Viewing profile — tomlongson

Reddit should remove the π symbol on their website, as if Pi itself disappeared. "We can't talk about Pi."

How deep is the rabbit hole?

For those who aren't familiar, a NSL Canary is like a Warrant Canary, but for National Security Letters. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrant_canary Australia just outlawed warran…

Coincidence. Commenter SwimAway had a more likely argument that it is polarizing language.

If they are not harnessing big data for writing speeches then the White House is less savvy than Netflix and House of Cards writer, Beau Willimon.

A key promise of Obama's campaign for the presidency was to run the “most transparent” government- however the only person to really deliver on that promise was a whistleblower. Se…

I tried it out, but my biggest complaint was after withdrawing money, Digit immediately started taking out money again. If one withdraws money, they might not want it being sucked …

What are your crimes, citizen?

This is FUD.

While not directly connected to the NSA, it's plausible the prosecution of Aaron Swartz amounted to suppressing dissent. It's hard to say what the root cause was prosecutorial over…

Would that mean every business would need to have a bond, or just in the case of litigation?

I hadn't heard about any data leaks from Slack, so I looked it up: http://www.theverge.com/2014/10/8/6946341/slack-has-a-seriou... https://www.reddit.com/r/GlobalOffensive/comments…

In my experience H1B employees are paid less because those in hiring positions know they can offer less.

The extra work needed to do this pretty makes it very unlikely to be implemented much. Additionally the DOM level obfuscating is just bad for performance. if you're looking to prev…

I have the same issue. Alternatively a Docker ubuntu base image with nginx + pagespeed would be wonderful. [Edit] Found these links: https://github.com/laurisvan/docker-pagespeed/b…

Worked pretty well! Please add an integration for SEOMOZ, that's as important as GA.

0,0 is Null Island! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null_Island

It's not about balance sheets, it's about having time to cope with any unexpected problems with the transaction, like fraud. It's frustrating, and ideally not necessary, but it's e…

Holding onto funds is how you mitigate risk as a bank or money transmitter.

> The group also apparently gained access to a number of government Web portals and applications, including the Joint Automated Booking System (a portal that provides law enforceme…

Agreed.

An "average user" is claiming to have beaten the world record in the racing game "Dirt Rally" by 12 seconds using the Oculus Rift. https://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/3z0n1l/t…

The hypothetical question Facebook should ask is: "If the security researcher did not disclose the RCE, but instead sold it to highest bidder, how much would that likely pay in thi…

I wonder if this had anything to do with the flood of negative comments to their Amazon product pages? 3/5 stars: http://www.amazon.com/Philips-455303-White-Starter-Generatio... 4/…

Some kind of datatable showing key observable metrics would be great.