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... or maybe I'm missing how this would be easy to break? Dictionary wouldn't work, brute force would take too long, and idk enough about rainbow tables to know their time frame.

wkdown··on How to destroy the earth

Check out Episode 50 of 'The Universe' -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Universe_%28TV_series%29#Se...

wkdown··on Mathjax

503 ... anyone have a mirror?

wkdown··on What is math?

baby don't hurt me ...

don't hurt me ...

no more ...

wkdown··on Brands That Will Disappear In 2010

In an odd twist of irony, all ten companies post gains in 2010 while the domain businessinsider.com is sold for $200 to a porn company looking to bank on office affairs.

wkdown··on Notepod: The sketchbook for your app ideas

Agreed. All I need (and can't seem to find) is a spiral-bound notebook of faintly-colored ink graph paper at 10 or more squares per inch.

wkdown··on HTML5, meet 1998.

He did forget Angelfire though

wkdown··on The Halo Effect

I pull HN (and everything else) through Google Reader so I don't see the URL, only the title. Thanks for the down votes tho.

wkdown··on Ask HN: $4.99 vs. $5.00? And what do you call your premium memberships?

The $.99 thing started just to psychologically cause people to think it is cheaper. At first glance, $99.99 looks cheaper than $100.00, when really what difference is a penny?

I've been wishing this would go away but, unfortunately, you're starting to see even $.98 and $.97 sigh

wkdown··on The Halo Effect

Did anyone else expect this to have something to do with marketing and the Halo franchise?

wkdown··on Earth and Jupiter in the Same Photo, From Mars

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tfs1t-2rrOM

Video that continues passed those shots and goes to the largest star found to date (?) VV Cephei

wkdown··on Buell is Dead

I think it's because Buell's motives and ideas are similar to the hacker culture. Instead of just being another name creating bikes, they 'hacked' the classic motorcycle and came up with radical new ideas to push themselves forward, like fuel in the frame. This makes the company more likely to be known and/or appreciated by the hacker community than, say, Kawasaki or Honda.

That's just my two cents tho.

wkdown··on Bullet Impacts at 1,000,000 fps

I remember watching an episode of Myth Busters where they put a block of ballistic gel into a swimming pool and shot at it from everything between a Civil War pistol to a .50cal

Very cool to learn that the slow the FPS of the round, the further into the water it will penetrate.

wkdown··on So you want to learn morse code

There is a pretty decent program out there to teach you to copy Morse Code quickly. I can't remember the name of it but it was DOS based so very light-weight. I had to learn to copy 20WPM with 96% accuracy back-to-back. The highest I'd been able to accurately get was 32.

wkdown··on Niche Site Builders

A client once said his 8 year old nephew could put together a site using only Microsoft Word and Paint for 500 Microsoft Points and a copy of Halo:ODST.

wkdown··on Nerdkit - an electronics kit for hackers

For beginner hackers. Intermediate use Arduino. Expert build their own. 1337 buy the ones Expert built and claim them for their own.

wkdown··on Space Doesn't Really Look Like That

They don't assign colors based on wavelength, but on chemical composition.

nitrogen (red), hydrogen (green), oxygen (blue), and helium (violet). (via Hubblesite)[http://www.hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2000/0...]

wkdown··on H+ Magazine Fall 2009 Issue

If this were Reddit or 4chan, you'd be getting the look of disapproval right now.

wkdown··on Gattaca - Hollywood Gets It Exactly Right

I'd really enjoy seeing a reimagining of 'Gattaca'

wkdown··on -= sequoia capital =-

I can understand submitting this link to Digg / Reddit / 4Chan.

But why here? It's nonsense

wkdown··on IE6 Offenders: report companies that still require the browser.

Someone should have a little ActiveX fun with these people

wkdown··on How To Fly Without ID

The downside of this was not pointed out unless one read the whole snippet:

EMPTY THE LUGGAGE OR ITEM AND PHYSICALLY SEARCH ITS CONTENTS BY A QUALIFIED SCREENER

Yeah, you got on the plane without showing ID. But if they really wanted to, they could determine who you are in other ways (DNA from hair on clothing, etc)

wkdown··on Ask HN: Programming books to read while on vacation?

I'd like to second Beautiful Code Enjoyable vacation read.

wkdown··on The Browser as a Platform

Related: 'Dilbert' and the anti-meeting spell

http://sperkins.files.wordpress.com/2007/09/dilbert200709011...

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