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by zorked 12y ago
Of Mere Being The palm at the end of the mind, Beyond the last thought, rises In the bronze distance. A gold-feathered bird Sings in the palm, without human meaning, Without human feeling, a foreign song. You know then tha
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by zorked 12y ago
It's similar to Applescript in that it's a "read-only" language.
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by zorked 12y ago
Which is exactly why the browsers should do just that.
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by zorked 12y ago
In Latin America, Latin America is seen as part of "the West". In Europe and the US, "the West" is a different entity that includes only Europe and the US, Canada, Australia and NZ. Different things are meant by the term
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by zorked 12y ago
Brazil has reduced smoking by 35% since 2000 using mandatory scary pictures in the packaging, restrictions on advertisement, restrictions on public smoking and mandatory minimal prices. Whether packaging alone works, who knows. The combinat
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by zorked 12y ago
That's what you would interpret if you heard someone say "open source" but that would have been two words put together, not a term. The OSI people invented the term.
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by zorked 12y ago
I meant "all JVM implementations of languages that also exist in C". Sorry I was unclear.
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by zorked 12y ago
All C implementations of languages that exist on the JVM start fast. All JVM implementations are slow. How is this not a JVM problem?
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by zorked 12y ago
tarsnap accepts bitcoins
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by zorked 12y ago
I can't help but think what a failure of the Linux user land this is - we're essentially saying the only thing we can count on being there is the kernel?
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by zorked 12y ago
Oh, that kind of thing still exists. Took me all of two seconds to find it: http://www.androidgamehacks.net/forums/ And just like hacking with Game Genie was unusual back then, jailbreaking devices, hacking .apk files
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by zorked 12y ago
Where?
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by zorked 12y ago
Well, keep the windows open :)
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by zorked 12y ago
I live in a very touristy city where plain-old taxi drivers adopted a taxi app (EasyTaxi). We don't have Uber or anything and the taxi app uses regular, licensed taxis. The fact that I live in a boring neighborhood where regular people
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Typing the Letters A-E-S Into Your Code (2009)(chargen.matasano.com)
168 points by zorked 12y ago|63 comments
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by zorked 12y ago
Amazon crawls Github looking for keys and disabled it. Happened to my company once!
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by zorked 12y ago
While it is far more likely that Everett is wrong, science has to start somewhere, and Pirahã people exist on this planet and other people could go check the story. You can absolutely prove him wrong. Coming up with crazy ideas based on som
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AWS Data Transfer Price Reduction(aws.amazon.com)
1 points by zorked 12y ago|0 comments
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by zorked 12y ago
So it worked exactly like YouTube?
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by zorked 12y ago
Three things about the MSP430: * it's a very clean/beautiful/regular architecture, so people who want to do low-level stuff will find it a very good place to start * Matasano made a security CTF that is based on hacking softw
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by zorked 12y ago
Something like Certificate Transparency would counter that - where the browser can only accept certificates that have been made public record. So the owners will at least know when their domain has been attacked.
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by zorked 12y ago
That is because Centos 7 was just released. Let's talk again four years from now.
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by zorked 12y ago
But how can we be sure? Maybe we need another level of oversight...
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by zorked 12y ago
Your country's government has been toppled by a totalitarian junta. You, as a leader of the opposition, use Facebook to mobilize the persecuted democratic counter-revolution. You don't want your government to know where you are, b
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by zorked 12y ago
The ads that follow you are called retargeting and the reason why they are used is... because they work! They get dramatically more clicks and conversions than other ads. There are also less obvious retargeting ads where websites trade thei
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How secure is TextSecure?(eprint.iacr.org)
137 points by zorked 12y ago|28 comments
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Lean design(blog.rainforestqa.com)
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"Island" is completely pro-sex, anti-monogamy.
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Making sure crypto remains insecure [pdf](cr.yp.to)
439 points by zorked 12y ago|171 comments
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Can we as a community move on from this? If someone feels like forking a distro "because systemd", let them, and it's only newsworthy if it's successful. We could also move on from the accusations of "betraying the

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