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by wizard_2 17y ago
From the article. A team of scientists has succeeded in putting an object large enough to be visible to the naked eye into a mixed quantum state of moving and not moving. According to quantum theory, particles act as waves rather than po
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Team of scientists puts visible object into quantum ground state(nature.com)
22 points by wizard_2 17y ago|5 comments
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by wizard_2 17y ago
Most virus scanners will only scan compressed files 4-7 levels deep. Its configurable in Norton, mcaffee, and clamav.
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by wizard_2 17y ago
Remember when AOL purposely released search data? They tried to think it through and took steps to anonymize the data before they let anyone look at it. A lot of interesting things fell out of it, a lot more then you'd expect. http://consu
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by wizard_2 17y ago
The tool is probably for decrypting the passwords. The Passwords are probably hashed for verification to their website, etc, and then encrypted to a key which is encrypted to each tech's password as they hire new techs. I'm sorry, I should
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by wizard_2 17y ago
Lines like "The result is a perfect pure bug free 3D engine that gives Unlimited Geometry running super fast, and it's all done in software." Set off my bullshit detector immediately. I hope this is real, but I'd love to see maybe.. some so
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by wizard_2 17y ago
Wish I could make that too, but Ottawa is a little out of my travel budget this year. Also, I'm only going to get to goto one or two conferences this year and I'm not that interested in BSDCan since I don't use free BSD beyond my wireless r
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by wizard_2 17y ago
Half of my day job is supporting about 40 users in our companies New York office. The last 4 infections that I've been able to look into involved adobe reader in one form or another. I've only seen one malicious pdf file, most of the time i
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by wizard_2 17y ago
I just confirmed in slicehost chat, that while the kernel itself will still be 64 bit and use a little bit more ram then a 32 bit kernel, all the other programs will be 32bit and in theory run with less memory consumption.
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by wizard_2 17y ago
Jungle Disk can use your own encryption keys ;-)
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by wizard_2 17y ago
I hope what mseebach is predicting happens, but I do think something will eventually end up happening. Every week it seems I hear of impossible to enforce laws trying to regulate behavior or thought. (just today, trying to make open source
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by wizard_2 17y ago
HipHop will completely invalidate your need for Xcache as you now have an executable instead of php. You can probably get away with nginx for static and proxy it to HipHop'd php for your php. But that's still overkill in most situations. Th
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by wizard_2 17y ago
I don't agree - I try to do security patches every few days, and major upgrades when I have time to test them. The hard part is keeping tabs on what servers need them. I have 7 or 8 vm's and when they're not involved in a project they're ea
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by wizard_2 17y ago
This actually angers me a lot, but I understand people who run case sensitive file systems on their mac's are a strong minority. I can't help but think it's due to Adobe being lazy. I actually do use Photoshop and Illustrator quite a bit, b
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by wizard_2 17y ago
For the PDF avoidant. MPEG LA’s AVC License Will Continue Not to Charge Royalties for Internet Video that is Free to End Users (DENVER, CO, US – 2 February 2010) – MPEG LA announced today that its AVC Patent Portfolio License will continue
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by wizard_2 17y ago
Is there a moment to "clear" the H.264 issues? I have the understanding that the people who own the copyright are making plenty of money off of it and it quite a popular format. I don't see why they would give that up.
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by wizard_2 17y ago
It's not bad design but I have to point out that he's following in Dustin Curtis's footsteps quite closely. Each article is complete with its custom design and an obvious amount of effort goes into the look of each one. http://dustincurtis
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by wizard_2 17y ago
My problem is my hands start to hurt after typing on a netbook for any length of time. I usually use synergy to share a keyboard and mouse with my desktop and laptop, and honestly do more of my development on my mac laptop then my pc deskto
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by wizard_2 17y ago
You could probably write something to expire the salt and next time that user logs in providing their plain text password a new salt could be generated and a new hash could be saved.
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by wizard_2 17y ago
If I recall you can't use any scripted languages on the ipod as part of the developers license. Has that changed?
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by wizard_2 17y ago
Neither do I, I'm just saying it's making them very profitable, much more so then the developer fee. So much more that I don't see the developer fee as a source of income.
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by wizard_2 17y ago
I'm curious what other experienced people think about this article. I've been working as a consultant for about 5 years now and recently started working on a startup, so while I like working with a constant team (as opposed to a different c
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by wizard_2 17y ago
They also take 30% of every app you sell. The fact I bought doodle jump underwrote the developer tools. As of this year they are the single biggest mobile company due to their app and phone sales. The $100 a developer isn't much of a profit
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by wizard_2 17y ago
Slug?
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by wizard_2 17y ago
Yes, but with Android or any other powerful OS (osx, windows, linux) you can go to anybody else's shelves and have any product they'll sell you. With the iPhone you can only shop at the company store.
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by wizard_2 17y ago
He's not saying he's going to try it, he's tried it, for his market it worked for him.
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by wizard_2 17y ago
Its another brick in the wall. As long as you're not fooling yourself into thinking it's all you need, it aids in not making things easier for people to figure out and slightly raises the bar against intrusion. "Defense in Depth" is the onl
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by wizard_2 17y ago
how would you log in to turn it off?
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by wizard_2 17y ago
I bring this up whenever I want to point out how law lags behind technology and ends up doing silly things like making a number illegal, or making cracking cyphers like rot13 a felony. That is to say, breaking even simple encryption a felon
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by wizard_2 17y ago
Now I can pretend this isn't a personal problem! Honestly though, at my day job, IT work has shifted from setting up new systems and replacing bad ones, to making bad ones work, and telling people what they have isn't so bad. (This goes for

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