Osmium

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by Osmium 13y ago
Gov.uk is, amazingly and surprisingly, well run, and I think this advice is solid. But broadly speaking, it's not like the British government has done much better with large computer projects. http://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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by Osmium 13y ago
Well, you wouldn't let anyone enter the process: there'd still have to be an initial filter. After that, presumably promise of much much higher future profits for the full contract and prestige (i.e. the free advertising that woul
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by Osmium 13y ago
How would you fix it? I could imagine a competitive process, e.g. pay a number of different companies to start producing their solution in parallel. And then at the end of 3 months, pick the one(s) that looks the most promising and pay them
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by Osmium 13y ago
Three actually recently announced a similar thing to this, whereby you take your contract with you to any country that Three operates in, i.e. Australia, Italy, Denmark, Austria, Sweden, Hong Kong and the Republic of Ireland. Other European
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by Osmium 13y ago
For the curious, Murakami = Takashi Murakami. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takashi_Murakami
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by Osmium 13y ago
You assume they aren't getting anything else from that. Presumably it also counts as R&D for future products.
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by Osmium 13y ago
Speaking of the need for a more secure email, I just want to share an anecdote that blew my mind recently. I was trying to pay for something with a major tech company but they were having problems with my card, so they emailed me my car
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by Osmium 13y ago
Nice visualisation, but what's the value in this? Symantec's a "global innovator" (really? I'm skeptical, but am I missing something?) And splitting companies into "electronic components" and "compute
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by Osmium 13y ago
(I am not a mathematician) but if you want an actual explanation of the Riemann sphere, I really like the one given in "Visual Complex Analysis" by Tristan Needham. It's really very cool. Google books may have it. This site i
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by Osmium 13y ago
Would this be less of an issue if you had a more sensitive detector?
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by Osmium 13y ago
If we have to have corporate oversight to get a decent OS, then I'd rather one I pay (e.g. Apple for iOS) than one I don't (e.g. Google for Android/Chrome OS). I want to be the customer, not the product being sold. Even if
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by Osmium 13y ago
You can solder with platinum directly, in a manner of speaking (it won't be 100% platinum, and it also requires much higher temperatures than ordinary solder).
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by Osmium 13y ago
> I'm leaning towards a calibration issue. Surely this is easy to test? Is the level always off by the same magnitude, in the same direction, for any given phone? Would be nice if the parent article had tested this... If a particula
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by Osmium 13y ago
>insert hypothetical hack proof perfect RFID cryptocard into a cavity of the coin and solder it up except for a small hole for RF to pass thru? Then, hypothetically, why not have the "coin" be the cryptocard in the first place?
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by Osmium 13y ago
Regarding 4), as a thought experiment, I was wondering earlier how you'd authenticate the "trillion dollar coin." Hypothetically, it's possible to mint a one trillion dollar coin to get around the debt ceiling crisis[1].
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by Osmium 13y ago
> I have another curiosity about the FBI's intent to seize his bitcoins- is it fair to seize all of them? If half of these bitcoins were earned while bitcoins were only worth 1/10 of current value, should only 10% of that half
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by Osmium 13y ago
> sneak snacks It may be a bit of a faux pas, but I've often openly gone into cinemas with my own food/drink and no one seems to mind. (Side-note: I highly recommend edamame-in-the-pod for a cinema snack. Quiet, healthy, cheap,
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by Osmium 13y ago
Seconded. I can often predict my weight to 200g if I have a similar diet for a few days running. That said, I have two pairs of scales. Both give reliable results, but one is consistently 500g off from the other. I wouldn't be surprise
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by Osmium 13y ago
> Apple introduced flops as well, see apple TV By their standards perhaps, but I think some of us would like a "flop" as successful as the Apple TV! http://www.theverge.com/2013/5/28/4374480/
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by Osmium 13y ago
It's very kind of you to respond! I would certainly never trust it to share with someone else :) but I'm perfectly happy to accept the risk myself. But it's not just me using a system like this. Everyone using SuperGenPass is
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by Osmium 13y ago
Yep. Doing this on OS X and launching it via Alfred. I'd rather not share the script solely because I don't want to be responsible for some bug or bad idea that could cause you or anybody else problems. However, I can share some i
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by Osmium 13y ago
SuperGenPass uses MD5 or SHA512 (so they do use hashes). Personally, I use bcrypt with a cryptographically random and long master password, which is something at least. I appreciate the input and advice anyway. Security being a system of
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by Osmium 13y ago
> We also believe the attackers removed from our systems certain information relating to 2.9 million Adobe customers, including customer names, encrypted credit or debit card numbers , expiration dates, and other information relating to
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by Osmium 13y ago
Anecdotally, the "one domain flaw" has only ever happened for me for two websites over long time I've been using this system: getdropbox.com and amazon.com (using international amazon sites). Worst case scenario, you can requ
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by Osmium 13y ago
Hmm, 1Password always seemed like an overly-complicated (though polished) solution to a basic problem to me. Personally, I just use a variant of: one-way-hash(master-password + site-domain) Seems to work really well, doesn't require sp
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by Osmium 13y ago
Looks nice from what I can see but £1.49 is too much to buy just to try it out (at least for me). The major pain point with the current viewer I use is difficult-to-read comment threads. I can't see any screenshots of comment threads i
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by Osmium 13y ago
What format was that? Edit: Thanks!
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by Osmium 13y ago
Can't speak about the camera or if this is just a marketing gimmick or not, but I can say that MEMS technology is really cool. Since the article does a pretty poor job of explaining what MEMS technology can do, it's probably bes
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by Osmium 13y ago
This has been discussed further here: http://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/1nfl59/spacetrack_is... Quote from SpaceX via twitter.com/spacecom: "We have no reason to believe there was an expl
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by Osmium 13y ago
> There is another possibility. You were never really an owl. Entirely possible :) I find the possibility intriguing, because when I was living the "owl" life you'd never have been able to persuade me that I wasn't a

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