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by mburns 15y ago
No. Regardless, a second DNS query will have to be performed by the client when Google responds with the permanent redirect.
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by mburns 15y ago
The third sentence (in bold): "Google’s blacklist prevents the names of sites appearing in their Instant and Autocomplete search services, while the pages themselves remain indexed."
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by mburns 15y ago
By forcing Configuration Management Software (puppet, cfengine) so that one-off fixes that get hot patched on the production server and never documented.
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by mburns 15y ago
http://keepass.info/ - It is easy to have unique, complex passwords for each and every service. And with Dropbox (or kin) you can sync to iPhone, Android, Mac, Linux or Windows. Plus plugins for browsers to make easier.
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by mburns 15y ago
Good security is done in the light. The NSA wrote SELinux, after all. It would make sense for them to encourage this hardened version get used outside of the government.
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by mburns 15y ago
Am I missing something? $302 million on $42 billion is <1% return.
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by mburns 15y ago
Google bought (among others) DoubleClick, which was a direct competitor and served google's competitors. Or the ITA acquisition. Akamai has a large patent portfolio for streaming and content delivery and a long list of top-tier customers.
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by mburns 15y ago
diversification is dirty? Really?
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by mburns 15y ago
Even better, use KeePass (and sync/backup into the cloud like Dropbox, etc) and have an open source solution that is safe and encrypted from end to end, without trusting a company to not be stupid. Then, just leave your master password(s)
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by mburns 15y ago
I highly doubt the NYPD will be put off when a bunch of Anons have a sit-in.
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by mburns 15y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begging_the_question
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by mburns 15y ago
Toasted bread was patented in 2000: http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=IpwDAAAAEBAJ
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by mburns 15y ago
> “The vast bulk of Microsoft’s contributions has been to its own Hyper-V virtualization hypervisor drivers. Hyper-V is Microsoft’s 64-bit hypervisor-based virtualization system,” "whatever the reason might be" as if it wasn't clearly s
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by mburns 15y ago
>Would these people like their novels and articles decompiled so that every sentence is on a new line Isn't that how we write cooking recipes?
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by mburns 15y ago
http://userscripts.org/
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by mburns 15y ago
Be (the company) offered to give BeOS away for free to any OEM, but none would touch it... because the contracts with Microsoft at the time meant they had to pay a Windows license for every machine sold, even if BeOS and (not Windows) was
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by mburns 15y ago
Not feeling pain is your brain not processing signals from your body. It is a broken connection. HIV immunity is not at all analogous to that.
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by mburns 15y ago
huge electrical bills.
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by mburns 15y ago
No, it is not a change in the protocol. It will be a seamless migration for normal clients to not keep the entire blockchain. This was planned for from day 1.
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by mburns 15y ago
Getting a degree at 16 does not preclude her from growing emotionally and intellectually into her 20s, the institution, or goal post, will just have a different name on it that what you and I had in mind (undergrad degree).
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by mburns 15y ago
Recovery Partition is a known-feature of OS X Lion. So, maybe. http://www.9to5mac.com/53844/os-x-10-7-lions-recovery-partit...
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by mburns 15y ago
OpenBSD should start accepting Bitcoin donations.
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by mburns 16y ago
(new) bitcoins can't be the reward of a project like seti@home, because to find a valid bitcoin in the first place (to mine it) takes that much computing power. Now that some valid bitcoins have been discovered, those cryptographically va
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by mburns 16y ago
Microsoft threw a fit when Adobe proposed a significantly improved version of Javascript (inspired by modern ActionScript, not surprisingly).
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by mburns 16y ago
This is precisely the goal of projects like p2p-dns[1] and AlterNIC[2]. It is mostly a chicken-and-egg problem of getting users to resolve non-standard TLDs, so that those non-standard TLDs are registered to things users actually care about
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by mburns 16y ago
Which is somehow different than owning someone's computer that has a traditional bank account that they check online? If you access to their financial info, you can steal money. Just because it is digital doesn't make it magical.
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by mburns 16y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_Anonymity_Protocol
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by mburns 16y ago
Freenet, Phantom or Tor. Pick one and make it easier for people to use. Designing a whole new system isn't what we need, a "just works" system is.
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by mburns 16y ago
Paul Allen is worth a fraction of what Bill Gates is worth. And Bill has a not-exactly cheap mansion and assorted toys to play with. He just also had gobs of money left over.
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by mburns 16y ago
The alternative, that we have tried, is for standards bodies to dictate a standard and hope that browser implement it (which they often don't). Waiting for the code to actually ship before calling it standardized lets you get actual results

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