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The technical challenges and failures of Peter Molyneux' Curiosity(lucumr.pocoo.org)
2 points by deliciouscoffee 14y ago|0 comments
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by deliciouscoffee 14y ago
I think fundamentally the issue is one of accountability and trust. The company being unwilling to disclose the name of its chief executive or its true physical location is (and should be) a major red flag. That same company is also offerin
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Congestion in the Death Zone - The Story Behind another Deadly Year on Everest(spiegel.de)
3 points by deliciouscoffee 14y ago|0 comments
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by deliciouscoffee 14y ago
An employee account was compromised and privileged information (in this case user email addresses) was accessed. The attacker exploited a flaw in dropbox's password policy / authentication system to access the information. Dropbox is modify
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by deliciouscoffee 14y ago
Even if they aren't given to children I don't think they set off the "hey this is really dangerous" alarm for a lot of people. Ideally an adult would play with these then count them all to make sure none are missing and store them out of re
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by deliciouscoffee 14y ago
Your last line is an excellent point and really the crux of the issue. These buckyballs are marketed as a toy and widely understood to be a toy. Just glancing at the website there's "NOT A TOY" in large font but a little further down is a q
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by deliciouscoffee 14y ago
The "security questions" really are terribly insecure. I've seen questions as bad as "What was the color of your first car?". I wouldn't be surprised if 90%+ of answers fall into three or four colors. What I recommend to people is using a p
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by deliciouscoffee 14y ago
This is the only spec that we have to work with: http://0x10c.com/doc/dcpu-16.txt . Notch said he's reviewed quite a bit of feedback on the spec and to expect revisions although it may be a while. The rest of our information comes from No
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by deliciouscoffee 14y ago
If an mmo version of asteroids sounds interesting then you should try out Continuum ( http://www.getcontinuum.com/ ) It was released commercially in 1997 and subsequently abandoned by its developer. The community took over the client/server
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by deliciouscoffee 15y ago
There's an interesting study in the New England journal of medicine related to this. The authors found that having social ties to an obese person significantly increased an individuals chance of becoming obese. From the study: A person's ch