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by avidiax 2y ago
If they can't keep them unlocked, they at least don't want them to reboot, since that puts the phone in a less exploitable state. If they never reboot, then the phone can just be kept powered and isolated for years if need be to f
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by avidiax 2y ago
> They can't legally force you to reveal your password. Indefinite contempt of court seems like "force" to me. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/05/jail-looms-large...
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by avidiax 2y ago
> Phones are still stolen (since the cost of theft is $0) but stolen phones are worth closer to $5 than $1000. I have read that there are services offered by specialized criminals to unlock stolen iPhones. These basically amount to phish
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by avidiax 2y ago
Just to be clear, hub collisions are a layer 2 problem, and nothing at layer 3 (IPv4/IPv6) can fix it.
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by avidiax 2y ago
That sounds like a pretty poor precedent when e.g. Russia or China raids the local office of a social media company to get data on a dissident.
576.
by avidiax 2y ago
The 3 Body Problem wallfacers are a bit like this. Some would freeze themselves to be thawed later to direct a several hundred year secret plan that only they know.
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by avidiax 2y ago
You can assume that the Chinese have complete engineering plans for any target product, including an aircraft. But having those plans isn't enough to build the plane. You needs lots of unwritten know-how to succeed. This isn't jus
578.
by avidiax 2y ago
> This isn't reproducible by removing the battery entirely, either. If you take it out, the clock loses all ability to function and just resets constantly. So having a mostly drained battery seems to be doing a little work so that i
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by avidiax 2y ago
You could provide a free place for sideshows, and it probably would get a crowd, but there would still be illegal sideshows. Being illicit & counter-culture is part of the draw.
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by avidiax 2y ago
That applies over a network. It doesn't apply to someone that has physical access to the machine. Even if the machine delays a response, the power profile of the computation will tell the exact timing of the computation. Since there is
581.
by avidiax 2y ago
Could it be that it is meant to be 1/8th ounce nominally, but there is some lacquer or varnish that takes the weight up slightly?
582.
by avidiax 2y ago
If the maximum voltage is within range, a neon line tester with the button grounded should work well. When the light goes out, the remaining voltage is below the sustain voltage of the neon lamp. That kind of tester is usually built into a
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by avidiax 2y ago
I don't find this to be surprising. Healthcare services have inelastic demand. If you have a broken leg, and the average income is $X or $2X, clearly the hospital can charge twice as much in the second case and still mend legs. What is
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by avidiax 2y ago
> My view is that extremely dense cities with already low vacancies implement rent control as a social measure and usually that doesn’t have a real impact on market dynamics. How could a portion of the housing stock being held by people
585.
by avidiax 2y ago
For the case of 35mm SLRs, Nikon/Canon/Pentax etc. all have 45mm flange distances, give or take a couple of millimeters. That's basically the minimum to have room to swing the mirror and for a couple of shutter curtains. So a
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by avidiax 2y ago
Here's a link to a bigger graph for the Blackjack Scenario: https://github.com/obrhubr/kelly-criterion-blackjack/blob/ma... I think it shows that Blackjack is not even theoretically winnable over time if
587.
by avidiax 2y ago
Modern systems don't work in a half-duplex mode like this. All laptop speaker/mic combos use AEC[1], where they can both playout and pickup at the same time. There is actually 2 layers of this in many systems, one provided by your
588.
by avidiax 2y ago
I've seen a video about fixing that yourself. Seems like a missing market opportunity, since replacing windows costs many thousands, so you could probably charge hundreds to provide this as a service. https://www.youtube.com
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by avidiax 2y ago
This is a pretty complicated matter. In principle, a government could do this. There would then be an invisible tax in the form of high inflation. High inflation causes practical and psychological problems and undermines the appearance of s
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by avidiax 2y ago
Your devices going faster than (but not excluding) other devices wouldn't count as "harmful interference". If you somehow adjusted the definition so that this would count as harmful interference, then every competing service
591.
by avidiax 2y ago
This would actually be somewhat smart. MI6 could "private label" their pentesting. Their agents get free (actually negative cost) real-world training. You can pick the client list to include both local industries that you would pr
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by avidiax 2y ago
https://www.hytera.com/en/product-new/lte-broadband/lte-radi... https://www.wouxun.com/radios/two_way_radio_kg-v98.aspx There are combination PoC (push-to-talk over cellular) + WiFi + VH
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by avidiax 2y ago
This is not in scope for the FCC. Anyone can use the ISM bands however they'd like, with certain power and bandwidth restrictions. It's in-scope for the WiFi alliance, but I don't see this as "poking" them. It'
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by avidiax 2y ago
I don't know. It's possible that it was merely a bug, and maybe it was fixed at some point. But it's also not something that would cause noticeable issues on a network. Apple devices performing slightly better wouldn't b
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by avidiax 2y ago
I would guess that this aspect of the spec was not well tested. It is possible to write a test that causes 100 or 1000 collisions and plots the random distribution of the backoffs, but that is pretty complicated versus just checking that 1
596.
by avidiax 2y ago
When I worked on WiFi at Microsoft, we discovered that Apple was cheating. Apple was implemented a random backoff timer to have less range than the spec, which would mean that Apple devices win most contentions. We decided not to copy this
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by avidiax 2y ago
This is the new venture capital model. Everything must be (or come with) a subscription. It's a way to take an area that has low technological innovation (little reason to buy next year's cooling mattress, which is the same as las
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by avidiax 2y ago
A meta-analysis of 29 long term weight loss studies[1] found: > By 5 years, more than 80% of lost weight was regained I think a much better hypothesis is that CICO does work, physically, but there are metabolic, hormonal and mental facto
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by avidiax 2y ago
If the unit price can come down to ~$1,000, this could be useful for WISPs. Imagine an apartment building or set of condos getting 10gbps to share. This would be a great end-run around the wireless/telecom/cable companies, albeit
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by avidiax 2y ago
> But as Schleussner and his colleagues estimate, up to 400 gigatonnes of carbon would need to be removed from the atmosphere by 2100 to limit warming to 1.5 °C, assuming current emissions trajectories continue. In emissions terms, that

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