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Since neither Forbes nor the author, Jon Matonis, saw fit to point this out, I will. This is an op-ed piece, written by a board member of the Bitcoin Foundation. Regardless of the …

Don't be so flippant. Some of us have our doctorates from the prestigious WebMD.

Yeah, this is what I found fascinating in your paper( http://demoseen.com/bhpaper.html ). I had always wondered how they invalidated the old keys automatically.

I'm doubt their all entitled morons, but it does remind me of my favorite Louis CK bit - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itn8TwFCO4M&feature=playe...

It turns out the 10 passwords he 'hacked' were in the range of 1-6 characters. More details here: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/11/18/amazon_cloud_sha_pas...

This is what I like about http://railsapi.com (which is just Sdoc), it gives you searchable ruby docs, and each method comes with a link to the code on Github. This way when you're…

I'll preface this with, I don't have a better solution, so kudos to the FF crew for trying something new. That being said: I don't find this compelling at all. Do I really want to …

Need to figure out if a web visitor to your Ruby app is on a iPhone or a Nexus one? Don't want to write your own parser? We released a our ruby library for profiling incoming web r…

The site was pulled down, here's the copy of the rant: If you’re reading this, you’re no doubt asking yourself, “Why did this have to happen?” The simple truth is that it is compli…

Yeah I'm completely perplexed by this. I'm not questioning the guys article, but there's got to be more to it then we are reading. $200 for a two week project is $5 an hour if you …

"Cohen never sought a formal diagnosis but turned his considerable attention to the matter" Self-diagnosis. Are you fucking kidding me? Just because you were picked on in highschoo…

I cancelled my subscription a year ago because of this. It's really a shame too, as it was one of the best papers out there. The frontpage always had one really interesting article…

Read the following Scott Adams blog quotes: "I can't get past the fact that it's sitting there wasting energy while its only function is to confuse me up to three dozen times per d…

And at $1.50 it's not going to be a particularly good cup of coffee. But I'm in the same boat. I already shell out ~$100 a year for the Economist, and various other subscriptions. …

Why, if he can prove he's not infringing on their trademark, he should absolutely continue to make money selling his merchandise. If IBM didn't exist you probably wouldn't have Mic…

Sounds a lot like what Freenet has always been trying to do. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freenet If I recall correctly, files are split up, passed around and encrypted so you don'…

Well to some extent, that's partially the goal of Bespin, although it seems to be on the 'full rewrite' path these days too. I would love to see it happen though, along with the ab…

Yet non-profit colleges have a repayment rate of 95.3% while for-profit colleges sink to 83.3%. So it's not the 'only real difference'. But I'll give you that non-profits are not e…

What's worse is the way for-profit colleges are abusing the system and taking federal loan dollars for subpar educations. Their default rates are appalling, but that's to be expect…

Another reason why I Google with the Bing http://img.skitch.com/20100105-f2xhs1pm1bmi1wt24cng2hddyw.jp... Cause everyone knows "Islam is the light baby doll"

Oh come on, is it really THAT bad? :) As much as I like pontificate on the doom and gloom of our current economy, there are PLENTY of opportunities left in the US for an educated w…

He certainly fits the mold of a microeconomist, but he revolutionized the study of management in the US. I don't think it's at all disingenuous to say that he drove management scie…

No, what's silly is that people still quote Peter Drucker with a straight face. Ever been frustrated by the many layers of middle management in corporate America today, or laughed …