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Chrome Has a Malware Problem, and Google Needs to Fix It(tomsguide.com)
1 points by rdhyee 9y ago|0 comments
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by rdhyee 9y ago
From the TC article: """ We like to describe it as a new document that blends flexibility of documents, the power of spreadsheets, and the utility of applications into a single new canvas,” Mehrotra said. “It really started f
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Coalition Condemns DHS Proposal to Demand Passwords to Enter the U.S(cdt.org)
1 points by rdhyee 10y ago|1 comments
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by rdhyee 10y ago
A summarizing paragraph about the difference between approaches taken by the campaigns of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump ( https://hyp.is/u4tphuVzEea0AVcCYuOojw/motherboard.vice.com/r... ): > Again, this is not
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by rdhyee 10y ago
I've wondered about this question myself. Wondering whether a financially well-resourced group would just use money to get access as an easier and more efficient approach to influence of a member of Congress. That to simulate an aval
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by rdhyee 10y ago
Verified Voting the non-partisan umbrella organization that connects many leading election technology experts (including Halderman the author of the piece; Ron Rivest and Philip Stark -- http://news.berkeley.edu/2016/
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by rdhyee 10y ago
Followed immediately by "But I don’t believe that either one of these seemingly unlikely explanations is overwhelmingly more likely than the other."
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by rdhyee 10y ago
Halderman continues though: "But I don’t believe that either one of these seemingly unlikely explanations is overwhelmingly more likely than the other."
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by rdhyee 10y ago
I'm shocked to read this post by Cyrille Rossant, a respected member of the Python community. He and his wife have had their baby taken away by the French government (most unjustly and cruelly as far as I can tell). Anyone out there wh
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by rdhyee 12y ago
thanks especially for the tip about restarting the system, just in case.
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by rdhyee 12y ago
As a non-professional in the area of Linux security, let me share what I figured out while patching Ubuntu 12.04 servers for GHOST. In my situation at least, I got confused by looking for glibc and eglibc, which are listed as packages to be
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Nobel laureate and laser inventor Charles Townes dies at 99(newscenter.berkeley.edu)
86 points by rdhyee 12y ago|14 comments
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by rdhyee 12y ago
Thanks for posting the video on archive.org. Ever since I read http://boingboing.net/2014/06/19/aaron-swartz-documentary-th... , I've been looking for a place to download the CC-licensed video. If I want
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by rdhyee 13y ago
Although Evernote does its share of problems, I want to throw in my generally positive view of the company and the software. I've been a premium user since 2010, and despite its problems, Evernote remains the central program I use to
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by rdhyee 13y ago
The folks at MarkLogic must be unhappy with being singled out in the following paragraph: Some of the companies building the system opposed an early decision by the Medicare agency to use database software from a company called MarkLogic,
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by rdhyee 13y ago
At the moment, the most info on the crash on the Wikipedia seems to be at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asiana_Airlines_Flight_214
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by rdhyee 13y ago
The radio/tv program was the first time I heard the theory that the NSA is tapping the routers upstream from the 9 companies mentioned in the PRISM slides. If so, this could conceivably make the public denials by the companies of any k
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by rdhyee 13y ago
I think the ACLU is also an important organization in the fight to rein in NSA overreach. http://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security-technology-and-li...
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by rdhyee 13y ago
I signed the petition and told my friends about it. Fixing the DMCA is key.
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by rdhyee 13y ago
Good point!
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by rdhyee 13y ago
I see that http://api-status.com/ is accurately reporting problems in the Google APIs whereas the Google API console ( https://code.google.com/apis/console/b/0 ) says there are no known issues.
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by rdhyee 14y ago
Choice quote from article: "So the drum languages seem to put importance on uniquely identifying individuals, something that our Internet is just starting to figure out. (See ORCID.) Reputation of individuals was important; I wonder if crea
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by rdhyee 14y ago
I have a Nook tablet and like it except for the fact that I can run only B&N blessed apps (of which there are so few).
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by rdhyee 14y ago
The fact that Amazon payments powers Kickstarter led me to think that Amazon would allow other crowdfunding sites such as unglue.it.
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by rdhyee 14y ago
(I work for Gluejar on unglue.it) We've struggled with the issue of finding the right payment processor. We went originally with PayPal, but 7 months after we submitted our application, we still don't have a decision (see http://blog.ungl
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by rdhyee 14y ago
Besides the studio recording of the Goldberg Variations is the new score, "engraved" in Musescore: http://musescore.com/opengoldberg/goldberg-variations -- "source code", if you will, that can be used. I'd love to see work done on integr
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by rdhyee 14y ago
The Kickstarter campaign that funded the opengoldbergvariations: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/293573191/open-goldberg-... The combination of an award-winning concert pianist + people who really understood the computational issues o
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by rdhyee 15y ago
I'd definitely like to know what happened to Mark Pilgrim and hope he is well. It's still reassuring to know that his websites are still archived by the Internet Archive. (e.g., http://web.archive.org/web/20110726001953/http://diveintoht
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by rdhyee 16y ago
The sale is exciting to those of us who want to buy the ebooks, which are not available from Amazon. (I'm thinking about now buying Seven Languages in Seven Weeks: A Pragmatic Guide to Learning Programming Languages on Friday.)