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811.
by Buge 9y ago
How would a Netflix ripper be popular at all? You would have to pay the Netflix subscription + it would have no benefit over pirating.
812.
by Buge 9y ago
Only the people actually subverting the DRM would have legal problems. The people manufacturing the laptop would be fine.
813.
by Buge 9y ago
I don't understand your Chinese government point. The post never said anything about China. And the only thing about the NSA was that it was an NSA-developed exploit. That doesn't make the NSA look friendly.
814.
by Buge 9y ago
Why wouldn't they do it initially? It would take like 5 minutes to make it use a random string instead of a hardcoded one.
815.
by Buge 9y ago
The performance on my Android phone (Nexus 6) is not good. I would have thought Rust would be fast. The fps is fairly low, a lot lower than Maps or Chrome, at least when Maps isn't freezing up. And it seems the transitions between leve
816.
by Buge 9y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8fU2QG-lV0
817.
by Buge 9y ago
Is there any evidence of that?
818.
by Buge 9y ago
Youtubers can disable ads on their videos if they don't want any ad revenue.
819.
by Buge 9y ago
It makes no sense from a money making standpoint. But they're not doing it to make money. They're doing it as a backup in case something goes bad in China. It's like insurance. Also a nice place to stay while in the US for sh
820.
by Buge 9y ago
>HandBrake needs to install additional codecs. Enter your password to allow this. Interesting, the malware creates a phishing-ish popup.
821.
by Buge 9y ago
It's $180 from Instant SSL.
822.
by Buge 9y ago
There were monetary bribes being given to the test proctors. Usually when bribery takes place, it benefits the rich who have money to pay the bribes. Clamping down on bribery would in that case hurt the rich.
823.
by Buge 9y ago
The agreements and conventions make it easier, not harder, than something based on celestial movements. The earth's rotation changes by unpredictable amounts, so it would be impossible to predict in advance purely based on celestial mo
824.
by Buge 10y ago
Well change the passwords to everything except the google account that was compromised. I don't think you can recover the password of a google account through its own gmail inbox. Although I guess if you had a circular recovery chain o
825.
by Buge 10y ago
You lose your entire google account for breaking adsense rules? I thought you just lost the ability to do adsense stuff.
826.
by Buge 10y ago
Most interactive webapps such as gmail send many HTTP requests. And those requests do not have to be over the same TCP connection. So the webapp could continue to work even if you change IPs. Any requests going at the time of the change wou
827.
by Buge 10y ago
I've been using archive.is for years. Of course if you actually want to be sure you're visiting the real site, you should prepend the url with https .
828.
by Buge 10y ago
Are 1%ers really that rare or special? There are 3 million of them in the US.
829.
by Buge 10y ago
In normal dice play expected value doesn't come into play. But if we were to do a long term sum of results (like amalcon proposed) then it expected value would come into play, and would determine the winner. This illustrates the differ
830.
by Buge 10y ago
>uncompressed JPEG 2000 files That's clearly wrong because JPEG 2000 is a compression format. They must mean lossless, not uncompressed.
831.
by Buge 10y ago
And for a large university there'll be meme pages for specific majors.
832.
by Buge 10y ago
He mentions a Microsoft Office bug that's been around since the 80s. Is there any more information about this?
833.
by Buge 10y ago
Human accesses or machine accesses? Because there are constant machine accesses for search indexing and spam detection.
834.
by Buge 10y ago
Stanford (like most top private schools) offers very generous financial aid. Very low tuition for students whose families make < $125k, and very low room and board for students whose families make < $65k. https://news.stanf
835.
by Buge 10y ago
How often are parts changed without changing the part number? If it's a common practice, it doesn't have to be seen as malicious. Are there major/minor/patch level part numbers like there are version numbers of software?
836.
by Buge 10y ago
Well if you care about space efficiency, char is smaller than int.
837.
by Buge 10y ago
It doesn't mean it can precisely fingerprint you. Only that it can fingerprint you enough to tell you apart from 5 other people.
838.
by Buge 10y ago
If multiple threads are running, the order that the threads are scheduled is nondeterministic. And if there are any timeouts anywhere in the code, the result is nondeterministic due to the nondeterministic method that the kernel will schedu
839.
by Buge 10y ago
The obvious way to make H1B work for the high end software engineers is to approve applicants based on highest paid applicant first, instead of via a random lottery. It's fairly clear to me that this would be beneficial for the long te
840.
by Buge 10y ago
Instead of XXX I just write YOLO. I've only done that a couple times.

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