Joking_Phantom

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by Joking_Phantom 9y ago
I won't pretend to intimately understand the Chinese sociopolitical atmosphere, but it's clear to me that China wants to establish some form of international hegemony. This isn't an initiative focused on improving the country
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by Joking_Phantom 9y ago
I won't dispute this - the private sector is composed of people just as the government is, and their attachment of sensitive data to vulnerable identifying information is just as abhorrent and many times more dangerous than anything th
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by Joking_Phantom 9y ago
WeChat is the replacement for WhatsApp, fully compliant with Chinese censorship controls. What's mildly disturbing is that many Chinese Americans, both American citizens and not, living in the US use WeChat. They use it because of thei
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by Joking_Phantom 9y ago
Thank you for the reply, but these are refugees crossing into Canada. Not American citizens entering the United States. I don't see thousands of results either. A quick google search revealed absolutely nothing fruitful - 3 articles ab
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by Joking_Phantom 9y ago
Does anyone know of a case where a search of electronic material beyond physical inspection actually resulted in any illegal materials? I don't doubt that our current body of legislation and judicial precedents make this practice legal
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by Joking_Phantom 9y ago
Actually they are cheap - the reason why a significant amount of on chip resources can be assembled into the IME on all of Intel's chipsets is because IC process technology has advanced by many orders of magnitude. The Pentium 4 repres
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by Joking_Phantom 9y ago
IMO, the first step for people interested in promoting RISC V should be to get it into the hands of the universities' undergrads. Berkeley's EECS 151 lab final semester project was to implement a RISC V CPU at 50 MHz on a FPGA. If
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by Joking_Phantom 9y ago
When I took Berkeley's EECS151 class (Introduction to Digital Design and Integrated Circuits), the first lecture actually did not go over clocks. Instead, it goes over the simple building blocks of circuits - inverters, logic gates, an