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I think this is not correct. The 20K were the content creators and the payments were from the their subscribers which should be a lot more. Even more impressive!

While the report mentions Threema, there are quite a lot more messaging apps. I found a nice list comparing them here: https://www.securemessagingapps.com/

It looks good. When should we expect firefox support?

I have been using Fedora on the desktop for the last 7 years. There are lots of pros like large selection of mostly up-to-date packages, good community, security, sane defaults etc…

Both Firefox[1] and Chrome[2] removed it from their stores. I don't know if we should expect an official announcement, but it seems that neither Mozilla nor Google commented on the…

I think the big mistake was offering something for free and then asking money for it. The first backlash was with the (unverified) certificates and the latest with the tests and as…

Someone should just edit the title. It's not "emac's" it's "emacs"! The name was originally derived from "Editor MACroS". Here is the wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki…

Actually, you can update with windows update. It will take a lot of time though.

My Coursera profile lists 67 courses, I have completed ~15 of them and with a passing grade ~8 of them. My most favorite one, which for me was the hardest as well, was The Hardware…

I finished Cryptography I in March 2012 and wanted to take Cryptography II ever since. Every time the announced time is close it gets pushed back by 4 months.

The content of the lecture notes[1] seem good, although I don't really like the presentation that much. Also, its difficult to follow just the notes without watching or listening t…

If anyone wonders about dbus/kdbus, this[1] was asked on r/linux yesterday. [1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/3auufg/eli12_dbus_vs...

It's partly mentioned in the article: > Later, he conducted a study showing that rats developed atherosclerosis after being fed artificial trans fats. When he removed the substance…

Similarly, I got 3 wavs and 3 320s. I could distinguish the 128s but not between the other two. Please note that I did this wearing studio headphones (shure srh840).

IP spoofing can be prevented by ISPs[1] but I don't thing there is an incentive for them to do it. That could not stop the NSA anyway. [1]: http://security.stackexchange.com/questi…

Additionally, > HTTPS would hide attacks from existing intrusion detection systems. is completely wrong. Intrusion detection systems are usually checking traffic between the revers…

> The course content is locked Actually, you can view both previous sessions. I am not sure if you can do it without previously registering for the course since I registered for bo…

There is a coursera course called "Learning How to Learn"[1] by Barbara Oakley that is starting soon. I took the previous session and it was very interesting. I liked the science[2…

Actually, it's processed by a script (a bot if you like), however, if something fails a person replies to you. This is the problem with many of the challengers. When everything is …

Here are some interesting threads from reddit: -A user found an identical device on a chinese website: https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/2j8kyo/tor_rout... -Updated thre…

You should note the date on that article (April 3rd). Kay Sievers rights have been reinstated by Linus. It's also important to note that the issue was with Sievers specifically and…

Ctrl-p in emacs takes you to the previous line. Since readline uses emcs-style notation by default, Ctrl-p takes you to the previous command in history (and Ctrl-n to the next). I …

It's not the same but there are other security issues. The server to server transfer of the email message might not be encrypted (it might be if both have TLS extensions enabled). …

I agree, "Crypto 1" was excellent! On Coursera's website, in the upcoming section, it says that "Crypto 2" starts in 3 months. I hope that's true!

Although you got some pretty good answers there is one point that is not covered: parallel I/O. This is especially important for virtualization hosts as it improves performance sig…