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by nikblack 17y ago
35 lines in Java actually, the other one is a poor implementation. execution speed is more important than lines of code in this case
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by nikblack 17y ago
wow, your on a completely different page - and im going to leave it at that.
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by nikblack 17y ago
we are talking about propagation here. its built so that the person who receives the image is then unable to forward it to somebody else. or at least they can, but that person won't be able to unencrypt. its pretty standard, and working wit
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by nikblack 17y ago
no, it would work. it doesn't have to be DRM per se, just automated public key encryption and signing using something unique such as the phones IMEI number. it is very possible to implement encryption and signing without having the user go
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by nikblack 17y ago
I don't really care about upvotes, I just voice my opinion based on my own experience. The other replies to your post have already covered what I would have said, I would just add that having a fixed belief that if something is illegal, tha
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by nikblack 17y ago
It is a shame that so many of these drugs are illegal and have been demonized, because they do have benefits for people at smaller doses as discussed. Some of the greatest work and innovation in the world has been created by people under th
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by nikblack 17y ago
here is a case where we actually need DRM. the girl should have been able to secure the content and allow access to only those people she wished to grant it to - there is both nothing legally or morally wrong with that. there is a tech angl
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by nikblack 17y ago
so if I end up being right about it being related to the RIAA data, do I get voted back up?
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by nikblack 17y ago
all 3 founders leave at the same time, only two years after being acquired? there is more to this than simply leaving to do other things. founders of sites like last.fm don't just let their babies go so easily, acquisition or not (think mys
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by nikblack 17y ago
if we could measure influence, Mashable wouldn't even come close. It seems 55% of Mashable traffic is coming in from search engines. If you look at their homepage, they are obviously heavily optimized for keywords like 'youtube', 'myspace'
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by nikblack 17y ago
It is always tempting to point to a big company and to try and argue how stupid they are and how they waste money etc. but as most of the comments here have already pointed out, there are fatal flaws in their argument. I will add one more t
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by nikblack 17y ago
ironic that the story is published by the nytimes
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by nikblack 17y ago
no. since it is gzipped, there is no progressive download of the page and it is all downloaded at once and then executed. so startTime and endTime are measuring processor execution rather than download speed. it is a flawed method. a better
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by nikblack 17y ago
WAY over-rated story. The network is built using a script kiddy tool called Gh0st RAT, which relies solely on social engineering to propagate. There are no new exploits here, or nothing as sophisticated as confiker especially since Gh0st RA
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The Family That Made A Billion From Madoff(vanityfair.com)
9 points by nikblack 17y ago|0 comments
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by nikblack 17y ago
The article is about how it negotiates NAT using forged UDP packets. What is more interesting is how it actually gets past firewalls. It exploits common default rules in firewalls. ie. to allow web surfing, a firewall will allow port 80, bu
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Stealing Weather - The Chinese Obsession With Controlling Weather(vanityfair.com)
2 points by nikblack 17y ago|0 comments
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by nikblack 18y ago
"A 30% return (the minimum needed to give LPs a return commensurate with venture risk after the GPs have taken a 20% performance cut) on $1 million is $300,000. A 30% return on $1 billion is $300 million. Basically, unless you land a Google
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by nikblack 18y ago
some people may have noticed that only Elon Musk features on the frontpage for Paypal while Peter Thiel and Max Levchin are not. Apparently there is a lot of politics behind this, with Thiel and Sequoia having been at odds over funding, the
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by nikblack 18y ago
you are absolutely right about creating social situations. has gotten me laid plenty of times. queue classic vonnegut: girls who smoke, fuck: http://www.lunabase.org/~faber/RICHH/karen/Smoke
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by nikblack 18y ago
for me, nicotine is a much better hacking drug than caffeine.
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by nikblack 18y ago
it is loading really slowly for me you should auto-gen an email address for every new visitor, makes it easier than having to check. people don't care what the username is for a throw-away email address anyway. after auto-gen, set a cookie
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by nikblack 18y ago
that is essentially what vesting does - except it is more legally sound.
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by nikblack 18y ago
you are more right (I bought up vesting below). Hopefully hackapreneurs reading this thread will ignore SG and take on the comments instead.
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by nikblack 18y ago
within vesting agreements there are change of control conditions. For outright sales, it usually works out that those who are over the cliff have their vesting accelerated. In a merger (which a lot of acquisitions technically are), the acqu
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by nikblack 18y ago
Even if you don't intend to seek funding you should still adopt the same model - there are very good reasons why it is used. Doing an even-split stock grant amongst founders at the formation of a new company is absolutely the worst thing yo
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by nikblack 18y ago
or in other words a vesting schedule, which is how almost all funded startups are structured SG is over-rated, but lets leave that discussion for another time.
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Naveen Jain and the Intelius Scam(seattleweekly.com)
1 points by nikblack 18y ago|0 comments
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A Guide To Silverlight 3 - It is really starting to look awesome(timheuer.com)
1 points by nikblack 18y ago|0 comments
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by nikblack 18y ago
When Apple first released a developer preview of OS X back in 98/99 (IIRC) I actually emailed Jobs about using OpenSSH in the new OS (there was a lot of controversy about the munitions export act in the USA, and I was involved in the OpenSS

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