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Sorry, RSA, I'm just not buying it

I want to be extremely clear about three things. First, this is my personal opinion – insert full standard disclaimer. Second, this is not a condemnation of everyone at RSA, present and past. I assume most of them are pretty okay, and that the problem is confined to a few specific points in the company. However, “unknown problem people making major decisions at RSA” is a bit unwieldy, so I will just say RSA. Third, I'm not calling for a total boycott on RSA. I work almost literally across the street from them and I don’t want to get beat up by roving gangs of cryptographers at the local Chipotle.

RSA's denial published last night is utter codswallop that denies pretty much everything in the world except the actual allegations put forth by Reuters and hinted at for months by [other sources](http://li

mait

Thinking about 'meta' torrent file format.

Let's say I've downloaded big file using torrent. Then add very small file and recreate new torrent file. Like subtitle.

Now two torrent files are totally different file to machine. Tracker and torrent client would treat them different torrent. Of course we don't need duplicate original data file for multi seeding. But seeders and leechers split by two torrent file. They don't know about they have exact same file. Torrent client and tracker cannot connect people for exact same data. We have split share pool for exact same file. It's not efficient. More seeders, more speed.

Let's say original torrent file is 1.torrent.

[ file1 ]

kentbrew

###Invite your readers to leave you a Bitcoin tip on Reddit

Reddit's Bitcoin implementation is ideal for beginners. Here's how to get them to give it a try.

####Structure

jbenet

a simple git branching model (written in 2013)

This is a very simple git workflow. It (and variants) is in use by many people. I settled on it after using it very effectively at Athena. GitHub does something similar; Zach Holman mentioned it in this talk.

Update: Woah, thanks for all the attention. Didn't expect this simple rant to get popular.

Asparagirl

Want to grab a copy of your favorite website, using wget in the command line, and saving it in WARC format? Then this is the gist for you. Read on!

First, copy the following lines into a textfile, and edit them as needed. Then paste them into your command line and hit enter:

export USER_AGENT="Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/533.20.25 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.4 Safari/533.20.27"
export DOMAIN_NAME_TO_SAVE="www.example.com"
export SPECIFIC_HOSTNAMES_TO_INCLUDE="example1.com,example2.com,images.example2.com"
export FILES_AND_PATHS_TO_EXCLUDE="/path/to/ignore"
export WARC_NAME="example.com-20130810-panicgrab"

willurd

Each of these commands will run an ad hoc http static server in your current (or specified) directory, available at http://localhost:8000. Use this power wisely.

Discussion on reddit.

Python 2.x

$ python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000

aristath

<?php
/*
Plugin Name: Shoestrap Custom Templates
Plugin URI: http://shoestrap.org
Description: This plugin replaces the default templates with our custom ones using the hooks provided by the <a href="http://shoestrap.org/downloads/shoestrap">Shoestrap</a> theme
Version: 1.00
Author: Aristeides Stathopoulos
Author URI: http://aristeides.com
*/

gr2m

// Ask the coffee machine at IP 192.168.2.2 to do its job
device('192.168.2.2')
.do( 'coffee' )
.then( wakeMeUpCallback )

// turn all lights on
device.findAll('light').do('turnOn')

gr2m

// convert a dom element to a PDF and download it
convert( $('.invoice') ).to( 'invoice.pdf' ).download()

// alternatively
download( convert( $('.invoice') ).to( 'invoice.pdf' ) )

// convert another website to a png and show it on the page
convert( 'http://exam.pl/page' ).toImage().then( $('.screenshots').append )

// attach a file to an email

gr2m

// send text email
sendEmail({
  subject: "Hello, World!",
  text: "This mail has been sent from the frontend",
  to: "joe@exam.pl"
})

// send multipart text / html email
sendEmail({
  subject: "Hello, World!",