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by eksith 12y ago
Before the conspiracy theories start, I think this has less to do with mass-surveillance and more to do with stopping spam. As hinted : "Some firewalls, including Cisco's PIX/ASA firewall do this in order to monitor fo
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by eksith 12y ago
At their base level both have similarities: Expressing and parsing the world in a funny language. But seriously, there's a lot of math in programming that we wouldn't even consider to be "math" in the general sense.
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The Hardest Part of Running a Startup Isn't What I Thought It Would Be(snipe.net)
1 points by eksith 12y ago|0 comments
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by eksith 12y ago
It's cool. I'm just curious about your take since, by necessity, you get to see far more comments than I do and get to see patterns that I may miss completely. For the record, I don't think he deserved a hellbanning, but then
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by eksith 12y ago
What are your thoughts on this episode? https://jcs.org/notaweblog/2012/06/13/hellbanned_from_hacker...
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by eksith 12y ago
It may be better than adhesive when repeated removal is necessary. Thread locking fluid is a pain in smaller applications when the material flakes off as you untighten, which you have to clean up afterwards. In a clean-room or other delicat
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by eksith 12y ago
I assure you, "waiters under-reporting tips" is a mere rounding error compared to the money hidden in tax shelters; their legality notwithstanding.
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by eksith 12y ago
I was thinking the same thing. In the reply too, this is mentioned : https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2014-Septemb... you shouldn't assume HSDir is private in any case; and if enumeration
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by eksith 12y ago
Original article : http://mnx.io/blog/a-proper-server-naming-scheme/ Which was posted here before : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8010247
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by eksith 12y ago
If that's true, then he picked very well. The X60 is pretty close to being my all time favorite kit. It's easier to carry around and packs more kick than an older Atom (certainly with Linux). I can see why he would choose it. I ac
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by eksith 12y ago
I suspect it's some type of system where they're even able to inspect the BIOS. Speaking of... Richard Stallman uses the Lemote Yeelong because even its BIOS is open source[1]. The specs are a bit behind, but for his purposes, it
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by eksith 12y ago
Considering the very large distances, I suppose it would require very little in the way of manual intervention or energy. But I wonder how safe it will be unless at least one or two crew members are left awake to attend to the rest in case
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by eksith 12y ago
From December 17, 1903 to present day, a large number of people have died while we were still trying to improve air travel for everyone. Their deaths were tragic, but their contribution to modern aviation and the betterment of our civilizat
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by eksith 12y ago
There's offense and then there's denying one's humanity. That word represents the later which elicits a far more harsh response than mere offense. I'm sorry you can't see the difference.
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by eksith 12y ago
That line of reasoning also has parallels to irreducible complexity, which time and again has been proven false. Just because the machine is so sophisticated and extremely delicate doesn't mean its functions will forever remain a myste
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by eksith 12y ago
At this point, isn't it more accurate to call them a terrorist organization? They have their own military, communications network and a healthy (seemingly never ending) supply of soldiers to do their bidding and the citizens are suffic
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by eksith 12y ago
Is the internet truly municipal or is only the fibre community owned? The distinction is important as a lot of private ISPs pay the local government a fee to use their existing infrastructure, while they provide the connectivity to the rest
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by eksith 12y ago
I'm not so sure. There have been offshore gambling sites (sports, poker etc...) that have been shut down before with the cooperation of local authorities, although not always easily. They may see revenue for local industry as a nice pl
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Welcoming New Humble Masterpieces into MoMA’s Collection(moma.org)
6 points by eksith 12y ago|0 comments
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by eksith 12y ago
To add to this "Postgres: Limited scalability". I wish someone told us before we ticked over to 31TB... 5 Months ago.
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by eksith 12y ago
I think the sentiment was "hard to kill" and/or become extinct due to its resiliency. But I agree, they should have picked something else.
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by eksith 12y ago
Considering the swath of (mostly pirated) XP installs still floating around China[1], I wonder if many of them would be willing to try this instead. Most of their apps should run just fine too. [1] http://www.pcworld.com/art
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by eksith 12y ago
There are some legacy industrial software we had to keep (for cost reasons) that run on ReactOS with little to no configuration changes that completely break in WINE or run glacially slow on compatibility mode on Windows 7.
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by eksith 12y ago
They don't have nearly as many users to face that indictment at this point in time, which is why they can afford to pull this. Like I said, there are shortcomings in this, but if anything, that does attract more attention to OTR.
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by eksith 12y ago
PR stunt has side benefits besides pure security even though the method has shortcomings. Namely, the PR part, which may play a significant role in its actual success. We know for a fact that most people aim for better known than just bette
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by eksith 12y ago
Their problem may not be with what you said, but how you said it. I fear the particular "brand" of space tourism offered by Virgin is probably frivolous in that it's at a level not too far removed from the "Vomit Comet&q
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by eksith 12y ago
This list is updated more frequently and is what I use : http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm There are a few things to take out to make certain services I like work (E.G. Hulu), so I usually try it in sections to see whic
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by eksith 12y ago
For anyone wondering about the incident with the Mythbusters and banks, here's some context by Adam Savage : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-St_ltH90Oc
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How Ebola Healthcare Workers Get Dressed(wired.com)
2 points by eksith 12y ago|0 comments
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Contactless cards fail to recognise foreign currency(ncl.ac.uk)
37 points by eksith 12y ago|30 comments

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