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   by srl 13y ago

   It's worth remembering that security (here including the information security involved in hiding identity) is not boolean. The value of the prize matters. A penny (or a diary) hidden under a mattress can be considered "secure&quot
2. 182.▲
   by srl 13y ago

   And we wonder why TOR and other privacy tools are stereotyped as being for criminals. The better - and more immediately applicable - rule is "don't break the law". Now I have the scene from "Liar, Liar" stuck in my
3. 183.▲
   by srl 13y ago

   Almost certainly. I'm at reasonably large (~15000 students on-campus), and a friend using TOR to do ... something ... got caught not because he was the only one using TOR at the time, but because he was the only one using TOR, ever --
4. 184.▲
   by srl 13y ago

   I actually prefer making ( and ) be active characters that expand, in math mode, to \left( and \right) -- as long as I never need them for anything else, I'm happy.
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   by srl 13y ago

   Is there something I don't know about Peter O'Toole, that explains the speed with which the article has shot to the top on here? I'm not trying to be the annoying "this doesn't belong in my yard" guy, but this
6. 186.▲
   by srl 13y ago

   Parts per million versus parts per trillion. Assuming the math is that simple (I think it is), CO2 is the larger contributor by five orders of magnitude.
7. 187.▲
   by srl 13y ago

   Seconded. It's very popular these days to bash congress for not getting anything done, but it has its upsides. I'm pretty far left, and I wish the far-right wasn't quite so powerful, but I am glad the republican party is ther
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   by srl 13y ago

   I would expect that the two aren't independent -- the proportion of black women to black men could well be very much higher than the proportion of white women to white men. The same qualities and situation that help a black man become
9. 189.▲
   by srl 13y ago

   I suspect moderates (and more senior folk) in both parties will tend to threaten a nay-vote on more extreme nominees, both in the interest of having a sane court system (in the case of moderates), and to avoid provoking retaliation from the
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    by srl 13y ago

    This doesn't answer the question - you described /how/ you solved some problem, not what problem you're actually solving. (Mind you, at my writing this is the top comment, so I don't think you're getting many d
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    by srl 13y ago

    The paper: http://lizier.me/joseph/publications/2013-Barnett-InfoFlowIs...
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    by srl 13y ago

    > If anything, JFK's story reinforces for me the great amount of latitude we can have in a president without fearing that the world is going to blow up. For me, it underlines a stronger message, since JFK is widely considered to be
13. 193.▲
    by srl 13y ago

    Since nobody else has pointed this out: the rest of the guy's website reveals him to be a stand-up comic. The ridiculousness of this post is intentional.
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    by srl 13y ago

    Because a change from $1 to $5 USD/btc is much larger than a change from $101 to $105 USD/btc. They needed two plots to show activity at two different orders of magnitude - that's the symptom. One plot with a logarithmic y ax
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    by srl 13y ago

    I don't read printed newspapers, but do see it a lot online. I haven't noticed any particular sources which seem to be rabid abusers (other than the obvious, like rt and fox, which I ignore anyway).
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    by srl 13y ago

    (American) Usually when I see it intended as a quote in the headline, the "says X named official" is either in the headline or in the lede, which will basically just be an expansion of the headline anyway. Often though, that'
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    Haskell functors versus "real" functors(bytbox.net)

    2 points by srl 13y ago|0 comments
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    by srl 13y ago

    Back when I was first learning C++. // This is what I think of websites saying not to use fflush(). fflush(stdout);
19. 199.▲
    by srl 13y ago

    I once wrote a website (a search engine for a specific set of websites) in C. It actually worked, once I spend 20 hours in valgrind. I've grown since then, in two important ways. First, I'd probably do a better job now, and not ha
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    by srl 13y ago

    When the field was getting started, managing computers was seen as secretarial work, i.e., something women should do. http://gender.stanford.edu/news/2011/researcher-reveals-how-...
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    by srl 13y ago

    Somehow, you two seem ... a bit out of place.
22. 202.▲
    by srl 13y ago

    How is defacing a page not "malicious"?
23. 203.▲
    by srl 13y ago

    The mp3 is "Hard", by Rihanna. Doesn't seem to have any exploits attempted (it plays fine in mplayer, with no funny business).
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    by srl 13y ago

    Here's the video: http://youtu.be/1PhArSujR_A (the text on the page just introduces Carmack)
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    by srl 13y ago

    I read that as somewhat tongue-in-cheek. I mean, I'm a lisp fan too, but it's not like the syntax is beautiful. (It's just "not as bad". Or that's what we tell ourselves.)
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    by srl 13y ago

    That stat shocked me too, and from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviation_safety#Statistics , it appears to be false. However, that table isn't sourced very well either. Looking at the source, he seems to be lumping
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    by srl 13y ago

    Pretty sure Hanlon's razor is in full force here. Oracle's done enough shitty stuff - we don't need to go out of our way to pin nonsense like this on them. (Besides, AFAIK, X.org is in no way a competitor to any part of oracl
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    Preventing visceral racism(esr.ibiblio.org)

    4 points by srl 13y ago|0 comments
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    Long delayed echo(en.wikipedia.org)

    1 points by srl 13y ago|0 comments
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    by srl 13y ago

    Replying to this just to let you know that it seems you've been hellbanned - each of your last three comments is [dead], although none seems offensive or inappropriate.