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by smokinn 16y ago
Although the vimeo date says 10 months ago, that's just when the video was uploaded. It was only released a couple of days ago. It's a talk by tptacek on software security given at the CUSEC conference last January.
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Thomas Ptacek - America has doomed the industry. Please send help.(vimeo.com)
5 points by smokinn 16y ago|2 comments
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by smokinn 16y ago
Definitely reproducible. Chrome on w7 crashed for me as well.
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by smokinn 16y ago
Trying to cover up other people's cursor is surprisingly fun. They always try to run away and lose you in the crowd. =)
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by smokinn 16y ago
Well it's a first step. The next step is pretty obvious: Use voice recognition software to analyze the remarks made by the announcers over the course of the game and blend that into the reporting. If you can properly analyze inflection and
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by smokinn 16y ago
You pay bills? Bills are going the way of the fax machine. They'll probably always be around but for most people dealing with a bill will elicit a reaction of the "A fax? Why don't you just send it over on a dinosaur?" variety. I don't know
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by smokinn 16y ago
I'm not so sure it's a luxury. Maybe it is if your startup is servicing a group of techies who have knowledge of what problems lay in the background but most clients don't know and don't care. It's not that hard to keep up really. It's a qu
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by smokinn 16y ago
I agree with the parent. Facebook recently announced Facebook Deals (which allows advertisers to advertise based on check-in triggers from facebook's location platform) and the facebook location check-in platform I'm sure will soon dwarf fo
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by smokinn 16y ago
I'm just waiting for someone to build a searchable distributed index for bittorrent that connects you not with a peer but with a hop that just happens to be on the network. The people who actually have the files don't ever connect to the pe
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by smokinn 16y ago
Shutl seems to be in an interesting position to expand into what I thought was an obvious idea but logistical nightmare to actually execute: Why don't delivery companies sign deals with Dominoes/Pizza Hut/other big pizza chains and use thei
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by smokinn 16y ago
You got downvoted not because you're critical of Silicon Valley but because your comment was a useless 3-character "LOL" that adds nothing to the conversation. As soon as you explained why you thought it was laughable you got upvoted.
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by smokinn 16y ago
I don't understand why the media lets them get away with it. Politicians do this constantly. In the last US VP debates Palin didn't even bother answering something related. She'd say: I'm happy you asked me that but I just want to mention [
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by smokinn 16y ago
Google's suggestions sure seem to paint a clear picture though.. Shame the suggestions are at the bottom and not the top in this case: Searches related to Generational Equity generational equity scam generational equity named ru
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by smokinn 16y ago
Well it's "bad" because you lose easily findable history. One of the big things StackOverflow has going for it is permanence. Someone asks a question, gets an answer and then google indexes it for the next person who has the same problem. W
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by smokinn 16y ago
You aren't doing your employer -any- favors Normally I'd agree but in this specific case it sounded like he's the only developer. Being around just so fires can be quickly put out and so that you can transfer knowledge when the new hire a
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by smokinn 16y ago
I voted yes but I guess it depends on what you mean. On the internet I've used this nick for 14 years now and I haven't tried at all to keep it separate from my real name. So do I use something like first name/last initial, first initial/la
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by smokinn 16y ago
Another possibility is simply that people are contributing less because both the upfront and long-term cost of making a profit themselves on their code has gone radically down. Optimizely launched today. Normally A/B testing is simply a fra
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by smokinn 16y ago
So she turned him into a hipster. Honestly, most of those outfits I find pretty bad. The only one I would consider wearing myself would be the eighth outfit. poet's comment about dressing properly is way better than what was done here.
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by smokinn 16y ago
Pretty much the entire adult industry (even the very biggest sites) uses NATS as their affiliate management system. https://www.toomuchmedia.com/pp_nats.htm?tmmatt=1 The company I work for (not in the adult industry) built its own.
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by smokinn 16y ago
Maybe because it's the financial times blog instead of the actual financial times.
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by smokinn 16y ago
Screenshot. Once it's been transmitted the end user has full control. (Which is why DRM constantly fails)
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by smokinn 16y ago
It's definitely Canada that's behind. Sure, the media producers are behind but so is everything else. It's recently been decided by the CRTC a few months ago that Bell will be allowed to apply metered billing for their wholesale resellers.
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by smokinn 16y ago
http://www.stackoverflow.com ?
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The problem with statements like those is that they aren't falsifiable. If someone does come up with an example there's the easy rebuttal: Whatever they did probably just hasn't come to light yet.
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by smokinn 16y ago
Exactly. They've also said that their high false negative rate is why they clear out their records every couple of years. If you got rejected a couple years ago you can apply again and they won't be looking at your previous attempt's perfor
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by smokinn 16y ago
I've been trying to buy the Samsung Galaxy S for a week but they've been completely sold out in all of Montreal and Laval until today. This afternoon I finally found a FutureShop that had one. And they refused to sell it to me. The girl at
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by smokinn 16y ago
That's what I was thinking. It sounds much more like startups to me than cubes. The emotional attachment, the promotion of the lack of work/life boundaries, the deadlines or the company dies and the world implodes, all features of startups,
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by smokinn 16y ago
It's depressing how much of that matches up with personal experience. My first job right out of school had points 1 through 9 covered. It was only when I managed to get out that I realized I was right on the edge of a burnout. After leaving
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by smokinn 16y ago
Well, for one it's free. And storing it in a database lets you make your own reports and interact with the data any way you want, not just the way hoptoad lets you.
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by smokinn 16y ago
I think you hit the nail on the head. Everyone wants talented developers because companies typically pay them only incrementally more than lousy developers even though they're vastly more productive. Perhaps the reason people are having tro

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