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ropers | 5 years ago | on: Everything you ever wanted to know about terminals (2018)

It turns out I'm an idiot. I should have provided sixth bits (00100000, \040, 32, 0x20) for your XORing pleasure:

%20 %20 %20 %20 %20 %20 %20 %20 %20 %20 %20 %20 %20 %20 %20 %20 %20 %20 %20

My mistake.

ropers | 5 years ago | on: Everything you ever wanted to know about terminals (2018)

Here are a few seventh bits (01000000, \100, 64, 0x40) for your ANDing pleasure, so you can pull a Timothy Dexter and peper and solt it as you plese: @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@

ropers | 13 years ago | on: DRM in the cinema

> the industry is shifting – not only its medium, not only its focus, but with it – and most significantly for theatres like us – it’s shifting the element of control

That's a bingo. Like with so many things DRM, where rights are no longer balanced and only the concerns of one side, the DRM-issuing side are ever taken into account, this is a power-grab.

ropers | 14 years ago | on: Apple's officially over the optical drive, for better or worse

Did the author really just omit any mention of USB flash drives in that article? Or am I just slightly blind?

ropers | 15 years ago | on: Tenn. law bans posting images that "cause emotional distress"

*statute

ropers | 15 years ago | on: Top Programming Fonts

Would you consider taking a screenshot of how that looks?

ropers | 15 years ago | on: 'Steal everything' era of hacking

> The hack, which has led to the network being unavailable for over a week, has left observers wondering if a company as vast and seemingly advanced as Sony can get hit, who out there is safe?

Thank you, Dave Lee, for revealing early on in the article that you don't understand the subject matter and that the article won't be worth reading.

ropers | 15 years ago | on: WSJ Responds to Safehouse Security and Anonymity

Leaking things to Murdoch?

Hell no!

PS: I think it's pretty clear who will be "leaking" things there: Lobbyists and PR firms who want to further insulate their wholly aware paymasters from accountability.

ropers | 15 years ago | on: Russian tycoon buys Warner Music for $3.3bn

Does the "tycoon" hold US or Russian citizenship (or both)?

ropers | 15 years ago | on: The Parser that Cracked the MediaWiki Code

Or try Coral Cache:

http://dirkriehle.com.nyud.net/2011/05/01/the-parser-that-cr...

"It worked for me." ;-)

ropers | 15 years ago | on: Amazon’s $23,698,655.93 book about flies

This reminds me of a similarly unethical behaviour I've encountered recently: I tried to buy a certain rare electronics component, and found it listed by a bunch of people. There were lots of bait-and-switchers in the Google results, who only had the part listed for the googlebot to pick up, but as soon as I actually tried to order the part, their site told me they didn't actually have it and suggested I buy something else from them.

It gets worse: When I finally did find a seller who allowed me to order the part, they accepted my order -- and then came back later saying that, oh no, actually they didn't have it either, but would I like to convert my order into an order for something else? (Fuck off.)

I still don't have the part.

ropers | 15 years ago | on: Amazon’s $23,698,655.93 book about flies

And that's how the American economy "works".