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by bdonlan 15y ago
I use adblock for one reason: Youtube started playing audio ads without user interaction, on tabs that had been open fo quite some time. Every other site is collateral damage, I'm afraid; it's not worth my effort to figure out how to switch
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by bdonlan 15y ago
It should be noted that the author of the article has moved to Japan; this may complicate any enforcement action, unless his company is incorporated in the US.
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by bdonlan 15y ago
Except it didn't. As mentioned on the AfD page ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion... ) she was _mentioned_ in a lot of places, but only in passing - there was no real substance talking about why she's so importan
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by bdonlan 15y ago
Notability is a bit of a misnomer. It's really a way to gauge one extremely important factor: Is it possible to verify the content of this article as correct? Let's look at the general notability guideline (WP:GNG): > If a topic has rec
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by bdonlan 15y ago
I think that, when it comes to deletion, Wikipedia _shouldn't_ care about the opinion of people who aren't "committed contributers". Why? Well, even if the article is undeleted (or not deleted in the first place), it still has problems with
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by bdonlan 15y ago
What exactly is this based on?
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by bdonlan 15y ago
S3 doesn't support continual logging - you need to decide on a file size up-front. Are you creating a new object for each log entry, or is there a window in which commits can be lost before the log gets flushed out, or do you have some othe
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by bdonlan 15y ago
ARIN assignments aren't enforced by any kind of automated means. If ARIN tells some Canadian company, "Sorry, SOPA says we have to kill your assignment", and the Canadian company says "Thanks, but we'll keep using 123.89.12.0/24 anyway", it
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by bdonlan 15y ago
It's not clear if IP addresses are 'assets'. The only thing keeping Microsoft from picking up IPs arbitrarily is the fact that their BGP peers will blacklist those ranges if they do something disruptive like that. If ARIN or the IANA declar
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by bdonlan 15y ago
Every bank I've ever tried bill pay on (ING, Bank of America, E*Trade bank, Citizens Bank, Kennebunk Savings Bank) offers an option where you simply enter the account number and bill address, and they cut a check for it. No hassle. Maybe tr
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by bdonlan 15y ago
Linux does this too, but unconditionally: http://lxr.linux.no/linux+v3.1.1/include/linux/jiffies.h#L16... Note that this particular timer is not directly exposed to userspace, however.
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by bdonlan 15y ago
Hm. He keeps [redacting] Nancy's name, but leaves it in all the screenshots. Sloppy work, there.
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by bdonlan 15y ago
It's true that DNSSEC isn't a cure-all - but it's better than a third-party SSL CA. As-is, Libya can still control bit.ly's TLS key by changing bit.ly's NS records over to servers under their control, picking a random CA and having it auto-
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by bdonlan 15y ago
Indeed. While one can make an argument that the tone of the talk is inappropriate for a professional conference, arguing that these particular examples in some way single out women for denigration is absurd. Do men not engage in sexual acts
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by bdonlan 15y ago
Does this mean you only find out where your funds are if you call and ask, or is there some page (probably hidden under an 'advanced options' panel I suppose) showing the underlying accounts and their balances, internal transfer transaction
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by bdonlan 15y ago
They mentioned them on their previous site's blog ( http://www.simple.com/blog/Simple/partners-funding/ ) - The Bancorp Bank and CBW bank.
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by bdonlan 15y ago
S3 does not support UDP uploads.
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by bdonlan 15y ago
No, the problem is with x86-64, which apparently doesn't use `rep movsl`; as far as I can tell, GCC's x86-64 backend assumes that SSE will be available, and so only has a SSE inline memcpy. However, in the kernel SSE is not available (as SS
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by bdonlan 15y ago
> Transplants are still non-trivial in humans. The biggest problem behind human transplants is that our defense mechanisms (which is a hard problem in computing!) will kill the foreign material. So it's a trade-off, not a hard problem.
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by bdonlan 15y ago
I'm not going to believe it until they show a closed system, with only a hydrogen (or water) input, producing enough energy to sustain its own reaction for an extended period of time.
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by bdonlan 15y ago
I don't know where you got that header; S3 returns Server: AmazonS3 and http://aws.amazon.com returns Server: Server. I would suspect a lot of their backend services use custom HTTP servers, and maybe a small handful actually use apache.
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by bdonlan 15y ago
The xorl is one byte smaller, and can be faster. On modern CPUs it's more about the compactness of code than speed, but on some embedded CPUs you can save a cycle or two this way.
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by bdonlan 15y ago
It should be noted that smartphone adoption in Japan is rather low, and keyboard phones are quite rare. Usually there will be a separate website for PCs and not-so-smart phones. So there's a good reason to use QR codes there, even if it jus
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by bdonlan 15y ago
> A process can't change the address space of another process, period. Even if one is a root process. Separation of address spaces is a basic security service provided by the operating system. So I'm also puzzled how they are able to mo
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by bdonlan 15y ago
Bitcoin is already not legal tender. Legal tender means you are _obligated_ to accept it as payment for a debt (eg, in the US, a lender cannot refuse a payment on a debt in dollar bills). It does not _necessarily_ mean that non-legal tender
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by bdonlan 15y ago
You could purify and sell the salt as table salt, etc.
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by bdonlan 15y ago
It's too bad about code search - that was really helpful for finding example code (and linking to specific snippets of code within open-source projects!)
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by bdonlan 15y ago
GPS signals are very weak, and can usually not be received inside a building such as a datacenter.
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by bdonlan 15y ago
Maybe, but you still need to avoid invoking the dynamic linker while inside the dynamic linker. And you don't want the code you call inside the solib invoking malloc again either.
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by bdonlan 15y ago
Unfortunately, it's not race-free - if the target's already inside malloc, Bad Things will happen. A better strategy would be to invoke clone() to spin up a worker thread, somehow finagle a TLS segment good enough to fool libc and dlopen in

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