Maakuth

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Fed up, US cities take steps to build better broadband(arstechnica.com)
5 points by Maakuth 12y ago|0 comments
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by Maakuth 12y ago
If you are a bad actor, you can run a Tor exit node and do whatever you like with other people's traffic passing by. This is similar to what you could do if you hosted a public wifi hotspot. While ISPs are in power to do such evils to
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by Maakuth 12y ago
This is maybe beside the point of this video, but the editing of this interview is truly annoying. I guess it fits a lots of information in twenty minutes, but cutting pretty much after their first sentences right into a next question... I
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by Maakuth 12y ago
There is no radio conversation in the most typical setup. The payment terminal has electrical connection to the contact surfaces of the smart card. While eavesdropping this link might be possible as well, it must require a lot more sophisti
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by Maakuth 12y ago
It's too bad Console Wars ( http://www.consolewarsbook.com/ ) doesn't cover Dreamcast times. This Gamasutra writeup fills in neatly. Otherwise that's a book I can recommend. I'm hopeing there would be a se
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by Maakuth 12y ago
If you think about the parent's case, unidirectional syncing ended up causing empty dataset to be synced from the computer to the iPhone. That doesn't seem right. Compare this to Dropbox's model of syncing: intentional change
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by Maakuth 12y ago
Where does this meaning for "sync" come from? Rsync does work this way, but sync is abbreviated from synchronization and that doesn't - to my knowledge - imply any directionality in it, and dictionary definition [1] seems to
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by Maakuth 12y ago
In Finland, a number of schools nowadays use Linux in this fashion. This solution has been especially great for modernizing entire computer classrooms at once, recycling old desktop PCs as LTSP clients. A server capable of serving a classro
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by Maakuth 12y ago
Hmm, I can't seem to reproduce many such issues with this machine, except Get-Help the first time I tried it. I think it could be that the cmdlets are only slow on the first run (enough to leave me with a bad experience), or the SSD on
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by Maakuth 12y ago
With PowerShell level of slowness it starts to matter. Even very basic commands seem to sometimes take many seconds to run. In the middle of intense workflow it becomes a problem.
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iCloud allegedly hacked to leak celebrity nudes(theguardian.com)
4 points by Maakuth 12y ago|0 comments
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by Maakuth 12y ago
Yep, it's in my daily tools as well and very useful especially for 2G mobile connections, bad Wi-Fi and alike. It seems their development has pretty much stopped after initial spark of enthusiasm. Too bad, mosh-over-ssh and port forwar
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by Maakuth 12y ago
Dropbox does the UDP broadcast thing. Try dumping packet in pretty much any LAN today and you see their broadcasts flying around.
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by Maakuth 12y ago
That must be a legal minefield as they'd then be in competition with established CAs that use their browser as sort of a platform (unfair competition or something). Being a CA also seems to be a messy business, I don't now if Mozi
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by Maakuth 12y ago
This converter is reasonable: http://www.willus.com/k2pdfopt/ I wonder if someone has done a Calibre plugin for it.
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by Maakuth 12y ago
Oh, that money doesn't include any killing, it's just for designing and building this single tool for it. Actual war fighting is rather more expensive: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_cost_of_the_Iraq_
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by Maakuth 12y ago
No, for your convenience, you only need to identify yourself in the case that you exit the kiosk without using any sort of web service account that can be used to identify you ;)
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by Maakuth 12y ago
I for one needed to Google it ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines ): Betteridge's law of headlines is an adage that states: "Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answ
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by Maakuth 12y ago
The thing is they buy these photos from outside vendors and I imagine they are very expensive to get. There's decent coverage from urban areas, but I don't think it scales up as well as street view driving. Also, it's certain
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by Maakuth 12y ago
Well, there was a definite rocker component to their actions, something possibly not compatible with the idea of programming idol. At least the number of times breaking keyboards was mentioned was quite high ;).
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by Maakuth 12y ago
I just finished reading David Kushner's Masters of Doom, which tells the story of DOOM development, as well as the id software story around it. It was well-written and thoroughly researched story, should be a good read for many in here
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by Maakuth 12y ago
At least balloons are impossible to steal or sabotage, which might be a benefit for areas where no functional state is present (try Somalia). I can also imagine they are very cost efficient and fast to deploy to areas where connectivity is
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by Maakuth 12y ago
>I understand the idea, but I don't have a lot of faith in the kernel to make the right decision under memory pressure--and neither do server application developers, hence the proliferation of massive userland disk caches in process
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by Maakuth 12y ago
On S60 there was no separate baseband chip to my understanding, the Symbian kernel was responsible of driving the radio as well. This was said to give Nokia a competitive advantage, as most of the competing smartphone OSes required separate
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by Maakuth 12y ago
Nobody but the nerdiest of phone users bothered to ever connect their phones to a PC and over-the-air updates were not supported. The risk of malware signed with the key showing up was probably weighted against the hassle updating everythin
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by Maakuth 12y ago
This is an interesting concept and a good addition to all the IaaS offerings around. Just one year ago, while doing my Master's thesis, I pondered the possiblity of creating an IaaS that didn't involve virtual machines but physica
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by Maakuth 12y ago
That Flickr video widget didn't work the last time, when they salvaged the thing, and it doesn't work now. I do have Flash, but it just displays a black box. Does anyone know a workaround?
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by Maakuth 12y ago
This is also happening in Finland. It worked well for single villages, etc. but then the municipalities discovered how cheap these co-operatives were and enlisted them to build big networks. Now these companies with very little actual exper
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by Maakuth 12y ago
I think the unevennes is due to the replacability of the tiles, which is how the tiles end up being of different manufacturing time and degree of wear.
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by Maakuth 12y ago
Strictly speaking this is true, however you can add more base stations with lower transmit power so the shared media is shared by lower number of clients. This is what is already done in urban areas with smaller base stations.

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