JohnsonB

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by JohnsonB 14y ago
That's disturbingly pedantic and self-righteous.
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Stratfor emails reveal nationwide surveillance system operated by the government(rt.com)
1 points by JohnsonB 14y ago|8 comments
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by JohnsonB 14y ago
I imagine eventually they could do away completely with calibration stickers and just use regular surface tracking with any old plywood.
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by JohnsonB 14y ago
>This kind of thinking is simply not medically correct. The idea that eating a will lead to increase in b and then improve all these functions has no basis in evidence. Well, sometimes it does, and I don't think the parent post made any
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by JohnsonB 14y ago
I don't think anyone should take it upon themselves to say "Nobody cares" about the relevant details of an error. It's not just an issue of blame, but what the end customer can do with the information. The information that it is the platfor
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by JohnsonB 14y ago
Desktops have inferior 3d rendering capabilities compared to smart phones? Since when? Any desktop bought in the last 5 years will have an integrated or dedicated graphics chip that can at least match smartphone capabilities in this area. T
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by JohnsonB 15y ago
This article: http://money.cnn.com/2011/11/09/smallbusiness/kiva_robots/in... says that 1000 robots costs $15-20 million, not the $500 million that 500k a piece would run. Also what is there to indicate such a hefty need for engineering o
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by JohnsonB 15y ago
Amazon only pays $17 out of $50, since when? I thought the common knowledge was Amazon pays 70% the full retail price to the authors of e-books.
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by JohnsonB 15y ago
Good question, but in my opinion it's somewhat rhetorical. Given bugs like these, the ongoing optimization battle, and fairly reasonable feature requests (see the huge HN topic on that), isn't it about time Paul Graham hired someone full or
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by JohnsonB 15y ago
> I realize evolutionary psychology is exciting but it's also very dubious as science because it isn't predictive or falsifiable in most cases. All you're doing is dismissing an argument by dismissing an entire field of science. There i
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by JohnsonB 15y ago
>In other words, you missed the point entirely: this is more continued evidence-free speculation, Actually it's not evidence-free, it is a simple application of evolutionary theory. The "point" of the OP's post, as he stated directly, w
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by JohnsonB 15y ago
>Obviously there are easily observed physiological differences in brain structure and in the endocrine system etc, however it is a massive leap to go from that to asserting that observed differences in behaviour are down to this rather
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by JohnsonB 15y ago
Being asked in a poll "Do you support dismantlement of West Bank Settlements" is a far cry from actual going through a process of forcing 300k Israelis out of their homes. Remember the Gaza evacuation? If you think Israel has the stomach to
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by JohnsonB 15y ago
Take the settlements apart? You do realize that amounts to ethnic cleansing, correct? Neither the majority of the Israeli population nor the protesters believe this is a good idea.
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by JohnsonB 15y ago
Most people use Google search for Wikipedia because it's simply easier, instead of navigating to Wikipedia and then typing in your search, just type in your search where you usually do. Nothing you redesign on wikipedia.org will ever change
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by JohnsonB 15y ago
> 1. Get rid of grains, legumes and sugars This is only partially true; there is nothing wrong with unprocessed grains/legumes if eaten in moderation. This means whole grains and not processed wheat products. Actually the rest of your a
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by JohnsonB 15y ago
Facebook is a social network monopoly and one of the main avenues of business on the web of which there is essentially no replacement (in terms of doing business on a popular general purpose social network.) The fact that they can ban an ap
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by JohnsonB 15y ago
None of those are reasonable or reliable indications that he/she is lying about having forgotten a password. There are fingerprints or signs of use? What if the defendant has been actively trying to remember the password, or has just done s
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by JohnsonB 15y ago
The issue is that Android can be used on any hardware product whatsoever, so inevitably there will be both premium and more commodity type products that cover all market segments. Virgin Mobile already has non contract Android smart phones
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by JohnsonB 15y ago
Not necessarily, if they hack into one system then getting into another isn't automatic. If the passwords are in a separate filesystem/database than the key, and linked only with software, then unless it's the software that's comprised it w
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by JohnsonB 15y ago
Couldn't they at least encrypt it, and store the key on a separate file? *edit: I just want to be clear, I don't actually think encryption would a sufficient replacement for a good hashing function, the question was just pointing out how ba
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by JohnsonB 15y ago
Downgrade. Everything is hard to read; why is it necessary to use light grey text on a white background? The week view requires scrolling to view all hours of a day (even though it only shows just 1 extra hour). In the week and 4-day view,
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by JohnsonB 15y ago
They made an apparently appalling security error; in the name of transparency they should be more specific about what code was the problem and how this bug worked so people have a better idea of really how bad they screwed up. Right now it
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by JohnsonB 15y ago
I assume VC per capita is a used as a metric because it's a useful way of assessing how much economic value the whole country can extract from the startup scene, in the same way that GDP per capita is a more useful measurement than total GD
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by JohnsonB 15y ago
Great, and what exactly is the improvement seen with tri-gate transistors as an independent variable? Without that it's hard to judge what the significance is for tri-gates. I understand Ars can't test a 32nm processor with tri-gates but th
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by JohnsonB 15y ago
A single manual configuration mistake should never be able cause this type of complete system failure. For AWS to be engineered this way, the engineers you met must not have been as smart as they seemed. EBS may be extremely sophisticated i