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by cobbal 15y ago
It states that the lines curl("http://duckduckgo.com/", "-o page.html", "--silent") curl("http://duckduckgo.com/", "-o", "page.html", "--silent") are equivalent. This worries me, I would much rather always have it be one argument c
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by cobbal 15y ago
Indeed, and Wolfram Alpha is more than happy to plot it for you: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=moores%20law
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by cobbal 15y ago
My mistake, with all the spotlight going to the DNS side of SOPA I had forgotten it also included requirements about payments.
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by cobbal 15y ago
True, but the direct legal action wouldn't threaten Google and other businesses much (Google does run DNS servers, but it's not their main gig) so moving outside the country would accomplish very little from a technical standpoint.
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by cobbal 15y ago
SOPA is actually aimed at foreign sites; this is the motivation behind SOPA blocking at the DNS level instead of going after the companies.
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by cobbal 15y ago
That's a really interesting video; I asked about this on math.stackexchange, and it already has one response about why φ is optimal for your color spacing. http://math.stackexchange.com/q/93623/37
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by cobbal 15y ago
m4 uses nested quotes in the form of `a `b' c', but it can get pretty confusing if you're not used to it.
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by cobbal 15y ago
If you're going from an HTTPS site to a HTTP site, then your browser doesn't send a referer header, so they can't really know you came from google.
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by cobbal 15y ago
Objective-C actually allows you to choose which string class you use as well using the compiler flag "-fconstant-string-class=class-name" http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Constant-string-objects.ht...
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by cobbal 15y ago
The headline says root access, but I didn't see any references to it in the article or its link. Does anyone know if it really is root access?
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by cobbal 16y ago
Actually, Wikipedia even lets you upload your own custom css and javascript when you're logged in. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#preftab-1
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by cobbal 16y ago
Fun bug: press escape tons and watch the animals move faster and your browser freeze.
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by cobbal 16y ago
Snow Leopard (and probably earlier) already support this. When an app reopens twice after from the "reopen" button on the crash reporter it opens without loading the preference file.
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by cobbal 16y ago
Ah, it seems you're right: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet#Windows_infection
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by cobbal 16y ago
"Stuxnet is one of the more powerful viruses to ever spread across the internet" Is an interesting statement, since to my knowledge it spread via USB drives instead of the internet
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by cobbal 16y ago
> Every time I see a web app supporting openid Im glad that I don't have to invent yet another user/password combo The problem is most people don't bother doing this; they just trust every site with the same password. The benefit I see
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by cobbal 16y ago
An interesting property of this is that == isn't transitive '' == 0 // true 0 == '0' // true '0' == '' // false
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by cobbal 16y ago
homomorphism - <1% basic, <1% intermediate, 99% advanced Edit: plz - 93% basic, 3% intermediate, 2% advanced
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by cobbal 16y ago
Do you know if this will have any implications for applications built on it (will they be forced to use GPL)?
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by cobbal 16y ago
As I understand it, certificates are not the only problem. SSL requires significantly more overhead on the server as well, which is why it is commonly used just for logins.
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by cobbal 16y ago
It was the highest voted domain name by the community http://meta.nothingtoinstall.com/questions/108/what-should-o...
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by cobbal 16y ago
Latest development releases of chromium support this (see http://blog.chromium.org/2010/09/unleashing-gpu-acceleration... )
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by cobbal 16y ago
It seems to me that they're not attempting to prevent spam, they're merely trying to monetize what has become the standard practice of entering CAPTCHAs. going with something like this it's trading in spam prevention for cash. The legitimat