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If he's just starting to learn HTML, fancy tricks should be the last thing on his mind. Basics come first, and there are a lot of them. Most HTML jobs are going to assume a minimum of CSS and either JavaScript or graphic design (Photoshop) skills as well - and that's just the lowest entry point. Probably most will want experience in whatever CMS or frameworks are popular this week, and maybe some server scripting (PHP / Rails) as well. The days of random teenagers getting paid big bucks for being able to slap together a bare-bones website ended 10-15 years ago.

That rant aside, if he's still interested in showing off (or maybe getting inspired), I'd suggest looking more generally into web design and maybe toying around with the new HTML5 <canvas> element (requires JavaScript skill). It's a lot easier to impress people - especially non-technical hiring folks - with these sorts of visual things than by actual coding ability that they can't judge.
How does the stock thing work? Is it given to all engineers? It seems to be just Silicon Valley companies who give away stock/options as a matter of course, so I'm a little mystified.
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Afghanistan is actually much simpler than Mexico, making the case for either decriminalizing opium or at least doing the Italian red cross plan of buying all the opium produced much more significant than it is in Mexico, as I'm sure you're aware.

Drug smuggling out is fairly widespread and finances bad stuff; very little else is smuggled in or out, except for a bit of quasi-legitimate reimport of stuff on the Pakistan border to get around absurd Pakistani tariffs on stuff like cars, and moving fighters across the Pakistan border.

Child (or general human trafficking) isn't a viable market: Afghanistan can't afford to smuggle children in, and Afghan children mainly are consumed in the domestic market. ("woman for breeding, boy for pleasure, melon for sheer delight"). Very few Afghan women become prostitutes outside of Afghanistan or Pakistan (unlike Iraqi women in the neighboring states/Gulf).

There aren't many migrant workers moving across the borders either, mainly due to a lack of an economy in any of the neighboring states. Iran and Pakistan have a fair number of refugees, but they are fairly static, and don't actually work in Afghanistan, Pakistan, or Iran.

Eliminating opium as a profit source would eliminate the weird choice between befriending farmers as local allies AQ/Taliban vs. destroying opium (and thus making those farmers into enemies or enemy sympathizers for purely economic reasons), and would definance most of the Taliban (if not AQ, still financed via Saudi recreational jihadis).
Considering that most password are shorter than 14 characters, everyone implementing hashed passwords without a random salt could just store them as plain text. The rainbow table for the most common passwords (names, cities, pet names etc.) would fit in less than 1GB and would probably yield a very high success rate. There's no need to use complex passwords to prove that hashes without proper salting are bound to fail.
Considering most police forces in Europe complain about too much work and lack of resources, I doubt that. No idea what the situation is like in the US.
Smoking is officially illegal almost everywhere in San Francisco. The ban was extended this year to include most places previously exempt. If you are smoking anywhere besides on a curb in front of a parking garage, you're probably violating the law.
Smuggling people is actually easier than smuggling drugs (well, adults, either as migrant workers or prostitutes; children are kind of borderline depending on the country).

In a lot of places (US Southwest especially), the penalties for drug smuggling are far higher than for escorting groups of people -- if you get caught, you might go free if it's just a group of workers. The humans can transport themselves on foot. The humans can be held hostage afterward and you can try to extort more money from their family; if a $20k kilo of coke is held for ransom, no one is going to pay more than the discount to an alternative kilo for it.
People, NTLM hashes have been dead for years. Stop using them.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/299656
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I'm not entirely sure which algorithm is used in WinXP for password hashing, but it might still be an LM hash, which has some security flaws. All lower-case characters are converted into upper case characters and the 14-byte password (cannot be longer) is divided into two 7-byte passwords, which can be cracked alone (sort of).

So, 300 billion passwords per second is still a very impressive load, but the keyspace for WinXP passwords is somewhat limited, which would also explain why 80 GB of rainbow tables are sufficient.

But correct me if I'm wrong.
23GB of ram on EC2 is 1.60 an hour. Spin up 10 for $16.00. I think most hackers can afford that and it gives them enough computing power to match an 80GB SSD, I would say.
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Yup. Right on - +5

I am not familiar with windows password scheme but it would be crazy if windows just relied on the hash. Few *nix machines that I deal with have 128 bit salt + password.

Even wifi-wpa, blackberry and iphones are doing password strengthening to make brute force method more challenging.

As most of us are familiar with, most vulnerable part of the security is us human beings picking the passwords. Underneath algorithms(hashing) are pretty well devised and solid when used properly.
Although to be fair, every patented thing can be represented as a sequence of bits.
I'd rather not have my privacy invaded, but you make a fair point.

This is one of the few reasons I'm currently (actively) trying to stay away from the US. As far as it's in my power, I refuse to be presumed guilty, and go through such an offensive and ridiculous process.
Do you use STL then ? Because, that was pretty much the only reason I started using C++.

Or do you write your own containers
To hear people talk you'd think that any amount of reduction would lead to Somalia.

However, history tells us that even when the federal government is 1/8th the size it is today (as a percent of GDP) the US does not turn into Somalia, not even a little bit.
3rd party licenses are acceptable if they're compatible with Apple's terms.

Does the GPL attempt to force Apple to do anything, like distribute app source code, or distribute an app without DRM? If so it isn't compatible.

It's very simple. You're not supposed to submit an app that makes Apple legally liable to fulfill the requirements of a license. You, the submitter, have to fulfill all the license's requirements yourself, without Apple being involved.

If your app uses something with a license fee, you have to pay it, you can't have the licensor bill Apple for it. If there's a contract with a rights holder, you have to sign it, Apple doesn't sign the contract.

The app has to be unencumbered and safe for Apple to distribute via the App Store, with the App Store's policies and methods. If the license requires action on Apple's part to be in compliance, You Shouldn't Submit The App because it's not compatible with the App Store.

(Examples of "license requires action on Apple's part":

1. If Apple would be required by your app's licensing to distribute the app without DRM, it's not compatible with the App Store. DRM was part of the deal. App submitters know that going in.

2. If Apple would be required by your app's licensing to distribute the app's source code, it's not compatible with the App Store. Apple-distributed source is not part of the deal. App submitters know that going in.)

I assume the 3rd party licenses the end-user agreement is mostly talking about are things like content licenses, like art and other media in movie tie-in games. Or books downloaded into the kindle app.

A kindle book is probably licensed from the author to the publisher, and the publisher to Amazon for distribution rights, and from Amazon to the end user who buys it. That's a lot of 3rd party licenses, that are compatible with the App Store.
Why is this blatantly abrasive propaganda being up-voted?
Perhaps, dear sir, you could recognize that there is an entire spectrum of possibility that falls outside of the choices "coddle them" and "stomp on their necks with boots until they stop".
That's the end user license. What's relevant is the app store developer agreement, and what app submitters agree to.
You might wish to have a look at git-annex: http://git-annex.branchable.com/

The answer in any case is: yes, you can. However, the next question would be: "How?" and "Is it worth it?".

I haven't used git-annex yet, but it seems to me, that might be the solution for you. If I wanted to share a lot of big files, I'd certainly give it a try.
Ah, thanks! I actually spent a bit of time trying to find how to format code without any luck.
A job is a job is a job.
Stopping it now would be very stupid for the exact same reasons listed: The cat is already out of the bag. If you don't allow collaboration now, you -guarantee- that any forks won't end up like the mainline.
Could you explain to me in what ways your argument differs from that of prohibition of alcohol? If you can't, do you support a return to the prohibition of alcohol?

P.S. My comment about corruption was not meant to address the "corruption" of individuals who join gangs, rather it was meant to describe the corruption of the criminal justice system, society, and the political process that prohibitions causes.
why not just redirect it to http://news.ycombinator.com/offers?
I wrote to my MP about this very issue a couple of months ago, explaining that ATOC are abusing their position by making sure that their £4.99 iPhone app is the only option available. At the time I wanted to build something for Android, but was put off by cases just like this one. Here's the reply:

"Dear Mr ,

Thank you for your e-mail of the 23 August.

The ORR regularly monitors Network Rail's operations both annually and more comprehensively periodically. Network Rail operates under a network licence. This licence contains a set of conditions under which Network Rail must operate. Network Rail is also accountable under its licence. The ORR's monitoring and enforcement of Network Rail operates under a regulatory framework designed to provide effective incentives, rewarding Network Rail for doing a good job. Where necessary, the ORR may enforce compliance with the network licence if Network Rail fails to fulfil its obligations, and we may also impose monetary penalties.

As the monopoly owner and operator of the UK rail network, it has control over timetabling and its relevant data. As you highlight, ATOC use this data for its National Rail Enquiries services, in agreement with Network Rail. Distribution of this information is at the discretion of Network Rail.

Its funding is derived from track access charges and station leases. It also gets a Government grant based on network improvements agreed with the Department for Transport. All funding information can be found on Network Rail's website (www.networkrail.co.uk) whilst all reviews from the ORR can be found on its website (www.rail-reg.gov.uk).

Thank you for taking the trouble to contact me.

Yours sincerely

Richard Benyon MP"

tl;dr: Network Rail operates under a network license and is regulated by the ORR (i.e. it's effectively government controlled) but that license says that they can distribute data however they see fit.
Always use a suitably random suitably lengthy per-account salt when hashing passwords.

Always.
Being arrested is not the same as being indicted. Pulling a prank like this might put you in handcuffs for a while, but if you have the time, it may still be worth it.
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There are also many user groups worth attending depending on your skills/interest.
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This is a perfect example of what can you do with RAM that is one order of magnitude bigger than what you can normally afford in regular computers.

It would be interesting to see if the effort that is spent writing programs to load stuff from disk and avoiding seeks gets redirected to solve other problems.
Unnecessary editorializing? Goofy language? Pick one.
You are confusing NTLM hashes with LM hashes.

The article you point to is about LM hashes, not NTLM hashes. There is no way to stop using NTLM hashes on Windows.
Nothing that a decent scripting language with a REPL and some decent libs can't provide you because that is essentially what this is.

I, for one, am quite glad that my shell does not pipe objects. Text-based transports have the wonderful property that they are suspend-able (i.e. save output to a file, transfer them to another machine load them from the file; something you can't do with objects without serialization) and consistently represented on the console and for the receiving process.

Processes on my machine send and receive arbitrary byte streams. I have specialized tools for communicating with servers with specialized protocols. If you really want a shell AND a scripting language all at once, use something like IPython: http://ipython.scipy.org/moin/
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I forgot to mention: in a week or so I'm meeting the guy at Directgov responsible for data.gov.uk (for something at work and totally unrelated). I'll be sure to bring this up and see if he can help out.
Cisco is particularly interesting because most Cisco acquisitions are of companies founded by or early-staffed-by former Cisco people -- an exec or top techie leaves to start a company (perhaps built around a tech explored while at Cisco), and if it's successful, Cisco buys the company and gets the team back.

Cisco shareholders have explained that this effectively amounts to $50-500mm bonuses for people who would otherwise have remained employees, and the whole structure is self-reinforcing.
THC can kill you in the same sense that water or any other non-toxic substance can[1], if you consume enough of it it'll saturate your body and interrupt your vital functions.

But to do that you need to consume much more than any person would do naturally while smoking or eating it. E.g. you'd have to inject a 2-3 liters of it or dissolved in a saline solution. Or smoke it so heavily that it starts interrupting your oxygen supply, which is what they did in the "weed kills monkey braincells" experiment).

1. Actually water is much more practically dangerous. Many people have died from water toxicity.
Are you sure more than 93% of physicists would say yes? I would say "what if the mass changes" or "what if the speed of the mass is relativistic" -- then you have to use something else, like F = Integral[dp, dt], and F = ma no longer holds. Rather, it turns out to be F = (gamma)^3 m a.

Assumptions, assumptions! They plague everybody, not only economists. F = ma only in the non-relativistic limit with a constant mass.

Before you say "of course we are thinking in the non-relativistic limit", be mindful most of the rest of the universe, moving around at sizable fractions of c compared to us, disagrees with you.
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No government regulation requires unlocked phones. It's purely due to competition. There are 5 mobile operators for a population of only 7 million people. A mobile operator that offers only locked phone will lose its customers to competitors.
Great news, with this and clang compiling Linux we might see it replace GCC on most/all free operating systems within a few years.
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Yes and no. Making football games inaccessible to the masses would lead to revolt faster than making life difficult for people who fly. To a large extent, people who fly regularly are rather self-disciplined and have invested a lot of money in getting where they're going. Football-goers can be drunk, are already hyper-emotional and riots and hooliganry is not unknown there hm?

Bread and circuses - flying is the bread, but team spectator sports are the circuses.
true, but colours such as grey and pink together clash horribly for me, where as they seem quite popular in some print advertising at the moment. you might not be able to see how bad they look, but I can ;)

I know what you are saying, and again agree that he should have been upfront with you. but as a sign off point in the company I work for I would not sign off something which did not work for me, and would explain why to the designer.

I forget which tests I fail, but its all of them except the really rare blue one. its never stopped me producing visually exciting and arresting sites for children (and all as accessible as possible, I work for a public broadcaster) which all ensure contrast levels that work as widely as possible for colour blindness (and are also as accessible as possible for screen readers, users with aspergers etc.).
It's Apple's store, they get to set the rules for their store. I have no problem with that. I may grumble at the rules they choose, but I'm not going to cry about it.

Little developers don't have much leverage. That's life. BFD. In the grand scheme of things, it's not a big deal. If the worst thing that happens in your life this year is that your app falls afoul of some persnickety little Apple rule, you're still living better than the vast majority of the humans on the planet who would LOVE to be so afflicted.
Actually there are a lot of technological and policy solutions to "big line at security screening, potential bombing target itself"; in environments where the attackers were still idiots but actually existed (unlike US airports), these solutions were implemented.
Apparently "cracking" now means "looking up in a big list".
By roughly a factor of 10, not including the motherboard costs (since most boards don't support 128gb of ram).
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One anecdote to counter yours: when I came into Glasgow about 6 years ago, I had a few bottles of vodka with me - you're only allowed one. I asked a member of staff about it and he just said don't do it again, and waved me through.

On the other hand, the only place that I've had trouble with my passport (it was kid of dog-eared at the end of its life) was also Glasgow. It depends which security officer you get.
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If the salt is short (username, email address, phone number, user id, etc.) then this becomes much more of a serious attack, specifically if the salt+password combination is less than 14 characters.
App submitter and developer agreement signing person are not related to the VideoLAN project.

The problem the FSF is rising is about users rights, nothing else...
I don't see your point, I am afraid.
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How is this different than scraping the results of a youtube search and embedding a result?
It sounds crazy when you put it like that, but people really will swallow a random pill given to them by a man they've never met in the toilets of a dodgy club in Brixton...
Thanks, I'd really appreciate that. ATOC's attitude really stinks. If you want to get in touch directly I'm mock at mocko.org.uk.
you'd probably be arrested

You'd be required to remove it - like you're sometimes required to remove a belt, or boots, or anything with metal in it for that matter.
- Businesses are, in fact, what generates most of the wealth and innovation in a country

wealth and innovation are not the only things worth optimizing , nor are they the most important.
I'm curious as to how you think that Apple could provide the source code to a 3rd-party application. Would you care to explain?
No, we won't. The respective communities have been developing with GCC in mind for years. While clang is fantastic, I doubt that an outright replacement will take place.

But emancipated co-existence would be neat.
I think it really depends on what you are asking.
are you seeing if the tech solution you used, works and is what others would use?
are you looking for basic design feedback?
is the target audience coders/hackers/bloggers?

all those can be answered well here, but for general advice on a site aimed at non technical users you are far better asking friends and family. I'll put up with a clunky site, with poor text/design, if the site does what I want. most non technical users won't.

I see the same issue here a lot with people building sites to fix anothers supposed problem (tool to do x) without it being a tool they would use, or a problem they really understand, and without asking if others would look to solve that problem online.
I think ESR started ForgePlucker to tackle this problem. It's a project for saving "project state" from various project hosting sites. Here is the announcement: http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=1369
I catch your obvious double meaning, but it's worth pointing out again that these institutions get a lot of tax money, so we most definitely do have to stump up extra when tracks need repairing.
There definitely is a perfectly legal and convenient way to install anything: jailbreak it and put whatever you want on it.
The submitter agreed for the app to be distributed in the App Store way, as is pretty well understood at this point.

If the FSF has a problem, they should take it up with the app's submitter, not Apple.

Did VideoLan misrepresent the app to Apple as being compatible with the App Store? That's the crux of the matter.
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I disagree.

Sure, you can describe your patented process/machine/etc. with text, which you can in turn represent as a sequence of bits. But there's a difference between the patented thing being described with a series of bits and it actually being a series of bits.

Genes are purely a series of bits. But unless you want to specify the exact place where every atom goes through some crazy coordinates, you can't represent an actual machine as a series of bits--you can just describe it with a series of bits.
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ah right only visited the url after I made it clickable, and I see there is.nothing there, I didn't realise that you were looking for some to do something with it. if its going to be a complete spin off site don't you think it might be better served many a more generic / explanatory url?

or, just have it redirect to /offers
Ugh, anyone seen Food Inc.? It still doesn't solve the problem of Monsanto and their genetically modified crop, bullying small farmers.