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Comment Lackadaisycats (Score 2) 321

In no particular order I'm currently reading:
1) XKCD http://xkcd.org/ (and yes, 1110 was amazing art even though it's mostly about arcane, subtle or smart references)
2) Dilbert http://dilbert.com/fast (makes actual work seem a little less sad)
3) Lackadaisycats http://lackadaisycats.com/comic.php (guns, alcohol and cats)
4) Unsounded http://unsoundedcomic.com/ (thieves and their pesky offspring)
5) Gunnerkrigg Court http://gunnerkrigg.com/ (a school with mediums, shadows and robots)

Comment Re:I was actually disappointed by this. (Score 1) 193

Hehe, someone quoted the X-Wing calling a Red pilot and I'm going no wait, wasn't the X-Wing calling Gold Leader?

Then someone else said he'd started going west and I'd been exploring east, but was coming back through the tunnels and was wondering whether we'd meet, and we discovered we actually were just going through the same landcape.

Would be cool if you could see others exploring multi-player style, but too hard to code I suppose.

Politics

Submission + - German Leading Conservative Party CDU/CSU Wants SO (google.de)

Comment Re:Social media AdBlock list (Score 1) 206

Thanks for linking this. In fact some of the comments in the original Heise articles call Heise hypocrites, since their new feature will gladly lock social sites out of the information loop without blocking their own Ad partners.

Ghostery will fix that. However, I noted that it doesn't seem to block social sites, so it's a great addition.

Now if Ghostery would block social sites, we wouldn't need web masters to help out with the blocking.

Facebook

Submission + - Heise's "Two Clicks For More Privacy" vs. Facebook (google.com)

FlameWise writes: Yesterday, German technology news site Heise changed their social Like-Buttons to a two-click format. This will effectively disable unintentional automatic tracking of all page visits by third-party social sites like Facebook, Twitter or Google+. Less than 24 hours later over 500 websites have asked about the technology. Facebook is now threatening to blacklist Heise.

German source: http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Facebook-beschwert-sich-ueber-datenschutzfreundlichen-2-Klick-Button-1335658.html

Comment Weak attempt, but still good advice (Score 4, Informative) 217

He's got 14 hashes and cracked 10 of them with passwords of length 1 through 6, some of which contain proper symbols like "P4s$" and "G0o|)".

Length 1 through 4 take less than a second.
Length 5 takes 31 seconds.
Length 6 takes 2950 seconds.
I can see why he probably didn't want to cough up for Length 7 or above.

Amongst the passwords he didn't find was, according to Google Search: "password". Amusingly, I think one of the passwords he didn't manage to crack was the empty string.

I figure you'd have to polish that package a bit for a real attack, but undoubtedly people already have done that somewhere and hence it's a good idea to follow his advice anyway.

Comment Re:Let's face it (Score 1) 381

3D may need a new visual vocabulary. Fortunately, this vocabulary is currently being developed.

Coughing up the 3D ticket tax for Avatar means Cameron has made a step in the right direction, but he's just at the lead, not yet at the finish line.

There are already people who can do more with 3D than fancy show effects, but most of them are still doing CGI. For instance, did you see the feathers on the pigeons in "Bolt", or Soren's flight through the forest fire in "Ga'Hoole"?

I love watching this development. I also watched how the South African Soccer WM in 3D mostly failed, and how the "Fantastic Four" Live 3D concert transmission succeeded. I bet MTV has something to say about "Krieger".

I just wish there was more proper CONTENT right now that didn't make me want to pirate it because it's exclusive to some silly hardware.

Comment Postscript-Interpreter in Javascript (Score 1) 321

And then there's hackers like this one:

http://logand.com/sw/wps/index.html

Rendering that Tiger isn't quick right now, but for a demonstration of what Javascript can do right now I find that quite impressive.

I should think, combined with HTML5 to provide sound and audio, in about 5 years a lot of games, and even applications, should be in plain Javascript either right online from the Web or even for download.

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