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1 day ago
in Let's all take a deep breath and get some perspective on The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs
Do you know: What interface and technology is included in the OS? As far as I know LXDE was invented in Taiwan. Are those guys involved?
2 days ago
in Downloadable Manga Coming To PSP on Siliconera
Which is why Sony are just getting round to copying yet another idea from the homebrew community. I doubt this will leave Japan.
2 days ago
in Fantasy Golf Pangya: Aiming For The Green on Siliconera
Incidentally the special balls/Aztecs give bonus Pang when you hit a Pangya shot on them, so you get all, or most of your money back when using them.
And you do want to use all the stat boosting equipment you can afford to make those long distant hole-in-one shots in license mode easier. I found with some characters it was impossible to hit the ball far enough unless you got lucky with the wind or unlocked a stronger character through story mode.
I didn't notice clothing giving a stats bonus, only a 10% Pang bonus for the first time wearing it. So you want to go with 18 hole wander/free play mode with new clothing equipped to max out the amount of bonus Pang you get. But then I can't read Japanese so I may be missing something.
And you do want to use all the stat boosting equipment you can afford to make those long distant hole-in-one shots in license mode easier. I found with some characters it was impossible to hit the ball far enough unless you got lucky with the wind or unlocked a stronger character through story mode.
I didn't notice clothing giving a stats bonus, only a 10% Pang bonus for the first time wearing it. So you want to go with 18 hole wander/free play mode with new clothing equipped to max out the amount of bonus Pang you get. But then I can't read Japanese so I may be missing something.
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2 weeks ago
in This is incorrect. on The Real Katie West
Well, some of it's reasonable. Not so much that it's good to make mistakes, though, as making at least some is pretty much inevitable and we can usually learn from them if they're not too catastrophic.
4 weeks ago
in A Working Theory About RC4 on Matasano Chargen
I think your comments are pretty accurate, people get stream ciphers (of which RC4 is the only well-known form) but don't get block ciphers, even when they're dressed up as stream ciphers. So even a block cipher in OFB or CTR mode is too hard because you need an IV, and people can't deal with that.
RFC 4345 is pretty weird, it was pushed through by an individual (with some support from others, apparently SSH "needed" a stream cipher although no-one was ever able to explain why) based on different implementers hacking around with RC4 "fixes" in SSHv2 when the sensible thing to do would have been to just make RC4 SHOULD NOT in the main SSH RFC(s).
RFC 4345 is pretty weird, it was pushed through by an individual (with some support from others, apparently SSH "needed" a stream cipher although no-one was ever able to explain why) based on different implementers hacking around with RC4 "fixes" in SSHv2 when the sensible thing to do would have been to just make RC4 SHOULD NOT in the main SSH RFC(s).
1 month ago
in ENTech Solutions : Blog : Latest Post on ENTech Blog
No thanks. I think I'll stick with Bugzilla http://www.bugzilla.org/features/
1 month ago
in reddit has 2 tickets for you to see Nine Inch Nails in Palo Alto this Friday on The reddit blog
Yeah, WTF?
1 month ago
in Ambushed by the Homeless and Other Apropos of Nothing on The Stairway to Kevin
I'm betting this was the same guy who harassed me about how the arts page ran a story about some dance group and didn't list their phone number. He got pretty angry when I suggested googling them.
2 months ago
in The American Express Blues on A VC
This is a huge problem caused by the misuse of statistical datamining. People think "hey this is 99% accurate at detecting fraud, let's use it!" but they don't realize that if there are 100,000 good transactions for every fraudulent one, then 1,000 good will get flagged for EVERY SINGLE FRAUDULENT ONE!
There are tons of snake oil salesmen out there perverting statistics who don't understand what they're selling to people who don't understand what they're buying. It's disgusting. And it's also a much greater burden on people who are at the lower end of the socioeconomic spectrum, because they have no way to 'appeal' the problems. A poor credit rating or errors can prevent people from getting loans, getting a job, getting an apartment, all kinds of problems that related to these statistical models that might not even work!
There are tons of snake oil salesmen out there perverting statistics who don't understand what they're selling to people who don't understand what they're buying. It's disgusting. And it's also a much greater burden on people who are at the lower end of the socioeconomic spectrum, because they have no way to 'appeal' the problems. A poor credit rating or errors can prevent people from getting loans, getting a job, getting an apartment, all kinds of problems that related to these statistical models that might not even work!
2 months ago
in Smart Links Are Back On This Blog on A VC
They don't seem to have any affect in google reader.
2 months ago
in Freedom of Choice on FREE JAMIE CONNOR
Hi Jamie.
I kinda agree with both you and them. On the one hand, it is a delusion and you probably will be better off dealing with it as early as possible. But on the other, I can't see why that should have to involve medication that you're not happy with. I wouldn't be happy with it either. Have they not talked about any other alternatives? I don't mean any hippy trippy herbal medicines or anything like that, maybe cognitive behavioral therapy or something?
Love, an old friend.
I kinda agree with both you and them. On the one hand, it is a delusion and you probably will be better off dealing with it as early as possible. But on the other, I can't see why that should have to involve medication that you're not happy with. I wouldn't be happy with it either. Have they not talked about any other alternatives? I don't mean any hippy trippy herbal medicines or anything like that, maybe cognitive behavioral therapy or something?
Love, an old friend.
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freejamieconnor
They have offered me a variety of medications but I do not want any of them.
I do not want to be medicated. I do not believe I am delusional.
I do not want to be medicated. I do not believe I am delusional.
aK
Dear Me
hippy herbal medications are the back bone of our understanding of medicinal practice.
Every synthetic drug has a parental herb that it has been based on, so before you dismiss herbs maybe you should understand a wee bit more.
regards, me
hippy herbal medications are the back bone of our understanding of medicinal practice.
Every synthetic drug has a parental herb that it has been based on, so before you dismiss herbs maybe you should understand a wee bit more.
regards, me
2 months ago
in What I Wish I Had Known About Developing C/C++ From Linux Before I Started on derwiki
If you'd like to do debugging right from within vim, try vimgdb from the clewn project: http://clewn.sourceforge.net/
I used it for a year and a half to do gdb debugging and it integrates *very* nicely with vim -- both from the terminal version and the GUI version.
(and you can still use screen with the terminal version of vim -- doesn't everyone do that to deal with code on remote servers? :-D )
I used it for a year and a half to do gdb debugging and it integrates *very* nicely with vim -- both from the terminal version and the GUI version.
(and you can still use screen with the terminal version of vim -- doesn't everyone do that to deal with code on remote servers? :-D )
2 months ago
in OMG they're all the same camera! Except they're not. on AMERICAblog
Nigerians speak English, dumbass.
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John Aravosis
Lindsey is that you?
Regional languages: Hausa, Igbo, Yoruba.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria
Dumb ass.
Regional languages: Hausa, Igbo, Yoruba.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria
Dumb ass.
3 months ago
in If your main issue isn't hate crimes or federal anti-discrimination legislation or marriage, you're probably not gay on AMERICAblog
Either that or they're just really rich. Also, I've heard some gay republicans are republicans because they hate blacks more then they love manlove.
3 months ago
in Rachel Maddow on conservative Teabagging on AMERICAblog
I'm pretty sure some of them knew what it meant. But also "tea bagging" can also mean simply putting your balls on someone's face as a joke (like if they're drunk at a party, for example), not necessarily having them go in someone's mouth.
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caphillprof
I don't think that's what they mean on craigslist.
3 months ago
in Chartbeat - Real Time Analytics on A VC
Hey, what do you think about the fact that .ly domain is controlled by Libya? Apparently the law requires websites ending in .ly to comply with sharia law, does bit.ly do that?
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daryn
This point about the .LY domains is actually a good one... There is definitely a risk when using some of the more exotic country code TLDs. Many of these registries are run by small operations (At one point several years ago, I actually had main registry database and server for a to-remain-nameless ccTLD running on the DSL line in my condo), are subject to the policies & restrictions imposed by the country's government, and face the risk of redelegation, revocation, and/or things just up and disappearing one day. This has happened in the past, and while strides have been made to reduce these risks, they are worth being aware of.
In more related news, I started looking at Chartbeat earlier this week as well, and it's super slick. Betaworks is tearing it up! Cool to see your stats too...
In more related news, I started looking at Chartbeat earlier this week as well, and it's super slick. Betaworks is tearing it up! Cool to see your stats too...
3 months ago
in Iowa Supreme Court rules in favor of same-sex marriages on AMERICAblog
Iowa doesn't have a simple referendum process to amend the constitution either. In order to change the constitution, you have to go through the (currently dem controlled) legislature. The standards are pretty high. I think it can end up as a referendum, or maybe not. Either way, you're not going to see the kind of instant populist campaign to repeal this.
on the other hand, I suppose it's possible that legislators might try to override this ruling, but would take a while.
on the other hand, I suppose it's possible that legislators might try to override this ruling, but would take a while.

And true again on the stat items. I didn't really find much use for those items during episode 1 of story mode, but during the Tournaments you need them.
Yup, clothing only gives a Pang bonus the first time you wear it. If you work with it, you can end up with a 40% or higher bonus, which is nice. (Plus it looks cool!)