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871.
by daeken 13y ago
Presumably because of the torque an electric motor can make off the starting line, versus an ICE.
872.
by daeken 13y ago
> My understanding is that parsing CSS rules and updating the DOM are incredibly costly operations which none of the browser vendors have yet decided to optimise. These operations are extremely well-optimized. The reason they're slow
873.
by daeken 13y ago
Yeah, I know it's encrypted. Just could be a fun project.
874.
by daeken 13y ago
Hm, random idea: print your key on paper and have a unique fold pattern that "decrypts" it. It'd be obvious how you folded it if you keep it around past a one-time thing, but you could print a dozen of them and keep them non-folded.
875.
by daeken 13y ago
The pricing changes might not be great (I won't attempt to evaluate them -- I'm not a Flickr customer nor in the target market whatsoever), but the 300MB cap claim is silly. You say it yourself: it's only been a few hours since they made t
876.
by daeken 13y ago
It's not possible for these programs to "create" problems, only to expose them. While many companies like to take the "la la la, I'm not listening!" approach to security, it doesn't actually make you more secure.
877.
by daeken 13y ago
If they got such an offer, I imagine that they'd be willing to hold out for a couple months to get something better. But a $1.1B offer? That's not something you wait to accept. If they don't get a better offer in the next few weeks, they
878.
by daeken 13y ago
At the end of the day, it all comes down to: they would sell for $1.1B in a heartbeat without any of this public posturing if they knew they weren't going to get any offers for more money today. They would take the money and be damn happy
879.
by daeken 13y ago
> Tumblr feels that Yahoo’s $1.1 billion offer as “too low” and view it as “only a first offer” And then later in the paragraph: > sources say the company only has a few months of cash runway left. This must be a joke. If you have a
880.
by daeken 13y ago
Agreed. My favorite example is the question card "Maybe she's born with it, maybe it's ____." To which my dad played "Leprosy". I still chuckle when I think about it.
881.
by daeken 13y ago
Totally just backed this. I haven't been so excited about a piece of tech in ages . This is truly a game-changer if it works anywhere near as well as they're showing.
882.
by daeken 13y ago
> And then the big company, having run out of market segments to expand into, dies rapidly. Happened to IBM in the early 90s [...] Um. IBM has a $230B market cap. Apple is at $400B, Google is at $300B. Is that really the example you
883.
by daeken 13y ago
I've been trying to force myself to use "cleartext" instead of "plaintext" to alleviate this ambiguity. It's remarkably hard to do after so long, though.
884.
by daeken 13y ago
Agreed. I'm almost exclusively flying Jet Blue and Virgin and upgrading to their extended legroom seats at this point. I'm 6'2" and overweight -- not a good mix for the horrid seats in most coach sections.
885.
by daeken 13y ago
Yeah, there are definitely cases where you can't swap out certs and all that, but in those cases the automated tools just fall down anyway. I don't miss the days of manually compiling OpenSSL with specific flags to generate just the righ
886.
by daeken 13y ago
These are good for certain specific tests, but they're too inconsistent to trust for professional testing. There's always the chance that you're hooking the wrong thing (or nothing at all, in the case of a statically linked OpenSSL in a ver
887.
by daeken 13y ago
I used a (very distant, now) variant on Langton's ant to do some "Turing drawings" of my own over the years: http://demoseen.com/langton/#.FP$!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!~ The command set is detailed at the bottom of the page -- feel free to make
888.
by daeken 13y ago
I wonder how effective background check + credit check is versus background check on its own. Finding a known felon is easy enough, but discovering that someone may become a felon? That's tough.
889.
by daeken 13y ago
I was at 61, now 53. Flying in 10 hours; could've used this on my layover. Wonder why it dropped... Edit: As an aside, if anyone wants to get coffee in the Seattle area sometime in the next couple weeks, shoot me an email (it's in my profil
890.
by daeken 13y ago
> Why do you believe it is a risk that the comptroller of NASDAQ might embezzle, but not a risk that a guy selling $2,000 shoes might swipe a few $100 bills from the register? Let's take a practical example here. I've had my credit run
891.
by daeken 13y ago
I hacked the most prevalent hotel locks, but the latch on my gate constantly outsmarts me. Limited domain knowledge is a thing!
892.
by daeken 14y ago
I've spent most of my life reversing native code, and I've also reversed a good deal of minified JS. The latter is many, many orders of magnitude easier and less time-intensive in every case. Now, with things like Emscripten and Asm.js
893.
by daeken 14y ago
> the Canvas spec requires things to be not-premultiplied It does, but unfortunately neither Webkit nor Gecko respect this. Take a PNG with an alpha channel and draw it to a canvas over a white div then read back the pixels; you get th
894.
by daeken 14y ago
This is complete bullshit. And by "this" I mean the story, not the act. The act seems to be silly, but did anyone actually read the draft? http://big.assets.huffingtonpost.com/HQRA.pdf The act has nothing to do with findings in any
895.
by daeken 14y ago
Very little -- that's the point. When you're in a position like this, you're not thinking long-term because 1) the short-term requires your immediate attention, and 2) even if you come up with long-term plans, it's going to be very diffi
896.
by daeken 14y ago
Perhaps "planning" is a term closer to what I'm attempting to convey. The reality is that even if you think long-term, it requires money to execute those plans.
897.
by daeken 14y ago
When you don't have enough to cover all your bills and keep appliances up, your spending patterns change dramatically as well. If you don't have a functioning fridge, you're only buying a tiny (extremely overpriced) package of meat. If yo
898.
by daeken 14y ago
That's a great quote, but this all really just boils down to short- versus long-term thinking. When you're poor, your long-term thinking goes out the window in exchange for making it to next week. Getting out of that is hard -- harder tha
899.
by daeken 14y ago
Agreed. If this is a "I have a signed contract that will give me $Xk next month, if I can just make it to then" situation, sure, go for it. Otherwise, it's (almost definitely) just pissing away someone's money. There's always another way
900.
by daeken 14y ago
Given that the Xbox 360 was damn near bulletproof (there have been very few attacks against it, even still), I expect that the next generation is going to be an even bigger step up, not a step backwards. If you can't compromise code runn

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