bn/month in revenue by selling dollars for 90 cents. Dropbox may be worth $8bn, but surely it makes more
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InfoSec Research - Visual Heap Spray (neilscomputerblog.blogspot.com)
1 points by casca 13y ago|0 comments
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The Discovery of a New Element at CERN(armstrongeconomics.com)
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How GCHQ hacked Belgacom(infosecurity-magazine.com)
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by casca 13y ago
Better to use http://wikivoyage.org/ than wikitravel. It's a fork after there were some complaints about the owners of Wikitravel.

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