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	<title>Joe Auricchio</title>
	<link>http://joe.definitelynotsafe.com</link>
	<description>Missing the point since 1986</description>
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		<title>MacBook Maintenance, and Patience</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over this winter break, a friend asked me to replace her MacBook&#8217;s display. It was cracked and showed no image at all, just frozen colorful static. Whatever trauma befell the poor machine broke more than just the display&#8212;hard drive, optical drive, and keyboard/topcase had just been replaced.
Repairing Apple&#8217;s older laptops is notoriously difficult. They are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://joe.definitelynotsafe.com/macbook-maintenance-and-patience</link>
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		<title>CISC vs RISC in 2003</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Furthermore, x86 represents a worst case in the areas where it differs significantly from RISC-style processors&#8230;
Paul Barham, et al., Xen and the art of virtualization, SOSP 2003. Emphasis original, deliberately taken out of context.
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		<link>http://joe.definitelynotsafe.com/336</link>
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		<title>Lessig on motivation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If the Internet has taught us anything, it is that you can always get people to do what they already want to do.
Lawrence Lessig, NYTimes
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		<link>http://joe.definitelynotsafe.com/335</link>
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		<title>Passwords and typing timing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I type my 17-character password very fast. It&#8217;s a strictly automatic process, all muscle-memory.
The timing is very critical and synchronization problems happen a lot. There&#8217;s lots of hand-alternation; sometimes one hand is a decisecond early or late and I type a letter out of order. Sometimes I hit J instead of H because the &#8220;down&#8221; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://joe.definitelynotsafe.com/passwords-and-typing-timing</link>
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		<title>It&#8217;s cool when your roommates study in your field</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rushi is reading a PDF textbook on his computer.
&#8220;Joe, do you have a physical copy of this?&#8221;
I glance at the page of text on the screen, reach over to the heap of junk piled on top of the coffee table, carefully rummage around for a moment, and pull out the book in question. He doesn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://joe.definitelynotsafe.com/its-cool-when-your-roommates-study-in-your-field</link>
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		<title>Defeating the Cylon Missile</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
See it
Put it on your 3-9 line
Countermeasures
Turn hard into it
Pray

(BSG is sweet)
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		<link>http://joe.definitelynotsafe.com/defeating-the-cylon-missile</link>
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		<title>Awe</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is a professor at UCSD (Angela Yu, Cognitive Science department) who graduated from MIT with a 5.0 GPA on a 5.0 scale.
This is impressive.
She majored in theoretical math, brain &#38; cognitive sciences, and computer science. Yes, that&#8217;s three degrees.
This is dumbfounding.
She did it in four years.
This can&#8217;t be possible.
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		<link>http://joe.definitelynotsafe.com/awe</link>
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		<title>Scott demonstrates that P != NP</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It looks like CAPE found the original proof. Now where&#8217;s that million-dollar prize?
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		<link>http://joe.definitelynotsafe.com/scott-demonstrates-p-notequal-np</link>
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		<title>Safari 3.2&#8217;s Anti-Phishing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[MacWorld deconstructs the anti-phishing features in Safari 3.2.
Bottom line for security &#38; web developers: It&#8217;s Google&#8217;s database, they&#8217;ve been doing this for 3 years, only hashes go over the network, locally cached. It&#8217;s good stuff.
Bottom line for privacy-interested people: If you hit a suspicious hash prefix, you ask Google&#8217;s servers for the full hash. In [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://joe.definitelynotsafe.com/safari-32s-anti-phishing</link>
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		<title>Dumb Things are Happening with Comments</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I get a lot of spam comments on the blog here. You don&#8217;t see them, because I mark them as spam, a few hundred every week. They&#8217;re roughly uniformly distributed across all my posts. If fewer posts are open, I get fewer comments. So I want to minimize the number of comments I have to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://joe.definitelynotsafe.com/dumb-things-are-happening-with-comments</link>
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