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by shabble 13y ago
One thing I don't see mentioned nearly enough is, if you're using extended globs, it's possible to tab-complete virtually all of it, which doubles as a handy reference. For example: setopt extglob cd *(<tab> ~~ massive
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by shabble 13y ago
http://thepaperbay.com/ (By HN's jacquesm, I believe[1]) [1] http://jacquesmattheij.com/introducing-thepaperbay
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by shabble 13y ago
Not to mention, there's actually one of the first disks aboard a ESA comet exploring probe[1], set to park on " Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko" some time next year. [1] http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Rosetta/Rose...
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by shabble 13y ago
Not to mention the ever-present zombie threat[1][2] [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10516762?dopt=Citation [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_contaminated_cell_line...
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by shabble 13y ago
OT: Suddenly the name of the Tor control panel project[1] makes a lot more sense. [1] https://www.torproject.org/projects/vidalia.html.en
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by shabble 13y ago
> For the other regulatory practices mentioned in the article, especially washing chicken carcasses, I'd like to see more detailed evidence of the safety trade-offs involved in the practices of the United States and of Europe. There w
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by shabble 13y ago
You might be thinking of 'The Outer Limits' episode 'The Light Brigade'[1] va juvpu jr yrnea nobhg gur vzcbegnapr bs vapyhqvat orggre snvyfnsrf va bhe cynarg-ohfgref. [rotted for spoilers] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Light_Brigad
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by shabble 13y ago
Matthias (the author of woodgears.ca) sells a very handy app for designing various types of gear, available from http://woodgears.ca/gear/index.html (there's an online flash version, but I've had troubles getting it to work properly in th
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by shabble 13y ago
The more mundane current variety (well, slightly advanced) make something of a showing in his 'Rule 34'[1] as well. Doctorow's 'Makers'[2] is another, at a similar level. Programmable molecular assemblers, if they're even possible (see: the
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by shabble 13y ago
I'm not sure it's any more resistant to rubber-hose attacks ("What's your private key/passphrase?" vs "Where did you bury your gold stash?"). Perhaps a little more convenient, though.
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by shabble 13y ago
Meant in the spirit of http://www.howtospotapsychopath.com/2012/01/07/domestic-chem... , I presume.
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by shabble 13y ago
re your footnote, there was a relatively recent article[1] on 'mapping the IPv4 space' via ICMP ping, which proved it was entirely feasible, although it pales in comparison to the effort required for a full portscan of each host (and the be
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by shabble 13y ago
> You could get a phantascopic system planted directly on your retinas, > just as Bud's sound system lived on his eardrums. You could even get > telæsthetics patched into your spinal column at various key > vertebrae. But t
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by shabble 13y ago
You may have just re-invented the Hardware Security Module(HSM)[1] :-) See also [2] for a cute implementation using an Arduino to secure an AWS API key [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_security_module [2] http://stefan.arentz.c
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by shabble 13y ago
You should remember to use constant-time comparison when checking for equality in your stored procedure though; do databases typically provide functions/operators for that? It's something just as easy to get wrong in application code, but g
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by shabble 13y ago
If I'm interpreting the 'reasonable excess' requirement correctly, I think you can get a total sum of 3 coins? Lbh cnl jvgu bar gjb-uhaqerq cyhf bar gjragl, naq erprvir bar svsgl-crapr va punatr. Edit: Duh, on re-reading I totally misunders
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by shabble 13y ago
Due to a malicious denial of service attack, likely by our competitors, in which they leverage forum-promulgated references, which through human-mediated multiple hyper-text transfer protocol requests to our blog hosting infrastructure, att
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by shabble 14y ago
Somewhat-related: a teardown of a rubidium standard probably similar to the one mentioned in the article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymV9LwhD0W0
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by shabble 14y ago
Some of hte ideas from http://www.w3.org/1999/04/Editing/ might come in handy there. What realistic usage scenarios are there for multiple clients concurrently uploading (parts of) the same file?
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by shabble 14y ago
Turns out that the fingertip pulse oximeter[1] I have works surprisingly well on a toe. Probably only applicable if you work from home though. [1] http://www.nonin.com/OEMSolutions/WristOx2-Model-3150-OEM
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by shabble 14y ago
when I have some time and can dig out my pulse oximeter, I'll see if I can hack it in for comparison. Based on trying to take my pulse manually it certainly seemed in the ballpark, and got even better/stronger locked results from using my t
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by shabble 14y ago
works for me on OSX 10.7.5, with opencv @2.4.4_3+python27 installed via macports. I did have to downgrade to the ffmpeg (ffmpeg @1.2_1+gpl2+nonfree) port (from ffmpeg-devel) due to build errors in opencv, but worked ok after that. Couple of
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by shabble 14y ago
ICBW, but no, I don't think it does, except it perhaps a narrow set of circumstances. Compulsory Licensing[1] is maybe what you're thinking of, but from what I can tell seems to apply mostly to drug patents, or things {the,a} government wan
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by shabble 14y ago
The actual quote was "after suffering a reported theft of 60,000 barrels of oil per day from its Nembe Creek Trunkline pipeline, Shell Nigeria shuts off the pipe for 9 days to repair damage." which to me sounds like damage caused by the t
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by shabble 14y ago
That was my immediate reaction upon seeing it as well, although in this case I noticed that it was sent to me+scribd@example.com, which was indeed the mail that I signed up with. Whilst it's mostly useful for filtering/labelling or figuring
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by shabble 14y ago
If I'm understanding kpumuk's comment elsewhere in the thread[1], if you got notified/test positive on their check page[2], then you are at risk if you've reused those credentials, since they were grandfathered hashes with weak protection.
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by shabble 14y ago
c.f. http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/bless.html
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by shabble 14y ago
I think that's the idea behind Go's 'gofmt'[1] tool; it even ships with a few scripts suitable for VCS commit hooks[2] It's an idea I've thought about before; allow users to define some sort of style profile for their editor, and reformat t
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by shabble 14y ago
If this is what it sounds like, and the "exploit" was google indexing a bunch of URLs which allowed direct access to the funds they referenced, how did google discover them in the first place? There was mention of a missing/broken robots.tx
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by shabble 14y ago
hmm, how about the redefinition of the 'profession' field in the form making it lose its original max_length validator?

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