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Comment Re:Do no evil, eh? (Score 2, Informative) 271

From: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/01/google-wants-to-see-client-addresses-in-dns-queries.ars

"Google does have a plan to avoid the most egregious privacy concerns. "Recursive Resolvers are strongly encouraged to conceal part of the IP address of the user by truncating IPv4 addresses to 24 bits." Coincidentally, 24 bits maps directly to the minimum address block that can be carried in the Internet's routing system. Carrying any more than that won't help solve the network distance problem using the routing tables. For IPv6, there is no corresponding number that everyone agrees to, but the authors of the draft suggest truncating IPv6 addresses as well. Of course, the owner of the authoritative DNS server still gets to see the client's full IP address when the HTTP request for the actual content is sent."

Comment Don't be fooled (Score 2, Interesting) 173

Yes, in one course in the local IT Engineering degree, we were tasked to create a "game" over the course of a few weeks in Java. No, don't be fooled.

We were told exactly what had to happen when why, we just had to make the Java classes and translate the directions into code. There was nothing about balancing, nothing about making the game actually fun, very little about user training (my nethack-like interface was accepted without any problem)... simply nothing about the actual "game" part.

They just wanted us to make us interact a bunch of classes. The "game" part was just a cloak to make people go "wow" for those couple nanoseconds.

Comment Re:dropbox? (Score 1) 305

Well, getting 500 megs for free (that's a 25% bump) is rather easy:

1. Find a friend who does have Dropbox and use his referrer url. Use it when subscribing. Bam! When you're done installing you have 250 extra megs.
2. Take the Getting Started tour: https://www.dropbox.com/gs -- complete five out of six and you get 250 more free megs.

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