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by limmeau 16y ago
Interesting. The heuristic consists of checking whether "co.uk" resolves to an IP address. Now imagine an ISP which substitutes all name-not-found DNS errors with ad pages... I'm curious: dear customers of annoying ISPs, does "co.uk" resolv
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by limmeau 16y ago
Depends on your W, but I'd rather be worried about being caught in front of my desk with ping-pong eyes.
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Blue- and Yellow-Tinted Choices(lesswrong.com)
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by limmeau 16y ago
And if I work offline on different computers now and then, pushing to the Dropbox which then merges the repos in a Dropboxey way? Are .hg directories safe for concurrent modification?
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by limmeau 16y ago
First thought: is that serious? The "please enter your credit card to see if it was stolen" page appeared here not long ago. Then again, giving my email address away is not quite the same as giving away my twicebook credentials.
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by limmeau 16y ago
Interesting: Copyright (c) 2000-2001 Julian Assange <proff@iq.org> (probably the Julian Assange of wikileaks fame)
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by limmeau 16y ago
For a non-chesser like me: what is so remarkable about that game in particular? (Honestly interested -- was it that Novelty move in the middle?)
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by limmeau 17y ago
I'm told my maximum is 8GB. Who gets ten and why?
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by limmeau 17y ago
I once bought an MP3 player, and the bill inside the package featured an ID number in extra-big letters -- for video documentation, as the small writing said. (They didn't offer me the videos except in case of dispute, though). Since the pl
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by limmeau 17y ago
According to a WikiLeaks member, they publish all true and false documents together with a judgment whether they think it's true/false and why. For example, they published a fake Steve Jobs medical report together with a note why they consi
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by limmeau 17y ago
Myth #7: He claims that residential IPv6 routers and the computers behind them are almost impossible to find because there are so many available addresses and therefore, random portscans are ineffective. There are, however, enough other way
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by limmeau 17y ago
While this is a joke, the idea of using the spare computational power of all those phones and gadgets is worth thinking about (e.g. [1]). [1] http://oubiwann.blogspot.com/2009/04/after-cloud-to-atomic-c...
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by limmeau 17y ago
Nice article. Some microSD cards are (so the article says) driven by little ARM uCs. That suggests hacking opportunities: on-the-fly encryption, hidden partitions, ... -- if the firmware can be tampered with.
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by limmeau 17y ago
It is possible to build a poisonous pickle which, on depickling, calls arbitrary standard library functions, so accepting pickles from untrusted source is a No. One may think that if only the internal model of the user input is pickled, and
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by limmeau 17y ago
There are some paper notebooks which close using a magnet embedded in the cover. Not very harddisk-friendly, though.
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by limmeau 17y ago
Fabergé the present-day company has also made sure that an exhibition of Fabergé eggs in a museum in Baden-Baden may not be called anything with "Fabergé"[1]. I'll buy my gilded eggs at a local eggsmith instead. 1. in German: http://www.ba
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by limmeau 17y ago
Unfortunately, their first production run is already sold out. Would have made a nice gift for geeks.
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by limmeau 17y ago
although it points to useful things like git add --patch which not all tutorials teach. But all in all, there is better "advanced git" material out there.
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by limmeau 17y ago
Fascinating. But... would we call the aspirations "iPod Touch aspirations"? After all, there's no phone involved.
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by limmeau 17y ago
I, too, plead guilty of not reading the text before trying the demo. I mean, if there's a demo, why bother reading? See also "Treating user myopia" on Coding Horror. http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001306.html
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by limmeau 17y ago
Nice. However, on my Opera10.10/Linux, '(' seems to do the same as Shift-Down, and '.' deletes. Strange...
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by limmeau 17y ago
And I expected something about a sickness that combines Multiple Sclerosis and ALS.
503.
by limmeau 17y ago
Executive summary: people can crawl your website, so buy a web application firewall from us.
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by limmeau 17y ago
An experiment to prove that a particular listener can detect the sleepiness of a violin: Buy a couple of violins. Have several violinists play them until they're warm, and record multiple notes per violinist per violin. Then store half the
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by limmeau 17y ago
Why even equals signs -- the arrow can just be read as "transform the lhs problem into the simpler rhs problem".
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by limmeau 17y ago
Another member of the "I wrote my own Emacs" club: Fabrice Bellard, of QEMU, TinyCC, FFMpeg, LZEXE... http://bellard.org/qemacs/
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by limmeau 17y ago
Apparently they used to buy that data from the big two. http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2008/09/google-maps-drop...
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by limmeau 17y ago
Lucida Sans Typewriter 12 for everything (on my 1280x1024 screens at work). The 75dpi bitmap font. I even installed my own Emacs 23 with freetype support at work, but after trying EnvyCodeR and Consolas and Anonymous and what have you, I we
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by limmeau 17y ago
I wish I could install a multi-hundred-megabyte Zahdoo Client application instead.
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by limmeau 17y ago
I share your disappointment. Maybe a logo interpreter in F# [1] can cheer you up. [1] http://www.intellifactory.com/articles/LogoInterpreter.aspx

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