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by ggrot 17y ago
Another example of data usually missing - speed limits.
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by ggrot 17y ago
In theory, but they could be pretty confident about the risk of this being low since it was only a 3-minute presentation.
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by ggrot 17y ago
If you come to the page with a google search result referral, the answers are all at the bottom of the page. This is called first click free: http://www.google.com/support/news_pub/bin/answer.py?answer=...
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by ggrot 17y ago
Maybe I'm dense, but what is the $5 wrench attack? Attacking you personally with a wrench until you agree to show me the sensitive data on your machine?
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by ggrot 17y ago
Checking for 500's seems like a pretty minimal test suite. There are plenty of other errors that could occur.
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by ggrot 17y ago
This may not be all that useful for hackers who aren't doing anything particularly weird. Wget should return the same thing. The times that this is interesting is when wget doesn't return the same thing. This could indicate a bug in yo
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by ggrot 17y ago
Problems: - Easier to defeat than OCR. - Only 9 combinations, so random guessing works fine too. - Visually impaired fail.
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by ggrot 17y ago
I once walked up to a university helpdesk to get them to allow my wireless card's mac on the wireless network. I told them that I was using linux and they said "that's OK, just open the internet". I hadn't heard that reference yet and it
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by ggrot 17y ago
I really appreciate how the article ends by saying that the author agrees with Paul's main conclusions, but that the author disagrees with the arguments being made. That's largely how I felt after reading Paul's essay too, but I couldn't h
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by ggrot 17y ago
Fascinating. I noticed that the fraction of managers/owners appears to have shot up faster than any other category in the last 30 years or so.
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by ggrot 17y ago
http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/Japan/Electricity.html - About 60% of Japan's electricity use comes from burning stuff: oil, natural gas, coal, being the big ones. All of this is imported. Outside transportation, Oil is also used for
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by ggrot 17y ago
Many of those japanese cars are physically built in the US.
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by ggrot 17y ago
Agreed, however my only point is that this makes more sense strategically than just commercially. It may not make sense either way, but it could. There are other interests that could cut off Japan if the US didn't choose to step in. This
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by ggrot 17y ago
For a moment, ignore the commercial viability of this. Of course, in a free global market, this isn't viable. Think about this strategically. Japan has roughly 40M barrels of proven oil reserved. They consume 5M barrels of oil a DAY. Wi
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by ggrot 17y ago
foo.bar(baz => quux, gorch => 42); looks pretty good too.
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by ggrot 17y ago
Title is a little misleading. More like, "replace your UPS battery at home, for cheap"
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by ggrot 17y ago
I agree, that particular line struck me as the most interesting lesson in the whole thing.
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by ggrot 17y ago
What are you trying to solve with the text captcha? Users might get confused what is going on there. If a spammer wanted to create a zillion accounts, they could very very quickly write code to solve a captcha like that. Those kinds of ca
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Stip unused fields from HTML form submissions(gregable.com)
5 points by ggrot 17y ago|0 comments
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Why do we even need url shorteners?(gregable.com)
2 points by ggrot 17y ago|1 comments
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by ggrot 17y ago
Firefox, Safari, Chrome, Opera. IE, but only with a special canvas plugin - not quite as fast. Comparing performance is always difficult, and specific to a particular application.
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by ggrot 17y ago
It also depends somewhat on what you do with the grass from the lawnmower. If you just throw it on a landfill, as it decomposes, it too will release methane. This is why many (although not nearly enough) landfills have small methane-burni
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by ggrot 18y ago
I wonder what other forms of advertising meet the exact same bill? For example, while the sign on a restaurant telling you the name would serve an additional (useful) purpose, the big window-sized add for a 99c cheeseburger would only be us
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by ggrot 18y ago
You are essentially performing arbitrage. For the person who has a little more money, but not enough patience or planning to login to the ticket website at 10am, actors like the commenter are creating wealth for this person.
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by ggrot 18y ago
If google doesn't pay a dividend, profits accumulate as cash which increases the value of the company (and hence the value of stock shares). In an efficient market, by keeping the cash, the value of the shares should increase by approximat
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Search Engines: Specify your canonical URL(googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com)
40 points by ggrot 18y ago|13 comments
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by ggrot 18y ago
Agreed. The deep copy is much much better. Consider this code: >>> a = [1, [2, 3]] >>> b = list(a) # or a[:], they are identical >>> a[1].append(4) >>> a.append(5) >>> a [1, [2,
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by ggrot 18y ago
#3 almost sounds like the definition of a startup: The number of people having any connection with the project must be restricted in an almost vicious manner. Use a small number of good people (10% to 25% compared to the so-called normal sy
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by ggrot 18y ago
My understanding is that alot of the spam you get is spammers sending email to <phonenumber>@<carrier>.com. They don't pay a penny.
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by ggrot 18y ago
I don't know that I buy it. Sounds like a rumor-mill piece. If the clothing was as flexible as normal clothing, even if the bullet couldn't pierce the clothing, it could still do pretty much the same amount of damage I would imagine.

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