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The "failure" you mention here is his confession.

If all they had to go on was what's in the article -- that "the person who used Guerilla Mail used Tor to access it" and "[Kim] used Tor around the same time the e-mails were sent" -- that's not enough to charge him with a crime.

It's enough to go and talk to him about it, but if he had wanted to, he could have protected his identity (but possibly prolonged the investigation, depending on what other resources the agent had) by simply denying that he had anything to do with it.

It's not damning at all to have used Tor around that time, but it's not a huge leap of logic, either.

If you hadn't told me what this app does in the subject here, I wouldn't have been able to figure it out from your landing page.

It's also not at all logical to say:

[Unlikely thing X] came true! Therefore, [unlikely thing Y] will, too!

Even if X and Y were incredibly similar -- in this case they aren't, at all -- that's still not a logical assumption. It's not even evidence toward Y.

In vim, you can use the leader key to set up shortcuts, e.g.:

:map <Leader>W :w [some things you want to tack onto w]

The leader key is by default '\', so that's effectively mapping \W to :w [some things ...]

He's replacing his leader key with space.

"Each of the dataSTICKIES can be simply peeled from the stack and stuck anywhere on the ODTS (Optical Data Transfer Surface), which is a panel that can be attached to the front surface of devices like computer screens, televisions, music systems, and so on. The special conductive adhesive that sticks the dataSTICKIES to the ODTS is the medium that transfers the data."

This should be made MUCH MUCH clearer, because it's a really cool idea that takes way too long to find in that page.

Um, yes, it's possible. SteamOS is an open-source Debian fork. The only thing proprietary in the whole package is the Steam client itself, which you aren't at all required to leave installed.

There was a DEFCON talk two years ago in which the presenter assembled large antennas and ran open-source software that allowed him to mimic a base station. Everyone who was using phones on a specific network (I don't remember which -- I want to say AT&T) connected to his base station within a few minutes, and he proved the concept by hijacking outgoing calls.

>If one's phone stays in the same area, it will never transmit while idle.

Maybe phones used to do this, but nowadays I'm not so sure.

I think that's needlessly nitpicky in this case. The hexadecimal title is a PR shtick to grab attention; the technical details of why calling it a direct hexadecimal translation is inaccurate don't really matter.

Does it? Genuine question, as I'm not really educated on the US Constitution.

I was interested in the "with no code" addendum but couldn't find more details on your page. Mind elaborating on that (and on why you felt it was an important bit to share)?

If it helps, I searched for nmap, a bunch of completely unrelated results showed up, which didn't include nmap ;)

It would help a LOT if these were organized by something other than alphabet, or if these had some kind of five-word snippet describing what each command does. This is one of the few instances where alphabetizing doesn't do us any good -- if we knew what our command started with, we could just search for it.

From the article -- http://philkast.com/2013/10/30/spying-tshirt.html

Come on, really? Out of all that, THIS is the message you take away, and yet manage to misconstrue?

He didn't say any of that. He didn't compare his students with others; he compared them only to _themselves_. He didn't mention other schools, or in fact other people altogether.

I can't say much about the actual environment, as I'm not an R programmer, but I can say that I really dig the tutorial you guys set up, with the flow of dialog boxes pointing out different features. Well done there.

>I don't get what the hype is about.

It's a video game console. Genuine question: what's confusing here?

>A website can be an interactive app, but email?

Fortunately, most e-mail clients support a "show this e-mail in text only" view mode. This means that you can have it your way, and others can have it theirs!

I'd be interested to see solid evidence supporting this theory. Without it, I'm sort of inclined to believe that people wouldn't settle into anarchist madness without someone telling them not to do that.

You're right, I had them backwards. Thanks :)

I wish you had linked the actual interview [0] because it took me way, way too long to find it in the linked article, which only offers two select quotes from said interview, and spends way too long praising the guy that got it for how rare a privilege it is.

[0] - http://www.cleveland.com/living/index.ssf/2010/02/bill_watte...

Edit: I'm slightly mistaken -- one of the quotes is actually from his previous interview, here:

http://mentalfloss.com/article/53216/mental-floss-exclusive-...

My work has a Trend Micro proxy, which is blocking this website as a "verified fraudulent page or threat source." Maybe an ad on it or something?

Just out of curiosity -- can you preserve that intention?

Nothing really stops me from making my own clone of your game, changing only the assets to be my own, other than it's prohibitively time-consuming (i.e. expensive) for me to do so.

If you release the code -- with any license on it at all -- and someone takes it, uses it, creates a similar game, and then changes the code in a sufficiently significant way to be able to claim that it's not "yours" anymore ... what recourse would you have?

"Reasons that don't necessarily apply to me," while fair, do not fall under "hype."

Just a guess -- perhaps

    ouroborous[0] = ouroboros;

creates a new reference to ouroboros and stores that in ouroboros[0], so comparing ouroboros and ouroboros[0] with === would claim they're the same type but not the same value.

Not an expert though, so I could be wrong, but that'd explain the behavior to me.

This is the wrong problem to try and solve. Toothbrushes are a solved problem.

If you want to disrupt at-home dentistry, solve flossing instead. That one's still a pain in the ass that comes back to bite (heh) a huge amount of people down their roads.

Man, this comment went from "fair frustration" to "crazy train" mighty quick.

Blanket statements like "don't work for [entire industry X]" generally make you come off as a little tin-foil-hattish, just FYI. :-)

Oh my gosh that logo is unbelievably distracting! Especially when opening a page that "does ____ in real time" -- I spent way longer than I should have thinking "what is this logo doing and what does it have to do with the rest of the page ..."

Once I got over that, very cool site :)

I'm sorry, but this line bugs me:

>Using OpenTable, Urbanspoon or SeatMe , diners could see available time slots and make a reservation online or from their smartphone without the hassle of calling the restaurant, and know that their table would be secure.

How is calling the restaurant a hassle? Especially when the solution is to use your phone to look the restaurant up online?

Maybe it's the cranky old man spirit in me, but I call restaurants every time -- I hadn't even heard of these sites. I didn't know that this was a need people felt needed fulfilling.

A couple years ago, my used '98 CRV's battery died. I got it replaced, and when I started it back up, the radio was locked out; I needed an unlock code that they'd have given me when I bought the car, if the car hadn't passed through at least a dozen hands before finally reaching me.

I called up my nearest Honda dealership, gave them the VIN, and they gave me the radio code.

I like that they can do that. Maybe it makes more sense from a security standpoint if I would've had to call some centralized Honda location, but that doesn't really solve the problem, does it? I have the VIN -- so does anyone who looks through my windshield. I have the title number -- so does the dealership who originally sold the car. We'd have to enter a few concurrent bits of information to verify that I own it, that this car I'm calling about is mine, and I can identify both it and myself, and then the centralized Honda location would have to be able to verify all that on their end.

Or we can assume some modicum of trust at dealerships, and accept the fringe cases where criminals use information they wouldn't have access to in a perfect world.