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Comment Re:Google+? (Score 1) 181

If you've got an Android phone, you can do the following:
  1. Install the Android Debug Bridge on your computer. http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/tools/adb.html
  2. Turn on USB debugging on your phone, and connect it to your computer.
  3. Install Tetherbot http://graha.ms/androidproxy/ on your phone, and start the Socks Proxy Server.
  4. Setup ADB to open a port on your computer that forwards to the port on your phone where the proxy server is listening: "adb forward tcp:5555 tcp:1080"
  5. Set your browser to use localhost:5555 as a proxy server.

Now all your web browsing goes through your phone. If you run Firefox, you can get FoxyProxy to set up URL-based rules for which addresses go through your phone-proxy and which go through your regular company network connection. And no mayo gets on your phone.

Comment Re:What the....? (Score 1) 545

It isn't sarcasm. It's a typo that happens to spell another word, so the little squiggly red lines don't appear to let people know they made a misspelling. Also, hardly anyone here bothers to proof-read their posts, as is clear from the common requests for an "edit" button.

So, it's basically down to laziness.

Comment Re:Eh? (Score 1) 298

Years ago when I used Opera, it had this ability, which it called Linked Tabs. Looks like they've changed the name.

Right-click a tab and choose "Create Follower Tab". Links you click in the current tab are opened in the follower tab. Back then it also worked for form button submissions, so it probably still does.

Comment Re:There is still man-in-the-middle attack (Score 2, Insightful) 152

Here's the quick rundown:

You contact Google's server through the proxy, and the server sends you Google's public key. This key isn't secret, so it doesn't matter if the proxy gets it, too.

Now you use their public key to encrypt a message telling them the symmetric encryption key you want to use for the rest of the communication. Only Google can decrypt that message, so only you and Google will know the key to use to decrypt the rest of your communications.

A man in the middle attack is only possible if GoogleSharing can either break or guess Google's private key, or the symmetric key you agreed to use after the handshake. Both are very hard to do. So don't worry about it.

Comment Tape (Score 1) 5

You basically need to use the proportion given to find out how many rolls they buy of each type, then price them at the new prices.

Find out how much they spent on heavy tape: $1440 * 0.75 = $1080

Convert to number of rolls using price per roll: $1080 / $34 =~ 31.7647

Light rolls: ($1440 * 0.25 / $28) =~ 12.8571

New prices: (31.7647 * $32) + (12.8571 * $27) is about $1363.61, giving them a savings of $76.39 per month.

Comment Re:Funny (Score 1) 384

And they do have good case against MDY. Glider work in very much the same way as some more sofisticated viruses

That's not really an argument against Glider. A lot of software works the same way, including anti-virus software and Blizzard's own Warden software. Should we make those illegal?

Comment Wave (Score 1) 8

So is this thing going to replace email/IM/cellphones/writing by hand?

I've read a few articles about it, but I guess nothing about it has grabbed me. What do you, yourself, use it for, if you don't mind my asking?

Comment Re:What's the Problem (Score 1) 96

Also, none of this conjecture really makes sense in light of the conclusion of the article, which seems to be "use the MIT license", which is offers no defense even to linking.

Sure, it does. One subtle point of the article is that the GPL is a confusing license that doesn't provide the protections people think it does, because it's "not viral enough." If that is case, why bother with it? Use a license that's simple and works the way people think it does. He even recommends the Sleepcat license for those wanting strong copyleft, because it is much simpler than the GPL.

Note: Just restating the article, not necessarily my own opinion.

Comment Re:OpenOffice legendary? (Score 1) 324

I tried to convince my wife to write her master's thesis using LateX, but she decided that spending a couple weeks learning something new wasn't worth it. She was very sorry at the end of the process when she spent over a month doing nothing but fighting Word's formatting glitches that show up in huge documents.

I didn't press harder in the beginning because I don't have LateX experience either, so I didn't feel confident that I'd be able to find satisfactory answers to questions she might have. Honestly, it seems pretty overwhelming getting started.

Does anyone have a low-learning-curve, take-your-time method for learning LateX?

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