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by romland 15y ago
You know you've been Rickrolled too many times when you recognize the tinyurl shortcut. Sigh. :)
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by romland 15y ago
Heh. I took the advice, went in and checked source expecting to see the captcha string in a hidden form element. I use NoScript and Sony.com is not on my whitelist (read: I could just select/copy the string). This was worse than I imagined.
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by romland 15y ago
Hmm. Personally this is how I always thought of the original generic TLDs (com/net/org). In my head I think I even applied the idea to .xxx, .aero and what-not as well. Pretty much how I expect Libya to do whatever they want with the .ly do
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by romland 15y ago
My English is perhaps not 100% when it comes to describing legal matters like this, so I'll just quote Wikipedia to clarify what I was trying to say. From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Assange : On 20 August 2010, Swedish police beg
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by romland 15y ago
The fact that he claims to be into politics and then goes on to say that the arrest of Julian Assange was absurd speak volumes to me. Assange was arrested due to rape charges and then refused to show up for preliminary hearings. But maybe S
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Tell/Ask HN: An itch around advertising
1 points by romland 15y ago|1 comments
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by romland 15y ago
I've been sitting on this complaint for a while now. It is really, really starting to annoy me that comments on a webpage rely on JavaScript hosted by some other website. I use NoScript for a reason. I temporarily whitelist pages which I (a
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by romland 15y ago
I guess you can argue that no more harm can be done to the poor users of Mt. Gox but I disagree. Why would you post this? If someone really wanted to pair them up, they could have but that at least would have taken -some- determination. Obv
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by romland 15y ago
What do you mean by large projects? The size of the files they transfer? Your machine -> TOR -> hacked home user or server -> your target. This way you only transfer the files between the target and the hacked server, and from t
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by romland 15y ago
Or it could, again, be stupidity by MtGox: This was a "test account" that had no real user attached to it. After all, if the trade is internal on MtGox, it's just a double in a database. If that is the case, then hell yes, I can see why MtG
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by romland 15y ago
You're probably thinking of the guy who claimed he lost 25k bit coins (which at that moment was "worth" 500k USD). This was a trade of 500,000 bit coins.
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by romland 15y ago
Something is off here. This cannot be the entire story. The guy is from UK and linking to some content in the US, additionally he says: the server was not based in the US How could he possibly be extradited to the US? I mean, I can s
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by romland 15y ago
sigh I wish I had anything good to say to accompany this, but I came here to be as cheeky. If it's as good as I hear, then I could use it ... yesterday. Implementing payment systems as we speak!
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by romland 15y ago
I doubt they use only "paid for" services in their chain. There are very likely normal user-boxes (like your moms) and "forgotten" servers involved as well. It's not easy to back trace when you have to send in someone to do forensics on a c
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by romland 15y ago
I just wanted to thank you for posting all of this, and more importantly all your comments in the thread. It was incredibly generous of you to share so much details about your business. Packaged up it really makes me feel like I get a bette
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by romland 15y ago
Since I'm not from the US I figured it'd be pretty safe to pull it down no matter what it was. Turns out it's a bunch of mysql-dumps in txt format, some admin passwords and server logs. I am guessing there's a lot of pain in there, but I on
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by romland 15y ago
I looked at the video without sound, but from visuals alone I never got the impression that this was intended for the desktop. In the demo when he switched to the "desktop" it looked pretty much like any desktop OS to me.
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by romland 15y ago
Did you even try to find it? Google "helvetica monospaced".
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by romland 15y ago
Well, the short answer is: hard to say. A lot of work is off-loaded on GPU's now days, and theoretically there should be no reason why talking to the video-card through a browser should be slower than talking to it through a portable execut
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by romland 15y ago
Naturally, but I think my biggest issue was one of melancholy, I mean, gone are the days of asm("movl %ecx %eax");. Or do we get that in V8? :)
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by romland 15y ago
Sadly, I also think it will commercialize it on a whole different level and take away the innocence. But ah, ch-ch-ch-changes -- not all bad. Personally I haven't been involved in the demo-scene for some 15 years but every now and then I in
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by romland 15y ago
I can't honestly think that anyone is surprised? PayPal plays it safe and this has been proven again and again. At the end of the day, this Bitcoin hype is getting slightly tiresome. I do apologize for being negative here, but the only thin
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Follow-up: SQL Slammer Worm Regains Momentum(blogs.mcafee.com)
1 points by romland 15y ago|0 comments
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by romland 15y ago
I hear a lot of people saying that. Interesting, however, is that I, as European, don't even think twice about it[1]. My brain must be wired to look at the context primarily. Why that is, I can only take a stab at: I guess we see a lot more
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by romland 15y ago
The REAL anonymous.
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by romland 15y ago
If I just got my hands on a few million CC's I wouldn't tell my shady "friends" either. Not even for the lulz. In fact, I'd be peeing my pants if I saw that in the SQL-dump I just downloaded through a couple of proxies.
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by romland 15y ago
While I think I agree with you, but rule #1 when doing client-server development is: Never, ever, trust the client. And, ironically, something which I think Sony forgot here. :)
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by romland 16y ago
I guess it's inevitable that we have these sort of meta discussions right now, and I'll bite. How does this become spam? Or, let's say you used the wrong word and didn't mean "spam" -- how is this article or its author somehow bad for HN ri
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by romland 16y ago
While I can see where you come from, I just read the article and found it quite interesting and can see why people would upvote it. I like the fact that a new user can come in here and get their article on the front-page and to me this is a
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by romland 16y ago
This almost sounds as if it's a bug, say, an int that flipped over. Wouldn't an unsigned 16 bit int of milliseconds flip over after some 8-9 years? On the other hand, it's a bit hard to believe that IBM Security Systems would miss that... S

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