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Re: John McCain Trashes American Workers

Andrew — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 04:08:38 -0000

Let's do the math. 8 hours per day, 5 days per week, 50 weeks per year (assuming paid holidays, 2 weeks vacation). $50/hour ads up to a full year salary of $100,000...! McCain thinks Americans wouldn't work for that? The people he was talking to probably don't even make half that. Median household income in the US is ~$50k.

If this wasn't made for an "out-of-touch" ad I don't know what is. I'm amazed you found the video (though would be great to also have the part just before this clip where he says that "we all know there are jobs Americans just won't do".

Re: John McCain Trashes American Workers

Andrew — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:06:06 -0000

The point is that McCain thinks $50/hour is a trivial amount of money. Definitely not enough for any (American) man with respect for himself to take on hard labor.

But in fact, $50/hour is twice the average income and more than 7 times the federal minimum wage.

Now that's out of touch.

Re: What A Disaster

Andrew — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 02:56:44 -0000

It get's even worse(/better, depending on your point of view). There's a part two:

http://dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/9/25/13345/4...

The first 3 minutes of of this was not in the original clip and is not in the transcript. Who would have thought, they actually edited out the worst parts... Those 3 minutes are mindboggling.

Re: VC firm Worldview Technology Partners closes shop; the “three strikes” rule

Andrew — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 17:07:41 -0000

I'll third Jafco's comments. I've watched startups wind down, but never funds.

Re: News Corp scores $900M from Google, a coup

Andrew — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 06:02:08 -0000

I thought all of Intermix, including MySpace was $580M.

Re: From the perspective of a game publisher

Andrew — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 00:14:16 -0000

Specialisation in reviewers is a ridiculous idea. If your FPS guy only does FPS and your racing guy only does racing who reviews something unique like Spore? Not only that, but if someone who primarily plays, say, FPS games really likes a rhythm game or RPG when they're disinterested in the genre as a whole that's actually the best indication that it's worth playing.
Reviewers should state their backgrounds, but they don't have to have any background in particular. This isn't objective: all viewpoints are valid, and having a spread available allows readers to find one that matches their own.

Re: Amazon Soon Opening DRM-free MP3 Store

Andrew — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 23:30:39 -0000

Maybe this will attract people who download music illegally now.

Re: Five Reasons To Ignore John Gruber’s OS X Security Punditry

Andrew — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 21:17:30 -0000

"On supported platforms, Microsoft takes advantage of CPU “no-execute” memory protection. Apple’s current support for the same chip features is bypassable."

Can you give more information on this? Is it just because OS X doesn't have ASLR, so attackers can use ret to libc?

Re: Mystery Vulnerability Theater 3000: Part I

Andrew — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 13:21:03 -0000

Actually, 0x62626262 is bbbbadness.

Re: Hot Off The Matasano SMS Queue: CanSec Macbook Challenge Won

Andrew — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 12:37:29 -0000

Re: the people complaining about a rule change: The rules always specified that it would get progressively easier.

See
http://lists.immunitysec.com/pipermail/dailydav...
and
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/142/464216...

which were both posted long before the contest started.

Re: Analyzing Mac OS X Applications 101: CrashReporter and Malloc

Andrew — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 20:23:22 -0000

You can also set developer mode by running /Developer/Applications/Utilities/CrashReporterPrefs.app/

For more malloc debugging, check out guardmalloc (man libgmalloc) and libMallocDebug (export DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES=/usr/lib/libMallocDebug.A.dylib)

Re: Updates on Drew Yao’s Terrible Ruby Vulnerabilities

Andrew — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 15:36:06 -0000

Re: the crash on 1.8.7-p22, I have forwarded it on to the Ruby security team.

The test case does not cause a crash in the patched version of 1.8.6 that will be going out in a Mac OS X update soon. The patch that Ruby ended up with was not the same as the one that I sent them.

Re: Automatic images for headlines

Andrew — Wed, 25 Aug 2004 16:20:32 -0000

One feature that would be very cool is a max-line-length setting so it will wrap long titles on to two lines. Thanks.

Re: Reinstating "55," Are They Crazy?!

Andrew — Thu, 29 May 2008 13:32:20 -0000

Our driver training is not good enough to support 100 mph speeds. Drive in Germany for a while and you can appreciate what an entire country trained in proper lane discipline can do. We don't have that here and probably never will.

Re: Playing Online Games on the Playstation 3

Andrew — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 12:24:53 -0000

The 720p thing is probably because they think the game looks better with your TV doing the upscaling. Most PS3 games can't actually render at a full 1920*1080 anyway. At the very least you should try both (maybe even a blind trial if you can get someone to help you) and see which looks better to you.

Re: Search Champs grilling MSN execs

Andrew — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 16:37:27 -0000

Robert,

I appreciate that you're posting about this. However, with Google getting more evil and MS becoming more open (in large part thanks to your example), I was becoming far more open to MS. But I'm glad that Google is using this as PR: It makes it clear that caring about your users' privacy is a competitive advantage. And one that Google clearly beat MS and Y on: Enough so that there's no way I'd ever consider using MSN again unless you made a clear public statement that Mr. Gates would sooner go to jail that comply with a subponea from the government.

MS needs to make a strong public signal that you care about privacy; particularly if you want InfoCards to take off. Maybe MSR witholding any funding from Berkeley as long as Mr. Stark works there?

Dan

Re: Search Champs grilling MSN execs

Andrew — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 19:03:34 -0000

Thanks Robert--I agree on the China thing. Does MSN have an official policy on China? (If it's better than Google's, please do use it for PR advantage!)

Re: Starbucks: Inflation and Devaluation of a Brand

Andrew — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 07:28:57 -0000

I know what you mean, I tried a starbucks ``espresso'', because I thought that there would be no way that such a large, well-known chain could be that bad. And it was. But I go to a nice place in Sydney, where they roast the beans in the cafe, and know me by name. It's nice.

Re: Finally Fast Software Scam

Andrew — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 10:17:08 -0000

not to be a dick, i think its shit too, but they dont claim that finally fast was features in those papers, it was their parent company, and they were featured for different reasons. http://www.ascentive.com/about_us/awards_press....
that page has links to the articles
I agree completely with the vid

Re: sXePhil Interview

Andrew — Tue, 05 May 2009 13:11:49 -0000

The vid's not showing up for me (in Firefox or IE). Is there an alternate link to it?

Re: My 5 Must-have vim Plugins

Andrew — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 10:17:40 -0000

You don't need Tabindent. Just use Ctrl-t or Ctrl-d while in insert mode.