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someone_hereon CSS3 vs. CSS: A Speed Benchmark

This is the kind of benchmark I like to see for any technology.

Anyone know of anything similar for other web technologies?

SFTP is not FTP over SSH: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSH_File_Transfer_Protocol

someone_hereon Show HN: my weekend project - sell files for bitcoins

Google updated their stuff this year, so 2011 is fine.

someone_hereon Evil.css: an evil stylesheet for injecting into unsuspecting users' webpages

    javascript:(function(d,l){l=d.createElement("link");l.rel="stylesheet";l.href="https://github.com/tlrobinson/evil.css/raw/master/evil.css";d.body.appendChild(l)})(document);

someone_hereon Man upgrades Windows 1.0 to Windows 7 (video)

It looks like his website is still running Trumpet Winsock...

someone_hereon Check in to Facebook Places from your inPulse watch

Apple may not be against innovation, but they are trying to control innovation. That is inherently counter to innovating, and is an oxymoron.

You're saying that this simple 5 dollar chip (not 1 as you claim, by the way) doesn't hurt innovation, but it does. For instance, what if you wanted to connect your arduino to your iphone? Is it really worth paying 5 dollars to connect a 7 dollar chip?

Now suppose it is still worth it. Could a programmable microcomputer get by Apple's "Works with iPhone" standards? Not a chance.

I can think of a hundred cool things to do with an iPhone connected to an arduino, but those are all dead. I can think of a hundred more pieces of hardware I'd love to connect to my portable phone, but those can't work either.

Innovation can't get out of Apple's box.

someone_hereon RStudio,a new IDE for R

It's strange and awesome how the linux world always works out these collisions even though there's no governing body or group.

someone_hereon Getting shot by a handgun

Any amount of material can be moved any distance with an infinitesimal amount of force, given enough time... or maybe I'm missing something.

someone_hereon Getting shot by a handgun

Total firearm-related death rate per 100'000 for the US: between 10.2 and 15.22.

For the UK: 0.38 to 0.46

Source (and more sources): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm-re...

someone_hereon Decrypt message, win 1 free year of killer web hosting

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someone_hereon Slowloris - the low bandwidth, yet greedy and poisonous HTTP client

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someone_hereon Captain Crunch needs your help

http://technorazzi.com/?p=1254

It looks like Christine Marie is at least aquainted with John Draper, and Christine posted this site on her twitter: http://twitter.com/digitalginger

someone_hereon Tablets

The real thing that makes these "tablets" interesting is the number of features they have packed into them. The "ease of use" that people are talking about when referencing Apple's products is just a part of Apple's marketing for their devices. Android (and Maemo and MeeGo and etc) devices are much more capable and much more hackable. Why the praise for such a bland device such as the i-OSes when there's an awesome OS and device market sitting right next to it?

someone_hereon Nokia's MeeGo is doomed - A summary of Dublin's MeeGo Summit

As an N900 user who has never had an N810, I love it! The keyboard is fine for hacking and the screen is pretty high resolution. The CPU is fast and it has lots of memory. The JDK works great on it too :)

someone_hereon Remind HN: Unicode hacks

┌( ಠ_ಠ)┘ How dare you take my unicode from me.

someone_hereon Mozilla: first impressions from China

A number of reasons: Everyone else is using windows, you're familiar with windows, all your software runs on windows, and installing Ubuntu requires a lot of downloading when a version of Windows is a cheap disk from a local store.

someone_hereon Thoughts and a crazy prediction on ipv6

But will China forbit connections to IPv4 addresses? That seems pointless and harsh. If they still allow connections to IPv4, I don't see why people will bother to switch.

someone_hereon Internet blacklist bill COICA one step closer to becoming law

What if there was a new service that simply takes the blacklist and "fixes" the DNS. You could type something like http://blacklis.tr/piratebay.org and get forwarded to the correct IP. They could monitise the same way OpenDNS does by providing a DNS service as well.

someone_hereon Antimatter atoms produced and trapped at CERN

But easy to test with 2 atoms! Smash them together at a high enough speed where e=mc^2 says they would create a black hole. If they are destroyed in a blip of Hawking radiation, they had gravity!

someone_hereon The ~200 Line Linux Kernel Patch That Does Wonders

How do you stay up to date with Ubuntu's changes?

someone_hereon EFF: How to Deploy HTTPS Correctly

So I've been setting up all my sites as separate domain names, with things like code.domain.com and email.domain.com. Should I migrate these services, or is there a way to use HTTPS on many subdomains?

someone_hereon The ~200 Line Linux Kernel Patch That Does Wonders

Should I be pulling in the source from apt and applying the patch that way? I am forced to use nvidia's drivers, and I fear the vanilla kernel may not work.

someone_hereon Ugly Old Perl

One of the many things I love about Perl is how you never get that feeling of "I'm writing this again?" It's the first language I've used that really helped the developer, and it's what still brings me back to using the language.

someone_hereon Ask HN: What can I build for you today?

Cool!

someone_hereon Ask HN: What can I build for you today?

I would like a shared to-do list that is suitable for touchscreen devices.

someone_hereon Kinect and your kids: What works, what won't

Bit of a conflict of interest coming from MSN.com, don't you think?

someone_hereon Ask HN: What do you think of the D language?

It depends on what you'll be doing. Go might be a better language for server stuff, but D has quite a large game creation community behind it.

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That lasted 25 minutes and 6 upvotes before being password protected.

someone_hereon Microsoft furious at $2,000 bounty for open source Kinect drivers

I just can't see myself flapping my arms to lower a projector or jumping up and down to mute a microphone.

someone_hereon Why You Should Be Using Virtualisation In Your Development Environment

Why do applications think they can manage my memory better than my kernel?