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35 lines in Java actually, the other one is a poor implementation. execution speed is more important than lines of code in this case

wow, your on a completely different page - and im going to leave it at that.

we are talking about propagation here. its built so that the person who receives the image is then unable to forward it to somebody else. or at least they can, but that person won'…

no, it would work. it doesn't have to be DRM per se, just automated public key encryption and signing using something unique such as the phones IMEI number. it is very possible to …

I don't really care about upvotes, I just voice my opinion based on my own experience. The other replies to your post have already covered what I would have said, I would just add …

It is a shame that so many of these drugs are illegal and have been demonized, because they do have benefits for people at smaller doses as discussed. Some of the greatest work and…

here is a case where we actually need DRM. the girl should have been able to secure the content and allow access to only those people she wished to grant it to - there is both noth…

so if I end up being right about it being related to the RIAA data, do I get voted back up?

all 3 founders leave at the same time, only two years after being acquired? there is more to this than simply leaving to do other things. founders of sites like last.fm don't just …

if we could measure influence, Mashable wouldn't even come close. It seems 55% of Mashable traffic is coming in from search engines. If you look at their homepage, they are obvious…

It is always tempting to point to a big company and to try and argue how stupid they are and how they waste money etc. but as most of the comments here have already pointed out, th…

ironic that the story is published by the nytimes

no. since it is gzipped, there is no progressive download of the page and it is all downloaded at once and then executed. so startTime and endTime are measuring processor execution…

WAY over-rated story. The network is built using a script kiddy tool called Gh0st RAT, which relies solely on social engineering to propagate. There are no new exploits here, or no…

The article is about how it negotiates NAT using forged UDP packets. What is more interesting is how it actually gets past firewalls. It exploits common default rules in firewalls.…

"A 30% return (the minimum needed to give LPs a return commensurate with venture risk after the GPs have taken a 20% performance cut) on $1 million is $300,000. A 30% return on $1 …

some people may have noticed that only Elon Musk features on the frontpage for Paypal while Peter Thiel and Max Levchin are not. Apparently there is a lot of politics behind this, …

you are absolutely right about creating social situations. has gotten me laid plenty of times. queue classic vonnegut: girls who smoke, fuck: http://www.lunabase.org/~faber/RICHH/k…

for me, nicotine is a much better hacking drug than caffeine.

it is loading really slowly for me you should auto-gen an email address for every new visitor, makes it easier than having to check. people don't care what the username is for a th…

that is essentially what vesting does - except it is more legally sound.

you are more right (I bought up vesting below). Hopefully hackapreneurs reading this thread will ignore SG and take on the comments instead.

within vesting agreements there are change of control conditions. For outright sales, it usually works out that those who are over the cliff have their vesting accelerated. In a me…