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by quasque 12y ago
The computing courses at my university use Haskell in the introductory programming course - apparently it works rather well as a vehicle for exploring algorithms and data structures. The students move on to Java, C++, Perl, Prolog and other
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by quasque 12y ago
This preference is based on the assumption that the extra information conveyed in the HTML part of the email is worthless, which may not be the case. I can see from the downvotes that some HN users are excessively passionate about their pla
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by quasque 12y ago
I don't think that is a very good argument in these modern times, with the relatively huge storage and bandwidth availability. The extra size of such formatting markup is negligible.
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by quasque 12y ago
Seems a rather archaic requirement to be imposing on one's users, but thanks for clarifying!
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by quasque 12y ago
Consciousness in the medical sense can be considered along axes of wakefulness and awareness. For example, in a coma the subject is neither aware nor awake. In contrast, patients in a persistent vegetative state are awake, but not aware. It
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by quasque 12y ago
The author hasn't made a case for why he needs to send plain text emails. Every mail client - including text mode ones like Pine - supports HTML formatted emails, even if they end up displaying them without formatting.
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by quasque 12y ago
You'd be wasting your time as there is no feedback as to whether your attempts have worked to frustrate their targeting, and that's the best case scenario. The worst case is that someone picks up on your efforts and casually flags
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by quasque 12y ago
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. They may have stopped attacks but not revealed any information about this publicly, or engaged in misdirection as to their role using parallel construction.
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by quasque 12y ago
Hidden services can't be located in that manner unless the owner has badly misconfigured the service so it's reachable by IP address. A typical configuration would have the service listening on 127.0.0.1 or a private (RFC 1918) ne
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by quasque 12y ago
Headline should be modified to indicate that the study was carried out in the USA. It's not generally applicable to the world population, or necessarily to all high-income countries.
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Media Queries – a showcase of websites demonstrating responsive web design(mediaqueri.es)
2 points by quasque 12y ago|0 comments
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Wide-band WebSDR in JO32KF(websdr.ewi.utwente.nl)
10 points by quasque 12y ago|0 comments
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by quasque 12y ago
The problem with 'intelligent design' is that it's such an infantile way of trying to understand the world. Stating "God did it", rather than using one's brain to figure out the mechanisms of how the world work
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by quasque 12y ago
How do you know it doesn't work? From all we've been told (very little, mostly through leaks) there isn't enough information to make that judgement. The key issue isn't the potential benefit of mass surveillance in deali
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by quasque 12y ago
It's a poorly argued essay. The author starts from an assumption that the Bible is true and cherry-picks evidence in an attempt to support that, choosing the interpretation (or misinterpretation) that best fits into his pre-existing bi
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Tor anti-censorship using Google, Akamai, Cloudflare as proxies(trac.torproject.org)
5 points by quasque 12y ago|0 comments
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by quasque 12y ago
Oh, I agree. Just pointing out that mass surveillance may well be both helpful to national security and very damaging to human rights. For what it's worth, I suspect it's unduly balanced towards authoritarianism as well.
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by quasque 12y ago
You exhibit a disturbing lack of empathy.
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by quasque 12y ago
Apparently it's any site that sells the "Datalink GW1000".
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by quasque 12y ago
> Your beliefs are wrong, as we have been shown that this mass surveillance has failed to prevent even one terrorist attack since its inception. We don't actually know this. Mass surveillance may have led to 'extrajudicial&#x27
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by quasque 12y ago
I find this view rather short-sighted. To some extent I agree with you that there are benefits to mass surveillance, and that on the whole it is (probably) not currently being widely abused. However, this is not predictive of the future.
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by quasque 12y ago
Could you please elaborate on some examples of this?
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by quasque 12y ago
I also have this problem, but on a Windows laptop with 2GB. However, Firefox has recently been crashing several times per day, which sorted out the long-running memory problem but rather inconveniences usage. It's a shame because I rea
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by quasque 12y ago
She's talking about an education in computing for teenagers who will typically be sitting exams at ages 16 and 18, for GCSE and A-Level qualifications respectively - not a rant about undergraduate education, as you seem to be implying.
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by quasque 12y ago
Your explanation makes sense. Though I'm still curious as to when this happened and what the impact was.
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by quasque 12y ago
> Linux security was significantly reduced at one point because somebody changed int i to int i=0 Could you please elaborate on this one?
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Interview with TrueCrypt developer (2005)(wolfmanzbytes.com)
56 points by quasque 12y ago|1 comments
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by quasque 12y ago
It does appear that the authors have removed the advertising clause in this latest license version. Also the section on commercial licensing, some mentions of registered trademarks, and all specific references to the truecrypt.org domain, i
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by quasque 12y ago
As far as I know, its license is incompatible with other open source licenses due to an advertising clause (all derivative works have to state "based on Truecrypt" somewhere in the documentation or via use of the software). The ol
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by quasque 12y ago
It may be the same strong sense of ownership and control that precluded the liberalisation of Truecrypt's license during its lifetime in the past decade.

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