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I wonder if it's possible to accelerate this using WebGL?

It's not really malware. You're trading some CPU time for content. You do the same thing with your brain when you visit a website that contains ads.

The original paper without all of the scaremongering: "The Unbearable Lightness of Monitoring: Direct Monitoring in BitTorrent" http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~tpc/Papers/P2PSecComm2012.…

Nintendo has a great brand. I wish they'd use it to make a 3D printer instead of lackluster motion games.

The title made me think of knitting needles with sensors that some home tied into a game but this textile printer is really cool. Imagine handing your classmate a custom-printed sc…

I use this setup on my laptop (mac specific). I have an ssh server listening on port 443 on a linux machine in the basement of some university somewhere. .ssh/config Host bouncebox…

Starting with uTorrent "enhancing" their users' experiences with bundled adware: http://www.ghacks.net/2012/05/04/utorrent-update-comes-bundl...

Is Haskell then a "Third Hand" language because it is compiled into C?

A JavaScript widget, browser plugin, or Photoshop filter to colorblindify, in various types, a webpage so that designers can check for usability would be useful. EDIT: Actually, wh…

Counsyl uses Python and C. https://www.counsyl.com

What is the output of "rm -rf /"?

It's probably calculating a checksum of the file to check for corruption.