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by quasque 13y ago
Another metal that melts slightly above room temperature - and is liquid at human body temperature - is gallium. You can get a solid piece of gallium, put it in your hand, and watch it slowly melt [1]. Pretty neat. [1] http://www
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by quasque 13y ago
It's not that much different, just a rebranded version with a configuration that prioritises speed over anonymity (by permitting single hop relays so it effectively works like a normal http proxy), and doesn't select exit nodes in
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by quasque 13y ago
There are plenty of human rights violations that the US commits as a matter of policy, due to its "War on Terror" - drone strikes and Guantanamo Bay are two major ones.
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'Anti-theft' BIOS rootkit included in most notebooks sold since 2005(blackhat.com)
2 points by quasque 13y ago|0 comments
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by quasque 13y ago
A fascinating read, and an excellent piece of work. It reminds me of a similar proof-of-concept hack on a common network card firmware: http://esec-lab.sogeti.com/post/2010/11/21/Presentation-at-H... (th
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by quasque 13y ago
Another benefit could be realised in the future if historians and linguists manage to get access to all this data. I imagine that researchers of the social sciences would end up enjoying the same sort of large-scale collaborative projects t
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by quasque 13y ago
After a bad first trip from mushrooms, I couldn't shake off the feelings of terror from within, and had sporadic panic attacks for months afterwards. I'd never had such attacks before, it was most unnerving. I wouldn't risk t
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by quasque 13y ago
Language evolves and changes over time, and words have different connotations to different audiences. There is really no such thing as a 'correct' meaning.
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by quasque 13y ago
The email metadata idea reminds me of EDIFACT, or at least what it was intended for - a standard electronic format for commercial transactions. It predates the WWW though, so looks quite 'ugly' by today's standard of using ma
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by quasque 13y ago
This is not quite true - they still can keep their sources secret, but under the renewed threat of being charged with contempt of court. Whether or not this causes a sufficiently chilling effect on whistleblowing within the US, or reporting
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by quasque 13y ago
It is variable depth - the main ranks also have ranks between them, with some denoted by super- and sub- prefixes to the major categories, and others of unnamed rank defined only by its position between two adjacent levels. The NCBI&#x2
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by quasque 13y ago
Many types of viruses[1] are like this by virtue of their high replication rate and RNA's poor error correction while copying (in comparison to DNA). It's one of the reasons why anti-viral therapy can be so tricky in viruses like
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by quasque 13y ago
No it doesn't imply anything about origins of life - but the lack of any homologous sequences in known species (including other viruses) that have been sequenced does illustrate the vast gaps in the totality of genetic data collected a
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by quasque 13y ago
Discoveries such as this just go to show how arbitrary the definition of "life" is. One might argue that viruses are not life because they are obligate intracellular parasites - but many species of bacteria are too. It used to be
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Regular Expression Crosswords(regexcrossword.com)
3 points by quasque 13y ago|0 comments
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by quasque 13y ago
I guess it's just a memetic artefact of the blind worship many people have for the military. Personally I find the phrase trite and somewhat distasteful.
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Visualising worldwide location data of over 280 million tweets(mapbox.com)
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by quasque 13y ago
Please describe how these operating systems could be compromised "at any time"?
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by quasque 13y ago
Beautiful. If you enjoy this sort of thing you may like this: http://cloudappreciationsociety.org/
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by quasque 13y ago
On a more positive note, this could be a real boon for future historians, if the data is made available to them hundreds of years from now. By mass recording a sizeable chunk of the world's electronic communications, they effectively h
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by quasque 13y ago
The price was really a minor point against the idea. There are more fundamental issue that makes this a non-starter for supplying an actual "burner phone".
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by quasque 13y ago
Your target market seems to be the unwise and the gullible: even the purchase of one of these overpriced phones is made using a reasonably anonymous currency (e.g. tumbled Bitcoins) there is a still a record of delivery address. Thus, these
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by quasque 13y ago
Easier method: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10859173/how-to-disable-a...
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by quasque 13y ago
This is not the case in all situations, I think you were just unlucky with the policy of that company. Last phone I bought was paid for in cash, no questions asked. It wasn't from one of the large phone retailers, but not from anywhere dodg
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by quasque 13y ago
Maybe store the game state in cookies so it can be resumed implicitly, but have the game restarted explicitly, by clearing them?
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by quasque 13y ago
Very nice! Looking forward to seeing what interesting puzzles Chapter 2 provides.
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by quasque 13y ago
Nice, though I seem to have a font-rendering issue on the site, as they appear rather aliased: http://i.imgur.com/173YQ1Z.png (Windows 7, Chrome 27)
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by quasque 13y ago
If you download the crx, then manually drag it from your downloads folder to the Extensions page, it should install.
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by quasque 13y ago
Does this direct link work? https://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx?response=red...
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by quasque 13y ago
This surprised me too, as there is proprietary code but it's a Native Client plugin, so in theory should run on Linux Chrome the same as Windows and Mac Chrome.

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