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by nixos 10y ago
Using Tor may actually be less secure that using a normal browser. At least when I connect to Microsoft, Google, Facebook, etc. I don't expect to get hit by a driveby JS exploit, and Google does help with "safe browsing". Wit
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by nixos 10y ago
Working on Linux isn't the same as allowing someone to run Linux on their computer. Working on Linux is recognizing that Linux has more that a 0.1% share and by not working on Linux, your tools loose mind-share among developers. So sur
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by nixos 10y ago
Once you have regular user access, root is easy: http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/119410/why-shoul...
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by nixos 10y ago
The problem with large rockets is that they require multiple satellites to be placed in a close orbit. It's not that simple.
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by nixos 10y ago
> Wait, you don't think splitting the atom, or even using advanced geospatial imaging to locate and extract oil deposits from miles underground, qualifies as "magic" that cave men didn't have? Involves mining. I'
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by nixos 10y ago
The same question I have for SpaceX's goal of moving to Mars: Who'd go? People compare it to the colonization of America, but there are a few fundamental differences: 1. Who are the pioneers. The early settlers in America were the
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by nixos 10y ago
> organic, sustainable technologies that don't depend on endless inputs The reason we have good things is because we have relatively unlimited energy and raw material goods. It's not like we have some "magic" cave men
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by nixos 10y ago
I create a project. There are two things they could do: 1. Make an ant/maven/gradle repo, and have the build command run gradle build or something. 2. Create a commandline (open source) tool called "intellibuild" or some
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by nixos 10y ago
OSX had little market share. I mean, it still has a relatively small market. If you can save a week's work and make your site work on 97% of computers, or spend another week to get it to 99%, what would you do? And in truth, Mozilla&#x
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by nixos 10y ago
>XSSs, CSRF Java had drive-by malware downloads galore. Unfortunately, Javascript isn't immune from this, probably for the same reason: to increase performance requirements, they both JIT code, which allows potential buffer overflow
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by nixos 10y ago
Microsoft then had a near complete monopoly on anything computers. If you remember how Mozilla had to include all the IE6 mistakes all web programmers assumed were standard? And yes, back then definitely Microsoft was in EEE mode. They woul
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by nixos 10y ago
Java had another big problem. It couldn't interact with DOM properly. I mean, it could. But it was terribly hackish and anyways involved Javascript. So you had one of two options: 1. Write an HTML webpage or 2. Write an empty webpage w
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by nixos 10y ago
Or it would have turned into ActiveX. Great on Windows, not so great (if extant) on anything else. If anything, Flash was multi-platform. You got the same flash on Linux, Mac and Windows. "Microsoft Java" would be anything but.
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by nixos 10y ago
If we could do that without hurting a single other human? Absolutely. Actually, we did that a few years back with Smallpox. True, there's a debate if viruses are alive, but I have no doubt we'd do the same if it was a bacteria (an
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by nixos 10y ago
Would you kill two black men to save a white man. I wouldn't. Would you kill two otters to save a human? Yes. Absolutely. Would you kill two bacteria to save a human? Yes. Absolutely. I would kill a million bacteria to save a human. In
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by nixos 10y ago
That's one of my big gripes with IntelliJ - _please_ use standard compiling/building tools. At least use bash/batch files. I want to be able to build my projects if I ever decide that I don't need it anymore
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by nixos 10y ago
Unless it's locked down through the DMCA
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by nixos 10y ago
Unfortunately, it's 2 for 29. But if you look at the FT version, it's 1 for 8. 1. What kind of insurance will be needed on a billion dollar NSA satellite? $100 million? $125 million? It's not so cheep anymore, and considering
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by nixos 10y ago
My question is if compilers use "new" x86 instructions, as then the program won't work at all on old systems. For example, if Intel decided today that CPUs need a new "fast" hashing opcode (I don't know if th
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by nixos 10y ago
I understand that it's a volunteer effort, and volunteers don't have the hardware required for even 180 degree view, but most pictures are taken out of the front of the car, limiting its worth (2/3 of the picture is road, not
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by nixos 10y ago
No. 1. NYC is _BIG_. It's 304 square miles, which is about 17 by 17 miles. There are many places where biking is too far. 2. Subways, in contrast to popular opinion, don't go everywhere. Mainly, unless you live in Manhattan, or t
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by nixos 10y ago
Can someone please explain what's wrong with the classical UNIX sockets and pipes that they need to invent and (re)invent dbus, bonobo, now bus1?
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by nixos 10y ago
In the same languages the ballots are written
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Why should apathetic people vote? They'd presumably vote for the candidate who spent the most on ads. If anything, I'd prefer a fair voting test, where the person pulling the lever has to have _some_ kind of background knowled
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by nixos 10y ago
But did the UN ever stop a World War from breaking out? Practically, even had the UN been built instead of the League, World War 2 probably would have still happened (Italy was on the Detente side in World War 1 and would have vetoed any an
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by nixos 10y ago
It's more than that. Why do I release OS code? Because I want to make the world a better place, building a "commons" so everyone benefits. What if you don't want to contribute back to the commons? What if your company do
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by nixos 10y ago
So when they sell, they'll have to pay taxes. Sooner or later they'll have to sell (the point of investment properties is the ultimate profit), and that profit is taxable. And really, how much money does an empty house need from t
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by nixos 10y ago
Because I can't pay taxes with my home "value". Income tax makes sense, when you've got fungible goods coming in, spend some as taxes. No income this year, fine, you're off the hook. Property, not being fungible and
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by nixos 10y ago
The advantage of ports is that they are compiled for your machine. The minute you get precompiled packages, you might as well be on Debian
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by nixos 10y ago
$5 _a month_ on a VPS. If it's a project that doesn't make money...

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