dfranke

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by dfranke 18y ago
Artificial stupidity? Isn't there already enough of the real McCoy?
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by dfranke 18y ago
For a language of my own design I'd agree, but I think that would be rather severely contrary to the spirit of Arc.
483.
by dfranke 18y ago
Nitpick: Valleywag is already banned.
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by dfranke 18y ago
This seems like an MIT/Harvard thing. I've noticed that the people who call me 'dfranke' IRL, you included, tend to be affiliated with one of the two. I think RTM is pretty much universally RTM though, whether or not the speaker has any Ca
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by dfranke 18y ago
'wasteless' seems cromulent to me.
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by dfranke 18y ago
Obviously, the opposite of hapless is hapful.
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by dfranke 18y ago
Fears about IP address exhaustion are overblown. X-day is the day that IP address scarcity begins to become a problem, not the day that the intertubes burst and flood everyone's basement. We appear to be headed for an IP shortage becaus
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The FDIC needs a bailout(online.wsj.com)
2 points by dfranke 18y ago|0 comments
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by dfranke 18y ago
> Mathematica does not have access to magical algorithms that none of the rest of us know about Yes it does. Quite a lot of them, especially w.r.t. symbolic equation-solving and integration. They're notoriously protective of their tra
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by dfranke 18y ago
Offering prize money for discovering flaws is point #13 on the crackpot index ( http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/crackpot.html ). I've griped in the past that this criterion is too prone to false positives, citing DJB as an example.
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by dfranke 18y ago
I think so, unless you count the prize for "most interesting cryptanalysis of Salsa20" as a security guarantee. Also, someone discovered a bug in qmail a while back, but DJB disputed that it was security-related and didn't pay. Having see
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DJB acknowledges vulnerability in djbdns; pays out the $1000 reward(article.gmane.org)
66 points by dfranke 18y ago|16 comments
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by dfranke 18y ago
I might implement an emacs minor mode that does this.
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by dfranke 18y ago
You'd have trouble with speed autonegotiation, though. That wasn't developed until 1995 and GigE won't work at all with peers that don't support it.
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by dfranke 18y ago
> if you'd teleport that thing back two decades you'd be burned at the stake for witchcraft. You mean by the denizens of 2009, for violating causality by teleporting things into the past? :-)
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by dfranke 18y ago
No, but the way that "network communication service" is defined, you have to do the log retention even if it's encrypted and you're the only one who uses it.
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by dfranke 18y ago
I'm adding | mail senator@cornyn.senate.gov to my syslog.conf
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Pending legislation would mandate that all Wifi operators retain DHCP logs for two years(cnn.com)
12 points by dfranke 18y ago|6 comments
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by dfranke 18y ago
I'm quite familiar with Gatto's thesis, and, having been through the public school system myself, I consider it self-evident. The phrase "at least in theory" was meant to communicate my skepticism of the surrounding claim; sorry if that di
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by dfranke 18y ago
There's a clear distinction, though. Prisons are not designed for the benefit of the imprisoned. Compulsory schooling is, at least in theory, for the students' own good.
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by dfranke 18y ago
> March 5 2009, 1:30-3:30 You're going to get through that whole program in two hours?
502.
by dfranke 18y ago
It's an ancient troll. I've flagged it.
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by dfranke 18y ago
Nope, you're not the first one to notice this. http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/03/sfearthquakes-o.ht... http://www.wingedpig.com/archives/2007/03/back_to_the_future...
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by dfranke 18y ago
I think this would probably encourage people to use HN for the spammier variety of self-promotion.
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by dfranke 18y ago
The ability to securely dynamically load and execute arbitrary untrusted code within the same address space as trusted code, ala the Java bytecode verifier. I'm not certain whether the creators of Java invented this idea, but they were cer
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by dfranke 18y ago
That argument originally came from Bertrand Russell, not Dawkins.
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by dfranke 18y ago
Okay, my cursor is at the beginning of the line. Now what?
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by dfranke 18y ago
This is incredibly cool. I hope the schematics he designs here become publicly available some day; nothing created by an engineer of Woz's caliber ought to be lost to posterity. That's an alarming photograph though. I see now where Steve
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by dfranke 18y ago
Maybe you could also sell prominent placement for ads, like eBay does with "featured auctions".
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by dfranke 18y ago
It's not great, but I've had fewer problems with it than with a 32-bit build with nspluginwrapper. I use flashblock, so it's not really a problem for me.

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