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I definately disagree with the idea that adding private security won't remove funding from public security. If the vasy majority of wealthy townships start funding their own privat…

This might actually be a better way to advertise on the internet. My biggest qualm with advertising is that in almost every case, the product being shoved into your face is not the…

Similar to the other comments, this seems virtually unrelated to the actual arrest. This article makes it seem as though the single mistake is what allowed DPR to get nabbed, and y…

I'm always cautious around claims of ADHD. My experiences have been that attention span works largely like muscle. If you practice focus and force yourself to get better at it, you…

"A common misconception is that transactional confidence is based on time" Transactional confidence is based on the probability of someone compromising the network for enough block…

I think that this article does discredit how much smartphones have accomplished. Now anybody with a modern smartphone has a decent camera. Anybody has access to full Google search …

The social networks of the future will have the potential to access all of your daily interactions via your smartphone. They have the potential to know who you call, who you meet w…

This paper offers little with regards to future steps to protect your data, and basically accepts that we must give all of our information to corporations, and protect ourselves by…

Anecdotal evidence is not scientific, but this makes a lot of sense in the context of my life. At work, when I hit a tough problem, I'm much more likely to tab over to HN or reddit…

OVH is still the cheapest host I've ever seen. 1 TB disk space, 100mbps connection speed, 5TB bandwidth, all for $20/mo? I'm not complaining, nor have I seen better.

Heinlein's Razor - "Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity, but don't rule out malice"

"But I guess the real problem with Programmer Anarchy is that it takes away the central “leader” figure." This is a common misunderstanding with any sort of anarchy. The formal hie…

One of the problems with clinical trials is when industries have billions of dollars to spend creating drugs. If I flip a fair coin 100 times, and it comes up heads 65 times, we ca…

Maybe I have missed something, but other than being a 'search engine,' I'm not really told your site is supposed to be used. Is it good for finding courses? Is it good for finding …

Often times, there is enough reason to start over. With computer architectures, this has the risk of making every single existing operating system obsolete on your architecture. If…

Kind of. There were theories before bitcoin but for the most part each had some major obstical that they were unable to overcome. Bitcoin represents the first cryptocurrency that w…

Addition information about Ripple: https://ripple.com/wiki/Main_Page

I'm still against using passwords at all. In today's society it's completely unavoidable but instead of expecting people to go through the trouble of maintaining a different passwo…

There are a few challenges facing Bitcoin, and I think that in the long run Bitcoin will not be the chosen digital currency of the world. The first problem is that there is a highl…

There is a solution that is easier than auditing, found within the public key system. You could use the same password for every single website without any of them ever knowing what…