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    The NSA Has Nearly Complete Backdoor iPhone Access

    I encourage you all to watch the video at the bottom of the linked article. The iphone backdoor takes up a minute of the entire presentation, and is not the scariest part.
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    Dotcom Wants To Encrypt Half The Internet

    Encryption is great in theory, but when the network providers and the CAs work together by the hand of a government, privacy is just a facade. I have absolutely no evidence of this happening, but smart businesses obey.
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    Java Tops List of Software Skills in Demand

    I bet most of the demand centers around APIs for mobile devices... as Java has one of the best performance / simplicity ratios for writing application servers.
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    Computer Science is the Hottest Major on Campus

    In my experience, a small percentage of students will make it, and of those, a small percentage will actually write software. The six figure offer is only for the students who understand the CS and can craft software. The market demands software craftsmen over those who can mathematically...
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    How did I fix my 6950 by flashing with 6970 bios?

    Thanks, I will do that.
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    How did I fix my 6950 by flashing with 6970 bios?

    Yep, the shaders are unlocked (1536 according to GPUZ). The voltage increase makes sense. I think the fan behavior is also slightly different. I'm just glad it fixed my stability issues, even though it goes against common sense without considering the factors that you mentioned.
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    How did I fix my 6950 by flashing with 6970 bios?

    I have had problems with Diamond reference 6950 2GB since I got it. Somewhat frequently my display would freeze or i'd get a bsod related to video. It became frustrating, so I would manually crank the fan and it seemed to fix it... but not entirely. So I went for broke and flashed it with...
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    how can I make a user go into public_html?

    ~/public_html is just that, public. If you want to make it so each user has access to "private" areas, you need authentication and authorization. In other words, you need some logic in your web app to identify users and restrict them to certain areas. There may be plugins for common HTTP...
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    Corsair Giveaway - Force Series™ GT 180GB Solid-State Hard Drive

    I need it because I am convinced that I need it.
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    Mark Zuckerberg's New $7M Home

    2500K @ Stock For Now... | Thermalright Venomous X-RT | ASUS P8P67 | ASUS EAH5850 | Dominators 2x4GB DDR3-1600 | WD Black 1TB | Lian-Li A05N-B | | Dell U2410 | Seasonic X650 | Sennheiser HD600 | HT Omega Claro Halo | Filco Tenkeyless Cherry Blue Otaku | Logitech G700 | Ratpadz XT | Griffin...
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    Twitter Search Is Now Three Times Faster

    Ruby is a great language, and rails is a great framework. That said, netty's pipeline model is much better for their throughput requirements.
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    Chinese Language to Dominate the Internet

    Reference? I came across very few english speakers in China. Also, Mandarin is the national language, which means that the government mandates that all children learn mandarin in school. As to my opinion of the story: Who cares? Domination does not mean that all the sites we currently use...
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    Post your workstation 2010!

    I feel like most of you cleaned your office before you posted your photos. I on the other hand think the messiness better reflects my environment. I do like it clean, but that takes time.
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    Dell UltraSharp U3011 $1124 + Tax w/ Free Shipping

    Well... I've been waiting for this. Thanks for posting.
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