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People who design these games think about security. Sometimes (rarely) exploits get unnoticed and go into production.

I'm confused about why we are supposed to believe that there is anything exploitable about this particular card?

Well, I'm sure it's something that could be worked out, but there will likely be naming issues between French and Non-French nuclear engineers working together. It seems relevant to me, given that the topic was to bring French engineers into a U.S. startup.

I'm not sure if this got modded down because people think I'm being facetious, but I'm seriously wondering what happened with that. For people who don't know, every country in the world, besides France, used "Dollars" for their units of reactivity: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Slotin#The_Dollar_unit_of...

France, on the other hand, used "Francs". Conveniently, the exchange rate was 1:1. I'd be surprised if they went and changed everything to Euro's now, but I haven't heard anything firsthand from French nuclear engineers.

80% of the cost of nuclear energy is building the reactor. With around $500B worth of existing reactor infrastructure worldwide, which runs on Uranium, don't expect that to go away too soon.

Are they still using Francs for their units of reactivity, or did that get changed to Euros as well?

Wow, this guy guarantees that if it isn't tested, it doesn't work. Important projects that people depend on like the linux kernel must have really good test coverage.

First of all, here is Downton Abbey Season 2 on Amazon [ http://www.amazon.com/Downton-Abbey-A-House-History/dp/B006M... ]

I'd like to know the actual stream bitrate he experienced. It's pretty hard for me to empathize without that number.

Too bad http://tacocopter.com/ isn't out of closed beta yet.

This reminds me of when Fred Wilson pirated the Knicks game because nobody let him pay for it: http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2012/01/screwcable.html

This illustrates that free parking is a major subsidy to auto owners.

I've lived in some bohemian situations in the past, and largly, the most difficult part is dealing with people hassling you. People will literally call the police about, "I saw a guy living in a car", and then the police come to check it out, even if it's perfectly legal.

This reminds me of my friend's plan to use the American Express "black" card with no credit limit to buy American Express.

“Some people will feel sad about it and nostalgic about it. But we have a better tool now. The Web site is continuously updated, it’s much more expansive and it has multimedia.”

The future is clearly http://www.britannica.com

Exactly his point here. my.yahoo.com was innovative for its time, and patents are supposed to last 20 years, right? So according to the legal system in place, the public should use my.yahoo.com till around 2020.

I agree, what could really be any other purpose for patents? Is a judge going to say, 10 years into a patent, "well, our process thought this was novel 10 years ago, but it doesn't seem so novel to me now"?

The problem is that this 20-year term makes no sense in software, if the public wants to use the latest and greatest thing.

This is why I stick with Rails; for the mindshare. There are many reasons to be critical of Rails, but the bottom line is that other people generously contribute work like this on a regular basis, making me instantly more valuable to employers or clients.

Apple doesn't want one of these presidential hopefuls to start campaigning on the platform that the second largest US company needs to start creating jobs in the US.

In 2003, NASA sent some people to check out supposed breatharians... just in case.

My browser does 10,000 operations / second with innerHTML, and 15,000 operations / second with DOM. In every ajax application I've ever made, this is negligible, compared to latency, server processing time, and downloading time.

I guess this saves you 1ms for every 30 elements you create? I'm sure there are some cases I'm missing where this might make more of an impact, but from my understanding of the article, this looks like a pretty small improvement.

Doesn't every website that gets used by the unwashed masses eventually have to deal with this problem? How does facebook or youtube deal with it? How did AOL deal with it?

Is the issue just that Reddit is run by a smaller team than these larger companies?

The pilot episode on GSM security was my favorite one.

I fully agree with this. CSS set the web back years with it's inability to handle simple layout. The W3C organization is run by representatives of major corporations, and the standards take years to roll out.

Unfortunately, I don't think that hiring is this simple.

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what abour rvm?

Congrats guys! There is easily millions of dollars worth of value in this idea, even if it's not for everyone.

This is amazing! Is he doing it with other paintings too?