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by JunkDNA 13y ago
Glad you are here. Thank you so much for doing this. Just wanted to let you know that I found out about this via a twitter sponsored tweet. So whoever decided to do that as a marketing idea probably is getting their money's worth.
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by JunkDNA 13y ago
This was annoying. Thankfully you run the .sfx file and it stitches all the rars into a single vm. I too would love to know the reasoning.
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by JunkDNA 13y ago
If you wanted to legally run multiple versions of IE without having to have multiple Windows licenses for every combination (e.g. IE8/XP, IE8/Win7, IE10 Win7, IE10 Win8, etc...) you had to use the MS-provided virtual machines. How
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by JunkDNA 13y ago
For a long time I was critical of MS for forcing developers to use their VirtualPC VM's because it just wasn't realistic: people use VMWare and VirtualBox as well as Macs and Linux. It was always an example of MS's frequent &
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Free Official MSIE VM's for Linux and Mac(modern.ie)
359 points by JunkDNA 13y ago|132 comments
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by JunkDNA 13y ago
Indeed, I'm highly inclined to defer to tptacek's experience here.
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by JunkDNA 13y ago
You're one of the few whose opinion I would trust on this: how much data would the NSA need to derive TLS encryption keys from encrypted data? I feel like I read once that you could possibly use statistical methods to derive the key if
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by JunkDNA 13y ago
Beam splitters (prisms?) inside the backbone providers. All traffic goes to its destination unharmed, but the NSA gets all the packets. SSL is harder, but all you need is the private keys. Those are hard to get but not impossible for someon
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by JunkDNA 13y ago
Total idle speculation, but a while back I read about how google uses statistical algorithms to do their translations instead of using the more traditional machine translation methods. They do this by running the stats on sets of identical
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by JunkDNA 13y ago
Well let's make it super-easy and nip this in the bud: let's just store a DNA sequence of everyone when they are born. That way, we can skip the whole hoovering up business and for sure identify people. Are you ok with that?
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by JunkDNA 13y ago
I disagree, I think the cloud stuff actually makes this even harder (at least today). The distinction between what's in the cloud and what is local is extremely hard to make, even for those of us that live and breathe this stuff. Oh sure, y
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by JunkDNA 13y ago
As I say in a comment elsewhere in this thread, I find the dissent on this extremely illuminating and tend to agree with it. One thing the court can't consider right now (since it's a hypothetical future and that's rightly not their busines
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by JunkDNA 13y ago
Indeed. One of the fascinating things if you read the dissent (which I highly recommend, it's very approachable) is that the national electronic fingerprint databases have not actually ever been constitutionally tested on 4th amendment gr
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by JunkDNA 13y ago
I have only passively been paying attention to Zynga. I do feel bad for people who are now out of work. However, the staggering thing about this article to me was that 520 people only represents 18 percent of their employees. That means t
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by JunkDNA 13y ago
The kicker is that the unit overheated and was destroyed in the first attempt. Something about that makes me very suspicious. If you were going to game the review to fake things, wouldn't you want to do a dry run first to see how the review
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by JunkDNA 13y ago
This is a fantastic article that is extremely well written and does an excellent job of conveying the science. I think one of the more interesting side-effects of cheap DNA sequencing tech is that we're starting to find out that while any i
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by JunkDNA 13y ago
If I can be totally honest, our group had a pretty bad enterprise sales experience recently. We had trouble getting answers to our questions (we are a bit of a non-standard .edu account). We thought we had negotiated a good deal until the P
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by JunkDNA 13y ago
The right wing argument against government meddling isn't that it doesn't work sometimes (broken clocks being right twice a day and all that). The complaint is that, in aggregate, for every Tesla there are countless Solyndras. Governments a
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by JunkDNA 13y ago
Crony capitalism is one of the few issues both Democrats and Republicans see eye to eye on. Each party has their specific business favorites, but it's sadly a bipartisan problem.
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by JunkDNA 13y ago
I work in biomedical research building software apps. We are grant funded with tiny teams. Every little thing that allows us to go from idea to reality helps. Python, Django, Postgres... Hell even Twitter bootstrap (we don't have time to sc
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by JunkDNA 13y ago
This is the massive change afoot that Hollywood needs to recognize. 20 years ago they were fighting over which network you would watch or which film you would go to see. But now the entire Movie/TV industry has to compete against other form
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by JunkDNA 13y ago
I disagree. If your immune system is already run down by low grade infection and you've got a persistent case of diaorreah from poorly sourced drinking water, it's pretty easy for a flu virus to knock you out. No anibiotics means there's no
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by JunkDNA 13y ago
While I'm in agreement that one can't dismiss them out of hand, I wonder how likely a 1918 Style pandemic really is. I don't believe we have had a pandemic on the scale of the 1918 flu in modern times. 1918 was a long time ago. The outbre
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Bitcoin vs. Ben Bernanke(on.wsj.com)
2 points by JunkDNA 13y ago|0 comments
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by JunkDNA 13y ago
After seeing posts like this for a while I finally got around to reading the book this winter. Blew me away. If you're at all technically inclined and involved in engineering or science, read this book when you're feeling sorry for yourself
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by JunkDNA 14y ago
Web programmers tend to take this for granted, but there are whole swaths of the software world that aren't web applications. For developers in those areas it may very well be something they haven't considered.
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by JunkDNA 14y ago
While the posturing might have an internal purpose, its primary audience is not internal. North Korea has learned time and again over at least the last three US administrations that when the US, UN, and allies start to turn the screws, al
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by JunkDNA 14y ago
While he's seriously incorrect, it is however worth remembering that a caterpillar's DNA bases don't change at all when it becomes a butterfly. It's all about the degree those proteins get expressed, in what ratios, and (crucially) whe
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by JunkDNA 14y ago
It all depends on what your investing your 401k in, but putting it in a stock index fund is a pretty good guard against inflation. Stocks will adjust accordingly to inflation, but putting the money in the bank certainly won't. Also, it is a
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by JunkDNA 14y ago
I love that loading it on my iPhone 5 causes me to get a screen admonishing me to load it on a bigger screen to watch. So much for "Generation M".

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