Comment Re:a pinch of salt (Score 1) 170
Call me when he finds a way to determine the email after gravatar starts adding a pinch of salf to the hashed emails...
Call me when gravatar starts adding a pinch of salt to the hashed emails
Submission + - Gravatars can leak users' email addresses (developer.it)
abell writes: Gravatar offers a global avatar service, using a MD5 hash of the user's email as avatar ID. This piece of information in some cases is enough to retrieve the original email address. Testing a simple attack on stackoverflow.com, I was able to get the email address of more than 10% of the site's users.
The State of Ruby VMs — Ruby Renaissance 89
igrigorik writes "In the short span of just a couple of years, the Ruby VM space has evolved to more than just a handful of choices: MRI, JRuby, IronRuby, MacRuby, Rubinius, MagLev, REE and BlueRuby. Four of these VMs will hit 1.0 status in the upcoming year and will open up entirely new possibilities for the language — Mac apps via MacRuby, Ruby in the browser via Silverlight, object persistence via Smalltalk VM, and so forth. This article takes a detailed look at the past year, the progress of each project, and where the community is heading. It's an exciting time to be a Rubyist."
Comment Re:Streisand Effect (Score 1) 859
On the other hand, his lawyers should have adviced them better.
It's a bit like IT consultants advising you to buy expensive services you don't need: they are acting in their own interest and not in yours.
Twitter Says Your Tweets Belong To You 102
CWmike writes "Twitter has modified its terms of service to state unequivocally that messages posted belong to their authors and not to the company. 'Twitter is allowed to "use, copy, reproduce, process, adapt, modify, publish, transmit, display and distribute" your tweets because that's what we do. However, they are your tweets and they belong to you,' wrote Twitter co-founder Biz Stone in a blog post Thursday announcing the modifications. Twitter is still hammering out a set of guidelines for developers on the proper use of the company's API. What do Twitterers think of the TOS changes? Barbara Krasnoff writes, ' Twitter announces new ToS. Tweeters shrug,' noting that some appreciated the company's transparency in contacting its users and pointing out the changes that were being made."
Comment Re:Advertising is 100% tax deductible in Canada. (Score 1) 148
if I make to much money for example $60,000 @ 22% = $13,200 tax. I figure a way to spend it that will benefit me and be deductible from my income (lease a vehicle in my case) so I only make $50,000 @ 15% tax = $7,500 tax.
I think you miscalculated your taxes. If they are progressive as they should reasonably be, going from $50000 to $60000 should only increase the tax rate on the $10000 and not on the whole amount. So if 22% is the marginal rate at $60000, the difference in taxes would be at most the 22% of $10000, that is $2200. If your calculations were right, you would have a tax increase of $13200 - $7500 = $5700 out of your income increase of $10000, that is a 57% rate.
Comment Re:...with varying levels of support (Score 1) 371
So yes, you can embed a Java interpreter in C code. But there's a API documented for embedded Java to unload the VM when you're done with it that turns out to not be implemented
Interesting. Out of curiosity, would it have made any sense in your case to have the Java part running as a separate application communicating with the main C one over some IPC channel (sockets, RPC or something else)?
Cheers
Comment Re:I'm a geek too. And age gives me/us the edge. (Score 1) 639
pimping my social skills, my typign, [...]
That worked quite well, it seems
