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hackermom

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    Comment #16572041

    It's definitely not splitting hairs; steganography and cryptography are quite different things.

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    Comment #10726547

    So assuming these are real, this guy gets fired (or just plain ditches companies) very often. Sounds like the diametrical opposite of a good employee.

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    Comment #9788511

    "The SJW aspect is the most annoying. When guys in the Valley make $160K and then talk about income inequality, it sort of makes me laugh."

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    Comment #7577516

    This graph illustrates the "sputtering": https://blockchain.info/charts/hash-rate

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    Comment #4128433

    I can't believe you hardcoded this for MySQL instead of using PDOs, and I can't believe the 10k line count for this. Gosh. Is "de-engineering" a proper term for this?

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    Comment #4007345

    So if all goes well for the ol' Bitcoin, this expensive monstrosity may generate an actual income after 10-11 months of continuous use.

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    Comment #4002272

    The "random garbage" isn't "random garbage" if your key slips out of your hands. If there's a key, there's a looming problem.

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    Comment #4002236

    So reading the data, applying crypto on the data, and then writing it back, is faster than just writing random data to the same cells to erase the data? How? Edit - Adding my respo…

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    Comment #3994644

    Alias does not change the root dir, according to Nginx documentation. This was what made us believe that through eventual exploit, it could be possible to reach the active root dir…

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    Comment #3993680

    We used something just like that to map users' home directories, but it doesn't solve the problem of not being able to set a unique root directory for each user case. Nginx accepts…

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    Comment #3992593

    I wasn't aware that this was a Q&A or issues tracker for Nginx, which is why I never had the intent of bringing details up. My apologies for posting these things in the official Ng…

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    Comment #3992580

    One problem that comes to mind is Nginx' inability to have multiple root dirs set for one and the same host depending on what location directive will be in use, for example when wa…

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    Comment #3992331

    Did I hit a nerve of some zealous Nginx user when mentioning the fact that Nginx isn't a silver bullet? :) I'm sure you can downvote this comment, too! Knock yourself out!

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    Comment #3992306

    Looking forward to a day when I can give Nginx another try when its feature set has matured in more directions. Its unfortunate lack of fine-grained versatility in some areas of co…

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    Comment #3991294

    [detached] melissa@tellus$ whoami melissa Last login: Fri May 18 09:29:53 on ttys002 MelBook:~ melissa$ whoami melissa phew!

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    Comment #3991147

    The proper term for this effect is "raster bars", from how you traditionally did the effect by waiting for the raster line register to hit a certain vertical position on the screen…

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    Comment #3986243

    I wonder what Vimeo and Pastebin did to end up on this list. These two are definitely odd (and harmless) apples in that bunch.

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    Comment #3984816

    This makes me think of all the people who insist on using jQuery for exactly everything .

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    Comment #3975782

    Not all of their regular post offices, just some.

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    Comment #3974305

    And in the OS X context the better form of it, MPlayerX: http://mplayerx.org/

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    Comment #3972026

    "We currently do not ship internationally", anyone? That message right there, when I'm shopping online, annoys me to no end. Clever way of doing business.

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    Comment #3972008

    I used to be a Perian user, but its complications and shortcomings made me ditch it in favor of MPlayer OS X Extended, which eventually led me to the better MPlayerX. I am in favor…