socillion

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by socillion 13y ago
First, some context: I haven't played or watched chess at all in about 8 years (quit when I was 12) but before that I was a competitive player. I did all the "moving past the basics" problems apart from the opening moves, a
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by socillion 13y ago
That's pretty exaggerated. http://www.oregonlive.com/education/index.ssf/2013/07/oregon...
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by socillion 13y ago
Live Free or Die Hard is the movie.
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by socillion 13y ago
That's interesting, do you have a background in hardware? I find it much easier to build a mental model from text, but I guess its because I'm not very familiar with graphical tools. I try to stay away from closed source developme
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by socillion 13y ago
This is the sort of thing I've worked with: http://img.thedailywtf.com/images/201104/labview.jpg Get 5+ of those controlling a robot and you can have a terrific time debugging. I think it's scarred me fo
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by socillion 13y ago
Snowden has alleged that Congress is not affected by NSA surveillance. Source: top answer at http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/17/edward-snowden-n...
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by socillion 13y ago
The battery is also mediocre, at least with stock Android.
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by socillion 13y ago
Maybe a riff on the burgeoning "green hat" practice of selling exploits instead of simply disclosing them, versus black hats releasing them publicly for free?
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by socillion 13y ago
I don't know enough about OpenID to comment on it. In the quoted sentence I was pointing out that it's not unusual for websites to be completely unaware that they were hacked. It would certainly be unfounded to assume a service co
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by socillion 13y ago
This isn't your problem, but HTTPS-Everywhere reproducibly breaks the page for me on Firefox with the default ruleset containing nytimes.com. Once disabled, the images load fine.
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by socillion 13y ago
An average user reuses passwords, and I have serious doubts about education ever changing that. One of the most common attacks is compromising a small website or forum, cracking hashes (hopefully it wasn't plaintext), then leveraging t
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by socillion 13y ago
Here's the decision: http://legaltimes.typepad.com/files/sterling-ruling.pdf It's 118 pages, have fun. I found it at http://www.emptywheel.net/2013/07/19/fourth-circuit-guts-nat
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by socillion 13y ago
Wardriving actually specifically refers to "the act of searching for Wi-Fi wireless networks by a person in a moving vehicle, using a portable computer, smartphone or personal digital assistant" per Wikipedia. It looks like that b
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by socillion 13y ago
I'm not sure what you're talking about. Google collects information on wireless networks for a very specific purpose - determining location to speed up or replace GPS. Skyhook Wireless is another company that sells the information
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by socillion 13y ago
If you're going to bash Microsoft, at least find an accurate point to build your case on. Skype was added to the PRISM program 8 months before being acquired by Microsoft in 2011, and was looking into how to cooperate with wiretaps sin
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by socillion 13y ago
From the government's perspective, Bitcoin could be the least of very many evils. Don't forget that the protocol logs every single transaction publicly, and companies have the usual mandatory reporting for transactions over $10,00
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by socillion 13y ago
If you know enough to be scared of drive-by injections, it's better to use NoScript than rely on other people always giving warnings. What if the poster (with an account 4 days old) was actively trying to be malicious, and nobody had n
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by socillion 13y ago
There are products designed to obscure license plates from mounted cameras while still being visible in most circumstances. I can't vouch for their effectiveness, though, and Mythbusters didn't have any success when they tested so
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by socillion 13y ago
DNS is a service that resolves a domain name to a specific IP address that handles requests for that domain, and is transparently invoked when visiting websites and other services. See Google's FAQ: https://developers.google
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by socillion 13y ago
Very possible, but people aren't perfectly logical and are unlikely to consider the opportunity costs of having fun.
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by socillion 13y ago
Any sufficiently popular online game is closely tied to real money, it doesn't matter whether the vendor officially endorses it - or even actively tries to stamp it out. The sensationalist dollar amounts seem to be the main reason that
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by socillion 13y ago
It's because the app store is an extraordinarily poor discovery mechanism for games if they aren't free - people won't pay for something they can't tell if they will enjoy, and app stores simply don't provide enough
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by socillion 13y ago
On OP's topic, another trick, used very effectively in League of Legends, is to mismatch the cost of store items and the premium currency (in-game cash equivalent). $15 buys 1500 credits, the intended purchase costs maybe 800 - people
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by socillion 13y ago
That's because of the implicit copy() only copying by value 1 level deep? On the topic of the bug in OP, would a Python newbie expect the similarly confusing behavior caused by interactions between (im)mutability and function arguments
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by socillion 13y ago
If it doesn't work without JS, is it going to work in a screen reader? Should developers have to implement extra functionality for the < 1% of people who are blind? Nobody is forcing developers to give a damn about accessibility, bu
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by socillion 13y ago
Interesting game, but I'm surprised it doesn't work better on phones - it seems like a perfect game for the medium.
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by socillion 13y ago
That's an interesting question. I don't think there is anything inherently wrong with it, but I'd hope it would be regulated either by mutual agreements between allied countries, or avoided due to potential adverse effects on
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by socillion 13y ago
The only reason blackmail works is that the target wants to keep that information private. Anyone who discovered the information could release it, including press. I think we can agree that releasing the information is thus not an act of wa
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by socillion 13y ago
I support it. I don't see what is so abhorrent since intelligence agencies were universally established for manipulation like that. I also have a hard time believing this sort of activities are specific to US agencies. http:/&#x2
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by socillion 13y ago
Ironically, this story only exists because a Canadian called the US cops and had this kid sent to prison.

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