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by bdonlan 9y ago
To be fair, controlled flight into terrain unfortunately also has precedent.
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by bdonlan 9y ago
To be fair, when you're writing the C side of your JNI bindings, it'll also let you call any random pointer as if it were a C function of any type. You'll have non-type-safe code _somewhere_, it's just a choice of where.
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by bdonlan 9y ago
This is, in fact, correct behavior: http://www.sfbike.org/news/bike-lanes-and-right-turns/ If turning traffic doesn't enter the bike lane, then it is turning right across the bike lane, which can lead to acci
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by bdonlan 9y ago
The construction company would likely be liable in the end, with their liability insurance paying. If they properly arranged for utility location services and those failed to mark the conduit then that service might have liability instead.
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by bdonlan 9y ago
A number of donor-advised funds accept BTC contributions (and take care of converting to USD). This also avoids realizing capital gains, and allows it to be immediately converted to USD before the value crashes while allowing the decision o
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by bdonlan 9y ago
This is a term of art, defined in the relevant statute: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/28/4104 > Any United States person against whom a foreign judgment is entered on the basis of the content of
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by bdonlan 9y ago
Could they obtain an injunction forcing Australian ISPs to block the EFF website?
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by bdonlan 9y ago
How do they authenticate the new ECC policy key when the RSA key is already compromised?
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by bdonlan 9y ago
It's a burden on the DNS resolver side. 4096- or 8196-bit key operations aren't exactly cheap - and the time taken for the public key operation grows superlinearly with the bit count (depending on the specific variant of the modpo
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by bdonlan 9y ago
It's only useful as a persistent exploit vector if it has persistence. If I was designing this, it'd be simpler to have it boot off an image downloaded from the main SoC rather than giving it its own flash.
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by bdonlan 9y ago
As a followup, I went and implemented this for fun: https://github.com/bdonlan/branchless-utf8/blob/master/test/... Performance seems to be quite good compared to the implementations from the articl
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by bdonlan 9y ago
One thing you could do to optimize further (on CPUs with the BMI2 instruction set) is to use the PEXT instruction to perform the bit extract operation (after a BSWAP of course). The whole operation could be something like (untested):
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by bdonlan 9y ago
AAC is supported on Android Oreo.
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by bdonlan 9y ago
That depends - it's possible to have a first stage bootloader in mask or OTP ROM that hashes the firmware before passing off control. No idea if Macs do this though.
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by bdonlan 9y ago
This is actually how it works. The lender gets to pick the scoring model they want to used based on the raw data provided by the credit bureaus. The credit scores you see on e.g. creditkarma are just one of the many models in use; they&#x27
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by bdonlan 9y ago
An elliptic curve key is probably memorizable (a 256-bit number essentially) but is not quantum-resistant. For quantum-resistant schemes you might be able to memorize a 256-bit seed for a key generation algorithm. You can look at bitcoin &q
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by bdonlan 9y ago
1) UK law should not be generalized worldwide. 2) The writer of the license has no special powers to interpret, enforce, or guard code licensed under that license. They can express strong opinions, which (if it's a well written license
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by bdonlan 9y ago
First, things don't become legal precedent until someone sues and a judge rules on it (and preferably the ruling is upheld on appeal). Second, what makes you think FSF/SLFC have standing to sue Canonical in this matter in the firs
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by bdonlan 9y ago
The rocket engines also put out a ton of ionized particles that can interfere with the satellite signal.
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by bdonlan 9y ago
The kernel developers would probably accept zfs if they could. The main blocker is a license incompatibility issue, which is worked around by distributing zfs in source code form.
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by bdonlan 9y ago
I think I misread your comment - I had interpreted it as suggesting that exchanges should be required to issue IOUs for new forked assets, which has serious practical issues. Of course, saying that coinbase balances are IOUs for bitcoins is
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by bdonlan 9y ago
Well, the problem is that this means exchanges need to actually implement support for every chain. If I tomorrow go muck around with my bitcoin node and make it fork, why shouldn't they be required to issue you IOUs for that altcoin as
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by bdonlan 9y ago
Well, really, the problem is that JimBob is in total control of the interaction here. Maybe your bank says, "Sure, here's an affidavit showing you had $30,000 on date X", but that's not good enough for JimBob; he needs t
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by bdonlan 9y ago
It's an interesting situation, but assigning liability to coinbase for this seems like it'd be a problem long term. Unlike traditional securities, there's nothing stopping me from going out and making my own fork tomorrow - a
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by bdonlan 9y ago
More entry points to long distance transport would take pressure off surface streets, wouldn't it? Of course, traffic might just grow to fill the void...
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by bdonlan 9y ago
Even if the circuit is still open from the telco trunk to the dormitory switch, the link back to the specific extension that dialed out would be broken.
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by bdonlan 9y ago
Effectively this means that if they were using it, and they continue using it, they can add contempt of court to the list of potential charges I guess.
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by bdonlan 9y ago
Margin loans are lower risk than you may think, as they're secured by highly liquid assets that are held in custody at the broker that's lending the money. That's not to say the broker can't take a loss, but it's no
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by bdonlan 9y ago
Isn't it still possible to make a low-audio-quality call over the LTE _network_ (i.e. showing LTE when you make a call) due to negotiating down to older codecs if one of the other elements of the connection doesn't support higher-
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by bdonlan 9y ago
The bank may be able to demonstrate that the vulnerability was not exploited by, e.g., showing that the order preview page was first loaded with the same parameters, or showing a same domain referer.

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