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2 days ago

in Best Buy July 5 (7/5) – July 11 (7/11) Deals on TV Lamps, TV Parts & HDTV Reviews
Hi, you didn't ruin it. For a while, someone was leaking the Target ads ahead of schedule and Target sent them a legal notice. It's made everyone a bit paranoid about ads now.

2 days ago

in 30th Anniversary Film “Ring of Gundam” Screening on moetron
A gundam short-film about the whole gundam franchise! at last. I was done with all the "bishonen fighting for nothing at all" series that 00 was.

3 days ago

in Rogers Increases Outside of Canada Text Message Rates on iPhone in Canada - Tips and Tricks for Canadians iPhone Users
Guys, I hate to be a pessimist, but I can't see competition changing much. Look at Bell/Telus with their incoming TXT message charges. What does Rogers do? Follow suit! Rather than act as buffers for each other, they just give each other ideas on how to screw us.

Unless there is a large influx of competition, I don't see one extra carrier making any difference. The CRTC should have never allowed the Rogers/Fido buyout.

3 weeks ago

in Signaling and Solidarity on Will Wilkinson
Although I'm equally ambivalent about the whole solidarity thing, I don't know if it would have that negative effect. To an extent yes, the more we care about Iranian democracy the easier it is to start a war to promote that end, but at the same time the more we care about Iranians the harder it is to start a war which will kill a whole lot of Iranians. So far most of the arguments for military engagement with Iran (as was the case for most of the pre-war arguments for the Iraq War) are of the "kill them so they don't kill us" sort. In so far as people are aware that Iranians are real people with their own internal conflicts, they might be more aware that going in and invading their country could be a bad idea. A big part of this depends on what the current mindset of the supporters is, though.
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Will Wilkinson Insofar as Americans are invested in the idea that there is a good side and a bad side in the conflict, they will feel the force of calls to use our military to take out the bad side if the good side loses the staredown.
Paul G. Brown Will's is precisely the point that should be self-evident.

This is a religious nut-hutch we're dealing with here. The mind-set of the Iranian people has been fashioned around a collection of magical ju-ju beings in the sky. Suddenly they're obliged to confront a big-ol' wad of cognitive dissonance; either their religiously inspired assumptions (The Supreme Leader is God's Representative On Earth And Would Never Lie To Us) are wrong, or their own petty concerns for freedom, equality, etc are misplaced.

This is an entire culture built around those religious inanities. A small thing like being lied to by god about a stolen election sn't going to dissuade them from their faith. Not. One. Bit.

Leave 'em to fester and fade. Let the inevitable disconnect between what the rest of the world call "reality" and what their bearded liars in turbans tell them undermine their power and influence.

3 weeks ago

in http://immaculatetelegraphy.tumblr.com/post/124013768 on Immaculate Telegraphy
Keep on working! I don't know if anything will come out of this project but it sure is interesting. :)

3 weeks ago

in Obama Justice Department defends DOMA in lawsuit on AMERICAblog
Wait, it's OK to rape someone as long as they like it?
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Samael nit-picking of course, but there is a valid point there, it is still rape if there is no consent regardless of how pleasurable or not it is, and if i remember correctly, anal sex is not really the base-default of male homoerotic activities.

1 month ago

in Sinfest RSS feed with images on The Pug Automatic
You are my hero. This and the C&H feed that you made make my life sooooo much easier.

1 month ago

in Easter Eggs in Facebook Chat | 20bits on 20bits
the pipe is shift \
i.e. its above the backslash

1 month ago

in What’s Wrong With Empathy? on Will Wilkinson
That's exactly the opposite of how law ought to work. Governments ought to be governments of law, not of men. In cases where the lawmakers are still alive, we do not go back to them to ask to clarify disagreements as to the meaning, but we have the letter of the law stand on its own merit. The same is true in situations where the lawmakers are dead. Except in the most linguistic sense, we should not care one slightest bit what the founding fathers would have thought, but what the words mean. And many of these words are in fact rather complicated concepts, or which refer to entities external to the constitution which may change (such as what is "unusual"), and for many of these concepts there is similar language in other courts to which we may refer to their expertise. And, in cases where the language is simply hopelessly ambiguous, then it might be preferable to not interpret the law in a way which actively causes harm.

2 months ago

in The scrypt key derivation function on Daemonic Dispatches
I have no business commenting on cryptography, but I want to make a simple point about acceptance.

In a specific situation where you a) need the best encryption possible, b) need to use widely-tested encryption, and c) speed/size of file isn't too much of an issue, you could simply combined scrypt and bcrypt to satisfy both opinions. You get scrypt's theoretical strength, and bcrypt's well-audited history of usage.
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cperciva You could do that -- but you'd have to make sure to use different passwords for scrypt vs. bcrypt, since otherwise cracking one would immediately allow you to crack the other. And of course, if you're going to memorize two passwords... well, you might as well just stick the two of them together and have a single password which is far stronger than either.

2 months ago

in Adventure Island Not Beginning Well On WiiWare? on Siliconera
Assume 95% of people opt out from leaderboards. You're get 1k sales in Europe and 5k in Japan, which would STILL be pitiful. Yikes.
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denpanosekai I wonder if Pole's Big Adventure did much better... it's been out since Feb 3rd.

2 months ago

in Nokia N97 Vs Nokia N86 on The S60 Blog
whyyyy have you photoshopped airtel in that poor N97 press pic?

3 months ago

in Text the school nurse for a morning-after pill on Mobile Industry Review
The Daily Mail won't be pleased
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PatrickatJPR The Daily Mail never is!

4 months ago

in United States of Happiness on Will Wilkinson
Strictly speaking, all that data shows (I am not aware of what other studies have to say, though) is that people who live in rich states report themselves as happy on average, which is not the same thing.

4 months ago

in The story of a rape victim and the man she wrongly accused on The Daily Contributor
Did she at least have sex with him to make up for it?

4 months ago

in Bubble Bobble Plus And Silver Star Chess Leaked on Siliconera
Sorcery Blade SUCKS so pray they don't... It's THE most boring turn-based RPG I've played in a looooong time.

4 months ago

in Police Comments on Everything Random
"the speed limit used to be 10 mph higher. there were even less traffic deaths then, and that was with more powerful and more dangerous cars."

If you're talking about the States, when the speed limit was 10 mph more, the vehicles were smaller on average and were significantly less powerful. Despite this, there were still more accidents and fatalities than we have now (by percentage).

The only reason that there are "more" now is because there are more vehicles on the road. The percentage has actually dropped.

5 months ago

in An Engineer's Suggestion For the Stimulus Plan on Altgate
I liked the suggestion at http://bradhicks.livejournal.com/422902.html which seemed to be bsed on historical evidence.

5 months ago

in worst craiglist rant and raves board ever raleigh nc on Flag Free Rants & Raves
Hate to tell you , but remix is one of the flaggers that flag down the rnr 's . he also goes by the name chump an various other monikers . he also tag jacks . so don't let him fool you. he can't be trusted.

5 months ago

in Live 2G jailbreaking demo on Chronic Dev Blog
You can't stop the /b/.
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chronicdev but i can ban your email + IP
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Slbenficaboy OWNED!!!!!!!

5 months ago

in Live 2G jailbreaking demo on Chronic Dev Blog
You can't stop the /b/.

5 months ago

in Live 2G jailbreaking demo on Chronic Dev Blog
You can't stop the /b/.

5 months ago

in Facebook: By Adding This App, You Agree to Be Used in an Ad on Small Print Project
It is not unique to that app. Tetris Friends does it as well.

The ad is only shown to the friends of the person in it. Seeing as you could just go to his profile and check what apps he's added, I really don't see that you're gaining any more access to his info. Similarly, he isn't probably giving away any more info than his newsfeed usually does for him. The fact that it's further to the left of the page is pretty irrelevant.

6 months ago

in How the Famous Tweeple Got Hacked on Mashable - The Social Media Guide
The attack could have been an inside job but more likely the support tools had a vulnerability in them that didn't validate the user right.
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