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Hellenionon NSA uses Google cookies to pinpoint targets for hacking

if you have iptables you can try amici: http://github.com/upwhere/amici

Hellenionon The origin of zero-based array indexing

And why would it be so bad to have a programmer's mythology? Sure it isn't factual history but it lets us explain the world we see around us in a memorable and understandable way.

Hellenionon Real Men Go to Sleep

With javascript disabled, I am only locked out when the author didn't intend to do so.

Hellenionon My Roommate's a Genius

The page source is still readable if you need a quick fix, unlike most other "requires javascript" sites.

Hellenionon Dutch intelligence agency AIVD hacks internet forums

The NOS reported that at least four important political parties are outraged and want an investigation on the issue. In my opinion this is better than the american government's response.

I believe the Dutch are not being screwed by their government, but simply by inadequate control on its intelligence agencies. The government can fix this.

Hellenionon The Grammar Book for Programmers, Designers, & Bloggers

So is this American English or British English?

Hellenionon Show HN: My new project - ask.io

I think this is omitted in spirit of the slow web.

Hellenionon FixYT

... Are you saying we should buy YouTube?

Hellenionon Nonplussed

And apperantly Win8 too.

Hellenionon Nonplussed

I have liked a lot of things as thank-you or acknoledgement to the author. If I want to make something known, if I want to spread the word, I clicked the "share" button, that was its purpouse.

Hellenionon List of mathematical symbols

This has been one of my favourite wikipedia pages for a long time. It's a shame that it's so hard to search through.

Hellenionon Why I won't get a Google+ Custom URL

Where can I read more about this seemingly magical era? I'm so young that it sounds like a faerietale.

Hellenionon In CSS, “px” is not an angular measurement and it is not non-linear

The reason the standards don't speak of 2D euclidean geometry is because they (Very sensibly, IMO) left room for yet unknown devices that might not fit that description but still are able to conform.

Hellenionon Flying insect-like robot Gimball can crash and recover

Flies have an exoskeleton which, unlike the quadcopters of our engineers, have many flexible parts. This is much like the cage only in a very different configuration. I don't know about the wings in particular, but I can imagine they are more flexible than brittle and may even be capable of growing scar tissue.

Hellenionon 'W' Considered Harmful

What's more is that 'W' (and 'M') mess up every compact monospaced font.

Hellenionon Announcing The Dark Mail Alliance – Founded by Silent Circle and Lavabit

How about just "Mill"? It'll maybe help differentiate it from regular (e-)mail, but it still sounds similar.

Hellenionon [dead]

I'm confused.

Hellenionon The kilo is losing weight, changing all of science

"I'm not getting heavier, the kilo is getting lighter!"

Hellenionon Uptime Robot

I read through startssl's ToS a while back but I'm pretty sure this wasn't in there. Has their policy changed or did I miss something?

Hellenionon Microsoft blames Google and makes 'adjustments' to IE11 on Windows 8.1

Cookies and javascript, that is.

Hellenionon The Workman Keyboard Layout

Take a look at programmer's dvorak [1]. It treats numbers as second class citizens in favour of symbols. It comes pre-installed on some linux distros, but it won't solve your querty problem.

[1]: http://www.kaufmann.no/roland/dvorak/

Hellenionon Show HN: Linux activity recorder

SeaLion works best with the latest web browsers.

It's even worse without JS, yet I'm still running a webkit browser. Please don't discriminate against unknown browsers.

Hellenionon Hard drive hack provides root access, even after reinstall

That's an interesting way of looking at "parasitic" programs. Maybe we could even get those parasites to work for us, like trapping them as the house pen-tester. You could employ the constant barrage of attempted ssh logins as remote connectivity check or something.

Hellenionon Americans Thought They Smelled Fine Until Marketers Convinced Them Otherwise

> What makes you think the smell of sweating bodies can't be hardwired to smell unpleasant?

Because smells are not hardwired [1], we are nurtured into being distasteful of the scent of sweat. One nice example of this that I like is that you can find infants happily playing in faeces without being disgusted by it, it doesn't bother them the sligthest.

[1] http://www.foodnavigator.com/Science-Nutrition/Nurture-plays...

Hellenionon Senators spar over definition of ‘journalist’ in seeking to protect them

It seems to me that some might actually believe that WikiLeaks are not reporters, even after failing to formulate differences. And even if this is accepted, WikiLeaks can probably find a way to "pay" a reporter that needs protection.

Hellenionon David Cameron cracks down on online pornography

I couldn't find the HN entry, but a quick stroll around the web brought me this: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-12/uom-ate120109...