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The Big Winner of the Great Recession Is … by DrRichardCraniumin business

[–]effigies 23 points24 points ago

Nonsense. The poor, as a class, are booming.

Reference book on algorithms by captain__in compsci

[–]effigies 0 points1 point ago

Thanks. Reddit blacked out moments after I saw I had an orangered.

Reference book on algorithms by captain__in compsci

[–]effigies 26 points27 points ago

CLRS is the standard. I don't know of anything else that's in the same league.

Jon Huntsman is not your friend. by shomer_fuckn_shabbosin politics

[–]effigies 0 points1 point ago

Who is not a terrible choice for President?

  • Santorum and Paul are anti-woman
  • Gingrich is cartoonishly corrupt
  • Romney is the very image of corporatism
  • Perry is his own special breed of ignorant and slimy
  • Obama does not protect civil liberties

Are there alternatives I'm missing? What do they have to recommend them?

NSA announces first public release of SE Android - SE Linux for the Android Kernel. by sanitybitin netsec

[–]effigies 4 points5 points ago

It's not necessarily secure, but it puts white hats on an even playing field with black hats. Closed systems can be leaked or reverse engineered; their source code can't be legitimately audited by any interested party.

NSA announces first public release of SE Android - SE Linux for the Android Kernel. by sanitybitin netsec

[–]effigies 6 points7 points ago

It really depends what vulnerabilities you're talking about. SE Linux can't prevent an application from breaking out of a JVM imposed jail, but it can still limit what that JVM has access to, thus limiting the damage of privilege escalation.

NSA announces first public release of SE Android - SE Linux for the Android Kernel. by sanitybitin netsec

[–]effigies 11 points12 points ago

I've never been a huge fan of SE Linux; it just ratchets up DAC with finer grained permissions and multilevel security, and just ends up being a huge administrative pain in the ass.

That said, if this allows us to sandbox apps' filesystem access, that'd be handy. The access control on Android is way too all-or-nothing for my taste.

Lines forming outside of Verizon stores. by raneffin Android

[–]effigies 5 points6 points ago

I was going to say, this looks like Cambridge.

I just heard about a country dumping steel, or selling it below cost. Why would a country want to sell a commodity below cost? by nsfwdreamerin Economics

[–]effigies 0 points1 point ago

True. This does assume that people will prefer cheap to local.

I just heard about a country dumping steel, or selling it below cost. Why would a country want to sell a commodity below cost? by nsfwdreamerin Economics

[–]effigies 2 points3 points ago

When companies do sell to us near or below cost that benefits our own consumers and our economy generally so we ought to be in favor of it.

As consumers, sure. As a country? Not so sure. One country dumping products on another below the cost of manufacturing destroys local, unsubsidized competition, and prevents it from developing. This depresses the local economy, as you have people out of work, and now you have the problem of the market consisting only of products that you cannot regulate directly, which can put you in a bad situation in terms of safety, quality and environmental impact, for example.

'Mythbusters' cannonball hits Dublin home, minivan by zeoslapin geek

[–]effigies 1 point2 points ago

Well, probably the most famous bay is Galway Bay, and Belfast Lough is reasonably well developed, though Ireland has got nothing even remotely like the SF Bay Area.

GL vs BT: Why We Aren't A Real LGBT Movement Yet by johnnr2in lgbt

[–]effigies 1 point2 points ago

I imagine so, though that suggests oxygen deprivation. :/ I hope the laughter abates long enough to go back to your default skin color.

GL vs BT: Why We Aren't A Real LGBT Movement Yet by johnnr2in lgbt

[–]effigies 1 point2 points ago

SGM works. But FABGLITTER has a certain je ne sais quoi that just tickles me pink.

GL vs BT: Why We Aren't A Real LGBT Movement Yet by johnnr2in lgbt

[–]effigies 0 points1 point ago

I think it's fetish.

Possibly very basic and stupid idea... by Gortosin darknetplan

[–]effigies 0 points1 point ago

I do indeed, but the problems of expense of operation and becoming large enough to become nuisances to someone trying to shut you down seem to loom large.

Today, the 21st amendment was ratified, which ended Prohibition. Cheers, fuckers. by DingoSuavezin drunk

[–]effigies 0 points1 point ago

Oh, yeah. I've just been passing a flask around my floor.

Possibly very basic and stupid idea... by Gortosin darknetplan

[–]effigies 0 points1 point ago

That seems like it'd be a possibility, but going down this route, I think we will quickly be looking at an organizational system that already exists and is heavily regulated. For example, rather than use omni-directional radio towers, you'll be much more efficient using directional antennas, so you would either need line-of-sight or, more likely, satellite.

Possibly very basic and stupid idea... by Gortosin darknetplan

[–]effigies 2 points3 points ago

A problem here is that the communication is 2-way, which, unless there's some neat electrical engineering I'm not aware of, means the sending and receiving antennas need to be approximately equally powerful.

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