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by engtech 14y ago
It gives misleading results in that: "password" shows in green "1234" shows in green "hello world" shows "hello" in green and "world" in yellow so while you're able to calculate the entropy, it missed out on the fact that some high entropic
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by engtech 14y ago
Can you give some concrete examples?
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by engtech 14y ago
I realize there's a big difference between spyware on a rented computer vs Apple's MobileMe, but it does seem like there's an intersection between theft prevention location software and this case. What are the differences between a company
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by engtech 14y ago
typo: absurdity (present in the original article) Trend Micro AV is flagging this article because of storage.aunticles.com
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by engtech 14y ago
I find "grep --universe" confusing because that should be a shortcut for searching Amazon for Carl Sagan cooking books. http://www.neatorama.com/2009/12/31/carl-sagans-apple-pie-recipe/
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by engtech 14y ago
Let's try to avoid at least half the unnecessary comments on this article: http://www.google.com/search?q=define%3A+sarcasm
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by engtech 14y ago
web browsers are doing this for malware / fraud sites. see other comments on parent for citations.
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by engtech 14y ago
You realize that people use the same password on multiple sites? given that people signed up using corporate email addresses, this could be used to hack internal networks of companies.
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by engtech 14y ago
I think it's time for web browsers to step up and start showing a visual indication for websites that store passwords in plaintext.
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by engtech 14y ago
I think the answer isn't so much giving people consequences as giving them responsibility. It's ridiculous that some kids get their post secondary education degree without ever having held a job (of any kind). I find it amazing that teens w
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by engtech 14y ago
"then should he not be kept away from society and denied the ability to hurt others?" How long do you think he should be kept away from society? His actions don't justify a life sentence or the death penalty, so he's going to be part of soc
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by engtech 14y ago
The 17 yo might not be a child, but he is immature. His actions were not the actions of a mature individual. Knowing the 17 yo, and knowing his family means the article author was able to make a judgement call about how seriously he takes t
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by engtech 14y ago
There was a dead baby found at that house. local news story about it: http://www.wxyz.com/dpp/news/region/detroit/SOURCES-17-month... thread discussing it vs that google map http://www.detroityes.com/mb/showthread.php?13987-Baby-Zyia-...
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by engtech 14y ago
neat idea, I would be interested in how the score is calculated. I tried restricting it to TV series, and I noticed an interesting trend that anything older than 2000 is pretty far down the list. This is probably just a factor of pre-Intern
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by engtech 14y ago
Very interesting execution, but I found myself frustrated that it didn't want to let me control the scroll speed.
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by engtech 14y ago
the source page that the google+ is commenting on was on HN a while back, but didn't get many comments http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2807908
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Darpa combines human brains and 120-megapixel cameras(extremetech.com)
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by engtech 14y ago
while I think this is very interesting and would probably be a net plus to the world if it were true, I do not have high hopes for this given that the document was written in the 4th century. from article: "She repeatedly cautioned that thi
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by engtech 14y ago
Interesting article, but there's a big reason why I think that for the majority of job searches you can't compare it to a movie casting director. For a casting director, you are able to consume and evaluate the work of the job candidate. Wh
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by engtech 14y ago
why link to a 336 character blog post instead of the wired article? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4537346
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by engtech 14y ago
How is that working out with brokerage fees? Are there only fees for selling?
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by engtech 14y ago
I've read a few of the MMM articles that have landed on HN before, and I think the original article was very reminiscent of the tone and style of MMM (but without the details and examples that MMM would have included).
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by engtech 14y ago
I sometimes question the utility of guest rooms. I've often seen people layout their house so the guest room is in some prime area of the house and the workroom they use all the time is in a horrible dungeon. I've always thought that the ro
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by engtech 14y ago
I've always known when bill day is, but in the last years I have never thought about which weeks pay day falls on except for one bad month when property tax and first+last at daycare happened during the same week.
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by engtech 14y ago
out of the ~25 people who bike to work at my office the youngest person is 35. The majority of the hardcore cyclists are 45-55. But there is only one person who uses a chariot to drop their toddler off at daycare on the way.
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by engtech 14y ago
I'm always surprised that more people don't bike to work, if they can do it in a reasonable amount of time and safety.
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by engtech 14y ago
Does anyone know of a better landing page for convincing people to leave Internet Explorer? (specifically, aging relatives) Browse Happy is the only one I know of. http://browsehappy.com/
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by engtech 14y ago
There's an inverse curve to being the dinosaur who doesn't want to change. When your technology is phasing out its hard to find work, but when the technology is old and crufty and you're one of the few people who know it then you are in dem
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by engtech 14y ago
Every facebook album has a unique URL you can share with non-Facebook people. (just checked, yes that feature is still there. It's on the bottom of every photo album that you own)
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by engtech 14y ago
The big advantage I see to an ebook reader is when you are reading a 500+ page book. Reading Stephen King's 11/22/63 in hardcover on the bus was kind of brutal.

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