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It wasn't originally -- it was created in Palo Alto, by people not affiliated with Russia. It's gone through changes since then, though, and I don't know the current ownership stat…

That's why this is such an impressive achievement!

"Ox is easier to use than Vim because it doesn’t have modes where the keyboard is repurposed, however it takes the idea of being a keyboard-only editor and being able to act just l…

> And contrary to most business owners’ beliefs, older buildings are not “grandfathered” into the ADA and are susceptible to these lawsuits.

TFA says that Ernst and Young was the company to crack the laptop. Ernst and Young would not burn a zero-day exploit on an auditing job.

This is answered in the article. See section 3, "They (probably) were a good investment."

He's not claiming that you can brute-force the encryption key -- he's proposing another way to brute-force the PIN itself that won't trigger exponential timeouts or auto-wipe of th…

Said bar was mentioned in the article, even.

I remember doing this a few companies ago. Except we didn't have a modem, we just found a phone we could send commands to. It had some user interface that would pop up after every …

Q: What's an anagram of "Banach-Tarski"? A: "Banach-Tarski Banach-Tarski"

It's true that the SEC makes this data available free of charge, but it's typically not useful without a lot of extra processing. XBRL( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XBRL ) is a sta…

Thanks, Steve! We miss having you around here :)

Maybe. If you're just loading constants onto the stack, it seems like it would be pretty forgiving of optimizations and such, and even work across architectures (assuming the same …

This swamp is the origin of author William Gibson's handle on Twitter: https://twitter.com/greatdismal

They can only go so low. Here's a pdf of Visa's interchange rates: http://usa.visa.com/download/merchants/visa-usa-interchange-... . (Mastercard is similar, and Amex is even more e…

I applied to work at a Radio Shack when I was 16. I didn't get a job there. The guy interviewing me spent most of the time making sure I knew the difference between being paid hour…

Just read an interesting article on boingboing (I know, I know) about this. http://boingboing.net/2014/11/20/for-god-for-country-and-for...

That was really interesting, thanks. In particular, "The Enforcement Process. Congressional investigations often begin informally, with the interested committee or subcommittee fir…

Most states in the USA do exactly this already.

I suspect that you might be taking this (again, not-even-released) game a bit too seriously :)

That's the second time in this discussion that you've proposed paying money for an advantage over others in this not-even-released game. May I ask why you're so eager to win at thi…

A bit off-topic, but why not make it a referral link? I clicked it (when it was still broken, unfortunately), and imagine others will, too. You have a popular blog with not-insigni…