jmg

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by jmg 16y ago
Can you please explain how the RIAA crushed 'individual rights' and 'innovation and personal freedom'? I mean, from what I know they only got it to be illegal to copy movies/music, right? And the DMCA was passed unanimously by the Senate,
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by jmg 16y ago
this is gonna sound silly, but is anyone else scared to visit cryptome? same with wikileaks.
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by jmg 16y ago
They didn't exactly go out on a limb with their predictions - they said that GSM security technology and SSL implementations are flawed, so we'll see more attacks on them in 2010. Anyone who follows security and/or web technologies could h
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by jmg 16y ago
Thanks, Jeff. Could you also please lecture us on properly backing up a site?
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by jmg 16y ago
compared to the traffic the servers are seeing from the bots, the single requests of curious people is pretty negligible.
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by jmg 16y ago
Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman! is also a great listen via audiobook, especially on road trips!
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by jmg 16y ago
this is the doing of 4chan, right?
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Hong Kong Team Stores 90GB of Data In 1g of Bacteria(2010.igem.org)
83 points by jmg 16y ago|28 comments
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by jmg 16y ago
G.E.B.? Fun book, yes, but to make a list of 10 books to substitute a Bachelor's degree in CS? nonsense.
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by jmg 16y ago
As pointed out in one of the comments, this doesn't hold for recent college grads. I know a lot of very smart people who graduated in the past 2-3 years and cannot find jobs.
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by jmg 16y ago
an amazing gift I received for a birthday one year was a gift certificate for a beginner flight. Something to keep in mind (or to ask for!)
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by jmg 16y ago
What makes it worth paying for?
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Ask HN: How would you introduce a 14 year old to programming?
2 points by jmg 16y ago|2 comments
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Stable marriage problem(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by jmg 16y ago|0 comments
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by jmg 16y ago
right-clicking to remove a marker would be awesome. having accounts would be nice, too. and being able to upload data from gps watches. but one step at a time. this is really cool, thanks for sharing.
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Graphic shows mood of U.S. residents over a day as measured by Twitter(iq.harvard.edu)
9 points by jmg 16y ago|0 comments
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by jmg 16y ago
Why don't any of these articles put blame on the users, for broadcasting their data without any encryption set up? I guess that's not the exciting news story. They could at least use the opportunity to educate people a bit..
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by jmg 16y ago
probably too much paranoia.