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by awalton 11y ago
> Why should we build this functionality into the browser? Is it really that much more convenient than installing an app to run the proxy? Apparently it is, given how highly requested of a feature it is to have everything you could do wi
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> There is no reason whatsoever to allow remote access to USB devices. Unless you want to connect your local USB device to some VM in the cloud. Which is the direct use case that came up when this came up in discussion with Reilly Grant
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by awalton 11y ago
...which is already defeated by reactive armor, which you'd presumably layer underneath this ablative mesh armor layer to prevent this kind of attack. So, three projectiles in the same spot?
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by awalton 11y ago
I experienced this one first hand, which is why I went to the cheapest school in my state and coasted through a bachelor's, knowing that I could easily pay it off once I got a job in the Valley. Wasn't quite as easily as I hoped a
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by awalton 11y ago
The reality is there is no new Microsoft. They're just trying to put a shine on a company in decline to keep investors happy. And that's easy to do with good marketing strategies like "Microsoft <3's Linux", whil
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by awalton 11y ago
> a user doesn't yet know what to expect when it comes to the interface of an autonomous car. I don't think this is a good enough excuse, honestly. Both the law and common sense say the same thing about operating a vehicle: the
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by awalton 11y ago
Thanks. I'm not from the UK, my dentist and I just talked about the "NICE guidelines."
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I am not from the UK. I was a poor kid from Kentucky in the US.
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My dentist was just discussing this with me two weeks ago, as she's a strong believer in evidence-based medicine. Except she disagreed completely with this publication, citing numerous recent studies published in Great Britain. Apparen
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No, they don't: https://apps.fcc.gov/kdb/GetAttachment.html?id=zXtrctoj6zH7o...
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> Appears that TP-Link's heart is not in this -- they're doing the minimum to comply with FCC rules. The FCC has commented that the minimum is significantly less than what TP-Link actually implemented. See https://if
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But not the Linux port, according to Ryan Gordon (icculus). Somewhat hoping it's an oversight and not some legal hangup.
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by awalton 11y ago
...and now Nobody will buy TP-Link routers, once the Amazon reviews are filled with 1 stars. The market will likely sort this out for itself.
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It may not have been the "original intention" of the license, for whatever value of "original intention" that means, but it certainly was used for exactly this purpose - to keep the code out of Linux. Whether or not it
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by awalton 11y ago
Of course it is. Did you already forget that Microsoft <3's Linux? That the world has completely changed since Nadella joined Microsoft?
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It's likely implemented as a part of the System-on-Chip that Apple is using in their phones, yes, either reusing or is very similar to ARM's TrustZone extensions.
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Electronic fuses and secure (fusing) EEPROMs are not uncommon in HSMs, but I honestly don't know what Apple is using.
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by awalton 11y ago
...awesome at naming what, the industry standard term "Secure Enclave"?
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by awalton 11y ago
Regardless of how the binary is shipped (which could be legal), their aggregation of the source is likely not , since it almost certainly is a derivative work at that point. The fact they have a public git repo where the two codebases to
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by awalton 11y ago
Docker switched to Alpine Linux by default, so there's that hurdle... Not to mention the giant legal question mark of loading CDDL code into a GPLv2 kernel.
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Having testable hypotheses is a good thing, but, e.g., the moon is made of cheese is also a testable hypothesis, and one that doesn't require a huge amount of scholarship to debunk. Similarly, this mechanism really doesn't make mu
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by awalton 11y ago
It basically is. It's almost exactly verbatim a statement made by Google when talking up their container game.
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> This is a very, very wrong, and unnecessarily harsh and personal in its wrongness, comment. In other words, you are ~very~ (edit:) Exceptionally offended that your opinion is different than mine from your experience, whereas most of th
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by awalton 11y ago
> The funny thing is, virtualization is dying. All of the large private datacenters these days are non-virtualized bare metal on commodity hardware. Well, you sound like a Google employee, because that's pretty much their party line
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Well, for starters... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10976579
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I found a French website claiming the drug is BIA 10-2474, with reference to a patient who received an offer to join this trial but decided not to: http://www.breizh-info.com/2016/01/15/rennes-biotrial-biales.
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by awalton 11y ago
MIT doesn't necessarily protect you against patent claims, just thought you should know that. The Apache license is much better in this regard.
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It is disgusting a webpage with that little content makes it that fucking unusable. Come on people. Pretty designs are meaningless if you can't actually use them. How can I have faith in the claims you make about your phone if your web
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It's also able to load microcode patches very early on in the machine bring-up process. Microcode can be anywhere as simple as a single hardware enable bit "turn on this hardware unit" or as complex as "this instruction
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by awalton 11y ago
IMO the entire emoji-in-unicode idea is ridiculous - it's a hack around the inability of allowing arbitrary markup across platforms. But, we're stuck with it because Apple said "we're doing this" after seeing Japane

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