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Quite a few famous hackers seem to have this problem, eg Richard Stallman. I suppose there's a reason the "UNIX guy" stereotype exists.

Layperson's explanation - this is a pretty important step to stopping aging in human beings. Telomerase lengthens telomeres, which are end-caps on DNA strands that are slowly whitt…

AWStats ( http://awstats.sourceforge.net/ ) is decent if you just want some simple log-based analytics. Don't know what you mean by limited, but logfile-based analytics software do…

Doesn't strip script tags or anything; lots of nasty stuff you could do with this. Somebody should notify them. https://www.maybank2u.com.my/mbb/m2u/jsp/common/mbbReceipt.j...

I'd love to have one too, if you still have any.

Isn't Poisson rate-based, ie events over a fixed time period? I'm having trouble seeing where you got the rate from (children per lifetime? but that's hardly a "fixed time period")…

The "average number of own children under 18 per family" for "familes with own children under 18" was 1.86 in 2009 (and has been within 0.1 of that since 1978), which means about 1…

The entire source of news.arc is open - eg http://github.com/nex3/arc/blob/master/news.arc Lines 1095-1098 control whether the downvote arrow is displayed or not. So, to answer you…

the ones with a bit of money will vote with their wallets The problem with this (regarding China in particular) is that the "ones with a bit money" and the "people" sometimes inter…

Mathematically you could express the concept of a (partially ordered) set by something like (where P is some comparison function), so, for example, the sorted natural numbers would…

Actually, if you read the article, they mention using two probes made of the same metal to eliminate any current generated by the differences in redox potential between them.

Then again, silicon is an atomic crystal, while hair's structure is defined on the cellular level, which makes doping silicon much more practical than doping hair. This is on top o…

That said, I don't think this is really a justified criticism we have here, pending further details.

'Dummy' means 'pacifier' in some places, so 'spitting the dummy' literally refers to the temper tantrum of a baby. Hence, to 'dummy spit' is to throw a massive, immature temper tan…

I see your point, but saying that a "'SQL injection attack'" was used to "penetrate networks' firewalls" really does conjure the image of somebody setting their IP to "' OR 1=1;".

Also, SQL injection being described as "complicated"?

Well, I only have experience with one college, but Stanford offers an introductory-level class in pure C and x86 assembler.

That's incredibly cool. I wonder, though, if these things produce a strong enough magnetic field to interfere with radios, cellphones, wireless internet, etc.

I find it vaguely surreal that I work at Amazon, yet I read about this on TechCrunch before I found out "officially".