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by mathetic 12y ago
> SWATd is a daemon for running scripts when your house gets raided by the police (or broken into by criminals). It's funny how the distinction seems blurry at times.
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by mathetic 12y ago
I am looking forward to the day the notion that functional languages are not suitable for developing software will die. It is not only that functional languages are more succinct, easier to reason about and are more readable, they also ofte
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by mathetic 12y ago
I never quite understood why people take pride in what they reject unless it is turning down bribery, refusing to relapse, etc. It's a shame really, you rejected Harvard but did not go too far away from the place with the attitude.
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by mathetic 12y ago
As a an atheist, who spent nearly all of his life in a country with 99% Muslim population, I do not understand how people who live in such society and got an education defend the religion. >> First of all.. certainly as a Muslim, I co
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by mathetic 12y ago
That's the entire point. The crypto is not very good. Also it doesn't apply to all bluetooth keyboards because Microsoft uses a proprietary protocol to communicate apparently (at least this series of keyboards).
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KeySweeper – Arduino-based passive wireless keyboard sniffer(samy.pl)
462 points by mathetic 12y ago|57 comments
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by mathetic 12y ago
They are released as talks finish. http://vod.c3voc.de/relive/
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by mathetic 12y ago
> You agree not knowing what that actually means Exactly. Firstly, kudos to project maintainer for handling the situation gracefully. I respect that he respected M3 creator's wishes. You're quite right in an ideal universe. Our
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by mathetic 12y ago
> While it may have been technically "right" to copy the code, it wouldn't have been worth the damage it would have caused to the person behind it. Well, I will play the devil's advocate. If the code is useful to enou
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by mathetic 12y ago
I love how a comment thread about a fun little program turned into HN showing off their wisdom in software engineering coupled with occasional boasting about tight code reviews. I will not understand how and why people's egos get threa
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by mathetic 12y ago
I guess we just differ massively in our perception of people. To me when an individual person sacrifices himself for a reason, any reason, then it is either that person is crazy or he has a point to make. I often attempt to understand his p
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by mathetic 12y ago
> I haven't seen any evidence that there isn't _any_ economic damage done by illegal downloading. Burden of proof is on the accuser and no I don't think X number of people pirated it, it costs $Y, therefore, it caused $X *
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by mathetic 12y ago
Yes, it does. I will never advocate violence but if you look at the reasons that lead to that horrific moment in the suicide bomber's life, then you might see something even more terrifying than the act itself. Sure, you can blame it o
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by mathetic 12y ago
One important difference between giving designer clothes free and your favorite video game free is that that former is a constant sum game while the latter is not. Sharing software products does not prevent anyone else to access it. It does
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by mathetic 12y ago
I like their attitude. They are complying with Russian government's requests while creating Streisand effect.
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by mathetic 12y ago
Basically, he is doing arm trade in 21st century.
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by mathetic 12y ago
Of course, the guy who sacrificed his life facing life in a shit hole if get caught, the guy who brought that news to you, the guy who let you learn about what your government is up to overseas. Textbook bond villains, indeed. It is astonis
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by mathetic 12y ago
That's cool. I wish I had a headmaster who can prepare me for an interview in which I ended up discussing project euler questions, prolog, how jpeg works and how the way humans sort relate to how computers sort. In maths interview, th
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by mathetic 12y ago
Exactly but I see nothing wrong with this. If universities are willing to accept students not based on merit but on a touching story, then they had it coming. People who admit one to these universities in general are not alumni of that scho
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by mathetic 12y ago
The ambiguity in blackhat hacker vs. traditional MIT hacker is up for discussion but there is a third kind of hacker that I cannot comprehend. Why do we call people who develop user apps hackers. I mean if a person is developing a web softw
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by mathetic 12y ago
Well, that is not the point though. He is just pointing out the hypocrisy.
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by mathetic 12y ago
> 76 points and no comments? Given that HN contains the antithesis for every single argument that has occurred to mankind, I was especially curious to see if anyone would justify the behaviour and business ethics of Gamma, Hacking Team,
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by mathetic 12y ago
Well, doesn't that mean that big websites will just filter out all links to those websites? It sounds very counterproductive. If they insist I think they would eradicate Spanish news agencies completely.
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by mathetic 12y ago
Heavy use of backquote might be a problem because it's one of the first keys to drop when keyboards are localised.
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by mathetic 12y ago
Title of the article is seriously flawed. Every textbook and every respectable course spends more time criticising Stanford Prison Experiment more than discussing its results.
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by mathetic 12y ago
One can try Practical Reverse Engineering by Dang et al. for a gentle introduction. For the rest we have manuals!
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by mathetic 12y ago
This is effectively a hit order that doesn't make 2600 liable in any way. I should be outraged by this cunning strategy but I guess corporations exploiting legal loop holes to do dirty business irritates me more.
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by mathetic 12y ago
Roads are public goods and more importantly they are built with tax money. They are also specifically built for cars to use and without a place to stop they are a bit meaningless in a city. They might just change this and start charging but
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by mathetic 12y ago
TL;DR we switched from one buzzword to another.
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by mathetic 12y ago
In that case fair enough. The problem would be that understanding higher level concepts one way or another requires the underlying mathematical rigour and mental agility to do the "boring" stuff. So it would not be dividing existi

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