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Hang on a sec... didn't New York legalize gay marriage recently? :P It's gawd's wrath I tells ya!

I'm pretty sure all of us believe we're slightly eccentric, with a streak of genius. :P Also, monologues -- yes. Concious, unconcious, one sided, two sided, friendly, belittling, debating weighty issues or pondering the insignificant. Done them all, and I know at least a couple of other people...

She has a point though. If the minimum wage were lifted, Americans would get a lot of the jobs currently done illegally by immigrants etc. Not sure if that's a desirable outcome, ideally you'd want to reskill your workers to meet industry needs, because there is definitely a shortage of highly...

"I give you microchip! Work loong time!" Lol. Next thing you know they'll be stealing our precious bodily fluids.

Doesn't Facebook do that every other day? If the damages that Square Enix is seeking are truly in the range of a few thousand dollars, I'm really impressed with their maturity. It's punitive, but not life destroying.

While I'll give you that it isn't the worst case i.e. plaintext, that's pretty bad. MD5 is a hashing algorithm, designed on purpose to be as fast as possible. A hash is intended as a signature (eg: for a file) and NOT as a security measure. There is a separate class of encryption algorithms...

I have nothing to contribute except that I'd love to read blog posts about your progress, challenges faced and problems solved etc. And I'm sure that's the easiest bit of marketing you can do, two posts a month. Be sure to submit to news.ycombinator, if they like it they can offer good feedback...

You realise the embedded tag didn't work right?

X-men first class - 8/10 Probably the best superhero movie I've seen in a while, IMO considerably better than the latest Batman movies. The movie starts out spectacularly, and while it loses some of it's momentum later on, and the ending is a bit... iffy, it kept me interested in it all the way...

With the recent spate of hacking incidents across the internet, I thought it's important that we have some info on how safe our credentials are here. So without further ado... 1. Are passwords stored in plaintext? 2. Do you use hashing algorithms like SHA, or key derivation methods like...

I hear it's a great place to get eaten by crocs. Or to die alone in the marshes.

Oh silly numbers, in the future electronic brains would have relegated humans to cleaning the streets! BTW I seriously believe this. There is nothing computers can't do better with the right setup and training, except work that's too cheap to bother automating, and art/creative disciplines...

I find this point of view hilarious. "I hate what they do, so they must be maladjusted nerds!" No. Most likely they are well adjusted college kids who just like to compete within the hacker scene. Their lives are ruined, of course (since they went after government targets) but people who insist...

This patent is still too raw to tell exactly what the business usecase will be, but knowing the way companies like to enforce DRM, here's how I see this working out: Apple implements this feature at the request of event organizers, and the videos taken "legally" under this system will be...

It's not long now. Master Splinter will be born anytime now, and we all know what comes next, right? Right?

Are both of you running the game through Steam? Do both of you have HL2, Ep1 and Ep2 on Steam?

BVR combat is where it's at anyway. Who dogfights these days?

Black Mesa was a sprawling Facility that had it's own road and rail network. They also did weapons research and rocketry among a million other things. They launched satellites ffs! They discovered aliens, opened gateways into a new dimension, and precipitated war on a cosmic scale! Have all of...

The way I see it, Valve have every right to make any kind of game they want. Presumably, they were bored with the indoor research facility setting and wanted to try out everything else under the sun, which is perfectly okay. EXCEPT they left fans like me hanging, fans who thought the scienciness...

True. PC gamers and content creators will continue to have workstations. Here's where I believe you're wrong. This technology has existed for years, but never took off. Microsoft has squandered a lot of resources trying to push Windows Media Center and other HTPC products for years, and nobody...