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It seems that you (like a great number of other people) assume that an ordinary person without special skills cannot comprehend what some code does once it is compiled. But that as…

Even though my intuition tells me that I should support neurodiversity my reasoning keeps failing to justify it without introducing "diversity is unconditionally good" as an axiom.…

Once I tried to figure out how to parse complex C declarations just by reading the specification ( http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1570.pdf ), that is, without con…

It might be the right thing to do to torture, to add more pain to, someone who already feels so much pain that she attempts suicide, by some standard that I cannot comprehend. We m…

It's just funny that it is still called "natural selection" even when the environment that selects individuals is created by nothing but ourselves. I think it'd be much more accura…

I meant HTTP but I have to admit it was not clear. What I had in my mind when I wrote that was there needs to be something that forces people to provide semantics of web pages. By …

Extracting machine-understandable meaning from web pages is much analogous to extracting text from images. Fortunately, we usually don't need to process web pages using fancy yet h…

You can read Wikipedia articles without letting them know which article you're reading by downloading the database dump of Wikipedia, which can be obtained at dumps.wikimedia.org.

Google developed SPDY, an efficient binary representation of HTTP messages. Maybe they will do the same thing but for HTML. It would be much more efficient if one could design a bi…

It'd be great if it were implemented as a peer-to-peer protocol as it'd make taking the service down much more difficult. EDIT: Although making the service completely peer-to-peer …

I suppose not. I presume the way would be vulnerabilities in code handling untrusted data streams such as USB, Wi-Fi, or BlueTooth. Although the amount of time it takes might be ge…

I quite agree. However I have seen a great many registration forms that only accept a short password. If passwords are handled properly there's no reason to limit password length b…

I think Apple and all other tech companies that support it move as the FBI (or whoever controls the FBI) expected or wanted. What was revealed a few years ago was the fact that big…

I think Daylight Saving Time is a bad idea in the same sense that (abusing) global variables is a bad idea in programming. In programming, changing a global state in order to achie…

> A sufficiently paranoid individual can only run code they wrote themselves. I'd say that is not sufficient because even in this case you trust someone: the manufacturer of the CP…

I had been doing this until some time ago to block ads and to prevent Google from collecting my web browsing history via Google Analytics. During the time I witnessed a strange phe…

What I don't understand about authentication over HTTPS is, though, why not making login a part of the protocol? Wouldn't it be much better to authenticate a user with a public key…

The author of Tree Style Tab has commented (in Japanese) on the change to deprecate add-ons making use of XUL. [1] Roughly what he said might be summarized as follows (sorry if I m…

How naive it is to believe that Microsoft will obey these settings? It is very time-consuming to make sure if they fulfill the promise because that requires reading disassembly as …

This might also be useful for combating attempts to reveal authors' identities using forensic linguistics.

Why is it hard to track users when DuckDuckGo has access logs (tuples of date/times, ip addresses and queries) and ISPs have a pair of a date/time and an ip address -> a real ident…

That's why we need a truly decentralized search engine so that there's no one to trust and to have power therefore no way to pressure someone.

I'm paranoid and it makes me sick the fact that there's no push platform that supports encryption. I don't want service providers to know what I push.