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and you'll find z-code interpreters for pretty much any device you can think of. I like in particular Gargoyle [1][2] which stands out as the only one with great font rendering/typography.

One of the coolest/ridiculous things about infocom games were the feelies [3] (a term they coined) There is a great collection [4] of photographs of all the packages and extras, some of which were including necessary clues to solve the games.

[1] http://ccxvii.net/gargoyle/ [2] https://github.com/garglk/garglk [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feelie [4] http://gallery.guetech.org/

Well that didn't make a whole lot of sense. The most methodical use of the methods of rationality you'll find are the natural sciences and they are incredibly open to anyone interested. Its just that most people are not actually interested at all. Nor are they in rationality.

This guy is a bit like a confused version of Noam Chomsky.

Your initial assumption was correct, it is widely deployed in the industry, there are multiple vendors that provide fingerprinting technology that is orders of magnitude more advanced then what the article suggests.

The visible fingerprint might just have been there to deter the clueless. In any case even with a fingerprint its hard to proof without a doubt, the individual who actually stole it.

then the premise of the article is inherently flawed :(

Doesn't the process of compression (to make it seem louder) destroy some of the information? I always assumed this was a irreversible process?

They could atleast work together with the internet archive to conserve it, but no of course not that would require be a bit of an effort, google can't do that, because google doesn't care if thousands of open source projects are going to be lost forever to the world. Don't be evil my ass. Archive team is now our last hope as usual.

Just for reference, "Drawing lines is hard"

> http://mattdesl.svbtle.com/drawing-lines-is-hard

> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9179336

I always thought its kind of funny that everyone believed this to be true when in reality you could just deactivate the sound in the driver settings. Which I did pretty much immediately, but nobody I knew ever even thought of.

Its a perfect example for the fact that most people will never ever change the default settings.

You upload your files to dropbox servers, how in the world can you come to the delusion that you would notice when they accessed/searched/data mined your files?!

It should be mentioned that this does not support and will indeed never support line numbers due to some strange opinions of the lead developer:

http://highlightjs.readthedocs.org/en/latest/line-numbers.ht...

I think we are talking about CGI faces here and thats just not doable yet and this research won't change a thing about it. The last movie I remember having a CG face was Clu in Tron Legacy which certainly was state of the art CG, unfortunately 'state of the art'[1] in face modeling/animation is just not perfect yet.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvaGd4KqlvQ

Now practically speaking I've been playing on a server with qcraft in survival and found that its of little to no real use.

> Entangled (grouped) blocks are far to expensive, needing 12 (!) dust per entangled block which makes it impractical to build anything large with it. I find it a little less frequent than redstone.

> There is no compressed block of 9 dust like ALL vanilla ores have, which makes storing a bit annoying.

> The automatic observer that activates through a redstone signal only works from the sides not top/bottom which makes it more difficult/impossible to build any redstone activated structures.

> You cannot pickup once placed qcraft blocks, which is super annoying.

> only a few basic full-block types can be used as quantum blocks, no tile entities and no blocks from other mods (zero mod interoperability)

> the player portal is ugly and fixed to an even size (even multiblock structures are annoying) and why no teleport across dimensions, I mean its expensive enough

> ...

It seem to me this mod is very unfinished and not really made for survival nor created by people who actually play the game, and I think its annoying that it introduces its own ore into the world with such little practical use.

Now if anyone thinks thats too harsh of a critic, you need to realize how good minecraft mods have become, look a thaumcraft[1] for instance. The bar is much much higher now when it comes to mod quality.

[1] http://www.minecraftforum.net/forums/mapping-and-modding/min...

Shouldn't you always be able to triangulate, that hardly sounds like a difficult problem in 2014.

My thought was: they draw a map like this, if thats any indication of there ability to scientific/rational thinking, no wonder they never find the origin of (their particular) Hum. Also if you ask the internet if they too, see a pink elephant on the moon every 2th full moon, theres going to be a lot of responses telling you that they too, see a pink elephant on the moon every 2th full moon.

Lavabit closed down because they would otherwise be required by law to compromise their entire customers security. Also as it is part of a NSL that no one is allowed to talk about it by fear of a prison sentence, it is very reasonable to assume that this happens a lot more often than the public knows.

I think its a moot point, if the government is the attacker, who tries to spy on you specifically, there is absolutely NOTHING you can do to prevent that from happening.

The US government has (literally) secret laws, that grants themselves the right to go to another country and kill someone without due process or trial or any kind of repercussion if they 'accidentally' kill innocent bystanders.

Its sort of laughable to talk about end to end encryption and possible NSL when you really think about it.

It would be good to know if they got a structural engineer look it over. Because it really doesn't look like a stable structure at all.

I think its always amusing when people say that <latest DRM tech> is unbreakable. When in fact there never was and never will be such a thing.

I guess thats pseudo DRM. On the other end you have things like RTMPe, a proprietary highly complex binary protocol that is only implemented in the adobe flash plugin binary blob. Or something like HDCP (the copy protection part of HDMI) that builds a hardware encryption platform, with an central authority and certified hardware vendors.

Those are just 2 examples of "strong" DRM, but since even those two have been so thoroughly broken, we can just assert that any DRM that is based on W3C EME is gonna be childsplay. I don't think anyone actually believes that this W3C crap is gonna be "secure".

qemu can run portable, no root/admin necessary.

besides the ever-growing list of powerful features (async stack traces?!), I would add usability, I regret clicking "Inspect element (Q)" every time, also the only reason I have a chromium running I prefer firefox otherwise ;)

It always amuses me when people think the Firefox Developer Tools are equal to the Chrome DevTools. They really can't be using either of them very much.

apologetic much? Its funny that you mentioned updating, its in fact the case that any network operator (or potentially anyone who can afford the equipment and has the knowledge/keys for it) can upgrade the firmware of the baseband processor remotely (OTA). So you don't even have to exploit a vulnerability or use a backdoor (that people can STILL deny their existence as conspiracy theory is hilarious).

And whats the difference to other entry points in the android operating system itself, a apologist may ask? First of all you have control over this portion of the device, you can read and audit the source code and employ selinux to harden the OS. The baseband processor on the other hand does a _LOT_ of complex parsing of huge binary protocols, exactly the point where you would want to have open source auditable software, the opposite is the case: The baseband firmware is largely a black box, nobody (not even the manufacturer of your phone) has access to the source code and can independently audit the security and remove backdoors placed there by the manufacturer hinthint.

"normally, any component that has a kernel driver can already access all your data" bullshit.

The impact of Helvetica is quite significant, there even is a documentary about it, called Helvetica! check it out its really great. (It includes an interview with Mike Parker)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0847817/reference

It pains me if I see someone describing the slow and gradual installment of the total surveillance world and the loss of any privacy as just something "that feels strange and uncomfortable at first". I for one will never be okay with it! and I know a LOT of people that are against loosing civil liberties too (even if the likes of you don't care!).

Ofcourse I know that my smartphone broadcasts its mac/stored-essids every few seconds, thats why I have wifi disabled most of the time. Most people don't realize that, most people also don't realize the tracking capabilities of cookies. Laws in EU have begun to make it illegal to store cookies without the users consent, because even though its technically possible to block cookies, most people have no idea about that. So I can only hope that it will become one day illegal to violate peoples privacy like that!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_P9HqHVPeik "Stephen™ Wolfram™'s Introduction to the Wolfram™ Language"

That Wolfram™ Language and the Wolfram™ Cloud is going to change the world forever, the language is so great because its Wolfram™ Symbolic and since it all just runs in the Wolfram™ Cloud its really fast. You can put all your financial data in the Wolfram™ and do things. You know they worked 30 years on this, and it must be good because it runs in the Wolfram™ Cloud. Cloud Cloud Cloud Bla Bla Bla Bla Buy Buy Buy Wolfram™ Wolfram™ Wolfram™.

Just an example: The tabs with Images, Videos etc. to the right of Web seem to be randomized. Sometimes Shopping comes before Images even. And then ofcourse the minor detail that the search results do not contain the actual fucking links of the results! I'm now using a greasemonkey script that fixes that. And thats not all I could go on and on, and don't even ask me about Youtube, Google sites have become just godawful.

This is all so ridiculous, rtmp for instance is as secure a DRM as its ever gonna get and that never stopped me from downloading a stream. Even things like HDMI/HDCP is broken beyond repair. And all of this should justify damaging the w3c reputation forever, what are they thinking?!

This whole concept of DRM is just idiotic, its enough if one guy breaks the DRM and releases it. Why should I even bother booting a propertary OS (windows) and buying a stream everytime I want to watch something if I can just download a release and watch it, and its not like they can do anything against that either.

Why should I bother and buy HDCP capable new hardware, bother with proprietary NSA-compliant US software I much rather buy the DVD, trash it and just download it in a open and free format (I don't even bother with ripping (and breaking CSS) anymore).

The NSA is one of the most powerful organizations on this planet, and the only people that could actually be kind of a threat to them, are members of congress. So in other words: the only people on this planet, who have the ability to do something against the total surveillance of the world... are exempt from surveillance.

Who the fuck, would believe that?

Agree 100% I would add the awful standard library (including its abysmal documentation). For instance the HTTP client API, it must be the most awful API I've ever seen, and Urllib2 is no improvement at all.