javanix

These articles are fascinating - does anyone know of a good book that goes into more depth?

I don't know about anybody else, but there are only one or two shows that I can handle watching - I don't think I could watch more than 2 or 3 hours a week total, let alone in one day.

Of course, pretty much every viewer on *nix is faster than Adobe Reader, which makes it all the more irritating and confusing every time I forget that it is set as the default in our CS labs...

You really hadn't heard it before today?

I am working rolling my own with Struts/JSP.

It seems pretty straightforward (hash pass, place on server, and check against), but I need an easy way to compute an SHA hash in-browser, so the server doesn't have to receive the pass in plaintext.

Anyone know of a way to do it with Struts/JSP, or even JS if its not too slow?

oh my - this could have been awesome

Interesting - I wonder what the limiting factor is for speed? It sounds like there is a bit of a technique to typing with the system, but I wonder if there couldn't be a faster way to filter the signal coming off the EEG.

Sure looks like it to me - the peaks on the graph are too close together to be going by months.

I am from the United States - anonymous and pseudonymous protections wouldn't apply to this case of slander/libel and/or criminal harassment. Anonymously outing someone against their will does not fall under the same protections that critiquing an unfair government does.

I didn't mean to imply that all anonymous talk is without protection, just that in this specific case, the defendant in question would probably have a very difficult time making a successful free speech argument.

My point was more that there was plenty of other valid probable cause claims in the warrant.

If a judge had rejected this warrant on the basis of that paragraph, the police could have just removed it and we and the judge wouldn't have anything to complain about.

The grounds for the seizure were plenty strong - the email traces and network authentication would be enough to get any laptop involved in a crime seized.

And as for people claiming it wasn't a crime - there is no possible way that there was no malicious intent in sending a personal-attack email anonymously to a large group of people. (edit)In this case(/edit), the free-speech argument kind of loses its luster when you send something without your name attached.

Glad to see I'm not the only one who read the document. I don't see how the police really screwed this one up that much outside of one poorly-worded section of the warrant.

Caps are perfectly fine as long as they are sufficient - but what happens when the ISPs want to better utilize their bandwidth, and decide to lower their limits, rather than increasing their capabilities? There's no regional competition to worry about, so there would be no incentive to add capabilities when the alternative is basically free.

The article is quite interesting - but what if someone had told you 10 years ago that the New York Times would publish an article using the term "sugar relationships"?

I use GDB for C code, if only to get the nice backtraces, but other than that I find its easier to just think things through and put a few debug statements in.

Setting a DEBUG constant is usually pretty handy - I surround any debug output with an 'if (DEBUG){}' - it makes it easy to turn on/off the extra verboseness.

The growing complexity of Facebook is confusing ME.

Granted, I haven't been active on it in a while, but I went on it for the first time in a couple of months and it took me far too long to figure out how to change my profile picture.

I think for the moment they can get by keeping their users through sheer strength of numbers, but they're going to go too far and start losing people if they keep switching up their design.

I wonder what materials he read to come up with that beautiful pink aesthetic and unreadable title font?

Apple is also one of the few companies that comes out with unique hardware. When you can start from your own simple designs it is possible to engineer unique and genuinely more useful hardware (see: the new battery in the 17in Macbook Pro).

Unfortunately, the cost of developing from the base case as described in the article is very high - and reflected in Apple's prices.

So how do you propose we set things up? Most of the need for CS labs is conformity in grading/teaching. I see the appeal - both fiscal and hacker-practical - for dropping the Uni labs, but I think that forcing 95% of CS majors to rely on 5% of their peers for support would cause enough grading and deadline ("I couldn't get the package to compile in time!") arguments that both faculty and undergrads would come to hate things even more.

Granted, there are obvious upsides to forcing people to learn systems other than Windows for their own use, and I think enough people would eventually adapt, but I think the initial hurdle would just be too much to overcome in a decently sized department.

Its hard to imagine a large group of CS majors managing to maintain a Unix desktop suitable for development when pre-class discussions in senior-level classes involve people complaining about the difficulties involved in compiling from source.

I'm pretty sure most of the money saved by ditching the CS labs would go towards Unix classes and a 24/7 support hotline.