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901.
by illumin8 15y ago
The problem with a poker app that utilizes this is that you would be showing your cards to other players. Poker players peek at their cards face down, not face up like an iPad.
902.
by illumin8 15y ago
This is probably a bad idea. If you don't have access to or control over your local firewall, there is most likely an organizational reason for that (security). Opening up your development webserver to the public Internet without asking p
903.
by illumin8 15y ago
It sounds like from the article this was a compromise negotiated at the last minute by the bank manager with the deputies. Personally, I would have made them carry out the court order to the letter of the law. Fuck 'em.
904.
by illumin8 15y ago
Google was profitable. Big difference.
905.
by illumin8 15y ago
I think you are onto something here. I think the tiled interface will be very similar to the Windows Media Center shell. It's a specialized interface for touch, just like WMC is a specialized interface for couch surfing. In the end it's n
906.
by illumin8 15y ago
Actually a much more reasonable step to take would be to release the data, but to de-identify it in such a way that individual people couldn't have their identities compromised or lives ruined. I agree that Sony should be taken to task here
907.
by illumin8 15y ago
Most big corps are probably just as bad. I work for a bigcorp, and our security ranges from barely competent to completely ridiculous.
908.
by illumin8 15y ago
Lulzsec is loosely affiliated with Anonymous. I'm pretty sure several lulzsec members may be hanging out in Anon-Ops IRC channels at any given time.
909.
by illumin8 15y ago
The HN voting system is working. Whether your favorite thread receives enough votes or not is not the issue. People are obviously interested in Bitcoin. I know I am. I'm not sure if Bitcoin will become a new currency or if something bett
910.
by illumin8 15y ago
Thanks for the clarification - the blog posting is terrible. It doesn't even specify how the money is actually lost.
911.
by illumin8 15y ago
That is not true. Your wallet.dat doesn't contain your money, the blockchain does. Your wallet.dat just contains the keys to validate that you can spend the money that exists in the blockchain. If you restore your wallet.dat and let it ca
912.
by illumin8 15y ago
This is very similar to the way the US Treasury handles physical currency updates. If I recall correctly, in the 1990s, Iraq still had a working money press that could print perfectly legitimate US dollars as fast as possible. PC printer
913.
by illumin8 15y ago
Absolutely correct. There is no way you can lose your Bitcoins as long as you have a backup of your wallet. The only way to lose Bitcoins is to: A. Send them to someone else, which will create a new block in the chain that is confirmed b
914.
by illumin8 15y ago
Lottery is just a tax for those that are bad at math. Why would you do both? Putting money into a low yield savings account will get you a statistically better return over your entire lifetime than buying a few powerball tickets every wee
915.
by illumin8 15y ago
I hate to break it to you but you're living beyond your means. A high interest loan is not an emergency fund. Ideally you should have enough money to live for 6-12 months if your income stopped tomorrow. I know when I was younger I didn't
916.
by illumin8 15y ago
How is it on battery life?
917.
by illumin8 15y ago
Some pretty good observations in this article, especially about the app store. Most mortals, when asked what type of computer they should buy, don't respond "buy some parts from NewEgg, build your own, and put Ubuntu on it." So, I tend to
918.
by illumin8 15y ago
How about controlling the DNS for corporation.com? Any company with a reasonably competent IT staff should be able to flatly deny a request for a subdomain. "You want to setup myblinkenlightsbox.corporation.com? Has that machine been har
919.
by illumin8 15y ago
The Mac Defender malware is pretty harmless. It downloads as a zip file, and users must manually click through the entire installer just to get it installed. How many Windows viruses are delivered as a setup.exe where you have to click ne
920.
by illumin8 15y ago
Interesting - we use F5 load balancers for SSL offload, as do a huge percentage of the interwebs. If F5 didn't support False Start, I suspect a good deal more than 0.4% of the SSL websites would be affected. Do you think maybe it's somethi
921.
by illumin8 15y ago
US Treasury Series I Savings bonds are currently paying 4.6% per year (their rate rises with inflation), income is tax exempt until redeemed, and can be redeemed at any time after 1 year. I think you'd be better off going to the nearest ban
922.
by illumin8 15y ago
Please see http://crawlingroad.com - 9.8% over the last 40 years is more like it if you invest wisely.
923.
by illumin8 15y ago
I feel compelled to reply. You're basically saying that by paying extra money for years you now pay about the same money as a renter next door. What a terrible way to invest your money. You could have been taking that extra money you wer
924.
by illumin8 15y ago
You should realize that it's not really yours. The government can and will take it for many various reasons. You merely have a "right to use" it.
925.
by illumin8 15y ago
Actually, anybody can benefit from an illiquid housing market with low rents. Anyone that is smart enough not to buy and just wants to rent and invest their hard earned money elsewhere. In my affluent neighborhood I can rent a house for $
926.
by illumin8 15y ago
Trulia is a site bought and paid for by the realtor community. You can't trust their metrics.
927.
by illumin8 15y ago
Technically, Apple takes a 0% cut for web applications delivered through Safari to iOS devices. You can easily bookmark them with a shortcut icon on your home screen. So, I would say the title is misleading. 5% does seem like a fair cut f
928.
by illumin8 15y ago
I was able to launch it just fine in Chrome with Flashblock enabled, but of course the game is silent unless you unblock Flash.
929.
by illumin8 15y ago
Very cool! They are still using Flash for audio, however, which is slightly less cool.
930.
by illumin8 15y ago
This is yet another investor that doesn't understand the historical role of gold as a store of wealth, trying to explain why he hasn't participated in the last 10 years of price appreciation (or currency depreciation). The simple fact of th

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