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by rinon 12y ago
Var-length strings are often too slow to manipulate and store. Better choice to use a fixed but large (64-bit) integer.
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by rinon 12y ago
There's a way to do this... Recruit Musk as the head of NASA. That would be interesting, to say the least...
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by rinon 12y ago
"Suburban hellhole?" It's important to realize that many people hate cities, and would much rather live in suburbs. Why are there so many huge suburban areas around (most) large cities in the US?
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by rinon 12y ago
If such "bullying" is found illegal in court, then I don't see the problem here. Nobody is saying the FCC should be in charge of deciding these things, just that companies are still required to comply with court orders. Speak
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by rinon 12y ago
I'd be extremely interested to see if this brings greater security to the "container" model. Something resembling BSD jails is sorely lacking in the Linux world.
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by rinon 12y ago
Is there a reason the link is directed to a comment?
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Google Project Zero: More Mac OS X and iPhone Sandbox Escapes(googleprojectzero.blogspot.com)
8 points by rinon 12y ago|0 comments
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by rinon 12y ago
However, rooting and interfacing with underlying hardware is significantly harder on other platforms.
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by rinon 12y ago
Yes, at least in my circle of coder-friends. Younger people seem to be using some new-fangled thing like Sublime more often, but there's still plenty of us using and hacking on emacs. Don't worry, we won't let it die.
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by rinon 12y ago
Why do we need a technical solution. My understanding is that the author is arguing for a change in how URL shorteners are being used, not a technical change making this impossible. The problem is that once a technology exists, it will be a
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by rinon 12y ago
If BitLocker was open source and verifiable, I'd have a lot more respect and trust for it.
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by rinon 12y ago
Funniest vulnerability ever!
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Unathenticated Backup and Password Disclosure in HandsomeWeb SOS Webpages(portcullis-security.com)
3 points by rinon 12y ago|1 comments
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by rinon 12y ago
Does anyone have any other confirmation of this? Seems like a crazy rumor, but... maybe?
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by rinon 12y ago
Forks of Firefox such as the TOR browser bundle can simply not include or disable the wrapper if they wish, since it is a standalone component.
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by rinon 12y ago
Don't forget Zotero (open source).
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by rinon 12y ago
Happy quattuordecamegacentenial!
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Watch Live: Glenn Greenwald Debates Former NSA Director Michael Hayden(firstlook.org)
2 points by rinon 12y ago|0 comments
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by rinon 12y ago
Maybe it's just me, but I don't really think speculating on fights like this from the outside without full and complete information is beneficial, or even sane and rational. Can we just all agree that we don't know the full s
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by rinon 12y ago
Unless there are hidden costs to maintaining a P2P architecture. Support costs may grow superlinearly, or the company might decide they want (or need) more central control.
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by rinon 12y ago
I think more important than the P2P network shutting down is how it allowed Spotify to get up and running with relatively low up-front investment. What they do after this is, ultimately, unimportant and not terribly interesting.
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by rinon 12y ago
Now who do we believe... an anonymous source or an official press release (from an agency with both motivation to lie and a history of misleading statements). Both seem fairly unsubstantiated to me.
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Statement on Bloomberg News story that NSA knew about the “Heartbleed bug”(icontherecord.tumblr.com)
138 points by rinon 12y ago|114 comments
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White House says government did not know about Heartbleed(bnowire.com)
3 points by rinon 12y ago|0 comments
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by rinon 13y ago
Would you rather he compromise his integrity to "change" his opinion on something based on pressure? I personally respect people who do not pretend to change their views, regardless of whether I agree with them. I also respect peo
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by rinon 13y ago
I was using a broader definition of lynching to mean any punishment meted out by popular opinion rather than proper processes. I certainly was not using the term literally, and I am fully aware of the horrible historical background of lynch
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by rinon 13y ago
Does this view conflict with the job description? If this is so, then this makes the person ill-suited for the job, just like innumerable other workers who don't have the best qualifications for their jobs. Does this mean the view is w
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by rinon 13y ago
This is very sad and unfortunate. Brendan was basically forced out of his own job because of a political view he supported. No matter whether you agree or disagree with someone's views, a discussion should be reasonable and fair, not a
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by rinon 13y ago
Glancing through this, I think you have a point. Even tech reporting needs a little creativity in writing to make it palatable...
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by rinon 13y ago
This is getting somewhat off-topic, but Mailman warns you during the sign-up process that this password will be sent in cleartext, so do not use a valuable password. In fact, if you leave the password field blank mailman will kindly generat

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