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xkcd.com: Every Seven Seconds

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Блогът на Юруков: Възрастово разпределение на родилките в България

Стана ми интересно и реших да извадя пак всички данни за ражданията и възрастта на родилките. Работих с тях преди докато оборвах различни твърдения за раждаемостта и семействата. Сега реших да ги...

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Schneier on Security: Algorithmic Bias

Good Q&A with Cynthia Dwork on algorithmic bias.

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Raspberry Pi: Rocket launch footage from an onboard Pi

From rocket launchers to high altitude ballooning to Sonic Pi space music to Astro Pi, much of the Raspberry Pi community is excited by the idea of exploring beyond our Blue Marble. We think you’ll...

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LWN.net: Friday’s security advisories

Arch Linux has updated freeradius (certificate verification botch) and subversion (two vulnerabilities). CentOS has updated kernel (C6: two remote denial of service flaws). Fedora has updated gnutls...

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TorrentFreak: Hosting Company Wants to Wipe 1,103 Megaupload Servers

Millions of users lost access to their personal files when Megaupload was raided and soon this data loss may be permanent. Carpathia Hosting's new parent company has asked the court's permission to...

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Linux How-Tos and Linux Tutorials: Replacing ifconfig with ip

If you’ve been around Linux long enough, you know tools come and go. This was assumed to be the case back around 2009 when the debian-devel mailing list announced plans on deprecating the net-tools...

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[Медийно право] [Нели Огнянова] : Личният живот на публичните личности

Когато някой е известен – и в резултат от това модел за подражание – често се приема, че той може да бъде напълно лишен от защита на личния живот. Така ли е? Понякога съществува преобладаващ обществен...

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Lauren Weinstein's Blog: Why the “Right To Be Forgotten” is the Worst Kind of...

Let's start from a foundational premise on which we hopefully can all agree. Our abilities to interpret and understand the world around us are predicated on the availability of information. In the far...

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LWN.net: Stagefright: Mission Accomplished? (Exodus Intelligence)

It would seem that reports of the demise of the Stagefright Android vulnerability may be rather premature. Exodus Intelligence is reporting that at least one of the fixes for integer overflow did not...

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Source Code in TV and Films: Some C++ in Neon Genesis Evangelion.

Some C++ in Neon Genesis Evangelion.

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TorrentFreak: Legal Scholars Warn Against 10 Year Prison for Online Pirates

Legal experts and activists are protesting a UK Government proposal to increase the maximum jail term for online piracy from two to ten years. The proposed extension is disproportionate, ineffective...

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LWN.net: Glibc 2.22 released

Version 2.22 of the GNU C Library is out. The biggest user-visible changes are an update to Unicode 7.0.0 and the addition of a vectorized math library for the x86_64 architecture. Beyond that, of...

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TorrentFreak: BitTorrent Can Be Exploited for DoS Attacks, Research Warns

New research shows that BitTorrent clients and BitTorrent Sync can can be exploited for Denial of Service attacks. With the help of the popular file-sharing protocol an attacker can reflect and amplify...

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Schneier on Security: Friday Squid Blogging: Strawberry Squid

I think it's a very pretty creature with some impressive adaptations. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered.

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Schneier on Security: NSA’s Partnership with AT&T

There's a new article, published jointly by The New York Times and ProPublica, aboutNSA's longstanding relationship with AT&T. It's based on the Snowden documents, and there are a bunch of new...

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TorrentFreak: Piracy Stunt Studio ‘Overwhelmed” By Positive Feedback

A game studio that admitted to uploading a rigged copy of its own game to torrent sites informs TF that the positive feedback has been 'overwhelming'. NoodleCake's special version of Shooting Stars!...

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Source Code in TV and Films: From the show White Collar Season 6 Episode 5....

From the show White Collar Season 6 Episode 5. It looks like a little bash and python mixed together. I’m not sure on what language it is, however it was supposed to be a solution to a complex...

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TorrentFreak: Should Web Browsers Block Copyright Infringing URLs?

Two weeks ago the RIAA wrote a letter to BitTorrent Inc, asking the company to block "infringing" downloads in its popular client uTorrent. While it's technically feasible the request treads on a...

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Клошкодил: 2015-08-16 VarnaConf и Rails Girls Varna

Да видим доколко съм адекватен да пиша :) Направихме VarnaConf 2015, а след това – и Rails Girls Varna 1.0. (записи – като станат готови, при добър късмет идващата седмица, реалистично – следващите...

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