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by elithrar 15y ago
> Circa 2002 they had '95, 98, ME, and XP spread across over half a billion units. With further varied patch configurations and service packs. It's worth pointing out that this comparison isn't the same. You could, in 2002, run the late
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by elithrar 15y ago
> He did it under his own name, in a way dad not damage anything, using a problem that has been well known for ages, after attempting to draw attention to the issue several times and being ignored. He was ignored by the Rails devs, not
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by elithrar 15y ago
> If we have to worry about each of these on our pwn, what's the point? You should always have to worry about these things, regardless of who's hosting things. It just so happens that Github, to date, has been checking the boxes in t
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by elithrar 15y ago
> When the large portion of the technical world all depends on a single service, and that service is vulnerable to a variety of attacks, that makes anyone who consumes these services also vulnerable. I don't mean to diminish the sever
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by elithrar 15y ago
> Whether or not rails' defaults are sane is a completely separate question. Egor acted out against GH when he was ignored by rails dev. Two entirely different parties. 100% agree here. The Rails devs may have ignored his issue, but G
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by elithrar 15y ago
> Just logged in but was not prompted to reset my password. Re-read the statement a couple times, but its pretty clear this should have happened. To the forum, or to their management site? Only the forum was compromised, and heading to
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by elithrar 15y ago
> Make the app zip and unzip the pictures automagically, tell people that it'll use less bandwidth than email? It's worth stating that zipping/gzipping JPEG's (the most common camera phone file format) nets almost no benefit as JPEG's a
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by elithrar 15y ago
> I didn't build my application to have a "version" number variable. What about just post-deploy hooks with your preferred version control software? Identify your CSS/JS, add a current time+date?
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by elithrar 15y ago
> you got this info from an intern who got this information from a talk from some guy other than the CEO/CFO? The way he "sourced" this information might be questionable, but most of it is indeed true. Apple do have large cash reserve
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by elithrar 15y ago
> Gruber makes an assumption that the only thing that third party cookies are used for is ad networks and tracking. I think it'd be more fair to say that this particular use-case is the one that he's emphasising. And, in the context of
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by elithrar 15y ago
> how you gonna prove who/how the contents got on the drive? There's no such thing as 100% proof. It's about being "beyond reasonable doubt", and as 'weaselly' as that might sound, it's true. If they intercept data coming over the wire,
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by elithrar 15y ago
> Honest question here: From a legal standpoint how can the" prosecution already knows [the harddisk] to contain incriminating data" if the drive is encrypted? In many cases they can have intercepts, or bugs (cameras), but they are ofte
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by elithrar 15y ago
> With a safe, however, the government does have the recourse of breaking out a blowtorch and cutting the safe open (which has been done in order to circumvent the 5th Amendment issues of compelling a suspect or defendant to open the co
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by elithrar 15y ago
> In plain English: Does this mean an encrypted hard drive CANNOT be decrypted by law enforcement and the contents of the drive cannot be used in court to convict? Not exactly. It means that the defendant does not (currently) have to pr
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by elithrar 15y ago
> Yeah, especially when you take into account that some of them are using a proper ORM and others are just using straight SQL queries. Sinatra looks twice as fast as Rails at DB based pages, but if they through in ActiveRecord in the Si
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by elithrar 15y ago
> I think we should get rid of the 9-5 and have staggered times. Different companies start different times of the day... I'm fairly sure theres a group of who like to start at 10, and go home 6, or maybe start at 11. It's worth remember
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by elithrar 15y ago
> You can have a writer on a marketing checklist; quality writing is important for marketing to certain demographics. I agree. Many of the "news outlets" reported on the operating system itself, as that's what their readers want. They'r
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by elithrar 15y ago
> You might get really far away from one if you were in central Western Australia somewhere, though with the mining boom still happening that may not be the case. Last I checked (a couple of months ago), there isn't a McDonalds in Newma
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by elithrar 15y ago
> What I love about that quote is it could clearly be used to condem the PSAs they've been playing in theaters and tacking on DVDs quite some time now. For example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lE9-W9JNjio Those lovely, piracy preve
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by elithrar 15y ago
I think it's extremely unlikely Apple would sell the iPad under any other name. The 'brand' is too strong—and is probably worth $1.6b to them.
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by elithrar 15y ago
I would expect the highly driven, world-class talent to have moved on swiftly after completing their grad program, if RIM's failures go all the way up. You can be a technically brilliant engineer, but if you have a horrible sense of busines
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by elithrar 15y ago
Say "jeeze", as in "jango".
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by elithrar 15y ago
Law = supply/demand. Lots of people want to study law (it's lucrative), and therefore they can up the rate.
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by elithrar 15y ago
> I would like to see the US government stop subsidizing majors and colleges that don't get results for their graduates. We do this somewhat (though not in the same way) in Australia. Degrees in fields of high demand are subsidized; in
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by elithrar 15y ago
Amen to that. I do some work on the network side of control systems—and default passwords (or no passwords) are rampant, and often recommended under manufacturer guidelines. The last part there is the more worrisome.
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by elithrar 15y ago
> In Levy's 'In The Plex' it boiled down to Page not really thinking the cost of support came close to the benefit. And let's not forget, the cost of support, even email-based, is huge. At Google's scale, with the number of customers th
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by elithrar 15y ago
> Regulation :-( Ford is not allowed by law to build cars that can only be serviced by Ford. It should be the same for computing devices. Whilst I understand your point, that's not an apples-apples comparison. A car needs to be servic
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by elithrar 15y ago
> I've actually wondered why there aren't insurance and licensing requirements. I would be happy paying my fair share of infrastructure maintenance as a cyclist, especially if it helped give a voice and build safer roads for bicyclists.
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by elithrar 15y ago
> and modern PCIe video cards use a lot more than that connecting directly to mainboards over multiple PCIe lanes... Forgive my lack of a source, but was there not an article (maybe on Anandtech?) about high-end cards being 90%+ as perf
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by elithrar 15y ago
> I had a better screen resolution in 1995. It's worth pointing out that resolution is one thing, and pixel density another. We're moving towards much denser displays—in fact, Lion has some neat resolution independence features buil

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