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by Laforet 11y ago
Before non-removable battery became mainstream, most phones had a small internal battery to keep the internal clock ticking when the battery is being swapped. This is not unlike the CMOS battery found on PC motherboards. iPhones does not ne
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by Laforet 11y ago
Are microcodes written to a writable part of the CPU? I have always assume it resides in the BIOS or equivalent on the motherboard.
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by Laforet 11y ago
I have seen CPUs bricked from moderate air-cooled overclocking. And it is still possible to kill a chip by feeding it the wrong voltages as long as the motherboard allows it.
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by Laforet 11y ago
This particular report cites a number of rather fringe sources as well as many non-English journal artiles that cannot be easily verified. Overall I find the author's conclusions hard to believe. >It was thought that low-mineral wat
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by Laforet 11y ago
>It's fine for the first cup or two, but after that it starts to burn. Wash your hands with it and you'll find you skin is dry and cracking. I have handled and, against my better judgement, quaffed many types of deionised water
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by Laforet 11y ago
Out of interest, which media player do you use now? Are they cross-platform like VLC?
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by Laforet 11y ago
Printing money is not the only option, governments can devalue their currency instead and China is already doing it. Greece, of course, has none of these options.
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by Laforet 11y ago
IIRC the only commonly access service hosted in that IP block is their DNS servers. There are easier ways to hijack DNS traffic than trying to hijack the entire prefix via BGP. A casual browse through the other entries seems to suggest that
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by Laforet 11y ago
Headers are meant to be flexible in theory, but in reality it seems that anything outside the most common few are going to break things. The series of blog posts linked below might interest you. http://noxxi.de/research&#x2F
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by Laforet 11y ago
Amazon has a peered connection at KNIX, although from most locations ingress traffic to the Seoul region is routed through AWS Tokyo first, so latency is probably going to be slightly worse than Tokyo unless accessed from within Korea. Pric
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by Laforet 11y ago
Windows 7 added a number of APIs on top of Vista so implementing backward compatibility means a lot of additional complexity with minimal benefit. A prime example is the windows build of Electron ( https://github.com/atom&#x2
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by Laforet 11y ago
Except it was not built overnight - it began with the Enablig act granting extraordinary power to the government, which then extended their power gradually over the late 30s leading to the war. If you read primary sources it is obvious that
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by Laforet 11y ago
I'm pretty sure they are banned from being sold as toys. One can still buy neodymium magnetic beads from US resellers or import them if inclined to do so.
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by Laforet 11y ago
The otherbl commentor was probably using OpenVPN which is easy to target. Most other protocols continue to work well as long as your provider is not being targeted.
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by Laforet 11y ago
Robin Harris has been advocating for the abolishment of block abstraction layer for a couple of years now and this piece is consistent with his usual rhetoric
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by Laforet 11y ago
I thought each instance came with 1GB of outgoing traffic per month?
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by Laforet 11y ago
The mass of men and their contraptions probably do not exert enough force anyway. https://what-if.xkcd.com/8/
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by Laforet 11y ago
True, hence I wrote "for performance reasons or perhaps out of sheer laziness". There are better ways to handle it but they are not always the easiest.
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by Laforet 11y ago
Avast installs its own kernel drivers (on windows at least) so it already has access to everything in userland without requiring a special API. The MITM part was probably added for performance reasons or perhaps out of sheer laziness judgin
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by Laforet 11y ago
Glass, copper, steel and even asphalt scraped from roads are eminently worth recycling, plastics and paper recycling tend to be swayed by commodity prices, but you can't have a policy that recycles only when crude price is above $60 a
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by Laforet 11y ago
Derek blogged about other (truly) fearsome stuff too such as FOOF http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2010/02/23/thi...
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by Laforet 11y ago
Apparently it was commonly used in home plumbing as well, argh. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10357115
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by Laforet 11y ago
Thanks for the link. I assumed that you were commenting on DBS for Parkinsonism and was a bit surprised to find people say a proven therapy does not work.
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by Laforet 11y ago
>- deep brain stimulation: hundreds of upvotes here on stories about this, but then when studies come out showing that it it no better than placebo that story gets 3 upvotes on HN. I had no idea DBS is no better than placebo, do you have
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by Laforet 11y ago
When I worked in PC repair I used to see one of these every couple of months or so. It feels great to be able to being them back with no loss of data for the customer. I still have the hacked together PL2302 bridge somewhere in my toolbox.
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by Laforet 11y ago
They are a pain to install but they worked through the sheer size and surface area. That said these tower type heatsinks seems to have gone out of the vogue after all. Back in 2010 people used to go out of their way to bake thermal grease,
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by Laforet 11y ago
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&DE... There seems to be plenty of options in the sub-$200 range.
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by Laforet 11y ago
Low end server/workstation motherboards are quite cheap and plentiful nowadays. Even some of the low-end Pentiums have ECC support so there is little reason not to.
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by Laforet 11y ago
>Any method of automatically renewing certificates, regardless of what script it used, is going to require the privileges needed to alter the certificate file. The only way to not run it as root would mean the certificate is editable by
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by Laforet 11y ago
This particular certificate has no constraints, so if my understanding of x.509 is correct then it can be used for everything. Of course if they had known better they probably would not have shipped it with the private key protected by such

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