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by maqr 15y ago
> That's what made me realise I wanted to build robots when I grew up. Just wondering: do you now build robots?
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by maqr 15y ago
Dawkins says: "No, I obviously don't get it. I will gladly apologise if somebody will calmly and politely, without using the word fuck in every sentence, explain to me what it is that I am not getting." Phil Plait, the author of this articl
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“Trolling the Stream” (Be Jailed for Streaming?) (shoryuken.com)
4 points by maqr 15y ago|0 comments
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by maqr 15y ago
Yeah, I use UBCD4WIN when I need to remove these kind of infections. You simply rebuild the MBR whether it needs it or not.
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by maqr 15y ago
Does Adobe have a patent on that obfuscation process for patents?
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by maqr 15y ago
Some history from Colbert: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsCp-1hgfxI
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by maqr 15y ago
That picture looked really appealing until I found some context: http://wikitravel.org/en/Gili_Islands#Stay_safe
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by maqr 15y ago
The users who are most likely to be infected by this stuff are the same users that Apple caters to in person in their stores. Many Apple customers (at least the ones that I know) have become used to in-store "geniuses" fixing their difficul
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by maqr 15y ago
To me, at least, bitcoin isn't about a lottery and it isn't about winning. It's about laying the framework for the foundation of an open and secure currency. Who cares, in the long run, who won the most coins right now? I don't think man
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by maqr 15y ago
> Oil companies do not drill on land where they don’t have the rights. Movies aren’t released that don’t clear all the music rights. Clothing manufacturers license logos from Disney or the NFL to include them in their product. It's pr
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by maqr 15y ago
I'll be trying to get my contacts to use Google Talk. It has all the features of Skype, including video conferencing, for free.
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by maqr 15y ago
Effectively, yes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brute-force_attack
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by maqr 15y ago
No amount of money in the world is going to make any difference for the problem of cracking strong encryption.
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by maqr 15y ago
I've seen so many of these VPN-for-rent services that this is becoming an obligatory reply. But I don't see anyone saying "ssh" on the comments yet, so: Here's how to tunnel on OSX via ssh: ssh -fnNMD 8080 -S ~/.tmp-ssh-socket you@se
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by maqr 15y ago
You use encryption every day already, you just don't think about it. For all of HTTPS's faults, it's so transparent that you don't even think of it as encrypted communication. If PKI apps and MUAs didn't suck so much, we'd probably all tre
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by maqr 15y ago
In my experience, people seem to think that the government can break any encryption, just because they're the government. I don't understand why people have this impression.
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by maqr 15y ago
It is absolutely amazing to me that terrorist organizations would not use encrypted email.
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Google deploys Tasks API(googleappsdeveloper.blogspot.com)
4 points by maqr 15y ago|0 comments
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Microsoft releases Windows Azure toolkit for iOS on github.(blogs.msdn.com)
2 points by maqr 15y ago|0 comments
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by maqr 15y ago
I'm new to this bitcoin thing, but I think it's a great idea. Here's what I think about the author's points, let me know if I'm missing something: > "Mining" (they even borrowed the word!) bitcoins is pointless busywork that produces n
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by maqr 15y ago
Terrible idea. EXIF data is not reliable. You can make it say anything you want.
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by maqr 15y ago
Someone needs to explain to business people that these types of internet-based intrusions can only happen as a result of poor technical security. Where is the incentive for real security? Businesses need to be directly responsible when t
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by maqr 15y ago
> I am perpetually surprised how few people realize that only the first kind can be discussed rationally, while the second kind is at best a purely theoretical hypothesis. Depends on how you define the immortal part. For example, my di
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by maqr 15y ago
SSL is for end-point to end-point security. SSL does not attempt to solve the problem of either end being compromised. This means that SSL won't help you if your computer is infected with rogue software or if the server you're talking to
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by maqr 16y ago
Of course. Are you suggesting that this isn't true?
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by maqr 16y ago
That may be true, but I think there's more to the "regret" group. Consider this: I have a degree, so it's in my economic best interest to try and inflate the importance of that degree in the job market. I can do that by trying to raise the
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by maqr 16y ago
You had me up to here: > You don't really know if it's worth what you spent, because the seller is purposely keeping you in the dark about the value, continuing to assure you that this type of purchase at these rates is absolutely nece
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by maqr 16y ago
This actually seems like a really good fit. As I understand it, the Scion line is targeted at young people who want to customize their cars in a modular way, so they look unique. That's probably the same kind of people who would install cu
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by maqr 16y ago
It can be very expensive to build a solution for an unsolvable problem.
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by maqr 16y ago
Same issue here. Just got a MBP a few days ago, and I've had this happen twice while compiling in Xcode. It's not your average crash though. It's not a kernel panic. iTunes streams keep playing, so I know the wifi card is still working

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