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salibhai··on Watch Voat.co Bitcoin donations pour in
If they are on the MS Stack, Azure can help with scaling.
salibhai··on Bitcoin: A flawed currency with a useful application for the Eurozone (2014)
What's the difference exactly?
salibhai··on APLPrimeCheck – An entry into the Facepunch Obfuscation Challenge
Looking at the source code.. wow.. just wow https://github.com/benjojo/APLPrimeCheck/blob/master/prime.a...
salibhai··on Google hacked account
Any benefit to Yubikey over Authenticator? EDIT: good points here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=159444.0
salibhai··on Reviewing the Bitcoin Piñata
Pretty cool that you can make an online moneybag like this. I wonder what other creative gaming (easter egg hunts?) can occur from using this concept
salibhai··on Stop Firefox leaking data about you
Seems like a bad idea turning off phishing notifications and browser warnings

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.safebrowsing.enabled Firefox 2.0 incorporates the Google Safe Browsing extension in its own Phishing Protection feature to detect and warn users of phishy web sites.

salibhai··on Meme generation
Example link: http://memegen.link/buzz/hckrnews/hckrnews-everywhere.jpg
salibhai··on A New Form of ID Allows You to Be a Citizen of the World
From January 2015
salibhai··on Futures for C++11 at Facebook
Futures sounds a lot like Promises to me. Or am I wrong?
salibhai··on Without LinkedIn account I won't get a job in US?
In Canada, I used to get a lot of recruiters contact me from Monster and Workopolis, but now I get a lot from LinkedIn. Just a few days ago a manager at Amazon reached out to me on LinkedIn. So it's definitely helpful, I wouldn't discount it.
salibhai··on YubiKey – Making secure login easy
What happens if you lose or break this thing and you have it configured on lastpass or google login?
salibhai··on KeePass – questionable security
It looks like its mainly used for storing site login/passwords. I like to store other things too in password files like credit card numbers, notes ,etc.
salibhai··on KeePass – questionable security
How will you do that? It looks tricky to say the least: http://sourceforge.net/p/passwordsafe/discussion/134801/thre...

EDIT: It looks like you can clear out all the comments and other stuff in the db and export to Keepass v1 CSV and you should be able to import from that.

salibhai··on KeePass – questionable security
More about password safe: https://www.schneier.com/passsafe.html
salibhai··on Boeing, please don't do it with passengers on board
Silly link is to the middle of the video after the interesting part.. Here is a better link to just before takeoff https://youtu.be/KYbM-3E11Qo?t=37
salibhai··on CPU Jitter Based True Random Generator
Someone please ELI5 this?
salibhai··on Hayek: Cryptocurrency backed by gold
There's been a whole lot of these cryptocurrencies supposedly backed by something that all failed... I would look at this with a whole lot of skepticism.

Check here for a partial list of some of these coins: http://www.coinwarz.com/cryptocurrency

salibhai··on Racking Mac Pros
Ahh gotcha.. Makes sense.
salibhai··on Racking Mac Pros
Isnt this ridiculously expensive? Couldn't you achieve the same thing using cheaper PCs?
salibhai··on PostgreSQL vs. MS SQL Server
GO creates a lot of headaches actually. If you are trying to do something in a transaction it breaks it
salibhai··on Finally, a “back to top” button that behaves like a real elevator
I dont think this is supposed to be taken seriously. It's part of the effect, it goes slowly and plays music
salibhai··on Finally, a “back to top” button that behaves like a real elevator
This is pretty funny.
salibhai··on Android Is Peeing on an Apple in Pakistan - Google Maps
Hilarious
salibhai··on Game of Thrones leak and watermark: a stupid tracking system
Genius!
salibhai··on Programmer Competency Matrix
not loading for me

Google cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:qh2y61o...

salibhai··on NY Cops Used ‘Stingray’ Spy Tool 46 Times Without Warrant
It sounds like there should be a way to limit your cell phone to "trusted" towers. Is this possible?
salibhai··on JQuery
When performance matters, or you are doing things on an order of magnitude, you may want to skip jquery
salibhai··on Passphrases You Can Memorize That Even the NSA Can’t Guess
This is actually pretty cool.

From the article: Not too bad for a passphrase like “bolt vat frisky fob land hazy rigid,” which is entirely possible for most people to memorize. Compare that to “d07;oj7MgLz’%v,” a random password that contains slightly less entropy than the seven-word Diceware passphrase but is significantly more difficult to memorize.

At one trillion guesses per second — per Edward Snowden’s January 2013 warning — it would take an average of 27 million years to guess this passphrase.

salibhai··on Passphrases You Can Memorize That Even the NSA Can’t Guess
Interesting rewrite of the actual title :P
salibhai··on Back to the 90s Earning a $10,000 Apple Watch Edition, one pixel at a time
oh gosh not this agian
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