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by awalton 12y ago
Shame we have the data from nearly a hundred million witnesses, and yet the feds still won't put together a racketeering case and go after these mobsters.
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by awalton 12y ago
Firefox isn't in the Debian repos, unfortunately. But Iceweasel is installed by default on the desktop, so there's that. Unfortunately, Iceweasel is chronically behind mainline Firefox and suffers from many horrifying bugs that ma
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by awalton 12y ago
Yes, please. But I won't be surprised to see them come slinking back in four months with their tails tucked when nobody's actually maintaining any software for the fork. Fork off and die. p.s.: it's systemd, not SystemD.
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by awalton 12y ago
Well, that's a silly question. The answer is simple: "change the system." There are enough parameters in "the system" that we should be able to change almost any single one of them and get some improvement in employ
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by awalton 12y ago
A big part of what Chipworks does (as a company) is reverse engineering silicon from die shots and x-rays and such. They're not just going to hand this kind of information out on a platter - they were commissioned to do a cursory glanc
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by awalton 12y ago
I concur wholeheartedly. I've watched people code on streams during game jams and even then I was quickly bored to tears. Most coding is even less exciting than coding games. Some tasks just aren't well suited to streaming, and co
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by awalton 12y ago
Honestly, it might be time to put the pejorative term "Linux distribution" to death. It was pretty true when there was Slackware and Debian, but the we're not talking about two stalks off of the same evolutionary branch anymo
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by awalton 12y ago
> you know they were the only ones to ever read it, This is the problem. If you could prove that they're the only ones that ever read it, it'd be great. But it's data hosted on someone else's closed source service m
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by awalton 12y ago
I don't see why people have such a problem with long source files to be completely honest. I'd rather do refactoring in one source file than edit 10 and wonder if I hit them all. None of my other tools care about file length - i
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by awalton 12y ago
They tried to drop the lawsuit because they thought they could go on to fry bigger fish (television), but unfortunately they tried to step on someone who snapped on their foot like a bear trap. Lucky for them they'll probably come away
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by awalton 12y ago
ECC doesn't typically yield that much of an advantage in the nominal case until you get into very large amounts of memory - it's just a more expensive part. I think it was calculated that cosmic rays are likely to cause single bit
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by awalton 12y ago
I guess Incubus's song Stellar, Stellar.js, Stellar the band, any number of companies named Stellar, and "Stellar" the adjective describing pertinence to stars should all be upset too. Oh wait, you're just using this as
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by awalton 12y ago
> I perceive your comment as passive aggressive, but more importantly you drag the discussion to areas that are beside the point. And that's not what you're doing with this entire post? You keep trying to turn this into some ki
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by awalton 12y ago
> And I'm not sure where the hostility is coming from I'm not sure how you read hostility, but okay. > In no part of my comment did I remotely advocate or even hint at anything like that. And you obviously missed the thinly
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by awalton 12y ago
I'm not sure why people even bother bringing up RasPi and its ilk here. It's very clearly targeted towards a different audience: professionals who need to develop hardware/drivers for Intel tablets. Just look at all of the he
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by awalton 12y ago
https://twitter.com/Papapishu/status/492401740029775872
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by awalton 12y ago
First World Problems: The Article. There was just someone ranting on Twitter yesterday about Bill O'Reilly's ranting of how few millennials actually play golf - "Why Is The Generation We Sunk Into Crushing Unemployment and De
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by awalton 12y ago
What's really funny is that you turned an article completely about an Apple security problem that they should probably fix, into a completely off topic rant about Android. Well played.
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by awalton 12y ago
1: The people who are most likely to bitch about it are also the people that congregate online. 2: Troll factor - people who just want to see the company fail. 3: Tesla's own professional paranoia. It's cheaper and easier to repla
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by awalton 12y ago
"Verizon, you're my enemy, I'm going to continue paying you every month while I work around your stupidity with my VPN..." That's just how fucked up this situation is.
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by awalton 12y ago
> That passes any reasonable grounds for denying an RTBF request. That passes your definition of reasonable grounds. The problem is that there doesn't exist an established "reasonable grounds" in this area, period. There
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by awalton 12y ago
> If attackers ARE in your DC already, you're already hosed, That's a defeatist attitude, and the reason why security companies get away with only selling perimeter defense products. "Well if they get in they can do whatev
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by awalton 12y ago
"Short" is relative. 4 billion IDs is likely Unique within an organization, even one the size of IBM, Google or Microsoft.
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by awalton 12y ago
That's taking the "pets" vs "cattle" meme a bit literally. Memorable hostnames can be given to both pets and cattle. However, I personally question the wisdom of giving a network intruder a roadmap to your internal
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by awalton 12y ago
Using a serif font face for programming? You are a brave man.
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by awalton 12y ago
Honestly, Inconsolata is the better Consolas. But I've gotten so used to the Deja Vu family of fonts being the default monospace font everywhere on Linux that I don't know if I could go back to using it again.
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by awalton 12y ago
In other words, Microformats have arrived in the Web 3.0 sphere. (hResume never really caught on either, despite LinkedIn supporting it.)
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by awalton 12y ago
If you check Gtk+'s history, I have contributed back on numerous occasions. Unfortunately, convincing the people who write my paychecks, VMware, to contribute Workstation and Player to the Open Source community seems to be a pretty big
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by awalton 12y ago
A wonderful idea. Let me just statically link an LGPL library into my Commercial application...
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by awalton 12y ago
> ABI compatibility should not be a huge problem for distributions. That's just fine, until you want to release a binary application that targets more than one distribution...

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