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Pretty neat. But no blue whale? That's a strange omission, since it's considered to be the largest animal ever to have existed on earth. Comparisons to our surroundings are interesting, but comparisons to our competitors are just as meaning
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I think your position is much easier to understand when broadened beyond the software field to any creative endeavor: An artist or musician may choose not to pursue a career or specific genre, yet make reproductions available for free. This
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Rights of ownership can be transferred to anyone, even girls.
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Reference: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1123#page-13 But note that the RFC assumes there will never be a numeric TLD. Furthermore, it suggests checking the string syntactically to determine if it's in dotted decimal form, remaining somew
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His own examples illustrate why it's bad to treat Unix as a single-user system: I hate using software from developers who are always logged in as root. You can't anticipate the needs of admins and users on multiuser systems when you devel
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Maybe the explanation is simpler than that. Perhaps they do trust their own algorithms, but their algorithms contain vulnerabilities that are easy to exploit. Maybe Google figured out how to use this weakness to manipulate Bing's results
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Google created the relationship when they enabled user tracking features in IE and Bing Toolbar, then used a specially created Google page as the HTTP REFERER to the desired page. Go ahead and duplicate the experiment using a non-Google pag
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That's not all they did: We gave 20 of our engineers laptops with a fresh install of Microsoft Windows running Internet Explorer 8 with Bing Toolbar installed. As part of the install process, we opted in to the “Suggested Sites” feature of
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Sciency? Their experiment appears to lack a control of any kind. They only use a Google search page as the source for the links, one that is specially engineered to return specific results for a specific term. Then they count the coincide
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I got an X10 for free with upgrade over the holidays and love it. It makes me wonder if all the talk about version upgrades is mere noise. I'm relieved not to be affected by the Android SMS bug in Froyo, so will happily wait until it is fix
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There's a difference between being antisocial and anti-Facebook. Don't conflate the two.
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Multiple consecutive spaces == 1 space, in the same way 0 + 0 + 0 = 0. Put another way, 3 x 0 is not greater than 1 x 0. Even in typography or typesetting, the goal is to provide a single space, but to do it in a proportion to the surroundi
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Hacking isn't only about software. He showed up 2 hours in advance and was still unable to board his flight in time. If any system is screaming out for a hack, it's the screening process in US airports.
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For video of individual landmarks, visit: http://www.cs.unc.edu/~jmf/rome_on_a_cloudless_day/
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Researchers Create 3-D Models With Flickr Photos(chronicle.com)
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by qjz 16y ago
I currently use Remind: http://www.roaringpenguin.com/products/remind It's not a plug-in, so you can use any text editor (or install a GUI frontend). It has a powerful date scripting language that can be complex, but flexible enough to me
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Not all abstractions are successful (most probably aren't, in fact), but as long as there are tasks with difficult or tedious low level steps involved, meta will continue to be an appealing goal. For example, television aggregated locatio
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People look in their spam folder. Are you sure? I'd be willing to bet that the majority of users either don't know the spam folder exists or trust it to be a one-way black hole dustbin they never feel compelled to dig around in. False pos
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What is the story behind the source code at that site? It looks like letters have been randomly replaced by look-alike HTML entities, but to what end?
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It's a shame that DPI hasn't benefited from Moore's law. Developers shouldn't need to worry about pixels, but there still aren't enough to spare. Unfortunately, netbooks and tablets have taken us a step backwards (most web developers had al
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by qjz 16y ago
The article doesn't describe SNI at all. With SNI, you can deploy multiple certificates on the same IP address. The method described here uses a single certificate that includes multiple domains in the subjectAltName. Obviously, SNI is the
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No, this uses one certificate, but with multiple domains listed in subjectAltName. Like SNI, it may not be supported by all clients.
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3) Google bills my credit card for hundreds of dollars. Did you complain? Were you issued a refund? I'm trying to understand how Google justifies withholding past earnings from the site owner and continuing to profit from the YouTube cont
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I have the Windows 95 DVD version with all the extras, including the 176-page Official Strategy Guide (from the back cover: "UNCENSORED PHOTOS of DOUGLAS ADAMS in the VERY ACT OF WRITING!", "DESCRIPTIONS of natural language parsing engines
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Truncation to 8 characters is an entropy killer; limiting the range of characters by using the truncated strong hash as the input will reduce it further. In a weak system, you're more likely to find a collision that will effectively substit
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This suggests that some users might have had very strong passwords ("butterflyzrfr33!") that were truncated into weak prefixes ("butterfl"). I'll need to rethink my approach to passphrases to make sure they're "frontloaded" with stronger co
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I keep my .bashrc in version control and install it on all systems where I use bash. It's not the best place for platform-specific optimizations. Those 4 lines of code aren't portable, and there isn't a single line in my .bashrc that requir
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It's not just that. While there is much justified concern about user privacy and security, it's easy to forget that the site also has assets to protect. Giving up control to a third party is a very scary prospect for some organizations.
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From the page footer: The crazy colors should tell you that this is only for the brave.
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I created an account for a user with a common name. Obviously, such names will be used up quickly. If a user wants multiple accounts, it would be nice to support realms, so the user portion of the name can be reused. But when I tried "user@

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