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by DougN7 9y ago
This is the key problem. The manufacturer might even consider the poor security as a feature (for them)
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by DougN7 9y ago
I'm (naively) surprised this works in practice. It seems like the sending laser and receiver would have to be very immovable such that big wind gusts, or a large truck driving by, or large temperature changes in the structure holding
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by DougN7 9y ago
I think about this a lot with respect to society as a whole. Specifically, legalizing drugs, effects of social media, and universal basic income will affect the most complex system of all, 'society', in ways we can't possibl
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by DougN7 9y ago
I still get the busy signal calling into the Seattle area from the Midwest once every 4-5 months or so when it's clear the other end wasn't on the phone. I'm not sure I got that before. So I wouldn't say the problem is
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by DougN7 9y ago
Have you considered the time you spent typing this, the energy your computer and the HN server processing and storing it, the bytes that had to be transmitted to thousands (hundreds of thousands??) of computers around the world across who k
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by DougN7 9y ago
I wrote my senator who is in favor of the repeal and this is his response (which I don't endorse - just forwarding as a view point): "However, I do not agree with the FCC’s 2015 “Open Internet Order,” which abruptly decided, on a
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by DougN7 9y ago
Isn’t this exactly what made the stock market crash of 1929 so devastating to the US? And which lead to the Great Depression our grandparents tell us about?
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by DougN7 9y ago
I'm not sure I'd call it great news. But I too have stopped reading a few magazines that went all digital. There is just too much other digital competition when I've got a browser open. But when I'm sitting at breakfa
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by DougN7 9y ago
I’m all for net neutrality. I’m not for the government being everyone’s ISP as was mentioned. NSA in an AT&T closet should not be happening. It would be the default situation for everyone if we all had government ISP.
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by DougN7 9y ago
Censorship isn’t the only concern. The NSA and Big Brother are as big a concern if not bigger in my opinion. Of course, a private company Big Brother (Google??) isn’t that much better. But it’s easier to escape a private company than it
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by DougN7 9y ago
Please make sure they understand if they mandate any encryption 'backdoors', these breaches will happen much more often.
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by DougN7 9y ago
I'm not into watching gaming at all (I'd rather play), but this is really just another twist on 'Reality TV', and one with less dysfunction IMHO.
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by DougN7 9y ago
Anyone know of a simple way to store bitcoin on paper or digital that won’t depend on a specific app being available in 10 years?
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by DougN7 9y ago
Sure I do. But if one has an aim to be understood, it's better not to make everyone lookup what you're referring to. If something has a well known name, use the name!
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by DougN7 9y ago
I would never have guessed what ATVI was. So audience is important, which means for a public post, stock symbols probably aren't a great idea.
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by DougN7 9y ago
It was a small business conference in Wichita KS where the DOD was encouraging small business to work more with them. One of the speakers used that as an example of a successful project. When the slides come out (hopefully in a few days)
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by DougN7 9y ago
I was at a conference yesterday in the US where they casually mentioned they have a drone that can (now) find devices (phones) from 3 miles away to within 10 feet (or maybe 10 meters?) from a current IP address. The level of surveilence is
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by DougN7 9y ago
I think you've hit on it. I feel like I'm on a movie set watching the actors when watching 4K, as opposed to getting into the story like normal (can't remember the term for that...)
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by DougN7 9y ago
I've discovered something akin to the uncanny valley - 4K video. It looks so sharp and clear it feels artificial. Not sure how long it will take to get used to.
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by DougN7 9y ago
Because there is an upper limit (from my understanding) of the number of Bitcoins that can be created, their worth will still multiply by 10 or 100 or more, IF they exist and grow as planned. Splits only increase that value if you own pre-
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by DougN7 9y ago
Exactly. I keep saying the only person Trump could have beaten was Hillary. Unfortunately, she was the only other choice.
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by DougN7 9y ago
In my experience, people that understand databases and personalization tech (mail merge and more) are jaded and harder to sell to. But we in IT are a minority , so I don’t doubt it works well for many demographics.
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by DougN7 9y ago
This seems to be the very definition of hubris.
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by DougN7 9y ago
Just pointing out an unintended consequence I saw in a cartoon: As soon as nobody farms cows for meat, milk, and leather, cows will become an endangered species/extinct because nobody will pay to keep them alive. And there's not
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by DougN7 9y ago
Facebook being social 'fast food' (or junk food) is the best analogy I've seen. Great thought!
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by DougN7 9y ago
> any non-profits ... working to increase people's sense of community at a mass scale You're describing most religions that I'm aware of. Say what you will about their beliefs, but most of them (definitely not all) work h
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by DougN7 9y ago
Great comment. Despite my fears/concerns about Trump and seeing the similarities to Hitler, your comment is the first one that hit me with a "crap! it _could_ happen here too!" realization.
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by DougN7 9y ago
I find it very concerning. I'm a member of a group that has been accused of hate (mainstream religion). It's completely false, and things have to really be twisted to even pretend it, but get the right mob fired up and I'll
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by DougN7 9y ago
I wrote a disk bootloader that could intercept BIOS disk writes, and then continued loading DOS. And then there was a DOS TSR that monitored... (don't remember). Needless to say, this was the late 80's/early 90's. It
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by DougN7 9y ago
Do these numbers seem implausible to anyone else? A billion trees in two years is 1.3 million trees per day. 57,000 trees per hour, non-stop for 24 hours per day. Seems unlikely.

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