chmodd

5 ms·

1.
by chmodd 13y ago
> governments who murder and torture their citizens. What about governments that murder and torture citizens of other countries? The number of Iraqi and Afghani civilians killed by the US is pretty high - this fact alone is enough to mak
2.
by chmodd 13y ago
I didn't know that! I used to be a member of FidoNet (pre-internet network that provided e-mail and usenet-like services) back in 1990s and any commercial activity and encryption was similarly prohibited - relay operators were even sup
3.
by chmodd 13y ago
I can think of at least one counterexample, namely the failure of the NSA-promoted key escrow system in 1990s (aka Clipper chip)
4.
by chmodd 13y ago
I hope it works out similarly to how proliferation of public wi-fi led to increased adoption of https.
5.
by chmodd 13y ago
It's terahash where hash means double sha256 that is used in the bitcoin proof-of-work protocol
6.
by chmodd 13y ago
Which is year 2140 or so
7.
by chmodd 13y ago
MD5 is so fast on GPUs, you can do some pretty ridiculous dictionary attacks in a matter of minutes (like trying every combination of words that has ever been written in a book or posted online - using google's n-gram corpus for exampl
8.
by chmodd 13y ago
I now do searches like this using Tor Browser. Just in case.
9.
by chmodd 13y ago
I had a similar thought recently. People who are currently in their 20s and 30s had a unique privilege of growing up when fully-featured computers appeared in almost every household. A bored 13 year old kid getting a Pentium-166 desktop for
10.
by chmodd 13y ago
mobile contracts are very rare in Russia, almost everyone is on a prepaid plan
11.
by chmodd 13y ago
By the way, bitcoin can no longer be efficiently mined on GPUs since the network hashrate has been increasing tremendously with ASICs (tenfold growth in the past 6 months and continuing steadily)
12.
by chmodd 13y ago
For convenience mainly.. It saves me from having to install a "serious" RDBMS, import data, etc. With SQLite, deployment is simply copying the db file to the server.
13.
by chmodd 13y ago
Indeed, this is probably the reason. The company that developed ejdb (Softmotions) apparently uses ejdb in their own proprietary software, and they wouldn't be able to if it contained any GPL components.
14.
by chmodd 13y ago
I use SQLite in small and medium-traffic web apps (the largest one getting about 80000 hits daily) all the time with no concurrency issues whatsoever. My rule of thumb is that if you don't expect your app to require more than one serve
15.
by chmodd 14y ago
Here's a nice infographic for this: http://dontbubble.us/ Google has been serving personalized results for a while now, but this is probably first time it attracted such widespread attention from media.
16.
by chmodd 14y ago
This is known as "shaving" among affiliate marketers and it mostly doesn't matter. E.g. when you are choosing among 10 offers to monetize your traffic, you split test and keep the one that brings you most money, regardless of whether advert
17.
by chmodd 14y ago
Exactly. Most people think that SEO spam is something that is only done by shady eastern european viagra-selling rings. In reality, the worst offenders are multi-billion dollar companies which capitalize on the strength of their domains to
18.
by chmodd 14y ago
> I've had a discussion with someone else about how a group of people could route each other's packets and then hypothetically law enforcement couldn't prove who they came from. Combine it with encryption and you'll get something like
19.
by chmodd 14y ago
A handful of countries attempt to block Tor and only two (China and Iran) do it seriously, using deep packet inspection (still doesn't work because of obfsproxy, duh). Even though, not even China and Iran outlawed it.
20.
by chmodd 14y ago
Depends on the definition of jumping. Besides paid character transfer (which is a "true" jump from realm to realm) a lot of activities in WoW take place in "instances" and players from different realms may participate in the same instance (
21.
by chmodd 14y ago
The problem with AdSense is not that there are no alternatives (there are plenty - chitika, adbrite etc.) The problem is that those alternatives pay way, way less. All the customer service in the world isn't going to help if your website m
22.
by chmodd 14y ago
I don't disagree with your views on privacy, but what google does is simple hypocrisy. It still continues to provide visitors' search terms to paid advertisers who are probably much more likely to use them for questionable purposes than a r
23.
by chmodd 14y ago
History disagrees. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prohibition_in_the_United_Stat...
24.
by chmodd 14y ago
They do (almost) the same thing at youtube, don't they?
25.
by chmodd 14y ago
* "email-advertising" companies in China/Russia/Nigeria.* FYI, the US is by far the largest producer of spam e-mails: http://www.spamhaus.org/statistics/countries/