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by drostie 15y ago
Yeah, still not seeing it. That banner is pretty well static in both Firefox 11.0 and Chromium 17.0.963.79 on Ubuntu. (I also tried rekonq but I neither expected nor got anything out of it.)
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by drostie 15y ago
The only "scrolling effect" I see in either Chrome or Firefox is that the page scrolls. That's not particularly awesome. Edit: ah, it's not a scrolling effect, it's a click effect. Click any of the blog posts and it will appear to "shift th
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by drostie 15y ago
I would guess that it's something like SICP introducing assignment halfway through the book, dramatic, unexpected, and you've been using a weaker version for many chapters now. (Chapter 6 is about recursive data types, and comes immediately
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by drostie 15y ago
I must say, just two or three weeks ago Cracked linked me to another case of someone flipping the hell out inappropriately over a swear word. In this case, it was a 911 officer actually hanging up on a caller , multiple times, while her da
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by drostie 15y ago
The convergence between Minimum Viable Products and Hacking is a poignant one and suitable for this audience, I suppose. People who develop new security breaks -- let's call them inbreakers because they break in -- are generally either Ha
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by drostie 15y ago
Though it is my example, I would add that I don't think that it started out as a slavery-of-others metaphor. So, before there was "pwned" there was "ownership." You "owned at the game" rather than "owning the other players." The ownership w
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by drostie 15y ago
Well, the "so what" is everything: Unwanted Attention is Unwanted because it embraces some sort of threat or menace or unreasonable expectation or social tension or unease. To say that we should stop giving women this sort of unwanted atten
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by drostie 15y ago
Cass R. Sunstein in Free Markets and Social Justice offers a chapter with an interesting perspective called "Why Markets Don't Stop Discrimination." The book is actually one of the more readable economics works I've seen, and the author g
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by drostie 15y ago
A bit off topic, but if you ever want a syllabus of what you've missed in physics with some links to good material, Gerard 't Hooft's page is pretty spiffy-keen: http://www.staff.science.uu.nl/~hooft101/theorist.html
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by drostie 15y ago
Sexism is endemic to the society and to the relationships which generate that comment. So, right. Imagine that you're a woman. You're told from a very young age that you have to watch what you wear, and where you wear it, and how you walk i
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by drostie 15y ago
It always makes me feel young to read an article that was published before I was born, and in this case saying that my intended niche is dead. I wish I knew more of these older, wizened ideas. I will probably never be comfortable in assembl
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by drostie 15y ago
If you focus too much on the lawyer filing the lawsuit then smart lawyers will prey on young graduates. If you focus too much on the plaintiff filing the lawsuit then smart lawyers will probably find a way to make special corporations w
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by drostie 15y ago
We should just write the laws in Prolog and call it Prolaw. Then we no longer would have to call the web site optimization peoples by the disparaging term "spammers" but could instead call them by the marginally less disparaging term "lawye
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by drostie 15y ago
That's also something I haven't considered. Whether or not this was really done, if you wanted to create the same effect by faking it, you could do it at least in part by doing two different "takes" -- one where you pull the guy from the fr
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by drostie 15y ago
Well, no. They suggest that the camera shake wasn't added in after the fact with postprocessing of an existing image -- or at least that the image was fairly high-res and blur was also added after the fact. He doesn't rule out that the whol
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by drostie 15y ago
I migrated to Ubuntu around the time early folks were migrating to Vista, and today I've moved to Kubuntu but have also experimented with FreeBSD. Admittedly, I'm not on the desktop but on a convertible tablet laptop. If I were on a desktop
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by drostie 15y ago
That's an even stranger question, given how little I know about a given business before I have worked there. I can't help but think my answer would be, "I don't know, I've only seen you guys in person for about five minutes. Why do you
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by drostie 15y ago
I don't see how this could possibly have been a response to what I said, nor how I could be construed as saying that. (Actually, the closest it comes is that "You're right! X is a good idea!" is the same sort of crap that "Have you stopped
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by drostie 15y ago
It might be. Suppose that you're hiring service staff - a waiter or waitress is a good example. It is often better to show a professional respect for their abstraction layers than to invite them to talk about the fact that they're aspiring
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by drostie 15y ago
It's often the case that we criticize others for our own faults, and I would apply that here. You have asked a loaded question which has a nasty underlying implication. You might not have intended it that way, but it does have that subtext.
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by drostie 15y ago
The linked paper on the arXiv is pretty bad. The idea as it stands appears to be very mundane -- that we define some new number, which he calls ① and I'll call m, to denote the size of the natural numbers N = {0, 1, 2, ...}. Then m² is the
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by drostie 15y ago
Well, it depends what you're writing. One of the horrible things about early fiction is that the writers usually insert their own interpretations of how characters talk -- including stuttering and "ums" and whatnot. Thankfully much of this
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by drostie 15y ago
I like how there was an extremely long silence, and then suddenly there was one little talk, which had to be posted online, and then that talk mentioned another idea which had to be posted online, and during that talk you said "um" too much
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by drostie 15y ago
There are no shortcuts, only Zuul? I approve of this project name. :D
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by drostie 15y ago
Using my numbers above, getting up to 100 km requires u = 1 MJ/kg of energy. For the trebuchet model, this number is u = ½ v² and you're presumably going to be flying in a circular arc before you are released, where your acceleration is a =
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by drostie 15y ago
Running the numbers, you need at least 1 MJ/kg to get past the 100km limit into what's officially considered "outer space". That's only factoring in Earth's gravity. If we could do it with purely electrical motors, then assuming you pay 10
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by drostie 15y ago
The tl;dr: (50 + x)² = (25 + x) * 100 + x². If you know the squares from 0 to 25 you can then bootstrap the squares to 75. At the very least, between 41 and 59 you don't have to deal with carrying and can just say 42² = (25 - 8) 100 + 8² =
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by drostie 15y ago
To raise something to the 3rd power in modular math is done by computing: x² = x · x x³ = x · x² In other words, two modular multiplications. I have grouped them like this because, to raise something to the 17th power in modula
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by drostie 15y ago
From the article's excitement, I would almost guess that they have a working attack against AES, but that sounds extremely unlikely with the amount of scrutiny AES has received. Still, AES is known to have some very clean algebraic properti
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by drostie 15y ago
Bruce Schneier at this year's RSA conference: "I think in the coming decade, the real threats to the Internet don't come from the Bad Guys, they don't come from the criminals or the hackers, they come from politics and they come from econom

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