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unwantedLetters

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    Comment #3402136

    US-CERT Vulnerability note: http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/723755 Does anyone know if "reaver" (the name of the tool is a reference to Firefly?

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    Comment #3335083

    Well, if nothing else, good publicity. (There might be other upsides, but that must be a fairly major reason)

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    Comment #3213483

    I think this might have an off-by-one error in the case you've corrected. I'm not sure I remember how to write this in C, the correction might be: -- dst = -- src; OR (--dst) = (--…

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    Comment #2957763

    Thanks for pointing this out. I've obviously not gotten my head around the concept of space-time and the article fails to mention this. Also, http://newscenter.lbl.gov/feature-stor…

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    Comment #2907844

    He pointed out why that might not be possible. If an add-on is only supposed to work from version 3.6-6.0, and Firefox silently updates to 7, the user loses the add-on's functional…

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    Comment #2857037

    While I understand that this segment of theirs was a joke, it did have a point to it. They were trying to show that it is possible to drive a Prius in such a way that you don't act…

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    Comment #2836698

    Do you have any more info on how yelp.com has been running "extortion rackets"? I don't know much about yelp, and don't use it much, but have generally been led to believe that the…

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    Comment #2793163

    First thing I thought when I read this headline was: Be a geek.

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    Comment #2788720

    Is there some other reason why you think the idea I suggested is incorrect, or not worth it? Because it seems to me that claims like India "isn't a huge concern" might hold some wa…

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    Comment #2788092

    To be very honest, I have a 3G connection with a limit of about 1.25 GB per month. Since I wanted Lion as quick as possible, I downloaded 1 GB of material using the 3G connection (…

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    Comment #2787975

    I am in India, and have a connection that is 256Kbps. This is sufficient for most things, but I cannot get Lion from Apple. I don't mind waiting for 40 hours for ~4GB to download, …

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    Comment #2761280

    I didn't understand what you meant when you said using mathematical constants, so for those who didn't know as well: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/02/us-dealtalk-nortel...…

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    Comment #2758486

    Her sentences sound forced to me as well. Specially the way she says "WYSIWYG". If I hadn't read your comment, I too would have assumed it was a bot.

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