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  1. I'll take "Karma's a bizotch" for 500, Alex on Former Edge Browser Intern Alleges Google Sabotaged Microsoft's Browser (ycombinator.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Anyone who remembers Microsoft from about 1988 through 2005 has to find the irony just delicious

  2. I'll have to bring one to my next rave on Scientists Discover That Puffin Beaks Are Fluorescent (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    Oh come on ./ can't i post a joke?

  3. In-N-Out Burger? on Facebook Tops List of Best Places To Work -- Again (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I mean, sure its good for a fast food job, but higher than Salesforce? Hubspot? Google?

  4. No Trump piss video? on WikiLeaks Reveals Grasshopper, the CIA's Windows Hacking Tool (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    I figured Putin would be releasing that today

  5. A big issue is schools. If you have kids who you want to attend a reasonably highly rated school without paying for private that restricts you to MUCH higher priced areas

  6. I left the Bay Area last year because I couldn't afford to buy a house with enough room for my family of 4 in a good school district. I just did my taxes, cleared just over 200k last year. Sad that's not enough

  7. EOM

  8. Yes, well LA's part of the US, isn't it? Why should some people's votes count more than others because they are spread over a larger geographical area? The reason for the E.C. is the Compromise of 1787 (look it up) which was needed to get the constitution ratified, not due to any far-seeing genius move to safeguard federalism.

    Yes, the institutions have to be more important than any candidate or political principal in order for the system to have legitimacy. But it has nothing to do with democracy, republicanism, federalism, or any other legitimate political aim. It's just the rules that we had to agreed to in order to have a country in the first place.

  9. Good (from a liberal) on Peter Thiel Is Joining Donald Trump's Transition Team (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I am a liberal who is dumbfounded and heartbroken by the election, but I would NEVER criticize any smart people for working for the new administration. Trump will be by far the least prepared and qualified President in the history of the country and I want him to have the best advisers possible. The extent to which he is capable of listening to them will determine how much or little damage to our civilization will suffer in the next few years. I've no illusions that the political causes I support will be devastated, but at this point its about survival.

  10. What could go wrong? on Google Is Developing an AI Kill Switch (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    I see an AI treating the kill switch something like RoboCain treated the remote here:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msaelEZ_eEs

  11. Sustainable password hashing on Ask Slashdot: Definitive Password Management Best Practices Using OSS? · · Score: 1, Informative

    I'm tooting my own horn, but you might find my article on long-term password hashing strategies helpful:

    https://medium.com/@uther_bendragon/sustainable-password-hashing-8c6bd5de3844

    TL;DR version:
    1) Use a one-way collision-resistant algorithm developed by professional cryptographers, and the implementation of which has been adequately studied and understood;
    2) Do not use an algorithm with known vulnerabilities (this obvious step is sometimes not followed);
    3) Use randomly-generated data—salt as additional input to the algorithm to minimize vulnerability to rainbow/lookup table attacks. The salt should be generated from a Cryptographically Secure Pseudo-Random Number Generator;
    4) Use a long salt, preferably as long as the output of the hash function;
    5) Use an adaptive hashing algorithm—that is to say, an algorithm with a configurable number of encryption iterations to slow attackers (a.k.a. key stretching). The number of iterations can be tuned as the speed of available hardware increases to keep the resulting hash secure. Such choices include PBKDF2, bcrypt and now scrypt.
    6) At at some point you will need to change your hashing function, in fact, probably many times. So store the algorithm along with the hash e.g. ALG:HASH:SALT
    7) secure legacy hashes by wrapping the obsolete hash with a new one e.g. encrypt the md5 hash of the guy who hasn't logged in for years in your new hashing algorithm and store it with a token like md5|pbkdf2:hash:salt

  12. Lets have the data on Woman Recruited By Google Four Times and Rejected Now Joins Age Discrimination Suit · · Score: 1

    This doesn't have to be complicated. All Google has to do is release their hiring statistics to a trusted third party, who interviewed during the last few years and who was hired for each position. Then the third party can investigate and find out the ages of everyone (which won't be hard). Then break it down by age group and see if there is a difference between how well applicants succeed based on age. This won't happen because I'm pretty sure Google knows how it will look

  13. Re:Minimum Competency to Get a Programming Job on Ask Slashdot: Minimum Programming Competence In Order To Get a Job? · · Score: 1

    That's probably due to the vast number of Java devs who have been doing it for many many years. Try Node.js, Rails, or Django; these are newer platforms where you won't have to compete with the same number-of-years-with-my-platform issue

  14. Dev Boot Camp? on Ask Slashdot: Minimum Programming Competence In Order To Get a Job? · · Score: 1

    I don't know where you are located, but have you considered applying to Dev BootCamp/App Academy/Hack Reactor or another such organization? From what I read they get their grads good jobs.

  15. Re:What version does OpenBSD use? on Heartbleed OpenSSL Vulnerability: A Technical Remediation · · Score: 1

    Two things every programmer should know (yes, this applies to you):

    1) You are not smart enough to write your own crypto, so don't
    2) You are not smart enough to write your own memory allocation, so don't

  16. how 'bout on Hans Reiser To Reveal Location of Wife's Body · · Score: 1

    OJFreeSoWhyNotMeFS?

  17. Re:Or, on the other hand... on Study Shows Males Commonly Mistake Sexual Intent · · Score: 2, Funny

    Are you hitting on me?

  18. Re:Call the Waaaaaambulance? on Guantanamo Officers Caught Modifying Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    Eh, one could argue either way on this. The Taliban wasn't recognized as the government of Afghanistan by anyone except Pakistan.

  19. How about the monkeys flying out of my butt? on The Geekiest Animals in History · · Score: 1

    I'd think they deserver at least an honerable mention

  20. Re:Why He Should Not Have Been Tased on Students Put UCLA Taser Video On YouTube · · Score: 1

    From a common sense viewpoint I agree with you, that regardless of someone's behavior the taser should only be used for self defense, not to coerce cooperation from an uncooperative subject. However I'm sure the police will argue that

    going limp and laying on the floor = passive resistance
    resistance (of any kind, including passive resistance) = justification for use of force

    My guess is that there will be an internal investigation, maybe a drawn out independent investigation, and when the smoke has died down and no one is paying attention any more the cops will be quietly exonerated. Sad really.

  21. Bunch o' Dancin' Fools on Trolltech Going Public · · Score: 1

    Wow, that is about the dumbest thing I've ever seen.

  22. Definately Roland "Blood-bath" McGrath on Unsung Heroes of Open Source Software? · · Score: 5, Informative

    Primary author of the GNU libc, co-author of GNU make...also of Hurd (for what its worth).

    Also a very cool, unassuming guy.

  23. Corporate accounts payable, Nina speaking... on The Absolute Worst Working Environment? · · Score: 1

    ...Just a moment!
    Corporate accounts payable, Nina speaking... ...Just a moment!
    Corporate accounts payable, Nina speaking... ...Just a moment!
    Corporate accounts payable, Nina speaking... ...Just a moment!
    Corporate accounts payable, Nina speaking... ...Just a moment!

  24. lol so true on GUI Toolkits for the X Window System · · Score: 1

    ok, so this is off-off-topic, but yes Java is mostly fuX0red up Smalltalk with superficially c-like syntax, and Swing is basically a fuX0red up VisualWorks toolkit (although its gotten quite a bit less bad lately).
    Ah, well-Java pays the bills and Smalltalk is deader than dead, so what can you do..

  25. Re:Upgrading a netwinder? on Build Your Own StrongARM Linux Computer · · Score: 1

    Disclaimer: I've never done this, I'm basing this info on my Red Hat Linux disk, and yes this is indeed off topic but this might work for you.

    I assume that this computer is connected to a LAN which contains a conventional computer.

    Over the network, copy the boot floppy files to a suitable, ideally free partition on your hard disk. Make an entry in LILO to boot using the kernel (in my case called vmlinuz) and the ram disk on that partition and run lilo; reboot, select the new entry...if it actually works, then, as they say, Bob's your Uncle! Select an installation method like ftp/http/nfs which can be done with the CD in another computer.

    I am interested in how this will/won't work; feel free to email me if you want to try this and need some more help.

    ben@appliedreasoning.com