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> OTR is a brilliant and fascinating protocol, particularly because it gives people who communicate deniability, which PGP, for example, doesn't. This is a point which a lot of peo…

At the point where you're allowing negative values, 'histogram' is probably a misnomer. Allowing for negative values lets you track things like delta, jerk, and so on, which can in…

This is pretty nifty; I'll be tinkering with this a bit for sure! Nice work.

I think that it could be explained away in that Perl 6 was an experiment with enough major changes that it never took hold, and that Perl 7 was moving the language forward rather t…

The question of 'why' is an important one, indeed. For example, I suspect that the disparity in cooking and ceramics is not due to a [perceived] unwelcoming culture, or a [perceive…

Can't hurt, but I suspect it won't help. I wrote in, and it took less than two minutes to receive a response which basically said "write to legal, not to us." Here's to hoping I'm …

Later quote from the article reads: "Prime numbers, which are divisible only by themselves and one, have little mathematical importance. Yet the oddities have long fascinated amate…

I've been hearing great things about Gandi pretty consistently from everyone who uses them. I'm in the process of moving my domains over to their service and so far (given, only a …

This makes sense, given that water fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous Communist plot we face.

This is absolutely true. It's almost always easier (and certainly less emotionally taxing) to just walk away entirely--especially when [the perception is that] the community will b…

There is a LOT of blatant sexism in the tech sector. The more specialized you get, the worse things get. It's a pretty well documented problem (e.g. http://www.schneier.com/blog/ar…

I don't think it's too hard to "get" Minecraft. The way it was originally explained to me (I purchased it in the beta) was "it's Lego." I played for a few weeks and it was good fun…

Nifty, thanks! Emailed to see if there's a way to earmark my donation for this cause (since it'd be separate from a general donation).

I'd donate at least a couple hundred a year if the FSF/EFF did this exactly.

In my case, this couldn't be more wrong. One needs only wave their hand in my periphery to get my attention--this encourages others to come to me to bounce ideas, get opinions, etc…