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Cue Weird Al's "Jurassic Park"

I recently ran into two github repos that were taken down due to DMCA requests. It's a weird feeling.

iOS 7 opened up some APIs for it. GetCloak's app uses it (and has a lot more niceties, I read), and so does the ugly but generic OpenVPN app. I'm guesses that they're not able to block all traffic before the VPN is set up though. I'm not sure. And I'm certain the OpenVPN app doesn't fail safe/closed.

Anyone know of a portable, travel wifi router that supports VPN and fails closed?

Correct. Running your own server, etc, doesn't matter. If what you're doing on the internet isn't encrypted by you and decrypted by a trusted and competent recipient... consider it more or less public.

Not bad. RSS feed? It says "send pull request", but I don't see a github link or any contact address.

Thanks. I hope someone could look up a discussion on this soccer goalie example: I never really understood it.

Is the example above saying goalies would do the "more productive" thing of standing still more often if they didn't feel the pressure to look like they were doing something? If kickers evenly spread out their shots, you got a 1/3 chance no matter what you do. It wouldn't matter if the goalie went always left or always right or just stood there every time. And if goalies are being irrational, why aren't kickers exploiting it?

Though I agree that you shouldn't be penalized for standing still, that doesn't make jumping right or left "fake work".

Update:

https://github.com/iSECPartners/yontma-mac/issues/4

Sort of. We think. I dunno:

https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/18720/how-secur...

You're saying that an Apple killswitch would be a good thing that users would want?

That's the use case of Whonix.

http://whonix.org

Their employers are parasites? I don't think they know what that word means.

I played with Xamarin Studio + F# + OS X about a year or two ago. Right away I noticed that F# is a second class citizen in Xamarin. Weird bugs, weird warnings, unfinished parts, hard to find help online and in IRC channel. And since it's a smaller language, there are 1/100th the number of tutorials/resources at much lower quality. Anyone who wanted to run my app on Linux or Mac had to deal with Mono 2 vs Mono 3. Despite spending a lot of time, I never figured out how to compile a windows binary on Mac or a Mac binary on Visual Studio (or how to have a project folder that works both in Xamarin and Visual studio without both git problems and linking problems). Starting a C# project is a pleasant experience, starting a F# required searching for add-ons and manual configuring (both in Xam and VS). I couldn't even run the iOS sample app without paying hundreds of dollars for the full version because the iOS libraries made the binary (of the one page sample app) to big for the trial version. Response in IRC was "yeah, we know. Oh well".

A real shame. I'd love to dedicate myself to an open source functional language with a GUI toolkit that runs all platforms, desktop and mobile.

The article is a strawman: No one argues that the SI prefix G- is base 10. The example: "A 200 GB hard drive holds..." is blatant question begging ("It's 10^9 because it's 10^9").

The real questions are: Why did hard drive manufactures move from a (misnamed) base 2 to base 10? They were confused before but then saw the light (decades later)? Why did all OSes and utilities use base 2? Why do most still use base 2? Why can't we use base 2 now?

Making the consumer think he gets more for his money doesn't give you an advantage over your competitor (if he's doing the same thing), but it does put more money into the industry as a whole. Imagine a home ice cream machine fad. All manufacturers might rise more or less equally, but they all make more money now that people believe their lives are better enhanced by putting their money into ice cream.

Who needs a job when you have robots doing all the work for you?! Think of all the other things you could be doing.

No, really. Think about it.

How many people have 1234567890 as a password? Here's a login I made that anyone can use... Username: M8R-RSNT121 Pass: 1234567890

Also here is a third party search tool (that even ellis island website recommends over theirs): http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/EIDB/ellisgold.html

Oddly, even that third party form has an "old version you probably shouldn't use". (The link takes you to "gold". The old one is "white").

For extra laughs, take a look at the URL when you view the ships manifest images.

You're supposed to laugh.

An idiot... like a fox. He was up to something, using bullying tactics to social engineer.

"Virtually all non-tropical crops are grown in the Central Valley, which is the primary source for a number of food products throughout the United States, including tomatoes, almonds, grapes, cotton, apricots, and asparagus." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Valley_(California)

Minor correction: The San Joaquin Valley in the south half of the Central Valley, and The Sacramento Valley is the north half. The dividing line is the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta

I want my money back.