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Bastian Rinsche

Bastian Rinsche

Bastian is from Deutschland. You can find Bastian’s tweets at and website at www.memorion.me.

Bastian Rinsche
You just connected your computer to www.google.com. Simple, isn't it? What just actually happened? Well, when you know a bit about how networks work, it's not quite that simple. You've just put into play DNS, TCP, UDP, IP, Wifi, Ethernet, DOCSIS, OC, SONET, and more. Those are actually such incredibly complex technologies that they'll make any engineer dizzy if they think about them too much, and such that no single company can deal with that entire complexity.
Estimated reading time: 40 min
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I re-ran a "straight" attack on my 17,000 hash file using each of my wordlists with no additional rules whatsoever. The result: I cracked 4,976 hashes in one minute, most of them coming from the RockYou wordlist, which clearly lived up to its hype now that it was uncompressed and working. Even without rules, I had cracked far more complex passwords than before, things like "softball24" and "butterfly5."
Estimated reading time: 10 min
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A procrastinator becomes disproportionately motivated by the pain of failure. So when you consider taking anything on, the promise of praise or benefit from doing something right are overshadowed by the (disproportionately greater) threat of getting something wrong.
Estimated reading time: 11 min
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“Imagine you’re on a first date,” said Gene Tsudik, professor of computer science. “You and the other person could hold up your phones, exchange tiny amounts of information and be able to tell what your children would look like. Or, more seriously, you might be able to estimate their odds of being born with something like Down syndrome.”
Estimated reading time: 3 min
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Sex sells, right? And disembodied female body parts coupled with Beavis and Butt-head-level puns are super-sexy, right? Guys, this is why we don’t have more women in tech: It’s a cesspool. As long as we’re passing offensive schlock like this off as marketing for a major technology conference, we don’t deserve more women in tech.
Estimated reading time: 3 min
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Anyway, assuming the police officer actually shows up at the traffic court today, the judge will be either need to: (a.) rule that, duh, obviously a corporation is not a person so articles of incorporation don’t count as an additional passenger; or (b) stand by the Supreme Court’s definition of a corporation and therefore publish a totally ludicrous decision holding that people can just strap their corporate documents into the front seat of their vehicle in order to ride in the carpool lane.
Estimated reading time: 3 min
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In some countries, the Catholic Church has already joined forces with Jews, Muslims and members of other religions to oppose the legalization of gay marriage, in some cases presenting arguments based on legal, social and anthropological analyses rather than religious teachings.
Estimated reading time: 3 min
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Das ist Amerika: Hightech für die Eliten. Entwicklungsland für den Rest. Kein Land hat mehr Nobelpreisträger hervorgebracht als die USA. Aber in New York mussten Krankenhäuser evakuiert werden, weil die Notstromaggregate nicht ansprangen. Wer das für einen Widerspruch hält, hat nicht begriffen, dass Amerika das Land des totalen Kapitalismus ist. Für dessen Funktionieren sind öffentliche Krankenhäuser nicht notwendig und die Energieversorgung privater Haushalte auch nicht.
Estimated reading time: 4 min
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As one would predict, it shows that those who are self-confessed P2P file sharers have larger music collections compared to those who aren’t. However, the data also shows that these file-sharers buy more music legally than their non-sharing peers. 30 percent more in the US.
Estimated reading time: 3 min
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Given the popularity of the iPod and its centrality to Apple’s bottom line, Apple should have been the last company on the planet to try to build something whose explicit purpose was to kill music players. Yet Apple’s inner circle knew that one day, a phone maker would solve the interface problem, creating a universal device that could make calls, play music and videos, and do everything else, too—a device that would eat the iPod’s lunch. Apple’s only chance at staving off that future was to invent the iPod killer itself.
Estimated reading time: 3 min
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    Bastian Rinsche Über den Fehler vieler Firmen sich auf ihrem Erfolg auszuruhen, bis sie überflüssig werden am Beispiel HBO.

    September 20, 2012
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Arming the force would, say opponents, undermine the principle of policing by consent - the notion that the force owes its primary duty to the public, rather than to the state, as in other countries.
Estimated reading time: 8 min
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    Bastian Rinsche Ziemlich gut. Leider glaube ich kaum, dass man so eine Regelung nachträglich noch einführen könnte.

    September 19, 2012
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So the Back button should open the previous screen. Use of the word "History" makes me think it should work like the back button in your browser. Boy, would that be awesome. There are so many times when that just doesn't happen. The back button is broken in a million different ways. Here, I'll show you.
Estimated reading time: 19 min
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    Bastian Rinsche "It's true, we still have a lot of work to do. Personally I feel like I've gotten only about a third of the way to where I want to be with regards to consistency, responsiveness, and polish.
    Better get back to work!" - Matias Duarte zuständig für die Android User Experience.

    September 19, 2012
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The only problem is, previous studies estimated the warp drive would require a minimum amount of energy about equal to the mass-energy of the planet Jupiter. But recently White calculated what would happen if the shape of the ring encircling the spacecraft was adjusted into more of a rounded donut, as opposed to a flat ring. He found in that case, the warp drive could be powered by a mass about the size of a spacecraft like the Voyager 1 probe NASA launched in 1977.
Estimated reading time: 3 min
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    Bastian Rinsche Fuck yeah, Zukunft!

    September 17, 2012
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“I called Netflix and it was so easy,” he chuckles. “They said, ‘What’s your name?’ and I said, ‘Todd [Redacted],’ gave them his e-mail, and they said, ‘Alright your password is 12345,’ and I was signed in. I saw the last four digits of his credit card. That’s when I filled out the Windows Live password-reset form, which just required the first name and last name of the credit card holder, the last four digits, and the expiration date.”
Estimated reading time: 18 min
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Die derzeitigen Gefechte um das Netz - von Internetsucht bis Leistungsschutzrecht - werden getrieben von Vermutungen und Behauptungen. Sie werden geprägt von Leuten, die sich schlicht weigern, die Funktion und die Bedeutung des Internets für eine digital geprägte Generation zu erfassen. Dabei geht es trotz des Begriffs "Generation" nicht nur um das Alter, denn das Internet ist eine Haltungsfrage und keine Altersfrage.
Estimated reading time: 4 min
Recited from Martin Wolf
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