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Meet the Man Building Elon Musk's 760MPH Hyperloop: Interview with Dirk Ahlborn(reason.com)
2 points by bhauer 12y ago|1 comments
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by bhauer 12y ago
NASA isn't investing in SpaceX, though, right? They're just paying SpaceX for services rendered.
903.
by bhauer 12y ago
Ha, indeed! I had a 20 MB Hard Card in my 12 MHz 286. Both those numbers are but a quaint memory.
904.
by bhauer 12y ago
Don't forget a very good reason gTLDs are a scam: it's a land-grab by the enormously wealthy—those who can afford the opening bid of $185,000—that shuts out the plebes like you and I.
905.
by bhauer 12y ago
And you can clean that stuff up with the disk cleanup app. You don't need to retain those old install files forever.
906.
by bhauer 12y ago
> especially once chrome gets it's grubby hands all over my RAM Have you considered switching to Firefox, which is a bit more conservative with memory usage? :)
907.
by bhauer 12y ago
> "there are some of them ... that puts them off or they have doubts." On the other hand, Ziring says, the Snowden leaks have sparked other students' interest. "[They say], 'I actually know some of what you do n
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DEA agent arrested for stealing Silk Road Bitcoins(dailydot.com)
1 points by bhauer 12y ago|0 comments
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by bhauer 12y ago
Thank you for pointing that out. I suspect many of us in this thread are referring simply to the single parameter to BCrypt.gensalt as the "work factor" or "number of rounds" interchangeably. And you're right, the
910.
by bhauer 12y ago
I hate to suggest that your observation is wrong, but 16 rounds should take orders of magnitude more time than 1ms. 16 rounds using Mindrot's Java implementation of BCrypt on my admittedly old 2009-vintage i7 consumes 6.3 seconds to h
911.
by bhauer 12y ago
And it's a quote from a year and a half ago.
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by bhauer 12y ago
I too will give Spartan a chance, and in likelihood will use it predominantly on my tablets and laptop (since I use IE 11 in those contexts today). On the desktop, I presently remain a Mozilla partisan, sticking with Firefox through thick a
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by bhauer 12y ago
Lumia 930 here and I'd vote for reverting to the desktop site. The new front-page zoom is so pronounced that only seven items are displayed simultaneously (previously around 20 to 25). It is obviously easier to click on article links,
914.
by bhauer 12y ago
Amusing. It does, however, kick over to a proper layout when the width is narrower. I had originally read this article on my Windows Phone and it rendered just fine. It also renders fine in desktop IE if you make the window narrow.
915.
by bhauer 12y ago
Which ironically is the reason I most often hear from Gmail advocates/apologists for why they advocate Gmail over running your own e-mail server. I don't disagree. E-mail is a mess. Still, on the whole, for any person or organ
916.
by bhauer 12y ago
> If it were not for the huge cost everybody could have its own gTLD. We could end up being surprised that a given company still has the .com suffix. "It's a small one, they don't have money", we'll think. Prec
917.
by bhauer 12y ago
Aha! Good point! Interesting nevertheless, but ultimately not more than a slight reveal of how things look on the inside.
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by bhauer 12y ago
At this point, I don't have a whole lot to add. But I wanted to just reply to say it was a delight conversing this with you. Based on dragonwriter's note separately in this thread, I think I'll at least defer any further wo
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by bhauer 12y ago
How in the world did you only get 8 points for that? I've upvoted yours. That seems almost as bad as the incident reported in this thread.
920.
by bhauer 12y ago
Be that as it may, I am not sure what to do at this point. Had I controlled the Internet at large last year, I would have shut down the gTLD concept straight away as an unfair practice favoring well-healed corporations allowing them to ach
921.
by bhauer 12y ago
Funny. News to me! It's not going to stop me from pronouncing the search engine name as "goo-glee" since it still appears in my mind as a misspelling of googol.
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by bhauer 12y ago
Exactly. And to clarify, I very well may have missed something in the gTLD process that expressly requires—or attempted to require—the leasing of subdomains to the public. Although I was familiar enough with gTLDs to decide I was opposed t
923.
by bhauer 12y ago
I am no fan of the search engine company named after a misspelling of a very large number. But nevertheless, in reading this article I immediately felt that I had missed something fundamental in my understanding of gTLDs: I had never pre
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by bhauer 12y ago
Good to know. Besides, I should wait to see what specifically shows up in the package before worrying too unnecessarily.
925.
by bhauer 12y ago
I would agree that some regulation is fine. I would have preferred specifically-crafted legislation for the modern Internet, and not application of a "forbeared" Title II of the Communications Act of 1934. And I too think the la
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by bhauer 12y ago
Option #1 sounds like what we have today, which for all of the spin does not seem to be that bad. I don't buy Netflix's stance of no culpability in network peering deals gone awry. My ISP (AT&T) blocked outbound port 25 as a
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by bhauer 12y ago
Hardware companies are involved in making the Internet work.
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by bhauer 12y ago
While I feel it's clear that you are on the opposite side of this discussion from myself, I nevertheless would like to pose the following to you. Proponents of this FCC Title II reclassification have argued that this action will not cu
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by bhauer 12y ago
The chief question I have is whether or not a Lenovo PC sold by the Microsoft Store as a Signature Edition (e.g., [1]) would contain this or anything similar. My suspicion is that it would not. If anyone is near a Microsoft Store, and can
930.
by bhauer 12y ago
Or, and this is going way out on a limb, maybe a Windows Phone since the GP is an Exchange user?

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