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by cynwoody 13y ago
1999 was right about the time Java starting getting fast enough to use for servers (where you don't care much about start-up time). About that time, I needed to decide whether to use Java or Delphi (an ahead-of-time Pascal compiler) fo
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by cynwoody 13y ago
Brings to mind the time a US Marine Corps aircraft sliced a ski-lift cable† with its wing at an Italian ski resort, killing 20 people. The airplane was damaged but managed to land safely at Aviano Air Base. † http://en.wikipedia.o
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by cynwoody 13y ago
Reverse engineering of protocols should be as American as the First Amendment!
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by cynwoody 13y ago
Looks like it's a unicode problem, because, if I manually fix the URL to eliminate the accented character, it works: http://www.congressbuddies.com/?name=Raul%20Labrador
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by cynwoody 13y ago
For me, Google also returned Uranium One, trading on the Toronto Exchange. However, Yahoo Finance showed Universal Security Instruments trading in New York, Uranium One in Toronto, and some wireless company trading on six different exchange
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by cynwoody 13y ago
What should the SERP for "LA Car Rental" contain? If that's all you typed, what is Google to suppose you want? Assuming you don't actually want to rent a car in Los Angeles (or maybe if you do), you will get much more
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by cynwoody 13y ago
Travel search is one vertical in which Google has a serious interest. In 2011, they acquired ITA Software,† which developed QPX, a widely used, Lisp-based airfare search and pricing system. They have since rolled out Google Flights, which c
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by cynwoody 13y ago
Back in 1994, I was planning a bike trip down the US west coast, Washington State to Mexico. I wanted to know sunrise and sunset times. At the time, the town library was across the street. So, I walked over, asked the nice lady at the desk
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by cynwoody 13y ago
Likewise. I will often use the site: operator in Google searches if I think it will lead to more interesting results, although a lot of the time, those results will pop up high in the SERP even without the qualifier. Wikipedia generally tak
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by cynwoody 13y ago
Did you read the article? The title seems to imply that Google will show the poor one SERP and the rich another. However, the article is actually about a proposal that, if you apply for something (e.g., insurance, a job, credit) and are den
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by cynwoody 13y ago
>and the basic math with these companies is if fraud rate > rate loss of transaction volume from security feature then use security feature. Otherwise, don't. I seem to recall reading a while back that the overall credit card f
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by cynwoody 13y ago
It's a matter of semantics. What does "to skim" mean? I read the article to mean that the bad guys were using key loggers to skim mag stripe images out of the keyboard data stream (from mag stripe readers attached via "w
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by cynwoody 13y ago
On the contrary! People need to be made aware of any and all threats to their security that may exist. They need to make sure such hardware is not deployed against them. And they need to design the vulnerability out of future systems.
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by cynwoody 13y ago
> Sanskrit grammar is again another beautiful and well thought creation that is considered the best grammar to be used for scientific work. J Robert Oppenheimer was a fan of Sanskrit. He quoted the Bhagavad Gita, "Now, I am become
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by cynwoody 13y ago
Agreed. But not by the government. $1.4 trillion spent by millions of consumers in a free market will produce far better healthcare than $1.4 trillion spent by the USG. When it comes to making choices, the market is far, far more efficient
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by cynwoody 13y ago
Also clever is the fact that the first clause acts as a password, so that the backdoor opens only if called with the supposedly invalid option combination.
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by cynwoody 13y ago
List your files and count them, too: ls -l|tee >(wc -l) Works in bash, but not sh.
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by cynwoody 13y ago
In this discussion† from yesterday, the task of finding the longest path below a directory came up. You can see both a clumsy solution, using a named pipe and iterative Python, and an elegant one-liner (in a reply), using an anonymous pipe
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by cynwoody 13y ago
What is the diameter of a Krugerrand?† Actually, I needed the answer, since I was reaching into my desk drawer for some wedding gifts and needed to buy some gift boxes (Google helped with that, too). Watson may have a head start on the AI s
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by cynwoody 13y ago
That's sadistic. You should have at least hinted at viable OCR solutions.
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by cynwoody 13y ago
That's easy. You signed up for Gmail knowing how your email service is being paid for. As for National Security, well, the hell with it! No role for a nation or security unless I get to define the parameters of my privacy! Snowden 2020
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by cynwoody 13y ago
What does it mean to extract the content? To filter spam, you need to make enough sense of the email to identify it as spammy, according to some algorithm. To serve an ad, you need to make enough sense of the email to indicate it's abo
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by cynwoody 13y ago
Google's Gmail business model has been common knowledge ever since they surfaced it as a new, invitation-only beta. This whole debate about the appropriateness of a content-driven ad-supported business model has been front and center a
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by cynwoody 13y ago
That's true. However, spam filtering (for sure) and prioritization (maybe) improve the user experience, thus drawing in more clients and retaining the existing base. Spam filtering, etc., make the service more attractive, boosting the
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by cynwoody 13y ago
Well, there is FastMail† (which was recently spun back off of Opera). You can get a good web mail service without ads in return for a modest subscription fee. So, as a Gmail user, you have a choice. Free, but you get to see dumpster ads bec
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by cynwoody 13y ago
Google and the Gmail user both benefit. This why there are so many Gmail users! The Gmail user gets a free email account with a large storage allowance, an effective search engine, and a dynamite spam filter. Google gets to collect revenue
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by cynwoody 13y ago
If you care about such, you need to encrypt the content of your email. Then it will be like a letter instead of a postcard. Alexander the Geek will still get to add your metadata to his haystack, but, FWIW, the body of your email will remai
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by cynwoody 13y ago
Substitute for Google's silicon assistant a human personal assistant of the intended Gmail-using recipient. "If any person other than X reads this proprietary poetry, they owe inerte big bux!" The mail recipient chose Google
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by cynwoody 13y ago
Or is the extent of the shutdown that tours of the whitehouse won't be given? "Due to staffing reductions resulting from sequestration, we regret to inform you that WhiteHouse Tours will be canceled effective Saturday, March 9,
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by cynwoody 13y ago
IANAL, but wouldn't Google be acting as the recipient's chosen agent to help him communicate via email? E.g., what if the recipient has a paid human assistant who screens his email, wherever hosted. Further assume the sender knows

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