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by shirkey 13y ago
Not sure what is 'emphatically not true' with the OP. Americans are required to state global income over some threshold (I believe it was around $91K this tax year). Few other countries apply a tax to wages earned overseas by citizens. Afte
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Yahoo Japan Data Breach: 22M Accounts Exposed (10% of all Yahoo accounts)(informationweek.com)
43 points by shirkey 13y ago|20 comments
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by shirkey 13y ago
"There was sensitive information in the document that happened to be 100% of the contents, this was redacted." Is it a defensible position to assume that 100% of a document was excised as sensitive data? Since the subject of the memo itself
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by shirkey 13y ago
"Is that really a broken system or just a few bad apples?" The state was built to serve the interest of the general public and yet today does not produce the necessary signals to indicate it is functioning correctly to that purpose. We are
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by shirkey 13y ago
...just as every politician learns to create a persona. "The caricature of President Bush is that of a good ol’ boy from Texas who is principled and tough, but just not that bright." Whether genuine or not, that was the caricature he cultiv
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Hacker says security flaw let him access any Facebook profile(news.cnet.com)
26 points by shirkey 14y ago|5 comments
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by shirkey 14y ago
>Python's issue is that a non-fundamental aspect of programming has been paired with a fundamental aspect of programming. Python's "issue" is that it considers readability as a fundamental aspect of programming and that whitespace is cr
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How to run your own mainframe Linux(linux.com)
27 points by shirkey 14y ago|5 comments
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by shirkey 14y ago
Passpack ( http://www.passpack.com ) for centralized password sharing among remote team members. Previously using Keepass, which is great but difficult to sync. Yes, passwords in the cloud -- I never thought I'd do it either.
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Amazon Route 53 Introduces DNS failover(docs.aws.amazon.com)
72 points by shirkey 14y ago|24 comments
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by shirkey 14y ago
Have a look at: https://code.google.com/p/or-tools/
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by shirkey 14y ago
"Stuart says authorities specifically told him that they would not use the backdoor themselves but that he would be expected to access the servers of online casinos and others who used his software overseas in order to retrieve the informat
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by shirkey 14y ago
Great idea -- here's a slightly modified version that works on Ubuntu: https://gist.github.com/4238621
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Black Friday: CrashPlan offering free Personal/Family plans(crashplan.com)
1 points by shirkey 14y ago|0 comments
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by shirkey 14y ago
Seconding @scottmcleod as well as @taligent below -- key issues with Bali are traffic and tourists. You could also consider neighboring Lombok / Gili islands which are growing more expensive and more trendy, or if you find you can do withou
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Twitter Turns Over Messages in Occupy Wall Street Protest Case(nytimes.com)
1 points by shirkey 14y ago|0 comments
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Ahhhh No robots(ftalphaville.ft.com)
1 points by shirkey 14y ago|0 comments
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Locate within ecryptfs(alexconrad.org)
2 points by shirkey 14y ago|0 comments
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by shirkey 14y ago
Since there is really no demonstration or walkthrough on their home page to explain their analytics tools, I followed their hinted example of www.qrafi.com by typ www.google.com, which generated the following unhelpful error message: snip:
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by shirkey 14y ago
You ask a compelling question with "who needs to leave Microsoft for you stop cringing?". I'd suggest it is an institutional problem, and while not completely unique to Microsoft (see Apple, Oracle), it is embodied within nearly every aspec
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JQuery Annotations plugin(annotateit.org)
1 points by shirkey 14y ago|0 comments
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by shirkey 15y ago
Using the @ symbol as the hook for a function call would seem to be not only dangerous (corner cases of email or twitter address) but also superfluous -- if Mojito is acting as the web server, shouldn't every request be mapped to some sor