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    How to set up a safe and secure Web server

    Regarding SSH access, you can change the listening port for SSH in your web server to further reduce the number of automatic logon attempts. Most of them are configured to poke only at port 22, so doing this simple change would save you a lot of trouble. This can be done by changing the Port...
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    SpaceX's Dragon approaches the ISS tomorrow morning

    I don't think the engine technically broke apart. From SpaceX's press release (https://spacex.com/press.php?page=20121008): Approximately one minute and 19 seconds into last night's launch, the Falcon 9 rocket detected an anomaly on one first stage engine. Initial data suggests that one of the...
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    Apple's "in-app purchase" service for iOS bypassed by Russian hacker

    Pro-piracy how? It's not like Dan's encouraging readers to try it, nor uses language to seem like he approves of/promotes it. Is it the direct link? That's very easy for readers to determine for themselves.
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    Anonymous builds its own PasteBin-like site

    "...256 bits AES..." -> 256 bit AES "...potential Java-script attacks..." -> potential Javascript attacks "Indeed, Without the..." -> Indeed, without the
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    Stuxnet worm reportedly planted by Iranian double agent using memory stick

    "...to insure the worm burrowed..." should be ensure.
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    Schneier: government, big data pose bigger 'Net threat than criminals

    You could have taken a better picture, just sayin'.
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    <i>Resident Evil: Revelations</i> packs a full horror adventure into a tiny package

    I'm liking these new reviews, I just wish they have an accompanying video with them like Ben's reviews.
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    In group decision-making, ignorance promotes democracy

    "Under these conditions, the presence of ignorant or naïve individuals actually tends to lessen the influence of a strongly-opinionated majority." Isn't it supposed to be a strongly-opinionated minority?
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    JavaScript has problems. Do we need Dart to solve them?

    Great article, but I'd just like to comment on the writing style. When I read the abbreviation TC39 on the third page, I was a little confused at first as to when it was first mentioned. I realized that it was referring to the ECMA Technical Committee 39, but it wasn't explicitly stated. I'm...
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    "Kindly kill yourself immediately": a tale of writing about 4chan

    This is less of a tale and more of an anecdote. I was expecting more, instead it reads more like advertisement for the book.
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    <em>Terraria</em> on the PC makes confusion addictive

    That's it then. I got to this page through RSS, so I didn't see the front page. Yup, it's there.
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    <em>Terraria</em> on the PC makes confusion addictive

    I don't have this game, so I'm going to say from the start that my opinion will probably be biased. I think the comparison the Minecraft is inevitable for this game, and I am disconcerted that Ben seems to purposefully avoid making that comparison. Mining repetitively? Putting torches...
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    Weird Science tunes in to the water bugs' penile chorus

    I'm scratching my head thinking of how the Asterix research got funded. What useful knowledge could possibly be gained from that?
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    <em>Ace Combat: Assault Horizon</em> shakes up camera, formula

    Is that Kevin Conroy, i.e., Batman?
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    Weird Science endorses retail therapy, but only with credit cards

    I read somewhere that the defibrillator is used to regulate irregular heartbeat rather than restart the heart when it stops, so TV shows that use it in the latter way are supposed to be laughably wrong. But now I'm confused.
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    Skynet meets the Swarm: how the Berkeley Overmind won the 2010 StarCraft AI competiti

    I'm curious, have you tried playing the Overmind against itself to see what weaknesses it has in offense and defense? I seem to recall reading that part of the strategy when creating Deep Blue was to play it against itself in order to improve it.
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    Cats use gravity, inertia, gecko-like process to lap up cream

    This post is just begging for a picture of a cat drinking: http://critteristic.com/wp-content/uplo ... er-cat.jpg Also, I am now anticipating what the next Weird Science would contain if this was not included.
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    How will we know when the Internet is dead?

    *Wozniak sorry, I just had to correct that
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    The VLC-iOS license dispute and how it could spread to Android

    By the way, the correct name is Denis-Courmont. Pretty slipshod work there, sorry.
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    Why a school beats Facebook: how behaviors spread through networks

    I'm just commenting on how the findings of the paper can't be trivialized/generalized by a folk saying. Birds of a feather flock together in certain situations, but it can also be that opposites attract. Social behaviors follow the former folk saying, while diseases follow the latter (if you can...