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by bdonlan 15y ago
Given the length of that route (and all those arbitrary GPS waypoints!) I'd think ATC would catch on pretty quickly.
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by bdonlan 15y ago
They actually did a writeup on their photo storage system a while ago: http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=76191543919 Note that the delete operation merely marks the data deleted - they don't actually purge or overwrite it. Perhaps
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by bdonlan 15y ago
Ow. Please put in some paragraph breaks, it's a nightmare to try to read a long wall of text like that without some kind of landmark to latch on to.
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by bdonlan 15y ago
The problem is, the average person can't tell whether a toothache is a minor, non-covered issue, or a life-threatening problem that would be eligible for coverage - without going to see a dentist out-of-pocket, that is.
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by bdonlan 15y ago
It is. The MD5 preimage attacks support arbitrary (non-common) prefixes and arbitrary common suffixes. With complex file format like a word document, it's easy enough to put a binary blob at the end of the file that doesn't affect how it lo
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by bdonlan 15y ago
If you're able to pass silly laws, wouldn't it be easier to just pass a law saying discovery can't compel people to divulge encryption keys kept only within their own head?
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by bdonlan 15y ago
I would guess that it would be too long if written out in English, and that they'd probably deny a name change to a name that contains characters not normally used in names (asterisks, semicolons, underscores...)
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by bdonlan 15y ago
> Not disagreeing with the core of your posting at all, but I think you got lost in the hen analogy too. Oh, indeed, we should apply the same rubric to physical property. But I've already analyzed a number of other cases in the post I l
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by bdonlan 15y ago
I've talked about this before on HN ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3366032 ), but I think a big problem with these discussions is people seem to assume, as an axiom, that allowing authors to control downstream copying is natural. It
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by bdonlan 15y ago
Yeah, I get NAT'd IPv4 as well.
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by bdonlan 15y ago
It's because too many things are defined in terms of UTC; if you start saying, "Okay, let's start using TAI from now on.", now you have the complexity of trying to remember whether you're supposed to use TAI or UTC for this particular proto
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by bdonlan 15y ago
2600:100f:b002:96cf:54e1:a288:bb8:8424, currently. Incoming ICMP and SYN packets seem to be filtered, but that's reasonable for an ostensibly mobile service.
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by bdonlan 15y ago
It seems that Verizon's 4G LTE service already has IPv6 in production - I was issued an IPv6 address without having to do anything in particular. I wouldn't be surprised if other ISPs followed suit by just flipping the switch to enable it f
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by bdonlan 15y ago
If you keep it up it can be triangulated, I suppose. Other than that, the tower would have to shift everyone to a different frequency.
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by bdonlan 15y ago
Stiff fines. If suddenly the only signal the tower's picking up is yours, it doesn't take too long to figure out who is responsible.
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by bdonlan 15y ago
Sure, but that wouldn't catch this issue unless you're looking at customer data that uses these particular html tags.
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by bdonlan 15y ago
There are three main methods (in order of preference): 1. Use a cached list from a previous run. This is ideal in terms of load balancing, and also helps with bootstrap time if your IP hasn't changed, so all major torrent clients have such
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by bdonlan 15y ago
Freenet isn't really good for this either - it's basically static data, too.
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by bdonlan 15y ago
If the TPB were to actively oppose SOPA, it would just give the SOPA proponents more to work with - "Look, TPB is against it, so it must be a good thing!".
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by bdonlan 15y ago
For what it's worth, it's usually not necessary to recalculate the bogomips value - it's only really used for usleep(), a routine used to sleep for short intervals (on the order of microseconds) to wait for hardware to stabilize. Overestima
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by bdonlan 15y ago
You might like some of daniwellP's other works then - I'm quite partial to nekomimi switch myself: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txejaggf8dg
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by bdonlan 15y ago
The actual problematic link was a single link, apparently - I don't think it's reasonable to have automated systems ban a site from google for a _single_ link, which might well be a false positive. They're trying to show they don't have a d
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by bdonlan 15y ago
I think they're trying to show that they hold themselves to a higher standard by applying a stronger measure than they would for others.
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by bdonlan 15y ago
This is why car chargers have a 5V regulator in them.
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by bdonlan 15y ago
> While you would expect a comparison to another pointer to be legal, I don't believe it has to be consistent. That's the whole point of undefined behavior. In one sense, it's like the question of whether NaN == NaN. In many implementat
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by bdonlan 15y ago
The 'consistency' I speak of is the idea that, if I assign alloca(0) to a variable, it's either NULL or non-NULL - I can't look at that same variable two different ways and get different answers. From the sounds of the article, this require
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by bdonlan 15y ago
On the contrary, you can do something safely with such a pointer - compare it with another pointer. If the value of 'alloca(0)' is _unspecified_, then this comparison is legal, and its result, while not specified, must be consistent. In oth
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by bdonlan 15y ago
IANAL, but I would expect the uniform commercial code to cover what payment methods are allowed if not stipulated in a contract. For example, in § 2-511 of the UCC ( http://www.law.cornell.edu/ucc/2/article2.htm#s2-511 ) "Tender of payment
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by bdonlan 15y ago
Hm? Are the nightly builds out already? Or are you on Koush's builds?
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by bdonlan 15y ago
If the contract doesn't explicitly state you get to use a credit/debit card, then they're not really under any obligation to accept it at all, much less for free. After all, you can always do it the old-fashioned way and mail in a check.

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