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relmeon Anger for Path after Privacy Breach: So Many Apologies, So Much Data Mining

In order to mitm over https you have to install a special certificate, for example, http://www.charlesproxy.com/documentation/faqs/ssl-connectio...

relmeon Six Months to Go Until The Largest Tax Hikes in US History

Paying taxes is patriotic.

relmeon [dead]

Space exploration is a human endeavor. Why not reach out and try to accomplish something big, together with other countries.

relmeon VP8: The Savior Codec

“What I’d heard from ex-on2 folks was that there is some philosophical disagreement about how to optimize [encoder] tuning, and the tune for PSNR camp mostly won out.“ Apparently around the time of VP6, On2 went the full-retard route and optimized purely for PSNR, completely ignoring visual considerations. This explains quite well why VP7 looked so blurry and ugly." -- http://x264dev.multimedia.cx/?p=292

relmeon Yelp Hit With Class Action Lawsuit For Running An “Extortion Scheme”

http://www.yelp.com/myths

relmeon Yelp Extortion Allegations Stack Up (March 2009)

http://www.yelp.com/myths

relmeon Guido van Rossum: People want CPAN (discussion on Python packages)

Read the source: http://rubygems.rubyforge.org/svn/trunk/lib/

relmeon The Simple, Secret iPhone Tethering Fix

If you are running the 3.1 beta on your phone and you turn on tethering, it kicks you back out and the tethering option is removed :)

relmeon Apple Answers the FCC’s Questions

Oh I see, but does this "prevent" AT&T voicemail from being stored on the iPhone? (Which is what was said)...

I mean you could use both the Google Voice Voicemail and the AT&T voicemail, right?

relmeon Apple Answers the FCC’s Questions

"The Google Voice application replaces Apple’s Visual Voicemail by routing calls through a separate Google Voice telephone number that stores any voicemail, preventing voicemail from being stored on the iPhone, i.e., disabling Apple’s Visual Voicemail."

How does a 3rd party app prevent voicemail from being stored on the iPhone? I don't understand.

relmeon Growing Sentences with David Foster Wallace

DFW's latest fiction in the New Yorker was really scary: http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/features/2009/03/09/090309f...

relmeon Ruby-style Blocks in Python

Ruby style blocks would have made the with_statement (and a bunch of other stuff) obsolete. In fact most stuff can be implemented from blocks (like decorators and generators) and not the other way around.