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by ertdfgcb 12y ago
Yeah, they're called ATM skimmers, they've been a pretty big problem in the US too. Kerbs has some nice articles about how they work: http://krebsonsecurity.com/all-about-skimmers/
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by ertdfgcb 12y ago
Firmata[0] is actually a messaging protocol upon which SkyNet is based. http://www.firmata.org/wiki/Main_Page
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by ertdfgcb 12y ago
This is a really cool solution to a problem that really seems like it shouldn't exist.
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by ertdfgcb 12y ago
Unrelated, is one of the best open source project landing pages I've ever seen.
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by ertdfgcb 12y ago
I think blocking might already be possible. Comcast is known for intermittent service problems, it would probably be pretty easy for them to give "intermittent service problems" to anyone trying to access a blocked site. They cou
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by ertdfgcb 12y ago
I was pretty sure I knew what it was in 10 seconds, but they didn't tell me, so I had to guess. My guess was slightly off - I thought this was for making websites. It's better they tell me what their thing does rather than making
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by ertdfgcb 12y ago
Something tells me a 35 km conveyor belt is moving slowly enough to give you plenty of time to hop off before the big crushing thing.
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by ertdfgcb 12y ago
Because you can pay these guys to do that for you. Plus, they'll support it and provide fake user data.
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by ertdfgcb 12y ago
I don't really have much else to say about this, except that I definitely didn't take "applications" to mean Flappy Birds, because that seems ridiculous. Obviously the guy who they introduced as crying at the end of a Te
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by ertdfgcb 12y ago
I think Cryptol will make it much easier to become qualified to write crypto because it makes the programming more similar to the math. Your average programmer will be able to start learning how to implement crypto from a much more rigorous
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by ertdfgcb 12y ago
> How overly simplistic and descriptive that is. Going academic, would, in it's most 2014'ish, pop-cultaral-way, mean that you probably wouldn't go on to make any cool apps. I read that as the dilemma that Page was facing,
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by ertdfgcb 12y ago
Probably engineering know how and money.
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by ertdfgcb 12y ago
A kernel is a program that runs "on bare metal". This program is equivalent to hello world for kernels - it's the simplest possible one. It is called "Kernel 101", after all.
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by ertdfgcb 13y ago
That's because emacs can already do anything, if you're willing to learn how. Still though, it's not a very useful thing to say.
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by ertdfgcb 13y ago
I haven't had the time to watch this yet, but it seems like they wouldn't let anyone they didn't want to work with on their show.
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A to b(atob.kthxb.ai)
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Jq – A command line JSON parser(stedolan.github.io)
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by ertdfgcb 13y ago
This is obviously anecdotal, but hopefully it is an example of how discussion here can have a positive influence: Before I started reading about it on HN, my opinion of the NSA scandal wasn't much more complex than "it's bad&
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by ertdfgcb 14y ago
Yeah, sometimes I like to just toss a album in a playlist and listen to it, and I always seem to end up skipping at least one song
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by ertdfgcb 14y ago
Pretty low if I'm listening to all my music at the same time, but what if I have a playlist of 10 songs?
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by ertdfgcb 14y ago
By "get in" do you mean to comment or to simply read the comments? I'm all for a intelligence test (I personally would like a "actually RTFA test"), but I'm pretty sure that making that test required to even read the comments is a terrible
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by ertdfgcb 14y ago
Because then I feel like I should be making that money. Also, there's the possibility (probability?) that in order to make money off of it, you're making it look like you made it, which my ego does not appreciate.
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by ertdfgcb 14y ago
Time? But besides that, I can't really think of anything. Some guy on NPR was talking about how it might be some professional developers who did this in their free time, so that would kind of make sense.
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by ertdfgcb 14y ago
"I've been exploring Google Drive for the past few hours now. It's a very stable storage platform". How could you possibly tell that it's "very stable" after a few hours?
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by ertdfgcb 14y ago
I wonder how he just happened to notice the keylogger connecting to FTP? Did he have a monitor in the background or something? Seems like that would be a good practice for doing things like this, and this guy obviously knows his stuff.
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by ertdfgcb 14y ago
somewhat unrelated: The most beautiful implementation of life that I have ever seen is this 7 line Clojure one. It really turned me on to the value of using data structures that match the problem well. http://clj-me.cgrand.net/2011/08/19/c
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by ertdfgcb 14y ago
Wow, he did a really good job of making that weld disappear.
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by ertdfgcb 15y ago
I interpreted it as very far ahead distance-wise If this was a race Ubuntu would have a sizable lead, according to TechRepublic.
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by ertdfgcb 15y ago
I thought the line promoting his blog was amusing - he put it on an example letter for the reader to use (it says "sincerely (you)" at the bottom) as a joke. I don't think it was a actual e-mail that he would send out.
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by ertdfgcb 15y ago
Yeah, it looks like a typo. A Google search for "ZX Spectrum 48x" shows this article as the top result, and the Wikipedia page only lists the 48k and 16k.

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