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by SolarNet 9y ago
Depends how resilient they can make it, and how much they need. There are plenty of espionage stories involving being stuck by needles without knowing it. Or if they can get it into your food (but they'd have to make it resistant to be
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by SolarNet 9y ago
> as if this were something a website could reasonably detect. Do you not record your users' GPS, connection point, roundtrip delay, microphone, and camera at all times? Because I stepped into a restaurant the other day and my brand
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by SolarNet 9y ago
Not everyone gets there in one step. A lot of people have the problem described by the parent because they don't have these insights yet.
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by SolarNet 9y ago
Nah man, what if there are like 3 robbers. Then the money moved into more hands (I guess if some of the robbers only had like one hand though...). Pyramid schemes aren't a scam because it's fewer hands .
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by SolarNet 9y ago
Timeless would probably include "timelessly legal" as a component.
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by SolarNet 9y ago
Intel is behind on the patches... 6 months is not enough time apparently.
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by SolarNet 9y ago
It is. The kernel is GPL; the copyleft license protects the commons from exploitation without releasing the source code, which allows people to fix these things. It does happen to Linux userspace though because a lot of that is not copyle
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by SolarNet 9y ago
This is the purpose of the GPL and copyleft licenses: to create a commons that companies can't exploit in the manner you described. The problem with Android is that the parts that aren't the kernel are not copyleft. This allows ve
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by SolarNet 9y ago
On the point 3. Climate change is causing many 1/1000 and 1/100 type events to happen more often; especially as it relates to rainfall, like record droughts and monsoons. I wouldn't be surprised if this is the new normal beca
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by SolarNet 9y ago
I never claimed to be a member, let alone some sort of representative, I'm not nearly nice enough. It was more of a "leave those nice people alone with your trolling" than a "leave us alone". Surprising is, that no
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by SolarNet 9y ago
I mean. Based off of his posts, he implied he took an image from a physical machine with Nvidia hardware and put it in a virtual machine (on an unspecified system with out guest additions anyway). Are you claiming a disk image of an OS runn
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by SolarNet 9y ago
No I said he implied that about other people. When he said they weren't reading what he was saying and were instead talking about some other story. If a person wrote a response exactly about his scenario, then saying what he did in res
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by SolarNet 9y ago
Have you ever tried drinking sea water? It tastes salty. The short of it being: It makes you thirstier; drinking it is worse than drinking nothing. Desalination is expensive in many ways. If it was a viable way of acquiring water (which it
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by SolarNet 9y ago
> I was fact-checking your (unsolicited) diagnosis, which you had already provided despite my lack of request for any kind of support. Yes, I posted a general response to the class of problems that your anecdotal story appeared to apply
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by SolarNet 9y ago
You were asking to be provided tech support here: > Which of these packages is proprietary? I was doing this in VirtualBox without guest additions installed, and while I used to boot this installation on an NVIDIA system, I don't be
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by SolarNet 9y ago
Well there is your problem. You have the NVIDIA graphics drivers / GL shim "installed". Likely manually because that's the only way they can be used (maybe your distribution did it automatically, but I find that doubtf
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by SolarNet 9y ago
Well the problem is it sounds like you are dealing with a proprietary gl package. Which sucks because the package mangers can't do anything about that. Blame your graphics chip provider. You wouldn't have this problem if you didn&
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by SolarNet 9y ago
Which assumes rational government. Our government is controlled by one party and yet we are heading to a government shutdown over immigration. Rational seems far away.
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by SolarNet 9y ago
It does actually. Blizzard has successfully pursued legacy WoW servers because of their usage of protocols, and an imitation of their copy righted content.
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by SolarNet 9y ago
It's also the short benefit. If game companies abandon the IP and stop paying the money to maintain it, the community can continue to play it. As it is now, we will have to wait a hundred years to have rights to play some games. Even t
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by SolarNet 9y ago
Yea, having a first mover advantage on every major product in and around the language is how they profit. Sort of a pretty old racket actually. Create a brand new market vertical, and then build the ecosystem for it before anyone can even a
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by SolarNet 9y ago
I am now looking forward to the time a FreeBSD (or Linux) developer finds a complex-to-mitigate architectural bug, only pushes it to their kernel, and the world burns down around us because of this petty shit (including these posters, Googl
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by SolarNet 9y ago
Japan did something to stop polio when no one else would. And now because a billionaire did more as charity Japan looks like a monster for doing what no one else would at the time. Would it have been better if Japan had done nothing and Bil
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by SolarNet 9y ago
No. Each copy of the VM is still it's own process. The kernel just trusts the VM to be safe.
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by SolarNet 9y ago
Actually that's a benefit of the quad-copter design. It can sacrifice an axis of control in that situation (a "minor" one, like rotation about the gravity vector). In this case it would likely make the passengers sick, but it
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by SolarNet 9y ago
That's a naive view of networking. The physical location of an IP address can be very difficult to track down (and of course IP addresses aren't part of the bitcoin protocol). Bitcoin is also super low bandwidth, and it would be v
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by SolarNet 9y ago
Data and code are not quite so interchangeable (thankfully). Typically programs have code segments and data segments, and processors actually have support for specifying the difference in behavior. A branch predictor would probably not run
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by SolarNet 9y ago
The questions are not the problem. They are a variation of the Socratic method and are super useful - when used correctly - for checking your understanding, and following where the author is going to go next. The problem is that the text is
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by SolarNet 9y ago
You missed the point, it implies criminal if he sold down differently this time. The contractual details are only important in so far as they dictate his behavior.
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by SolarNet 9y ago
Yes. AMD didn't take shortcuts, and implemented the spec correctly. Intel took shortcuts, introduced bugs, and now to compensate for that the OS has to work around it in software, it's going to be slow. For years Intel has reaped

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