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by vabmit 14y ago
The rogue DNS servers are reporting MIT's main web server IP for all DNS name queries (other than for the main web server's name) to people that are off campus. So, to someone outside MIT (depending on DNS caching), it looks like everything
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by vabmit 14y ago
Yes. But, they look for another input that has the same hash and for which they also have other secret information. For example, a PGP public key with the same hash (Fingerprint) for which they have a valid private key thereby affording the
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by vabmit 14y ago
The primary use case is identity fraud in financial transactions, software distribution, or in private communications. For example, PGP v4 Key IDs are a subset of PGP v4 Key Fingerprints. PGP v4 Key Fingerprints are SHA1 hashes of some prot
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ValueYahoo: Leadership Change Social Media Campaign(facebook.com)
1 points by vabmit 15y ago|0 comments
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by vabmit 15y ago
The guys are from the Seasteading Institute team. Patri is essentially resigning from operations and getting ready to focus on related commercial ventures (start-ups). You can get the full story in the latest newsletter: http://seastea
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The Blueseed Project - Opening Silicon Valley To The World(blueseed.co)
75 points by vabmit 15y ago|33 comments
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by vabmit 15y ago
I couldn't get this site to work. No matter what I did, it kept telling me my e-mail was invalid. It sent me an e-mail verification that I clicked on and it told me it verified it at that time. Some other points: - The very odd location
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by vabmit 16y ago
This is a question for a local lawyer with expertise in import/export law. You'd likely have no problem at all finding a lawyer or firm with experience and specialization in Chinese trade. They'd have not only knowledge of Chinese law, bu
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by vabmit 16y ago
http://www.zazzle.com/ is already very dominant and vertically integrated in that space. Did you knowingly launch a clone? Or, think that this was an original idea? How do you hope to compete with them and the others doing the same thi
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by vabmit 16y ago
I'm going. I'll make a blog post about it and provide a link. I heard about it because I signed up for the MITEF's mailing list (I was a member a few years ago). They often have some very good events. The events can be a little expensive
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by vabmit 16y ago
I'd invest in a way that didn't consume thousands of hours worth of my time. I'd do what Mark Cuban recommended people like those found on HN (young entrepreneurs who want to launch a start-up) do: 6 month term back CD's: http://blogmaver
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by vabmit 16y ago
I primarily met other programmers and like minded people on IRC, open source project mailing lists, or at cons. If you really want frequent f2f contact with other developers, I'd suggest moving to SFBA (if you're not already there). If wor
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Google to Trade Wholesale U.S. Electricity(bloomberg.com)
5 points by vabmit 17y ago|0 comments
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MIT report reveals biotechnology funding troubles(web.mit.edu)
2 points by vabmit 17y ago|0 comments
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by vabmit 17y ago
How will you make money with this site? I don't think using it is enough of a value add for people that you'll ever see the tremendous amount of traffic necessary these days to earn even a small amount of money from advertising.
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The Digital Economy's Coming Subprime Crisis (AdRev Problems)(blogs.harvardbusiness.org)
5 points by vabmit 17y ago|1 comments
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by vabmit 17y ago
There is a start-up here in Cambridge, MA that was founded by a couple of MIT Grad Students called Course Zero Automation: http://www.coursezero.com/ I've talked with them about their rates for working on physical device start-ups with me
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by vabmit 17y ago
I've done it for cryptography code and cryptanalysis code. Specifically, optimizing code to take advantage of specific instructions available in certain processors or to make use of vector registers and instructions. I wrote my programs i
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by vabmit 17y ago
Is this just a project? Or, is it a start-up? If it's just a project, then it's probably just a hobby and you can make the decision based on how much you enjoy your hobby. If it's meant to be a start-up, then I think you need to focus on p
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by vabmit 17y ago
You have to be careful to do major registrations quickly. I registered the twitter account (made a tweet), registered the facebook account (added only some very basic profile information), and then went to register the Google account only
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by vabmit 17y ago
http://www.cofoundr.com/user/login Cofoundr was started a few years ago by a Google engineer. My personal experience is that I've met the people I've partnered with on start-ups/projects in three places: 1. Local Entrepreneurs' Club (
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by vabmit 17y ago
vab@mit.edu It would be nice if it's in Cambridge or Boston proper. I suspect many people who would attend would also go to something like Mass. Innovation Nights. But, those are all the way out in Waltham, MA. So, I never go. There's a
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by vabmit 17y ago
I taught myself acoustic guitar. First, I learned from books and websites. Then when YouTube came out, I found a lot of very good "How to Play Song X" videos on it. I really enjoyed learning to play. Spending 5-10 hours a week away from m
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by vabmit 17y ago
My comment is tangential to the actual discussion. It doesn't so much apply to companies with $5MM in funding as larger competitors. But, I'll post it here anyway because it relates a scenario that a founder needs to be concerned about whe
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by vabmit 18y ago
I'm the person responsible for administering the server that powers this open archive. The type of data you mention is being included in the archive when ever possible. Further, the research group I work for has existing specific open dat
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by vabmit 18y ago
One way that you can do this is through a retail stock broker, like TD Ameritrade, with CurrencyShares ETF's ( http://www.currencyshares.com/ ). I've done this with positions in the AUD and Swiss Franc. Those two currencies tend to move