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"you should never use your own crypto code" The sentiment behind that is to keep out those that don't know how to code. If everybody followed that advice there wouldn't be crypto c…

That's not entirely true though. IPv6 has been prioritised on various devices and Google taught us over a decade ago that response time makes the web experience feel better to the …

Studies report the answer is yes: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18233843

> It's just that you can't have your cake and eat it too. You can build up instead of out.

I know the Pidgin project used to build their windows version on Linux using GCC and setting the make target. You get a constantly up to date compiler (because of the system packag…

Yes they can grab the IPv6 address but IPv6 has a privacy extension to cater for this. It will alter your local IPv6 address periodically. You could configure it to update every ho…

"New York must stand up to the hostile takeover being attempted by a Mafia-like Silicon Valley, in conjunction with predator banks,” Freidman said. I understand someone is lashing …

It is in the creditors interest to only provide a short term solution. They want to see reforms actually put in place to ensure the money is going to where it is needed. If Greece …

I don't know the exact details but I didn't think Iceland was in Europe, the UK wanted to rush them in so that those rules could apply: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accession_of_I…

I would hazard to suggest those outnumber the skilled large organisations by quite a margin.

Sky are certainly looking at a roll out: http://www.ipv6.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/SKY-IPv6-T... BT are apparently going the opposite direction (and looking to create a lot…

Sounds like Mr Poettering hasn't read the vendors page and has just gotten stuck on the word vendor: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/437#issuecomment-1... "Open Source pr…

Did they give you the reply in writing? If not ask for confirmation in the form of a letter. It only takes 5 mins to type out a letter. If they blow you off you know you are gettin…

Have you signed any contract? An employment contract would place ownership with the company. You've mentioned you've been compensated which doesn't sound good. (Hence why people ar…

A pragmatist would say that you are right. However ethics teaches us that you are wrong. Remotely destroying things is not going to help us as a race. Keeping the human in the dang…

There is a Google Summer of Code project for D3DRM: https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/details/google/g... There is a lot of recent D3D changes in the wine source: http://…

After reading that I would imagine he's going to jail for fraud. If you disagree with sections you are to strike them out and initial them, additions or changes are appended to the…

> I don't think a modern website with CSS3/HTML5 favored will load that perfect in 10 years. I'd be willing to bet it will, modern design principles are about separating the conten…

I had to cancel my satellite TV subscription because of the Disney channels. All the main protagonists are self obsessed trouble makers that never get their comeuppance. I would ra…

The correct solution to this problem is to tax the rental income and hand that money to low income households. It would create a balance of correct market prices and allowing low i…

You need to learn about old age and how it effects the brain. You take an alzheimer's patient out of their home and place them in a hospital or new home and you are effectively tra…

brew is a package manager, I can install a set of applications and libraries that will be kept up to date with a simple command line. If your coding doesn't take you outside of wha…

Customer acquisition costs is usually the first problem for businesses.

My problem with PowerShell is that its Yet Another Syntax To Learn (YASTL). If a JavaScript runtime like nodejs had access to the same interfaces as PowerShell or to COM I'd be ove…

That's kind of old world thinking, it's been bugging me. In traditional programming and processor architectures that statement would be true. But if it were true today then Google …