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by cynwoody 14y ago
Next time I visit the Apple Store, I should remember to visit Panopticlick from some of the machines on display and see what only-one-in numbers it reports.
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by cynwoody 14y ago
Yep. Back in the day, before the internet took off, there wasn't much you could do with a computer but develop software, process words, and play games locally. A few people lurked on BBSs — remember them? Remember acoustic couplers? The int
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by cynwoody 14y ago
You don't have to link the label to the form element via ID. It's simpler to nest the element within the label.
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by cynwoody 14y ago
Electric generators can get up to 95% efficiency, meaning electrical output as a percentage of mechanical energy input. In the current case, the relevant input is mechanical energy produced by a slowly dropping weight, so there would be l
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by cynwoody 14y ago
Prior to 10.6, actually. I just upgraded from 10.5 to 10.6.8 for that very reason.
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by cynwoody 14y ago
DDG got my IP and my town right. I'm impressed. Most of the IP location servers are one town over or just punt and say Boston.
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by cynwoody 14y ago
A while back, we were using zoneedit.com to keep track of changing DSL addresses at some of our offices. We had a little daemon running that checked the external IP every 15 minutes and shoulder-tapped zoneedit if there was a change. It sta
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by cynwoody 14y ago
Yes. Well, sort of. I don't use an ad blocker, but I do block some ads. So far, my ad-blocking has been limited to placing a short list of domains in /etc/hosts. My main motivation was not the ads themselves, but rather delays in page-rende
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by cynwoody 14y ago
Here's a hardware solution to the "pseudo" problem: http://gamesbyemail.com/News/DiceOMatic It's a dice-rollingmachine "that can belch a continuous river of dice down a spiraling ramp, then elevate, photograph, process and upload almost a
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by cynwoody 14y ago
Some mailers include an X-Originating-IP header, allowing a recipient to see the sender's IP address trivially. Gmail does not include that particular header. The headers it does include will simply lead back into the Google network. More o
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by cynwoody 14y ago
I just looked up an iPhone 4s 32gb unlocked. Gazelle offers about $215. Swappa.com had six for sale, with asking prices averaging around $450 (there was an outlier at $360). A quick look at Craigslist Boston shows recent asking prices of $3
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by cynwoody 14y ago
I pay for stuff once in a while on PayPal. However, I do not maintain a cash balance with them, nor do I have a linked bank account. I have only my American Express card linked to my account. A few years ago, I ordered some dirt cheap magaz
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by cynwoody 14y ago
Under your Public WiFi heading, you should add a warning about surveillance cameras, POS credit card trails, and employee memories. These days, cameras are everywhere, and video storage has gotten very cheap. Assume investigators will visit
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by cynwoody 14y ago
If memory serves, Amazon was the first to come out with street view, via their a9.com site, circa 2005. However, they canned it before coverage got behind a few major metropolitan areas. Then came Google Maps and a much cooler street view i
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by cynwoody 14y ago
That is true. I wanted to email my tax data to my accountant. So, I made a self-extracting PGP archive several megabytes in size. Gmail wouldn't let me send it until I tacked on .remove after the .exe extension. It's not really an unreasona
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by cynwoody 14y ago
>I suspect even with GPS failure they could run entirely on atomic clocks, it would just increase their uncertainty Using GPS is an operational convenience, not a necessity, I would think. If GPS didn't exist, they would have to have a
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by cynwoody 14y ago
>I'm curious if you could break a similar system that assumed that receipt of an outgoing call made to the customer's phone number was validation of identity. That would certainly defeat the caller-ID spoofers. "Please hang up now. We w
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by cynwoody 14y ago
>Also she's queer Your good fortune, man kind's loss: https://plus.google.com/photos/107665675896730237663/albums/...
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by cynwoody 14y ago
Neither is Stanley. We have the example of Stanley Ann Dunham, do we not?
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by cynwoody 14y ago
Thanks. Your suggestion worked for me. Of course, it could also be that the site rotates ads and only loads the malware some of the time.
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by cynwoody 14y ago
I thought about that. But consider, if you are on a book tour or your job as DCI takes you from place to place. Investigators will map the location of each access point you used. Airports, coffee shops, hotels, whatever. Then they'll match
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by cynwoody 14y ago
They should have been careful to access the Gmail account only via TOR. One slip, and the game would be up. Actually, using Gmail was a reasonable COMSEC plan for what they were doing. Much safer than using his official email. Problem was
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by cynwoody 14y ago
I don't know the answer, but I am reminded of John Markoff's 2006 book What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry [1]. If you've forgotten what the dormouse said, listen: http://www.youtub
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by cynwoody 14y ago
Some of the same people who worked on the Edison audio (Carl Haber) were also responsible for recovering the phonautograph audio. The phonautograph was essentially a mechanical audio oscillograph. It graphed the sound waves on paper by cond
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by cynwoody 14y ago
It would seem the insurmountable stumbling block there would be the need to move whatever was acting as the stylus against whatever was the recording medium at a fairly constant, or at least discoverable, rate for the duration of the record
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by cynwoody 14y ago
Google Calc is a bit behind the curve. The proper prefixes for 2^30 and 2^50 are gibi and pebi, not, as you point out, giga and peta. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_binary_prefixes
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by cynwoody 14y ago
Yes, I know, you can always challenge a charge, IF you notice it sneak onto your card A friend of mine has a system for that, at least at gas stations. Whenever he fills up, he tops it off such that the price ends in a 7. Then he scans hi
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by cynwoody 14y ago
Do they make you promise not to resell a book more times than you bought it?
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by cynwoody 14y ago
I disagree. Wired's nice little introduction will make more people aware that they don't have to put up with DRM. Wired's attention will also make it easier to find definitive info on DRM removal. When I'm not looking for anything in partic
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That's very nice. For Python users, there is: http://www.regexplanet.com/advanced/python/index.html Example: http://fiddle.re/22e5

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