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rabbidrabbiton Spyware demo shows how spooks hack mobile phones

There appears to be some code on github[0]. I haven't looked through it yet though

[0] - https://github.com/hackedteam

rabbidrabbiton Amazon stops selling Sim City V over game issues

like this http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1584821767/civitas-plan-...

rabbidrabbiton Gmail was down

up again.

rabbidrabbiton Wayland (X11 replacement) 1.0 Officially Released

I don't know about that. Nvidia announced plans for optimus on linux fairly soon after the talk.

rabbidrabbiton A Playstation 2 Emulator in Java

Code is here http://code.google.com/p/jps2/source/browse/#svn%2Ftrunk%2Fj...

rabbidrabbiton Ask HN: Why do I have to Login to the websites ?

I think we will always need some way of logging in to websites that deliver personalised content. The login mechanism needs to be able to identify the current user to be able to do this.

There are many ways for this to be achieved eg: username/password, Oauth, some form of secret key.

I don't think we can completely get rid of a login mechanism completely, but it may be possible to hide this from the user.

Face or speech recognition could be used, but I don't really like that idea. I guess a chip/rfid tag could be implanted into the body, but somehow I don't think most people would want to be identified in this way.

rabbidrabbiton Google Search is only 18% Search

I use http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/ as my hosts file, and it works great. It doesn't remove the placeholder for the ad, but it does stop it from downloading.

rabbidrabbiton Light Table reaches funding goal of $200k

Did you even look at the page? On the page it clearly states that it will be open source and will be extendable using javascript.

rabbidrabbiton LightTable detailed critique: Concept vs Reality

Instant feedback is what makes LightTable the great concept it is.