Have you been to San Francisco or the Silicon Valley?

It has been my experience in tech companies and social circles that the term nerd is often considered a badge of honor and is even used to refer to one's self and friends.

See also https://vimeo.com/73589975

> the term nerd is often considered a badge of honor

N = 1, but in my experience this stopped being the case when being nerdy was deemed cool and anyone with glasses started proclaiming "I'm so nerdy".

I suppose this sort of makes me a hipster.

No, it makes you a second-wave nerd with hipster tendencies.

(I of course just made that up.)

It's OpenVZ or Virtuozzo.

http://openvz.org/

http://www.parallels.com/products/pvc/

Yeah, keep it classy.

"First, your data is stored on Google servers — essentially the same servers as Gmail. This means your secrets are as safe as your email."

Well, if David says so…

Except that qwerty_asdf wasn't referring to a /24 subnet, (s)he was talking about one of the three address spaces defined in RFC 1918 and described thusly:

"Note that (in pre-CIDR notation) the first block is nothing but a single class A network number, while the second block is a set of 16 contiguous class B network numbers, and third block is a set of 256 contiguous class C network numbers."

So it is common for crusty old network engineers and sysadmins to refer to 192.168/16 as "the class C" private block, even when they understand that you can subnet it however you'd like.

> ... (s)he was talking about one of the three address spaces defined ...

Right, I realized that when s/he said "reserved Class C range". It was more of a general observation. I always forget I have to be extremely specific here on HN.

This made me feel really old, so I checked your math:

  2003 1981 - p
  22
  1981 1949 - p
  32

This. I imagine that an agency with the resources of the NSA could probably work out a couple of ways to obtain almost any private key they want.

Interesting that this would bubble to the top today in light of the Verizon FISA story.

The White House and others defending the practice keep repeating “it’s just metadata.”

Knowing exactly who you talk to, when, where, and for how long can expose a lot about you and be pretty incriminating!

I continue to be confused by the use of the term “Cougar Night” to describe Thursday nights at the Rosewood.

Isn’t a cougar an established older woman looking for casual sex with a “boy toy?”

Seems like a better name for this would be “Gold Digger Night” or just “Rich Old People Trying to Hook Up.”