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Comment · 10 years ago
>The article is presenting allegations as facts

I only needed to read the domain name to know that would be the case.

Comment · 10 years ago
These journalists, along with most people outside the tech industry, fail to see the overall picture. 4 out of 5 of the largest companies on earth are tech firms, and none of them were even close to that position 10 years ago. Software runs the world and tech companies are the single largest driver of the modern American economy, making the overall pool of companies that may go belly up at any given time larger. Public consciousness just hasn't caught up to that fact yet since it happened so fast.
Comment · 10 years ago
The purpose of publishing a public MD5 sum of a software release from the developer is to prevent tampering with an image. If I download an ISO of Ubuntu and check the MD5 value, and it doesn't match what Canonical says it should, then it's been tampered with.
Comment · 10 years ago
That's basically the Nvidia Shield
Comment · 10 years ago
It means you just don't truly care about your work. There's nothing wrong with that though. Take a step back and evaluate what you'd truly wish to be doing with your life. When those things are aligned, endless motivation is the byproduct.
Comment · 10 years ago
It's scary to think that in 20-30 years nearly the entire available housing stock will not be covered by rent control. My landlord wanted to raise my rent 40% in one year here in Oakland until I pointed out the laws. Eventually the entire middle class will just be landless peasants again, allowed to live wherever the rich say that they can.
Comment · 10 years ago
>except in US and maybe some EU countries, the price to build a Skylake system is higher than the speed benefit it gives compared to Haswell (usually at most 10%, frequently less...).

Honestly, even in the US I don't think it's worth it. I thought about upgrading from my Haswell i5 and the benchmarks are actually lower on a single core. Unless you truly need the Hyperthreading there's no point in upgrading.

Comment · 10 years ago
Except those keys could still easily be vulnerable to Heartbleed style overflow attacks. The only real answer here is hosting your own service behind your firewall the same way people do with Github.
Comment · 10 years ago
It was honestly better in every single way than any vanilla WoW server ever was. Average online at any given time was >10,000 people.
Comment · 10 years ago
the B stands for Berkeley, California
Comment · 10 years ago
Self driving electric cars, virtual reality, now this. I think 2016 is the future you guys.
Comment · 10 years ago
>What I want to also block are sites that serve up crappy "suggested" content from taboola

add this line to your host file:

0.0.0.0 taboola.com

Comment · 10 years ago
>The proxy can pretend to allow all the ads, and simply drop them on the way to clients.

Look into setting up a Squid node for your home network and run adblock in the ACL rules.

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