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getsaton LulzSec brought down by own leader

You seem to be implying that assisting law enforcement is always ethical. It's not, just like breaking the law is not necessarily unethical.

getsaton Square Register

Credit cards offer more protection for the consumer than a debit card. Using a debit card is just as bad as using a cheque. It's 2012. Use a credit card. Pay it off monthly.

getsaton GitHub and Rails: You have let us all down.

Russia has no extradition treaty with the US. He's fine.

getsaton How github was hacked

#attributes=, #update_attributes, #assign_attributes=

getsaton Facebook uses bgsound to see if you have opened an email

SG's "open tracking" is a great feature!

getsaton TV piracy groups formally adopt h264

That's pretty cool. How does it achieve that? I'm assuming it assigns a higher priority to the chunks closer to the playback cursor.

getsaton "Egor, stop hacking Github"

http://phpsadness.com/

http://www.reddit.com/r/lolphp/

Among others...

getsaton TV piracy groups formally adopt h264

> To playback an mp4 file you need to have it wholly

720p or better videos on youtube are all MP4 now. You just have to move some atoms around within the video file to prepare them for "streaming" playback. There's open source software to do this.

Then again, the ability to play an incomplete file is not really useful if you're fetching a movie via torrent, which is what I would assume most of these guys are using.

getsaton Slowloris DDoS tool used by Anonymous hacked to include Zeus trojan

People tricked into installing malware, news at 11.

See also: the entire history of PPV advertising.

getsaton Compromised Linode, thousands of BitCoins stolen

No, consumer GPUs can do almost a billion SHA1 hashes per second now. We're talking seconds to minutes for "complex" passwords, not days.

http://codahale.com/how-to-safely-store-a-password/

getsaton Rebuild of the Debian archive with clang

GCC is becoming larger and more unmaintainable with each release. Competition in this space has been pretty sorely lacking for quite some time. The OpenBSD folks are also pushing PCC as a GCC alternative.

It'll be nice to have a BSD-licenced GCC equivalent for distribution with FreeBSD/OpenBSD, too.

Clang also has REALLY great error messages compared to GCC. It will tell you exactly where you forgot a comma, semicolon, quote, etc. instead of randomly pointing to some line around the error in question.

getsaton JIRA and text patches are anti-open-source

Nope. Authentication is done using your ssh key pair.

All my commits are done by noreply@example.com, but that is obviously not my Github email on either my personal or work accounts.

getsaton JIRA and text patches are anti-open-source

This is correct. You can use whatever email you want in your commits. Your Github email is not shared by Github to any other party.

getsaton Ask HN: Help a Hacker Out

You should read it. It's excellent.

getsaton Real World Ocaml announced

The monad in question: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haskell_features#ST_monad

getsaton The Copycats at Hacker News

http://sivers.org/multiply

getsaton Headphones for Hackers

Wow! I had no idea. That's an interesting business decision on their part...

getsaton Headphones for Hackers

Sennheiser HD 595s or Audio Technica 900s (if open air is an option).

getsaton Megaupload Founder Kim Dotcom Released From Prison

Rapists don't hurt (allegedly potential) corporate profits.

getsaton Why the NFL bans iPads (and other technology)

They're pretty interesting because there's an APM (actions per minute) cap imposed by the game itself. IIRC, once you approach 2,000 actions per minute, the game stops responding to commands properly.

You only have a small (for a piece of software!) amount of actions you can do for minute, so you have to choose wisely.

getsaton You Are Not Ruthless Enough

I'm convinced you shouldn't be allowed to write production code unless you've read and understood The Pragmatic Programmer.

getsaton Send SMS messages from any sender

IIRC, this same flaw was used by Murdoch's papers to hack various celebrities'/deceased individuals' voicemails.

getsaton How key-based cache expiration works

If you're rendering an object, you've likely already fetched it from the DB. Rails models (by default) will have a created_at and updated_at datetime columns that are automatically set and updated for you, and you can use them for exactly what is shown in the article.

getsaton Responsive Ads in the Real World: Ad Server Implementation

Thanks! You probably don't get many higher res (2560x1440) visitors. :)

Fun fact: I actually have to zoom in 3 times to make HN readable from a normal viewing distance. Yes, 9pt fonts in 2012.

getsaton High-wage skills, or why you might want to learn Clojure if you're not a lawyer

MongoDB was also hyped to hell and back, which probably accounts for more of its adoption than the fact that it's VC-backed. IIRC, most of the big name adopters (Foursquare, etc.) were using it before it got funding, too.

getsaton Responsive Ads in the Real World: Ad Server Implementation

Indeed. Unfortunately, I can't actually read the text on this site because it doesn't resize when I use my browser's zoom controls.

Forget resizing browsers, let me resize the text!

getsaton Chrome connects to three random domains at startup

It's their primary monetisation vector from what I can see.

getsaton MusicForProgramming();

I wish I could get my affiliate links on the front page of HN twice in two weeks...

getsaton What Craigslist Did Right: User Management Without Usernames or Passwords

Maybe they changed it for this very reason... I'm not sure. At the time, there was no indication that the call was from Craigslist. You were just read a code, twice, and then the other end automatically hung up.