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811.
by RachelF 9y ago
All these great Unix based tools make me wish I did not have to work on Windows Servers all day.
812.
by RachelF 9y ago
These will give Microsoft ideas for the new UI upgrades in Windows 10.
813.
The United States Is Making the Soviet Union’s Mistakes(warisboring.com)
42 points by RachelF 9y ago|3 comments
814.
by RachelF 9y ago
What is annoying is that the user pays for this. How much more yellow toner do I need to buy because my print outs are covered in yellow dots? I wonder how many million extra gallons of yellow toner and ink are wasted every year printing th
815.
by RachelF 9y ago
Much depends on what you choose to study in college. One can easily get an advanced degree without picking up critical-thinking skills. Whether critical-thinking skills are actually valuable for making money or personal happiness are someth
816.
by RachelF 9y ago
It might not be The Intercept, although timing suggests it was. She could have sent it to multiple organizations, one (based in Atlanta, perhaps CNN) sent them to NSA for "verification" according to [1] [1] https://www.
817.
by RachelF 9y ago
The Register (as usual) has great coverage of this: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/06/06/contractor_leaked_r... It turns out REALITY WINNER isn't an NSA exploit – it's her real name
818.
97% of New Smartphones Now Come with Expandable Memory Slots(wccftech.com)
2 points by RachelF 9y ago|0 comments
819.
by RachelF 9y ago
Nice, but antenna patterns are typically shown on a log scale. It would probably be better if he'd 3d printed on a linear scale, which would give a better physical idea of what the antenna is doing.
820.
by RachelF 9y ago
This is historical, being 7 years old. No one knows for sure when the Office of Personnel Management hack began, only that it was detected, by accident in 2015. This OPM hack is probably the most damaging for the US government's spying
821.
How personalised music playlists can be used in health care(economist.com)
1 points by RachelF 9y ago|0 comments
822.
by RachelF 9y ago
Systems that have already been infected with the NSA DOUBLEPULSAR rootkit are more vulnerable to infection [1]. The high prevalence in China (and Russia) might also indicate that these systems were hacked by the NSA prior to the Microsoft M
823.
by RachelF 9y ago
Site must be running off a Dell FX160 ;-)
824.
by RachelF 9y ago
Microsoft used to do decent testing of their updates. In the last two years, they seem to be saving money by letting their users to the testing. When a patch comes out we need to weigh the unpatched security risk vs the risk of the patch br
825.
by RachelF 9y ago
A lot of people who were burned when they dumped Windows RT will be very cautious of this.
826.
by RachelF 9y ago
The Chinese government has been cracking down on ways its citizens can get their money out of the country. Bitcoin is an easy, hard to trace way for them to convert RMB to USD.
827.
The Skin of Others in Your Game(medium.com)
8 points by RachelF 9y ago|0 comments
828.
The world’s most valuable resource is no longer oil, but data(economist.com)
100 points by RachelF 9y ago|23 comments
829.
by RachelF 9y ago
Looks pretty thick, but for those of us who sit in front of computers all day, this is what I want in a phone. Small and long battery life.
830.
Computer security is broken, but things are starting to improve(economist.com)
44 points by RachelF 10y ago|21 comments
831.
by RachelF 10y ago
In fact, they may make money off it, if the only mitigation is to buy a new phone.
832.
by RachelF 10y ago
> There is still no "stop sending my personal information to Microsoft" switch I wonder if it is possible to write an app that does this?
833.
by RachelF 10y ago
Read Fooled by Randomness. The other books are expansions on these ideas, and IMHO, not as good, mostly as Taleb seems to have become angry at his critics.
834.
by RachelF 10y ago
Yep, I have a copy of Most Secret War. The BBC made a documentary loosely based on it in 1977. It is on YouTube [1]. Well worth watching, they don't make documentaries like that anymore. The episode on Enigma has been banned, but the r
835.
by RachelF 10y ago
>The RAF advised against such a strategy, having tried the same type of raids themselves before American entry into the war; And before the RAF, the Lufwaffe had also learned the same lesson over England in the winter of 1940-41. Ground
836.
by RachelF 10y ago
I agree. 4k is enough. If you have perfect eyesight you need to sit about 1 foot away to resolve the pixels at 8k. At that distance you cannot see the whole screen anyway, as the 1 arc second resolution is limited to a very small spot at th
837.
by RachelF 10y ago
This makes sense. Telstra's backhaul for fibre and cable customers is very lacking. They have oversold their bandwidth and suffer lots of congestion during peak times. Take a look at this: https://www.theregister.co.uk/
838.
by RachelF 10y ago
>My guess is that we'll start writing software very differently. It's hard for me to predict how, though. This is huge deal. SSD's started it. It always seemed wrong for me to address memory through a disk interface. The
839.
by RachelF 10y ago
Probably just marketing hype. Some numbers: Modern DDR4 RAM quad channel: 50,000MB/s Optane SSD: 2,000MB/s Also nothing on the PCIe bus is going to have a latency of RAM to the OS, unless mapped as RAM.
840.
by RachelF 10y ago
Indeed. There is more at the Google Drive forum. Seems to be limited to the Windows client from the reports. It could be serious as there are reports of folders disappearing. https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!for

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