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by macrael 15y ago
The analogy to a combination for a safe seems very apt, I've forgotten: what is the precedent in such situations? Have people been forced to give up the combination for a safe in court before?
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by macrael 15y ago
The article on Time was more explicit: "Apple recently briefed me on the new features and loaned me a MacBook Air loaded with a beta version of Mountain Lion. I’ve been test-driving for the past week." http://techland.time.com/2012/02/16/
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by macrael 15y ago
I only picked articles that made their source clear. "We can report on Mountain Lion a half-year before it ships because Apple, for the first time, decided to give the computer press a look at a new OS X version long before its release. Nor
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by macrael 15y ago
Gruber was clearly not the only person briefed in this way. A cursory glance at other tech news outlets show that many reporters were given the same treatment. Engadget: http://www.engadget.com/2012/02/16/apple-os-x-mountain-lion-... PC
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by macrael 15y ago
The "action" option is the most interesting one to me. That is not something that is a part of the general REST world. I've often thought having an rpc type interface for rest objects would be very nice but have the sense that it is very un
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by macrael 15y ago
Do you think the internet is a bad idea too? There is an awful lot of digital knowledge and tools out there these days we won't have access to in the event of a collapse. I think it is a bit of a stretch to say that this is "the big problem
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by macrael 15y ago
Is there any reason the attacker would know all but one character? This seems pretty silly.
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by macrael 15y ago
What are the 256 keys the author cycled through? Does WPA only have 256 possible keys?
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by macrael 15y ago
If I wasn't clear in my post, I completely agree that it was reasonable to wait before drawing a final conclusion. My objection was to the outright dismissal of the claims by the top comment. And, for me, Doctorow's completely nailing the c
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by macrael 15y ago
There's a difference between saying "let's wait to see what Google has to say, this could be something else." and saying "This is clearly bullshit." Is Cory Doctorow's reputation such that he should be so quickly dismissed? The last paragra
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by macrael 15y ago
This is the default behavior of document based apps on OS X starting with Lion. For instance: TextEdit behaves this way.
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by macrael 15y ago
How is that possible? Virtual memory is written out to the hard disk, so presumably, anyone with physical access to the drive could read off anything that might be stored there. You wouldn't need admin rights to the box the way you would to
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by macrael 15y ago
This seems like a good idea, I'm curious what OpenSSL or other crypto libraries do to keep secrets from being paged out to disk by the virtual memory machine? That seems like a legitimate attack vector.
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by macrael 15y ago
A lot of the posts in my stream contain links to images, videos, and articles. In a sense, the 140 characters (minus the 20 required for a url) already are a title for something more time consuming. I'm not sure that hosting self posts wo
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by macrael 15y ago
Maaaybe this would work, but it would have to be significantly different to post long text than to post the regular 140 characters. What makes twitter great is the feed is easy to get through because everyone is limited in what they can add
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by macrael 15y ago
The point is that all generic text fields on OSX have supported Emacs keybindings since forever, not vi or nano keybindings.
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by macrael 15y ago
I stand by what I wrote. My main issue is with the Shermer, Penn, and Teller examples. The author uses those to attempt to prove a different point than the rest of the article discusses, and it is a bad point. There's a difference between s
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by macrael 15y ago
To some degree it sounds like the author is just describing another "tribe": the one that he is a part of. The main argument of the piece is: don't trust that someone who calls themselves a skeptic is a "good" skeptic until they've expresse
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by macrael 15y ago
You are taking that first bit out of context. H is pretty clear in the article what he means. He believes that pictures behind glass are a transitionary phase and not something we should work toward, because we already have them. The Dyna
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by macrael 15y ago
I think this makes a lot of sense even though it is kind of crazy. Chrome really seems to represent Google's philosophy for development more than Android does. Both in that it is developed more in the open and that it is all about web devel
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by macrael 15y ago
Anyone know how fast it is going relative to the earth? And I'd love to get an answer to wether it will be visible.
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by macrael 15y ago
NetNewsWire is the longstanding veteran Mac rss reader. I think it's great.
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by macrael 15y ago
The only thing I can find that points out that this is a google project is the link to the privacy policy at the bottom of the page. Kind of strange. Also, what's the over under on when Dart becomes a first class language in Chrome?
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by macrael 15y ago
I did the same thing! To save the reader the work: IDC predicted in 2001 that the mp3 player market in 2005 would be around 18M devices. In 2005, Apple alone sold 31M iPods.
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by macrael 15y ago
That is pretty crazy, to think that the iPod was initially introduced at the same price as the iPad today.
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by macrael 15y ago
I haven't done much Haskell programming, but this feels a little dirty to me. Can other Haskell coders chime in and tell me if this is good practice? It does seem cool to have functions return different values depending on what you ask for,
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by macrael 15y ago
Definitely read the appendix "Tools & Implementation". He expresses frustration with the current state of the art in building visualizations. My guess is that he is using his javascript library for "reactive documents" called Tangle ht
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Up and Down the Ladder of Abstraction(worrydream.com)
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by macrael 15y ago
That sounds right to me. Honestly, worded that way, I'm a bit dumbfounded at their audacity. I mean, on the one hand, the cable companies are tied up with the old "channel" model and many of their subscribers are paying for shows they never
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by macrael 15y ago
I found the article I summarized here: http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/whats-really-behind-the-net... I think it explains the facts in the simplest way.

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