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Sometimes a David makes a bigger impression than a Goliath. It's been years since I've worked with Ladar. However, he's a man of great intelligence and principle. It's not unheard …

What does the code actually deliver in the HTTP request, and what path does the request travel? Is the exploit that the request is made outside of the TOR proxy (thus revealing the…

I believe the state law is that in any county where the population is under 400,000 residents, prostitution is legal, which rules out the main large cities in Nevada. I live in nei…

> We have systemic trillion dollar annual deficits, so tax collection efforts are being ramped up. Funny. In renewable energy circles, the first, and most efficient, optimization i…

Point taken. But it still seems he had a direct relationship (the license). My point still stands. If I, having no relation whatsoever with Monsanto, buy random soybeans as feed, t…

Many folks are stating this was a clear-cut case of violation of contract law: the guy at one time signed something with Monsanto stating his exclusive source of RR soybeans would …

People begging for money online (see those "please donate cash so I can get breast implants" sorts of things from a few years ago and on various sub-reddits) are probably a more ho…

> We were building roads and services before taxes. That's all I need: Paying to use Verizon Interstate Highway in order to traverse my state. Infrastructure is one of the few thin…

Well, whatever works for them. I've been using gmail since my '04 invite, but a few weeks ago I migrated to mail.com for web mail and bing for search. Google lured me in with the s…

One of the first couple of episodes of Cosmos (maybe the first?) has a similar thing to convey the scale of time in our existence in the universe. Pretty cool.

Good, entertaining read. I get the impression it was sanitized a great deal, because I was sorely disappointed with the lack of technical meat-n-potatoes. For instance, the author …

Have a Coke and a smile?

One summer in college, I sub-rented an apartment from a friend who was away for the summer. It was the first time in my life I had lived alone. I was working grounds crew at a dorm…

Intentional contamination or no, patenting genes and extorting royalties from people propagating self-replicating organisms is very much evil. If farmers want to pay for seed stock…

How many rural villages in China were polluted from a nearby factory producing components of the computer you used to make this post? Every single person posting in this thread is …

That's kinda like saying the MPAA ratings systems is ok because my beef is really with large theater chains that refuse to carry non-rated films. Large, entrenched authorities who …

I thought it was statistical filtering and crowd-sourced spam tagging (like Google's spam filter). I maintain a mail server for a client and Spam Assassin (edit: and greylisting) w…

How disappointing. I thought it was going to be the story of a fed-up email admin breaking down and DoS'ing one of the scourges of the internet. Blacklists are pure evil, and nothi…

Time for everyone to order teddy bears, propane bottles, and a copy of the Quran from Amazon whenever they book a plane ticket. Bring back the "spook fodder" concept from the heyda…

My make-a-wish request would be some standard protocol to translate threaded discussions such as from here and Reddit into an NNTP feed. Back in my early 90s college days, I could …

Ever since these small devices have been in production, I've always wondered about their potential use in clandestine installations. Obviously things like the Shiva Plug are almost…

I know of at least one sub-division where non-potable water is connected to yard irrigation systems, so the concept is not totally unheard of. Nothing as sensible as the system you…

This is my thought on the modern flush toilette: http://makeameme.org/media/created/skeptical-third-world-kid... I lived in what was essentially a rural cabin for 5 years. We had n…

For shits and giggles, I snagged a vinyl rip of Simon and Garfunkle's "Bridge Over Troubled Water" in 24-bit 96KHz FLAC format online, just to see what all the fuss was about. Some…

I totally agree with you. I use dirt-cheap VPS servers to tunnel web traffic over SSH socks proxies. Why? For fun. Because I can. To thwart ISP packet inspection and Google profili…