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Re:Easy, realtime, system-wide Shellshock monitoring on Friday September 26, 2014 @01:17AM (#8371453)

If you publish the updated brew, can't it manually be added by users?

Re:A briefcase-size radio weapon could wreak havoc in our networked world on Tuesday August 26, 2014 @06:37PM (#8229967)

True, but that device is destroyed with operation unlike the device described in the article.

The Riddle of the Universe and Its Solution

Posted by _bbs on Sunday June 24, 2012 @05:12PM
from the math.yorku.ca dept.

http://www.math.yorku.ca/Who/Faculty/Steprans/Courses/3500/Consciousness/mi269-276.txt

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Re:DomainPolish: From MVP To Exit In 6 Months on Tuesday March 13, 2012 @03:42PM (#3700022)

Minimum Viable Product.

Re:Call yourself a 'brogrammer'? Then get the hell away from me. on Sunday March 04, 2012 @01:29PM (#3663415)

Is there really a problem with nerds being groomed well and fashionably dressed? The people they describe are off-putting because of their attitude, not because their appearance clashes with the archetypal image of a nerd.

Re:Absolute Beginner's Guide to Bit Shifting on Sunday March 04, 2012 @01:01PM (#3663304)

Also, although the question is tagged for "c", the top answer has some Java specific examples.

Jane Street releases open source alternative to OCaml's stdlib

Posted by _bbs on Saturday January 07, 2012 @04:12PM
from the ocaml.janestreet.com dept.

https://ocaml.janestreet.com/

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Re:GoDaddy has not withdrawn its official congressional support for SOPA on Saturday December 24, 2011 @07:52PM (#3390128)

This site will connect you to your congressman: http://fightforthefuture.org/

Re:DeSopa: a Firefox addon to easily bypass SOPA DNS blocking on Tuesday December 20, 2011 @02:30PM (#3374746)

Can someone find a link to the source code (it is licensed under the GPLv2)? I tried to open the xpi in a text editor, but no dice.

I don't have much experience with FF addons, but I'd like to see exactly what's happening here.

Re:An Open Letter From Internet Engineers to the U.S. Congress on Thursday December 15, 2011 @10:26PM (#3359272)

I can't find much on Berners-Lee's stance on SOPA. Do you have any information as to why he wouldn't sign this letter?

EDIT: Just realized he is British (thanks to the other reply). Do you believe his silence (if any, again I can't find much on his stance) relates to his citizenship?

Re:Is Firefox Doomed? on Saturday December 03, 2011 @06:24PM (#3309220)

That article explains that Google renewed its contract with Mozilla in 2008 for three years. The current discussion relates to the future of that contract. There is no evidence that Google has permanently withdrawn support for Firefox.

Re:Is Firefox Doomed? on Saturday December 03, 2011 @05:06PM (#3309031)

Google benefits from being the default search engine in Firefox. They wouldn't pay $100 million per year to Mozilla if there wasn't some reasonable return on that investment. I imagine that the search traffic generated by Firefox will remain valuable to Google until FF's market share drops into the single digits.

The article implies that Google is charitably allowing Firefox to exist ("Google doesn't need Firefox anywhere near as much as Firefox needs Google."). I'd like to the think the Google-Mozilla relationship is mutually beneficial.

Firefox may become a viable alternative to Android's built-in browser once the native UI version is complete.