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Spark23··on SSH: Use Password or Public-Private Keys?
certainly, but you'll have to guarantee that no user has a keyfile without a password, which is harder than checking for weak passwords on your server...
Spark23··on Robot needs 50 tries to learn how to flip pancakes.
Has anybody found a better link, describing more technical details?
Spark23··on Microsoft – InstaLoad Battery Installation Technology
All compartments (I could find around me) have the spring which holds the battery on the flat side of the battery... thats the indicator I use, without searching and reading any tiny diagrams
Spark23··on Microsoft – InstaLoad Battery Installation Technology
No, I have seen so many devices with tiny labels or even no label at all that I wouldn't just assume I could insert it in any way.
Spark23··on Google Checkout Nightmare and the $126,000 phone call
Rather wondering why google is allowed to do that ... As you said, they're just the payment processor, you shouldn't be obligated to show them proof that the goods you were paid for were actually delivered
Spark23··on Introducing: The OpenGateway Payment Platform. Host your own billing engine.
In this case it should be the PA-DSS. From the PCI page: 'Payment applications that are sold, distributed or licensed to third parties are subject to the PA-DSS requirements.'
Spark23··on [dead]
damn those geeks :)
Spark23··on Django powered flickr photo voting site
it's actually not that bad ... especially if you use ModelForms ... you just need to tell the FileField where to upload.
Spark23··on Show HN : I created a PHP Hacker News Clone in 2 hours
'friend' ... know your LotR :P
Spark23··on Show HN : I created a PHP Hacker News Clone in 2 hours
Posting doesn't work. It doesn't work on the zopte demo blog either...
Spark23··on A new approach to China: an update
that's true, but in my opinion it's better than constantly caving in to censorship
Spark23··on Cyberwar Hype Intended to Destroy the Open Internet
Why can't people grasp what they are letting the government do? They wouldn't agree if the Gov't would want to bug all telephones and read your mail in order to find child pornography ...
Spark23··on Bloom Box: What is it and how does it work?
The "(fossil-fuel, bio-fuel, or even solar power can be used) " section strikes me as odd ... how on earth can you power a fuel cell with solar power?
Spark23··on Markets are efficient if and only if P = NP
But having an efficient market doesn't imply that an algorithm \in P exists for that problem ?? Efficient markets just imply decidability of the problem.
Spark23··on Introducing Our Ridiculously Simple Twilio SMS API
And also if it works internationally ... are there international phone numbers for inbound SMS?