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Fortunately he put the only correct response to this nonsense right in there - saves me some typing. Quote from the varnish team:

This is not a security problem in Varnish or any other piece of software
which writes a logfile.

The real problem is the mistaken belief that you can cat(1) a random
logfile to your terminal safely.

This is not a new issue. I first remember the issue with xterm(1)'s
inadvisably implemented escape-sequences in a root-context, brought up
heatedly, in 1988, possibly late 1987, at Copenhagens University
Computer Science dept. (Diku.dk). Since then, nothing much have changed.

The wisdom of terminal-response-escapes in general have been questioned
at regular intervals, but still none of the major terminal emulation
programs have seen fit to discard these sequences, probably in a
misguided attempt at compatibility with no longer used 1970'es
technology.

I admit that listing "found a security hole in all HTTP-related programs
that write logfiles" will look more impressive on a resume, but I think
it is misguided and a sign of trophy-hunting having overtaken common
sense.

Instead of blaming any and all programs which writes logfiles, it would
be much more productive, from a security point of view, to get the
terminal emulation programs to stop doing stupid things, and thus fix
this and other security problems once and for all.
#2 and #3 I can agree with.
#1 is exactly the kind of thinking that I think Apple gets right by avoiding. A product should not compete by having all the competitors features and then some.
Nobody doubt that (I hope). The point is, that you generally don't use it in competitive add campaigns, because it shows how pathetic/desperate you got.

Porn will find ways to users, one or the other way anyway, so it's also pointless.
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Yawn.

The W177's were secured with bike locks ... inside a reinforced concrete bunker surrounded by razor wire and patrolled by armed guards with orders to use lethal force to stop anyone trying to gain access to them without proper authorization.

Just like the USSR's land-based ICBMs didn't have PAL codes -- instead they were guarded by a platoon of KGB troops who didn't know how to launch the missile, but sure knew how to stop the strategic rocket forces' crew from launching the missile without orders.

Folks on HN are predisposed to thinking about automating security procedurally, but seem to miss the point that military organizations have been automating security through process carried out by human bodies for centuries, if not millenia; all they need is enough obedient soldiers with guns and orders not to allow [X] to happen without authorization [Y] or their ass is on the line to ensure that the bombs are de facto secure.
OK, can anyone tell me how to fullscreen HTML5 video?
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Flash is not the only problem now?
Rubbish.

The US Navy's SSBNs work the same way. A second strike deterrent force by definition has to have decentralized launch authority. The backstop is that no single officer can launch the missiles, it takes joint action -- and the officers are carefully screened before being put in that position. One rogue sub officer? Maybe. Enough of them to overpower the rest of the crew and carry out an unauthorized launch? Very unlikely, and begs the question of why.
Motorola to release the Google Nexus Two?
I would have done

from math import factorial as fact
print fact(6)
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Yes, the iPhone support SMS and MMS. I think this is specific to the iPad.
I don't know. There appears to be no real evidence of the "Nexus Two" and I would think that Google would stick with HTC because, imho, HTC makes good phones. Why risk when you got something good going already?
This is actually a useful word problem, they only left out one part that would make it more practical: cars cost $50 to rent, vans cost $100 to rent. Now you've got a reason to prefer cars over vans.

I (and in my experience most students feel the same) always liked learning better when it was about concrete problems and not just an abstract operation. If I'd had to learn programming without real-world applications, I wouldn't have bothered.

I explain this by pointing out that physics has theoreticians and experimentalists. Seems to me that's about mental style. Also, it's easier to communicate an idea when you've got a physical metaphor.
Apple has generally had a profit margin of 35% across it's lines, I think they said in their last financial call they were now averaging near 40% gross profit margin:

40% of $499 = $199.60
Nope! :P what does it do?
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In my opinion that's a silly statement. You might as well say that a restaurant is a really complicated way of charging for sunlight and water. (Or if you want to go farther, a complicated way of charging for the CP violation in the laws of physics which caused a slight excess of matter over anti-matter during the big bang.) Reductionism to that level is unhelpful.
yes i agree.. i honestly think that Google are doing Motorola a huge favour here, just to help them out. Additionally, maybe with the pressure of make or break for Motorola, they will work much harder and more efficiently than other companies. But this is simply my opinion
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The nice thing about intelligent discussion lists is that you don't have to put up with the 14-year-old humor that infests youtube.
Safari in OS X made my CPU fan really start to kick up some noise, and it was still pretty choppy on my beefy MBP - the full screen transition was too.
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I own some good domains for a startup, want one?
I own some good domains and sometimes feel like a squatter.
I don't really like it, so here's my try to give back to a community I've always read (and sometimes chat with).

Those are "hack" domains or "brandable" domains such as:
-think.it
-chk.it (check it)
-bulletin.co.uk
-callcenter.us
-oik.net
-0dr.com
-u43.com

freestreaming.info
youcheck.net
today-deals.com
startups.it
killed.eu
interrupt.eu
easier.eu
drawer.it
receipt.it
belong.it
passed.it
received.it
pretend.it
however.it
spent.it
studied.it
replied.it
chosen.it
herd.it
previous.it
pictured.it
ropza.com
roopza.com
woopza.com
wopza.com
evuam.com
axoad.com
deoon.com
froag.com
froeg.com
eyava.com
fairly.us
equally.us
lifted.us
laughed.us
planned.us
repeated.us
thousands.us

I've received good offers for the first part of the list (the ones with the -) but i'd really like to give them to a startup: we can arrange something special (like a lease with an option to buy it when you want at a fixed price or perhaps a small share in your company, you tell me).

For the others domains: i will provide you with those domains free of charge if you'll give me an unlimited account on your startup, whatever it does.
Provided your project is serious or, better, already have some code, of course.
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As they say on Wikipedia: "citation needed".

Do you really believe Steve Jobs is sitting in a dark room somewhere, cackling over how his plan to destroy freedom will soon be complete?
Frankly, if you install Flash just to watch crappy porn, you are either into BSDM or just too much obsessed about it.
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You ignore the noscript option which seems the most practical.
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3d version:

http://gyu.que.jp/jscloth/
Whatever it is, I think it's been used in a UK advert for Disneyland.
They do state that they intend to support Firefox for the final release.

And I think in general, letting average folk see something half finished and probably broken will totally prejudice their opinions of the final product. Irrational, but true.
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While this is nicely presented, I'm not really seeing what it adds, especially for something that's not open source and they intend to charge for.

Surely the point of HTML5 video is to have these controls built into the browser so they work with accessibility, and your custom key combos, and your touch control webpad etc. And the non-control bits are just CSS.

Okay it looks better than the default Chrome player, but really that's not very hard. Seems a step back for Safari though.
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This seems like an appropriate place to post this:
Another YCombinator founder, Florian Hufsky (Claimspotting, S'08, never launched), committed suicide in December.
I'm not a crusader for or against porn (too cynical to crusade at all, really), but I think you've picked up the wrong end of the stick.

The problem in many people's minds is not with the consumers of porn but with the creators or actors of porn, especially the women. Like a lot of other so-called sex work fields, many human rights advocates end up torn: on the one hand, it's a field where women can make money with a certain amount of independence; on the other hand, the field can be violent, unsafe (drug addiction is rampant, sexually transmitted diseases are a constant fear, etc.) and (arguably) is enormously degrading to the spirit and the bodies of the women it employs.

Anyhow, I think that people who want to clamp down on porn are generally worried about the producers rather than the consumers. (In fairness, one influential argument from Catherine MacKinnon argues that porn makes the men who consume it more likely to be violent towards women. But I think that argument is the exception not the rule.)
Indian court orders seizing a startup's machines based solely on allegations
I thought EVERYTHING was done by Jobs. Surely he's not paid that much! There are no RnD costs, Steve just dreams it all up.
If I was surfing for porn with Adobe Flash enabled, I'd be worried about the entirely seperate Flash cookies that no-one seems to know about and which are totally unaffacted by your browser's Privacy (aka Porn) mode.

"You Deleted Your Cookies? Think Again":

http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/08/you-deleted-your-cook...
So what, one out of 10 images is a porn website and now "it played the porn card". Duh. I can't say if porn sites or farmwille is a bigger waste of time.

I had a kids games site, and MOST kid's games (or other forms of edutainments) moved to Flash so kids can play them without installing anything, paying, and getting viruses. I "claim" it played the kids card and iPad is not a kid-friendly device.
Well, not necessarily. A rogue commander could probably persuade his subordinates that he was authorized to use the bicycle key. If someone in a position of apparent authority claims that they will accept responsibility, subordinates will usually go along with that.
The Delhi High Court has granted an exparte injunction against askme.in ordering them to stop business and ordering the seizing of their machines and storage after justdial filed a case against them. From what I understand from googling[1], an ex parte injunction is a court order granted after hearing only one party in matters of great urgency, without notice to the defendant or other parties.

This doesn't bode well for the start up climate in India. Soesn't this mean that any established company could sue me and my machines would be seized pending the results of the case.

[1] http://www.google.com/search?q=ex+parte+injunction
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Please, don't let your right-wing politics cloud your otherwise unmatched intelligence. Suspicion of the "establishment" is necessary, but it has its limits, lest we enter the kook territory.
but will mainly help non technical people consume more media

Why is "non technical" there? Do electronics engineers construct TV and Radio sets for themselves, or just grab one off the shelf and are happy with it?

I do not want to write a browser when I want to consume the web I will be more than happy to use one someone already wrote — given that it is good enough for the task. What iPad comes with is more than good enough for the things it is intended for.
Same, had my 24" TN for 2 days before returning it for a HP IPS panel for 2.5x the price — so glad I did. Even at the optimal viewing angle, colours were fundamentally lighter at the bottom (and darker at the top), making text in the bottom 1/3rd straining on the eyes. Never again, given a budget, I'd much rather to compromise on the computer hardware than the monitor.
Simple but works... In the same way that if you modify your tcp/ip stack, nmap (or p0f) will get all confused and report the wrong os,
Joomla, for example doesn't dump their version in the generator field (nor does mediawiki, I believe). Only wordpress like to do that.
I wrote web scrappers in Rebol before I moved to Perl and LWP. A nify little thing, I shelf it along with Factor as impressive little languages I will probably not use again.
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Heh, this picture kinda gives an answer to the complaints why iPad's bezel is so wide :)
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I suspect what will happen with porn in the iPad is what happened to porn in the iPhone: big video porn sites like xvideos.com and tnaflix.com will have a mostly pay site when the iPad is detected (that's what happens for the iPhone) and will be free for all the rest.

Their reasoning is probably that iPhone/iPad users are more likely to pay for the service, as they already do with songs, videos, and applications: this is one of the first results of this new closed world Apple is orchestrating for us, other companies will start to follow.

But... I'm starting to hope that the iPad will not be a success, as with iPhone the tech guys were mostly happy with it, as the constraints in the iPhone (let apart the approval process madness) are more or less acceptable for a phone. Instead power users mostly think at the iPad as a too limited device, as it is "almost" a computer but is limited in too many ways. Maybe if power users will not get an iPad this will have an effect in the whole market, as past successful apple product started to be popular among geeks first.
Some people's seed funding is bigger than my mental exit figure :-(
endless keys and locks and walled gardens

By that you mean freely available SDK?
will never harm anyone's ability to tinker with technology that want to. There will always be platforms that are open by design

No. Freedom is never granted: it is use or loose it.

Most posters miss the cultural aspect, which is more fragile than you might think. E.g. those, who have no longer seen quality colour TV do no longer have a demand for it. When was The Ascent of Man, or The Day the Universe Changed last updated? When you could learn about the world around you? Perhaps a decade ago? TV hardware is more advanced as ever (large, crisp home theaters) and locked-down as ever (DRM, HDMI, CryptoCard etc.) Would you think you have a case, that there is a demand for quality TV content?

completely open device like OpenMoko

A very good example: it is a practically completely discontinued open communications device. Last time communication devices were open was HAM, which was quickly taken away (read example on freeculture.org).
Haha ... absolutely right on!

"They’ve seen this sort of thing happen before - having witnessed Apple’s classic tactic penetrating the market through evolutionary features in the first few revisions of a product accompanied by aggressive and well-timed price cuts.To be as wildly disparaging as a great many people have been may very well end up fulfilling David Pogue’s (one of the few exceptions) prophecy: ‘As we enter Phase 2, remember how silly you all looked when you all predicted the iPhone’s demise in that period before it went on sale.’"
Apple still makes most of the money on hardware. They could not care less how do you get your content if you consume that content on the device they sold to you.

Frankly, I cannot imagine they going back to DRM for music on iTunes, and I hope it is only the question of time when DRM will be dropped for video and other media. If ITMS (where M will stand for "Media" instead of "Music") is the most convenient way to get your media and the price is right they will do well without DRM.
A very good point. This is why I don't trust people telling me "fast is not important, scalable is". Actually they are going to be both very important, as you want to scale using the minimum CPU cycles required.
I've always thought it was because they provide content that is fungible. One porn video or picture is pretty much replaceable with any other, perhaps within a certain genre.

Compare that with Hollywood video, TV or the music industry. Is one movie or show really replaceable with any other or do you want a specific film, show or album.

So, by comparison they are a more competitive, freer market hence greater innovation.

The other fast mover is scripture, which is public domain and so finds its way onto each new medium very early on for similar reasons.
This isn't really even a bug: it's a wishlist item which is fundamentally a request to copy an arbitrary UI behaviour from Windows. As pointed out, dimming the icon for a copy operation doesn't make sense and you wouldn't get a visual notification for that, and this inconsistency just proves the point.

Incidentally, in Nautilus I already get a visual confirmation in the status bar.

Hardly tragic, is it?
An iPad is not in danger of replacing my PC, I completely agree with Apple's proposition that it's a third class of devices.

I won't program on an iPad. I like the look of iWork, but I can't see myself composing my next presentation on it. I won't be (legally in Canada) ripping my DVD collection on it. I might write comments like this on it, but without a stylus I can't see myself writing a blog post on it.

An iPad may replace my mother's Macbook. And it ought to. She surfs the net, writes email, does her banking, and skypes. She has no need of a device that she can tinker with.

I see iPads as a threat to books and also as a threat to secondary televisions. The big screen isn't going away, but a lot of people like a smaller TV in their bedroom or kitchen. Being able to watch movies and favourite shows on a small device may displace these extra televisions.
For a ten year old operating system? Yeah, right....
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See: Paradox of Choice. Ignoring something is also a choice.

To actually make things simpler you've got to make it easier to choose. When you download a desktop app, you've got to trade off between, "is this app useful to me", and, "will this app break my computer". Since apps on the iPhone are sandboxed, and are garunteed to uninstall cleanly, you don't need to worry about the second question.

Also have a look at what Microsoft are doing with permissions in .Net, they are slowly making it easier for Windows applications to be sandboxed. In a secure Linux enviroment, it is standard practice to give different apps their own users, with tailored permissions, eg the www user.
Aren’t my arms supported when I’m lying on the couch or sitting on the table? I would say they are.
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ultr-sophisticated, but still any locking mechanism on nuke can be overcomed by sufficiently motivated adversary. And anyone who can steal the nuke is sufficiently motivated, no matter how ultra-sophisticated your lock is.

Edit: and overcoming any kind of locking mechanism on nuke is certainly cheaper than building one yourself. What most people seem to forget is that problem with building nuclear weapons lies with logistics, not technical expertise.
I think you need to re-read the title of the article.
Yes, ex parte anything means the judge(s) only listened to one side of a dispute, and as one of the Just Dial people noted, they're rare. For this sort of case, unheard of in the US.

It does sound very bad, especially given that Indian courts aren't noted for speed.
By non technical, all that was meant was, people who currently find technologies hard to use. I agree it will help everyone consume more media, but it will particularly help these people.
Yeah, I guess the truck driver who delivers these products to the retailer works for free as well...
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After using free languages for so many years, I can't switch back to a proprietary one.
Yeah I've had about enough of this kind of article.

If your idea of blogging is to use the same 7 profanities over and over again, using up 500 words while you try to make 2 points? Doesn't do much for me. Perhaps because I'm not 15 anymore.

For those of you who don't want to read this tripe, here are the points: 1) I wish people who are Apple fanboys would stop talking so much about iPads because they're going to like anything Apple does. 2) I wish people who complain about the openness of the iPad would stop talking so much because Apple is creating a new tablet market where none existed.

There. Took about 10 seconds both to write and read.
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Windows 7 Chrome Dev 4. Desktop, Quad-core. Didn't feel a thing, no abnormal high CPU usage.
"What Scheme implementation is this?"

Looks like Gambit Scheme. http://jlongster.com/blog/2009/07/19/gambit-scheme-app-devel...
It has been speculated that using the NYT site with all its missing Flash items was No Accident....
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I am not aware of this specific episode.

What the hell does a British sci-fi series have with vaccines and/or autism?
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Could this be due to bribery, or political connection?
There's sort of an emerging Big 4 (plus 1) of FP

http://book.realworldhaskell.org/

http://programming-scala.labs.oreilly.com/

http://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/oreilly-book/

http://www.freetechbooks.com/introduction-to-objective-caml-...

don't know of any freely available content books on Clojure or Erlang;
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the main techniques that I use for type inference were invented by ole agesen and john plevyak, who worked on self and concurrent aggregates, respectively (iirc). it may be they were influenced by research on lisp, but I doubt it.