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811.
by rst 13y ago
Many of these scripts run on to pages, particularly if they attempt to cope with multiple systems. Tracing through what they do can be a real pain. (My personal policy is that anything that asks to be installed this way does not get the sc
812.
by rst 13y ago
Dismissive sneers at the opposition aren't an attempt to provoke or engage debate. They're an attempt to sideline it, and effectively shut it down.
813.
by rst 13y ago
I did vote for a candidate in 2008 who opposed the Bush administration's massive build-up of surveillance infrastructure: Obama. By 2012, it was clear he wasn't following through, but the other candidate on offer would almost cer
814.
by rst 13y ago
What IBM's mainframes do directly, and what the sales guys do push aggressively given half a chance, is what's now called "private cloud": hosting virtual-machine instances which can be quickly provisioned or shut down,
815.
by rst 13y ago
The relevant French: "depuis quelques mois, nous avons eu plusieurs affaires juridiques lié à l'utilisation de plusieurs réseaux TOR dans le cas de la pedo et on va désormais l'interdire au même titre que tous les systèmes d
816.
by rst 13y ago
Like the way Livejournal lets users with paid accounts choose which userpic appears next to a comment? I believe they've been doing this for years...
817.
by rst 13y ago
Unfortunately, bare-bones Android may get barer and more awkward over time, if they migrate more services from the core OS into "Google Play Services". As an example, the new geofencing APIs that they announced at the last Google
818.
by rst 13y ago
Perhaps better phantomjs ( http://phantomjs.org ), perhaps using casper ( http://casperjs.org ) on top to handle some of the glue code. Phantomjs is a full headless browser (it'll give you screenshots of the pages
819.
by rst 13y ago
Actually, the lunar descents were all on autopilot until fairly close to the surface. And even when the astronauts took "manual" control, the LEM was still fly-by-wire, like a lot of modern aircraft: the guidance computer was re
820.
Verizon "femtocells" easily hacked for wiretapping(reuters.com)
8 points by rst 13y ago|0 comments
821.
by rst 13y ago
Correction: Yahoo did fight, and lost. The details aren't all released, but here's a precis of what's public: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/06/yahoo-failed-fisa-f... It's possibl
822.
by rst 13y ago
Catch up with what? One of the differentiators of Windows Phone was originally supposed to be that Microsoft wasn't allowing reskinning at all, and while the "special relationship" with Nokia was rumored to allow them a litt
823.
by rst 13y ago
In this situation, first-come first-served is clearly imperfect, but it at least avoids the bias that you get with surge pricing: service only to the financially well-off.
824.
by rst 13y ago
She's complaining about the flat structure because it was unwilling to accommodate hardware specialists (e.g., a machinist) which her project needed, but which the software-centric crowd just wouldn't hire. The specific complaint
825.
by rst 13y ago
From a recent interview with Brewster Kahle[1]: Q: Do you encrypt all your own email, as a result of this stuff? A: No, that's really hard. Brewster is the founder of the Internet Archive; the subject of the interview wa
826.
by rst 13y ago
On the one hand, you're understating the case: Cryptocat has often been breakable within days to attackers with very modest resources. On the other hand, you're missing the point. If crypto software is going to be used, it has t
827.
Boston University Sues Apple Over Gallium Nitride Thin Film Patent(macrumors.com)
2 points by rst 13y ago|0 comments
828.
by rst 13y ago
The flip side of that is that full rides are more easily available at some very good schools than most people realize; Harvard expects zero financial contribution from any family with total income of $65,000 or less, rising to 10% of inco
829.
by rst 13y ago
Was hoping to see more discussion of backups. There are a bunch of possible approaches (depending on level of desired security, what the VPS provider offers, and how much you trust them), but for a mail server, there ought to be something.
830.
by rst 13y ago
The Post describes FBI-maintained equipment on company premises. It doesn't seem likely that Google's controls on their own infrastructure (or, say, Facebook's) are so lax that a few racks full of stuff could show up at thei
831.
by rst 13y ago
The Senators' letter had a classified attachment describing specifics (which, of course, was not publicly released --- but the NSA certainly has it).
832.
by rst 13y ago
More likely Fermat was just mistaken. There have been numerous flawed proofs over the years --- most likely Fermat stumbled on one of those, realized the error (hence, never published), but never bothered to correct the note he'd left
833.
by rst 13y ago
The homeless didn't seem to be an issue in the "Fareless Square" in Portland, Oregon, at least the times I visited. (It existed from 1975 to 2012, and was discontinued because the local transit authority was short on cash.)
834.
by rst 13y ago
One of the few things Rails LTS adds to prior 2.3 branches is a "hardened" set of security settings that turns off rarely-used and potentially vulnerable arg-parsing code.
835.
by rst 13y ago
King lived in a world where extra-judicial killings were frequent in the South, and the perpetrators (many with connections to local law enforcement) had effective impunity. As to Federal law enforcement, the FBI tried to blackmail him pers
836.
by rst 13y ago
If there were a weakness in the client, it would be more likely to do with key management --- leaking a portion of the key (as Lotus Notes did once upon a time), generating keys from a non-obviously restricted set (viz. the infamous Debian
837.
by rst 13y ago
Counterexample: the northernmost part of New York City is the Bronx, which is far from the priciest. (Inwood, the northernmost part of Manhattan, also isn't as expensive as portions of the island to the south.)
838.
by rst 13y ago
In Detroit?
839.
by rst 13y ago
OP might have seen some press about the "CALEA II" proposals that the FBI is widely reported to be shopping around Washington, which would, reportedly, impose large penalties for failure to wiretap on demand. (This would probably be civil
840.
by rst 13y ago
asm.js is a well-specified subset of things that are already pretty much standardized. PNaCl adds a whole lot of new stuff that has not been subject to community review, like (for instance) the entire input processing and rendering API. A

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