foxhill

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by foxhill 15y ago
it's unfortunate that many of bitcoin's proponents (of which i am one of), are unable to critically explain why bitcoin might be better than regular money.. the result being articles like this one. however, this does not mean bitcoin isn't
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by foxhill 15y ago
generating a new wallet for every transaction is a bit wasteful, you can however just create a new payment address, and watch for payments on that. if you create a few hundred receiving addresses, then you can keep the wallet (and hence pri
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by foxhill 15y ago
apple have had Siri-like functionality since the release of the iphone 3gs.
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by foxhill 15y ago
it would appear to be salted md5.
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MtGox account database leaked(forum.bitcoin.org)
106 points by foxhill 15y ago|101 comments
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by foxhill 15y ago
the K&R book is a really good starting point, and if you can do most of the hard programming exercises, you're already reasonably good. if you're looking to venture out, and want to deal with networking, then an IM client may actually b
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by foxhill 15y ago
(only a very rough grounding in particle physics here) it offers an explanation for the abundance of matter - if large enough quantities of matter and anti-matter are created, and can gain enough separation, then although the attractive for
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by foxhill 15y ago
no doubt, agile is not the "answer" to traditional workflow models, but my (admittedly somewhat limited) experience with it has been pretty good. it's really dependent on the people you work with (something the author states). coding with p
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by foxhill 15y ago
i think there are 2 factors here, one being the unanimity of hacker community in regards to sony's treatment of geohotz, other hackers, and it's early adopter fan base. secondly, there seems to be systemic incompetence all over the shoppe,
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by foxhill 15y ago
this reminds me of another alternative to captchas i'd seen, something like kitten captcha or something.. the premise being, you had a 3x3 grid of thumbnails of animals, and you'd have to pick out of them, which were kittens. less invasive
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by foxhill 15y ago
i certainly agree - people can have off days, for which the punishment of permanent non-inclusion in the community (so long as they don't find out) is really harsh and unfair, worsened by the fact that there seems to be no method of recours
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by foxhill 15y ago
ah, my understanding of icloud was that it is a cloud based locker for storing itunes purchases, and syncing across all devices linked with the account. no actual content included.. if however you're right, $25 a year for an unlimited music
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by foxhill 15y ago
something i've always liked about ObjC, is that it's generally obvious when to use capital letters, and also, (at least if you follow the apple coding guidelines) arguments, types, variables and selectors don't ever differ by less than quit
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by foxhill 15y ago
$25 a year is certainly in the ballpark of acceptable yearly subscription fee, but i'm not convinced about the actual product here.. i don't think i'd see a use from it, in the same way mobile me hasn't been of much interest.. but then agai
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by foxhill 15y ago
i can't say i'm surprised. my experience with apple customers is that they more freely spend money (or perhaps i've got the causation the wrong way around? ;)), so it's no shock to hear they're more likely to make small purchases like 99c a
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by foxhill 15y ago
it's actually slightly unsettling to see that some corporations that pay the amount of tax they should, is considered news!
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by foxhill 15y ago
i've got a few things planned for over summer, iOS apps are in there, i'm sure this will be useful! thanks,
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by foxhill 15y ago
i think you've misunderstood what i was saying. the OTP is definitely not a practical method of encryption, obviously. and no, OTPs do not require that the that any secure relationship be formed forward in time. in fact, restricting "cryp
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by foxhill 15y ago
never once tried to argue that it is a practical approach... additionally, attempting to exhibit intellectual superiority by making someone look stupid, isn't infuriating, it's just sad. i wouldn't conduct myself like that in public or on t
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by foxhill 15y ago
annoying and tedious that sort of code is, i agree, but not impossible? besides, i was under the impression that audio/video chats went through skype servers? (i've never actually checked though)
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by foxhill 15y ago
keeping the key safe, yes, using the key once, yes, but need not be random at all (with in reason - a key of 0s is feasible, under the pretense that the cipher text, which would be equal to the plain text, is the cipher text for any message
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by foxhill 15y ago
i think the EFF take the right approach here - software patents do actually make sense, sometimes. patents are good at protecting individuals/small businesses from being crushed by larger companies (assuming they can secure patents for thei
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by foxhill 15y ago
i think the idea and principles are sound, however, if it gains any real momentum, it'll be subject to a crack down. the money supply of a country is it's real source of power. taking it away from the current owners shall be no trivial feat
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by foxhill 15y ago
aside from the awesome technical exersize in hacking, i don't see this as any net benefit for VOIP. the time would have been much better spent working on the GNU VOIP client, not only would improvements have been usable without legal issues
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by foxhill 15y ago
having just read the article, it's apparent that the author has misunderstood, or entirely does not understand the principles behind what's going on. the number of new bitcoins, for instance, that are allocated for a time period, is fixed,
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by foxhill 15y ago
i'm so glad they've come up with something that can be considered new, and seemingly somewhat intuitive.. but i can't help but see that things aren't how they should be. i suppose this is a very early preview, but ms have got to go a lot fu