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Passwords: Don't try to remember them. Use a service like passpack to generate and store random ones for every account. Two pass authenticate into it. Data: Back it up. Backup your…

Making everyone pay isn't a solution, it's a business plan. When I go out to a loud club I can still communicate and no one comes around telling me it's against the club rules to t…

Yes, but you don't fix it by shutting them all down and making people pay for something they could provide themselves. You make it free, 'cos it's the Olympics and people need to c…

Whether or not that reddit post is correct in this situation, they are banning regular wifi and 3g hotspots created by personal cell phones. Which IMHO isn't really draconian but p…

The license for those interested: SIL OPEN FONT LICENSE Version 1.1 - 26 February 2007 The OFL allows the licensed fonts to be used, studied, modified and redistributed freely as l…

no one uses the whois unix command?

However, I'm not advocating price controls. If what you're implying is that you believe in the ability of the free market to solve the problem, then first we would need free the wi…

This isn't about cryptography, this is about what data can be pulled out of bits transfered through your computer. There is no requisite that they be encrypted, they can be obfusca…

It's not about what kind of software they are considered, it's about code running on your system. In the RMS eyes, if code runs on your system, and you can't read/modify that code …

The problem is thinking that there is a way. You can't. Data can easily be obfuscated. As long as bits are flowing through your machine from sources that you don't control, you cou…

...everyone knows child porn is bad. It's existence though, does not negate the usefulness of a system. Not that cryptosphere is going to be the open government revolution, but you…

The first one with the 2-tone metal back is still the prettiest IMHO. And it seemed the sturdiest. A drop resulted in a dent, not a crack or finger shaving glass shards.

Because unfortunately logical reasoning and argument construction are not educational targets for most people. :(

Haven't made any commits in a while. Waiting for more features from meteor.

This is a pretty pedestrian non-technical article about javascript frameworks that have essentially zero market share. Don't get me wrong, they're both totally awesome and anyone i…

heres mine from a while ago: http://instachat.meteor.com/ source: https://github.com/spicytuna/InstaChat you can create rooms like this: http://instachat.meteor.com/room/HackerNews…

The importance and effectiveness of caffeine has a lot to do with your job and lifestyle. If you are a mostly sedentary computer worker, the lack of blood circulation from sitting …

I think this is one of those problems where smart people think too hard. It has nothing to do with non engineers misunderstanding randomness or the human mind intrinsically superim…

The way we (obviously not all of us) think about culture is pretty fundamentally flawed IMHO. Copyright exists only to create incentive to produce more copyrighted works(aka cultur…

All companies, positive or negative, have some honest employees.

We are all skeptical too, but really it could be any number of things and he stated that he wanted to do more programming and less CTOing.

Vandalism is a bummer, but it's certainly not a reason to loose faith in wikipedia. "Staggering" loss of content is an enormous exaggeration, especially since the articles are vers…

Really, you hate people like me? Hate? I made an informed decision, and you hate me? You hate me for my opinions? On the Olympics? You really think I'm ruining the Olympics with my…

Talk pages. If you have a problem with an article bring it up on the talk page. I don't see how else you could expect a free, user-edited, online encyclopedia to function. For what…