kijinbear

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by kijinbear 16y ago
There would be a lot more academic jobs for Ph.D.s if colleges and universities hired as many professors as undergrads need. Unfortunately, this would cost a lot of money, so we're left with undergrads suffering gigantic classes and doctora
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by kijinbear 16y ago
Maybe a lot of people bought new PCs for the holiday season, crippling the botnets that used to rely on older (less secure) versions of Windows?
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by kijinbear 16y ago
Who knows? MS might be obsessed enough with backwards compatibility to pack an emulator in there, like they did with WOW64 (though it would be more difficult to write an x86 emulator for ARM).
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by kijinbear 16y ago
Now they have Office Live, which can be accessed through a web browser. So they don't need to port the entire Office suite, if they're targeting the netbook market. After all, Win 8 + Office Live sounds like pretty much the same deal as Chr
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by kijinbear 16y ago
I don't think Kuhn was trying to show what ideal science "should be". His project was first and foremost descriptive. He was reacting against the likes of Popper's view on what science is (and should be): namely, falsificationism. Kuhn argu
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by kijinbear 16y ago
Nice little framework, only 90 lines of code. Just a minor complaint about the dispatcher syntax: Array('^\/article\/([a-zA-Z0-9_]+)\/?$', 'regex', 'ArticleHandler') Those backslashes look clunky. Something as commonly used as a fo
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by kijinbear 16y ago
Money is actually a pretty good motivation for a lot of people who contribute to FOSS. It's not all about artist mentality. 75% of Linux is now written by paid developers. ( http://apcmag.com/linux-now-75-corporate.htm ) Many other large FO
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by kijinbear 16y ago
Umm, what exactly are they demanding? Invasive pat-down by an officer of the opposite sex?
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by kijinbear 16y ago
Last time I checked, StartSSL was not recognized by some (slightly old) browsers. I wonder if this issue has been resolved now?
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by kijinbear 16y ago
OK, I see what you mean. If you're suggesting that websites protected with untrusted certificates should be treated as if they were plain HTTP sites, then I agree with you. Chrome crosses out the "https" part of the URL if the page contains
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by kijinbear 16y ago
While your frustration is understandable, I think you're speaking from the perspective of a tech-savvy person and not the average user. If browsers began accepting all free / self-signed certificates, it would be only a matter of time befor
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by kijinbear 16y ago
It's always possible to use a prepaid credit card to pay for those things, especially if you don't want your SO to find out...
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by kijinbear 16y ago
Maybe Jones is not his real name after all?
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by kijinbear 16y ago
I love JSON because it provides for one and only one correct way to serialize a particular data structure. With XML I always have to decide whether to use an attribute vs. content vs. child node for a particular piece of data. There's an en
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by kijinbear 16y ago
> relatively prime Do primes come in degrees these days?
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by kijinbear 16y ago
Install Python, go to terminal, and type `python idiocy.py`
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by kijinbear 16y ago
Yeah, the thing with Flash drives these days is they get bigger and cheaper so quickly that I'm going to buy a new one a long time before it expired, even if I didn't lose it.
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by kijinbear 16y ago
Fuck GoDaddy, they always cost twice as much by the time you're ready to enter your CC info. I buy my certificates from a RapidSSL reseller for $12/year. Single root, no chains, recognized everywhere.
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by kijinbear 16y ago
It's also possible to run multiple SSL sites on one IPv4 address by assigning them to ports other than 443. It won't look pretty, but not too much hassle if you absolutely want to protect your logins.
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by kijinbear 16y ago
> it also prevents people with absolutely valid (but free) certificates from offering perfectly good encryption on their sites. This warning is misguided and does more to prevent the secure use of the web than anything else. Accepting s
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by kijinbear 16y ago
Would have been more interesting if there were numbers attached to each step of the minting process. For example, +0.05 cents for stamping, -0.1 cents for recycling damaged coins, etc.
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by kijinbear 16y ago
VirtualBox too. I've never been able to make Unity on Maverick Netbook Edition work on VirtualBox 3.2.x.
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by kijinbear 16y ago
Isn't that exactly why HTTPS sites are supposed to have expensive certificates issued by big companies? Otherwise the browser will display a big red warning message. If you ignore that warning, you deserve to be hacked. If the request gets
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by kijinbear 16y ago
Be careful when trying this out. You could be breaking a law or two...
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by kijinbear 16y ago
> If the first connection is over http then a man in the middle attack can succeed. There are ways to work around this, if the non-https site immediately redirects to the https version and a "secure cookie" (https-only) is exchanged aft
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by kijinbear 16y ago
It depends on how secure the remote network is. If it's just another coffee shop, you're screwed. If it's your own Linode in one of those well managed datacenters, it would be pretty difficult for anyone to snoop that traffic.
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by kijinbear 16y ago
DRM isn't exactly compatible with open-source...
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by kijinbear 16y ago
There's still a problem. Most users would just click "Yes" whenever a web site asked for access. Chrome addons routinely request access to "all files on your computer" and very few users complain about it. Fast-forward, and it's ActiveX all
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by kijinbear 16y ago
It's not the first time they got hacked. IIRC a couple of years ago they suffered an SQL injection attack which leaked their customers' names or something.
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by kijinbear 16y ago
I think the argument is as much about copyright assignment as it is about proprietary Ubuntu add-ons. Seriously, I couldn't care less if Canonical built a proprietary web service or two. After all, they've got to make money. But if they too

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