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by foxylad 13y ago
This is the big reason for me. I've built my business on my values, and it is incredibly satisfying to see it succeed against competitors with different values.
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by foxylad 13y ago
Consider Electric Imp too - very small, very cheap, wifi built in, and the web connectivity is handled for you so you don't need to set up/secure/manage an http server. I've got one that will control my electric desk fro
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by foxylad 13y ago
Basic on a timeshare PDP-11 system (via teletype!) at school; assembly on 6502/Z80 and basic/pascal on a DEC-20 at university; basic on an IBM PC for my first paid gig; C (Borland turbo C FTW!); Delphi C++ was my entry into Window
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by foxylad 13y ago
Thanks, good to know.
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by foxylad 13y ago
Maybe I'm stupid, but I agree wit the parent - if a company fails me, I won't go back to them no matter how much they promise to have cleaned up their act. It's not that I don't believe companies can fix their problems;
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by foxylad 13y ago
My first thought was to whois chunkhost.info, which returns a clear name, email address and phone number. Or is it that easy to register a domain with a fictitious persona?
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by foxylad 13y ago
Long-time Appengine developer here. I'm glad that GCE is here now, because a lot of the criticism of GAE came down to people expecting infrastructure (and infrastructure prices) instead of a platform. A massively and seamlessly scalabl
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by foxylad 13y ago
> The only thing that gives me solace is that the industries summarily executed this morning have an A+ lobbying game So don't worry, A+ lobbying beats supreme court. I understand that this is just the opinion of one guy, but it i
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by foxylad 13y ago
Actually the best choice is to store your data with both . This announcement just made that significantly cheaper, and there's opportunity here for a "cloud RAID" offering to take the hassle out of mirroring one's data.
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by foxylad 13y ago
So it sounds like Google will soon be able to pop up a warning saying I should go for a medical checkup because they've detected an increase in left-hand errors that often occurs prior to a stroke. And this is without Tango - that will
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by foxylad 13y ago
The problem is that these are organisations, not sovereign states. It's a bit like saying that since the US has declared a war on drugs, it should be able to hold drug dealers forever without trial. According to him, this guy went to A
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by foxylad 13y ago
Access to all your texts is scary, but what about "Add or modify calendar events and send emails to guests without owner's knowledge ...". I feel dirty just reading that - I'm so glad I've broken my Facebook habit
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by foxylad 13y ago
Am I the only one who sees the images slowly floating upwards?
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by foxylad 13y ago
Thanks for the explanation - I see your point and it would wise to consider this possibility when looking at this technique. For my use case though, this reduces load on my server (and prevents clogging my auth log files) by stopping incess
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by foxylad 13y ago
You realise this only blocks connections from the abusive address, not all connections? If so, please enlighten me about how this enables a DOS.
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by foxylad 13y ago
The article makes it sound like the SSH brute-forcing requests were part of the attack, but it's unlikely - they are very common. My servers get several of these attacks a day. I don't like changing my default SSH port, but I don&
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by foxylad 13y ago
An awful lot of PV break-even analyses assume the cost of grid electricity will remain constant. Hawaii's electricity is oil-generated, and I suspect oil prices will continue to rise rapidly in the next decade.
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by foxylad 13y ago
I could imagine a lot of university math students (young, hungry, nothing to lose) would be highly motivated by this.
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by foxylad 13y ago
I'm seeing increasing numbers of IPV6 connections to our services. I wouldn't be surprised if it grows very rapidly now.
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by foxylad 13y ago
> Can't I do what I want to the software on my own machine... Yes you can, but we're going to have to fight hard to keep this right. Microsoft's Win7 EULA tried wrest control of your PC; Apple fully control what goes onto
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by foxylad 13y ago
> Google, Microsoft, Apple, Samsung, and any other big tech-player need to band together... But they won't - Microsoft and Apple are patent trolls themselves, now, and it won't be long until Google and Samsung join them. It wor
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by foxylad 13y ago
Interesting... 2.1 quadrillion satoshis divided by 20 trillion dollars is about 100, so eventually there will be about the same number of satoshis as there are normal money cents in the world. Very nice symmetry!
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by foxylad 13y ago
Maybe a new system could instigate whitelisting from the ground up, with a built in "contact request" protocol (which may be required anyway to exchange keys). We've got very used to email's totally open mailboxes, and i
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by foxylad 13y ago
Hmmmm... not a mention of Graham Dumpleton, who seemed to be the force behind mod_python while I was using it (and mod_wsgi now). Maybe he took over when Grisha burned out? Anyway, thank-you for your enormous contribution to Python on the w
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by foxylad 13y ago
Turn this to your advantage. I'd be more impressed by a reasoned explanation of why you aren't on LinkedIn than any puffery you might have on your page.
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by foxylad 13y ago
Opportunity time... are there any more scrupulous alternatives to LinkedIn?
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by foxylad 13y ago
> Intro breaks secure mail. If it's modifying the message, it likely breaks DKIM too. meaning your messages will be more likely to be flagged as spam. More generally, this is the catalyst for me leaving LinkedIn. They've never
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by foxylad 13y ago
I think this is Appengine's datastore provided as a service. In which case it isn't going away - Appengine is heavily used.
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by foxylad 13y ago
As a non-USAsian, I'm always puzzled by the American's paranoia about their bank account details. In most countries, bank account numbers are effectively public knowledge, and appear at the bottom of invoices and such. The trick i
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by foxylad 13y ago
It's not the law - it's the way somone who broke that law was treated like a suspected drug-dealer. Sure, technically they had the right to deport him. But doing so in this case was heavy handed, and adding strip-searches and refu

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