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by tomku 14y ago
It seems like a lot of people are objecting to the raid/seizure itself in addition to the possibility of conviction, so I have a question. Is it reasonable for the police to investigate an exit node operator for traffic coming from his nod
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by tomku 14y ago
Should law enforcement just say "Oh, you have an open Wifi hotspot/you're running a Tor exit node, I guess this is a dead end, thanks for your time"? Investigating (including seizing equipment) to determine whether the traffic in question
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by tomku 14y ago
I don't own Crysis 2 to test, sorry. The only program that I had installed that flat-out broke due to the upgrade was actually Media Player Classic Home Cinema, which works fine now after updating to the latest version. Edit: To expand a l
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by tomku 14y ago
I can only assume that he actually means "we have less competition on Linux", because my experience with Windows 8 as a gamer has been pretty damn good. Everything gaming-related works just as well as Win7, as far as I can tell. The games
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by tomku 14y ago
My mini-review, from about halfway through WWTCPS: Just as in "Working with Unix Processes", Jesse really knows how to explain things clearly and concisely, which is a rare gift among tech authors. The frequent code examples reinforce with
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by tomku 14y ago
My calculations might be wrong, but 2.5 kW * 24 hours * 31 days is 1860 kWh, and the utility bill sitting on my desk says I'm paying about $0.10 per kWh. That's $186 a month, which pays for an awful lot of vacuuming. I'm sure that they're
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by tomku 14y ago
Question for the author: are these things that YOU knew before working on the projects that required them?
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by tomku 14y ago
Firefox defaults to not proxying DNS, but if you set "network.proxy.socks_remote_dns" to true in about:config, it will happily do so for SOCKS proxies. If you use FoxyProxy (which is pretty damn useful if you proxy over an SSH tunnel regul
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by tomku 14y ago
I'm looking at the same problem at the moment. PGM sounds really interesting, but I think that the time investment just isn't going to be workable for me unless I drop several of my other classes. My current plan is to watch the PGM video
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by tomku 14y ago
Yawn, more script kiddie antics against arbitrary targets masquerading as political activism. Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't see how this "raises awareness" about anything except TeamGhostShell's ability to do mass SQL injection.
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by tomku 14y ago
> Now, if only I could easily install these apps outside the steam folder. My main drive is getting full. The current Steam beta has support for multiple installation folders. It's a little rough right now, but it seems like something
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by tomku 14y ago
The syntax reminds me of a mixture of VB and Python, but it certainly seems to have a lot of interesting features that you don't see together often. Anyone here have experience using it?
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by tomku 14y ago
It's a little more complicated than that. Using /usr/bin/env in your shebang is effectively a way to say "I don't care which executable you run this with". If the executable doesn't actually matter, that's fine - bash scripts probably don
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by tomku 14y ago
I've read a lot of books in the author's preferred formats (PDF and HTML5 websites), and my experience has been mixed. PDFs are amazing for technical books, and I definitely prefer them for any kind of book with diagrams, code samples or pi
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by tomku 14y ago
That's a perfect example of something that is both easy AND a headache. It's not certainly difficult to do, but I don't want to be replacing my gvim executable with one provided by an anonymous forum user just to make one script work. Ign
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by tomku 14y ago
There's an update posted by the campaign here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=102022.0 tl;dr: They're returned the anonymous donations, and are now only accepting donations of up to $100 USD with your name and address, or up to $
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by tomku 14y ago
I'll edit my post, you're absolutely right.
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by tomku 14y ago
The Chromium package in Ubuntu is several major versions behind, and I would definitely not suggest using it. Debian has up-to-date versions in sid. Firefox on Ubuntu gets timely (within a couple days of upstream) updates, and the officia
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by tomku 14y ago
This is the same leak that claimed to have "CIA records", which actually turned out to be from http://ciaservices.com/ instead of the government agency. There's a lot of hype surrounding this that seems to be total bullshit. The "1 mill
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by tomku 14y ago
"Included in the leak are, CIA accounts/records, banks, politicians, you name it, they hacked it — to the tune of one million accounts and records leaked." The "CIA accounts/records" mentioned seem to be from http://www.ciaservices.com/ .
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by tomku 14y ago
It's worth noting that this isn't the addition of an honor code. Prior to this, every student already agrees to an honor code when they visit the active class page for the first time. The new part is that they're adding a click-through re
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by tomku 14y ago
Coursera is based in the US and taught by US professors. Their teaching methods are based on US societal norms because that's what they believe to be most effective. If you disagree, you're free to not take their classes. You're also fre
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by tomku 14y ago
It's a small (virtual) world... when I read your username I thought it sounded familiar, and now I'm pretty sure that I've been a jerk to you on IRC before! Congrats on quitting FFXI and finishing your PhD, and greetings from a certain for
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by tomku 14y ago
I think that lack of self-control is a critical part in both heroin addicts and game addicts, but the heroin jump-starts the addictive cycle within your brain directly while the gaming takes a slower and more indirect route.
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by tomku 14y ago
Could be, but the parts about game addiction itself are dead on with my experiences. I effectively lost six years of my life and dropped out of college. While I was playing the game, that seemed like a reasonable loss - it was only after
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by tomku 14y ago
As somebody who went through nearly the exact same experience with a different game several years ago, it's really disappointing (and unhelpful) to see so much emphasis put on the game. Starcraft 2 didn't destroy his life, his lack of self
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by tomku 14y ago
I don't know that there is one, I just meant "better" from a branding perspective. Interesting question though, I'd love to know if there was TLD-specific bumps.
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by tomku 14y ago
It's still better to have the .com anyways, because then you aren't potentially competing on SEO with someone else with the same brand name and a "better" domain to use it with. Like it or not, .com domains are the de facto namespace for c
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by tomku 14y ago
I'll add another reason: People will mistakenly go to <yourname>.com in droves, regardless of how easy it is to remember or how clever the domain/TLD split is. Having a cute short url is trendy, but it doesn't mean you can avoid th
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by tomku 14y ago
I agree about the vi vs. vim part, I just suggested :N since the book itself was (as far as I could tell) strictly staying vi-compatible. :Next going backwards compared to :next is a little confusing at first, but it actually fits the same

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