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by bdonlan 14y ago
Even if the pilots didn't, ATC would (and the plane's own GPS unit's internal checks might notice as well) - and then it's simple enough to disable GPS and use VOR navigation (or radar vectors, in a pinch).
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by bdonlan 14y ago
Would it be feasible to store snapshots of the metadata periodically as well, so you only have to replay mutations performed after the last snapshot in an emergency?
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by bdonlan 14y ago
No crash on IE 9.0.8112.16421, update version 9.0.7, windows 7 64-bit.
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by bdonlan 14y ago
Of course, it's also possible this professor got the patent to ensure that nobody could use this technique. Unfortunately, many courses already are :/
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by bdonlan 14y ago
Desktop applications aren't really ready to take advantage of that many cores yet - parallelism is hard, and the vast majority of desktop users probably can't keep even two cores saturated most of the time. There's also thermal dissipation
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by bdonlan 14y ago
Not just technically. That was a _very_ successful test of their launch abort system and engine diagnostics. And of their ground crew for diagnosing and fixing it so quickly :)
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by bdonlan 14y ago
It is. Chlorine is what is used for disinfecting the water supply.
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by bdonlan 14y ago
> They decide what they value more: equity in your company or making you look silly for the sake of the show. And they can always just take both.
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by bdonlan 14y ago
The credit card company doesn't lose money. They charge a settlement fee to the government, which more than covers the cost of the rewards program. So only the government (ie, the taxpayers) lose out here.
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by bdonlan 14y ago
It's just modular math. The output is fizz if the output is orthogonal to 0 mod 3, and buzz if it is orthogonal to 0 mod 5. It's fizzbuzz when it's 0 mod 15. Now, since 15 is divisible by 3, it's easy to see that x = 0 mod 3 iff x = {0, 3,
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by bdonlan 14y ago
There's always the futures market.
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by bdonlan 14y ago
It's easier to just collect every packet that passes through your antenna and batch-process it later than to sanitize it in real-time - there's handy off-the-shelf software to do the former.
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by bdonlan 14y ago
> Why the heck did MS pay so much for it? Skype has a huge userbase. They can always migrate that userbase to a different technology later if they think it's worth it.
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by bdonlan 14y ago
> The thing that's obviously not going to happen is sudo apt-get install steam -- at least, not from the official repositories. This is completely possible. You can write a stub package that just automates the process of downloading and
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by bdonlan 14y ago
https://developers.google.com/drive/get_started > Warning: Apps will not have any API access to files unless the app has been installed in Chrome Web Store. To test an app during development, you must first create a listing and instal
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by bdonlan 14y ago
No license file? It's difficult to use software like this in many organizations if the licensing situation isn't clear...
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by bdonlan 15y ago
There is a difference between those two situations. In the many-worlds-ish interpretation, the Earth _never_ goes to either 0 or 100%. Instead, once the moment of reckoning passes, observations of earth return _both_ 'destroyed' and 'non-de
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by bdonlan 15y ago
It really depends on your interpretation. The math just gives you a continuum of possibilities, each with an amplitude. If you choose to interpret this continuum as being actually real and applying to the entire universe, you don't need spo
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by bdonlan 15y ago
You can restrict access to an extent with IAM - unfortunately EC2 doesn't have fine-grained resources to apply policies to yet :/
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by bdonlan 15y ago
The online retailer pays shipping companies, and those shipping companies do indeed have a nexus in the state and pay various taxes as appropriate. One could argue that asking the retailer to pay as well is a form of double-dipping.
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by bdonlan 15y ago
Most likely it was just doing an unindexed search over the whole thing. This works, but requires a significant amount of resources - both CPU time and IOPS - for people with large amounts of email. It's also slow unless you have only a smal
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by bdonlan 15y ago
Got a link to that footage?
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by bdonlan 15y ago
He did provide the tools and instructions, to be fair. I'm not sure if that counts as 'something meaningful', but it's something more than just suggesting, anyway.
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by bdonlan 15y ago
> The second is that they can claim to have introduced a candidate to you and can try to sue. Often a company will just roll over especially if it turns out to be a good candidate. If they have no recruitment contract, how does this hol
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by bdonlan 15y ago
If they _could_ track via tor, I highly doubt they'd tip their hand in such an obvious way. They'd use their tor-tracking abilities to get a suspect, then use this prior knowledge to assist with ordinary evidence-gathering. Or even not use
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by bdonlan 15y ago
Not entirely sure, but I believe this represents someone willing to sell 1 BTC for $1,337,000,000,000.00, where all sell orders in the order book add up to 272981 BTC and USD$1,405,085,033,491
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by bdonlan 15y ago
If all of those bitcoins were liquidated at once, that would probably depress the market significantly.
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by bdonlan 15y ago
Could be that they just can't get enough IPv4 addresses to implement it anymore (at least without sacrificing windows XP compatibility :/)
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by bdonlan 15y ago
Boiling water doesn't give you electricity. A temperature gradient gives you electricity. Having a hot, steamy planet won't help you if the air is just as hot as the water.
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by bdonlan 15y ago
When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a distributed decision problem... But seriously, this would not scale. Using a central block chain as you suggest means that every node in the system receives a copy of every email. It's

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