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cornewut

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I have an anxiety disorder. This is my therapeutic account.
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cornewut··on The Revenge of the Circulating Fan
The article mentions that fans don't work when air temperature is higher than that of the skin(35C).

This actually is not correct as increased air flow facilitates evaporation (making sweating more effective).

cornewut··on Alleged leak of more than 5M Gmail accounts
Quite a few of the leaked accounts also appear to be using SoundCloud. Could this be related?
cornewut··on Alleged leak of more than 5M Gmail accounts
I don't think this is leaked from Google. Probably people just were using the same password for some other service...
cornewut··on Product: Do It Yourself – OR – Hire/Outsource?
How about finding a co-founder? That might help with motivational problems.
cornewut··on Wi-Fi Should Scare the Hell Out of Verizon and AT&T
I would love a mechanism that would reimburse me for sharing my WiFi with others.
cornewut··on Etsy CEO to Businesses: If Net Neutrality Perishes, We Will Too
I'm optimistic that we'll find a solution - "community broadband", "shared WiFi" etc.

The problems we are seeing are because corporations are already failing as an infrastructure.

cornewut··on How i followed 300k people in an hour
Bots following bots...
cornewut··on Predicting the next Math.random() in Java
Also a nice reminder: "Never write your own crypto"
cornewut··on Europe’s big weakness: the language fragmentation
Greece's island fragmentation gave them the greatest fleet of their time. Europe's languages might actually be it's strength.
cornewut··on A word from a 0.01%er
Well, unfortunately feudalism lasted for quite some time...
cornewut··on The State of NAT Traversal
I'm somehow not convinced IPv6 is the solution - someone somewhere will just decide to nat IPv6.
cornewut··on Firefox 32 Supports Public Key Pinning
Maybe FF and Google should just become CAs? It would remove the extra step as currently both pinning and registering with existing CA are required?
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