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noglorp··on Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances
Better yet is when you type "Ar" looking for "Arrow" and get

1) Arrow

2) Arboles

3) Area

And then type another 'r' before you realize your result is there ("Arr") and as you go to select "Arrow" the auto-suggest results turn into

1) Array

2) Arrogant

3) Arrow

Like, how does adding the second 'r' make "Array" higher probability than "Arrow"?!

noglorp··on Id to release Doom3 source code
> anyone else can just come along and beat you to the implementation

Pray tell, how might they do this when you know the method and they do not? Unless you developed the method, then went around telling random people before going about implementing it.

noglorp··on Ready For a Reddit Replacement?
In those cases, users purely receive recommendations for media/products. In this case, users receive recommendations for other users to follow as well.
noglorp··on Experiments Show Gravity Is Not an Emergent Phenomenon
So, a classical theoretical model tailored to exactly match known results is validated. And a brand-spankin-new theoretical model based on a different approach is invalidated.

This means all assumptions of the classical model are correct and all those of the new model are incorrect? Doesn't sound right to me.

These tests are validating / invalidating the predictive power of specific models, not testing their underlying assumptions. Issues of supervenience will not be worked out for certain until we have models of which we are more confident.

noglorp··on 16 Arrested as F.B.I. Hits the Hacking Group Anonymous
How so? Cite your source please.
noglorp··on 16 Arrested as F.B.I. Hits the Hacking Group Anonymous
Putting gum in a lock == vandalism == DOS of a physical location. Real dollars are lost etc. in that scenario.

Seriously... please just stop posting. You are strictly putting words in his mouth so you can have something to argue with.

noglorp··on 16 Arrested as F.B.I. Hits the Hacking Group Anonymous
Troll.
noglorp··on Massive Indestructible Botnet
Fancy cryptography, p2p networking, with web-based command and control: indestructible 'new' type of botnet, or practically identical to Zues? You decide!
noglorp··on I Spent A Coin (And I Liked It) — How I Bought Lunch in Manhattan with Bitcoins
Holding == saving. Sounds like you are trying to emphasize the difference between investment and speculation, instead.
noglorp··on Can you really, practically, avoid the "filter bubble"?
Will tons of iframes querying your site make google think you are important to your users?
noglorp··on LulzSec: Why we do what we do
Note LulzSec claims to 'not be Anon' (lol).

It seemed like there was idealism lurking because there was!

noglorp··on LulzSec: Why we do what we do
They're mostly taking publicity, the joy is mostly for show.
noglorp··on The Sad State of Reverse Engineering
Hooray for marginalization! Who wants to help me found refuge.es for people who need a home on the internet when theirs is shut down or flooded with crap.
noglorp··on NodeCloud: Node.js resources
Could use some user interaction on-site for discussing node; this would be a good place to showcase node based chat / social apps by integrating them into nodecloud.org
noglorp··on The ReadyForZero Programming Challenge
I still don't follow. Digit value rather than ASCII code... you mean Base64 digit value? If so, do you just ignore the pad char? (I mean... by "non-digit leaves" you are referring to the leaves represented by '=' and only those?)

EDIT: I understand now... jeez that was a run-around! Ascii encoded decimal! Thanks for the clarifying replies all over.

noglorp··on Computer compromise leads to theft of bitcoins valued at $500,000 USD
What do you call exchanges that hold an on-site balance?

I'm also fairly sure there are several brands trying to provide a "bitcoin banking service".

noglorp··on The ReadyForZero Programming Challenge
Any comment in regard to my question above? At present, question 2 has serious ambiguity as to how one should interpret the data. Clearly each character represents one node, but again, there is no clear procedure for converting values. Padding makes no sense in this context.

Can you clarify?

noglorp··on The ReadyForZero Programming Challenge
> binary tree is balanced and that each node is one character

I found that pretty intuitive given they tell us it is a tree with 2^n-1 nodes, and that this is then umber of characters in the text file.

What I'm wondering about is what the '=' pad character means in the context of non-valid base64 (i.e. isn't it the same as the 'A' character - a null?)

noglorp··on Bitcoin exchange account of Coinpal shut down by Paypal
The one that cannot possibly be stopped? How are they going to "crack down on bitcoin"? Note how well the crack down on filesharing is going...
noglorp··on Breakup Notifier Shut Down By Facebook
Isn't jailbreaking circumvention under the DMCA?
noglorp··on Governments shouldn’t have a monopoly on Internet governance
Think about it... the issue for wireline services is you can't just put in your own easily. Not an issue with wireless services. There is no special monopoly being given to wireless operators like wire operators.
noglorp··on Governments shouldn’t have a monopoly on Internet governance
Well, the internet is currently really governed by the ICANN, a private corporation.
noglorp··on Ranking Programming Languages by Size of Community and Number of Projects
Being successful on the internet is easy! Just create interesting content, and then generate viewers!
noglorp··on Timeless Decision Theory Paper Released
Indeed! This paper seeems to have been so highly anticipated, it was released by those anticipating it before it was finished.
noglorp··on What does it feel like to be stupid? An anonymous Quora user explains.
There is no reason that deleting the post necessarily revokes the license granted under "Your License to Quora".
noglorp··on Anonymous sends a press release, but the author doesn't clear his metadata...
!Anon != Anon.
noglorp··on Defecting by Accident - A Flaw Common to Analytical People
I believe it may be due in part to valuing the channels of communication. A lot of social politics / etc. muddy the waters, because being to the point is socially disadvantageous so often.
noglorp··on Facebook Tries To Silence Lamebook: Removes Its Page, Blocks Links And Likes
>There's the fact they're in the same basic industry and a realistic chance that Lamebook could be reasonably confused to be connected to Facebook by a normal person.

The basic industry is the web? That is a stretch. Does that mean anything else is in the basic industry of "physical things"?

Facebook is in the industry of social networking, while Lamebook is a 'lolpics' site targeted at funny things FROM Facebook. It seems like they are clearly doing what Facebook says they are (attempting to piggyback on brand recognition), using satire as a hook to get away with it.

Whether they will succeed I think depends on Facebook's ability to show that this use will harm their name / confuse their customers, and that seems doubtful. In a similar instance, Toys `R' Us successfully forced Guns `R' Us to change names; the case was made that parents would think that Toys `R' Us had a chain of gun stores!

noglorp··on A Call to End the Use of “Lol”
I lol'ed when it was still cool.
noglorp··on [dead]
Hilarious.

http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/rooter.pdf

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