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751.
by cbr 13y ago
Vehicle sensing systems mean the basic assumption of light timing no longer holds: when you get to the light can affect how long you have to wait.
752.
by cbr 13y ago
link?
753.
by cbr 13y ago
The important thing isn't the crossing, it's not needing to be accompanied by an icebreaker. The oil tanker SS Manhattan [1] made the trip in 1969, but unassisted crossing makes this economically competitive. [1] http:/&#x2
754.
by cbr 13y ago
Partly. On a modern system with SNI the hostname is sent in the clear. This removes the requirement for a dedicated IP per domain with SSL for those users, but until SNI everywhere you still need one.
755.
by cbr 13y ago
The problem with starting an airline is that the pilot's union has the leverage to capture all profits: http://philip.greenspun.com/flying/unions-and-airlines The key issue is that you don't just need to be
756.
by cbr 13y ago
For this to be secure (one-time-pad) you can't reuse the corpus. That's a big enough pain that I doubt people will actually do it. Which means you can start decoding their tweets once you collect enough.
757.
by cbr 13y ago
These latency numbers are around the border of minimum perceptible visual latency, which is somewhere around 100ms ( http://stackoverflow.com/a/2547903/547213 ) A difference between between 55ms and 123ms is enough
758.
by cbr 13y ago
value of a bitcoin has and will [double] again If this were certain it would have already happened.
759.
by cbr 13y ago
Setting aside the validity of this comparison, keep in mind that Go is coming out of Google, a place where running on 1000 cores is dinky. (Note: I work for Google, but on open-source server software.)
760.
by cbr 13y ago
"Last year, the Global Financial Markets Association, a lobby group for banks, commissioned a study on whether trading houses are “too-big-to-fail.” Hoping it might convince officials to regulate these companies like banks, GFMA abando
761.
by cbr 13y ago
Security is about tradeoffs. How bad would it be if someone else got this information? How helpful is it to me to give it to this third party? Wireless passwords are a huge pain: visit someone's house, ask them for their password, a
762.
by cbr 13y ago
This fails if the user forgets their password.
763.
by cbr 13y ago
Thanks! I understand now. Convinced.
764.
by cbr 13y ago
These are rare events, so the chance of something happening to someone in your family of N is close to N times the chance of it happening to you.
765.
by cbr 13y ago
The youtube link should be: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYBPotROKC8
766.
by cbr 13y ago
If I want to know the chances of someone breaking into my apartment I want the data per-apartment. If I want to know the same for cars I want the data per-car. If I want to know my chance of getting shot I want the data per-person. Overa
767.
by cbr 13y ago
When you use the auto-bidder you're not revealing any more information than if you increment bids by hand. Are you saying I could buy things on ebay at lower prices by manually entering bids, implementing the auto-bidder algorithm by
768.
by cbr 13y ago
in a sufficiently compact language crosswords are impossible as well, but now because puzzles would be ambiguous: too many words that fit This ignores the clues, which restrict which words are acceptable in a space. While
769.
by cbr 13y ago
Why is that not a good strategy? It has consistently worked for me.
770.
by cbr 13y ago
So now every single decision that was taken with help from the NSA (SELinux, TLS, elliptic curves, etc) needs unpicking and running by a cryptographer who isn't a shill. Cryptographers have already been looking ve
771.
by cbr 13y ago
Why do you say "passive adversary"? I wouldn't call an MITM with a fake cert "passive".
772.
by cbr 13y ago
if we were to design something that stands upright (such as a building) we would rarely use a single column. We kind of do that: elevator cores.
773.
by cbr 13y ago
Samsung pushing them hard to release 4.3 might let us see some progress.
774.
by cbr 13y ago
The explanation that matters is the one offered to people when they're considering the ebook purchase. I bet Amazon will get that one right.
775.
by cbr 13y ago
I buy my books hardcover now: more cash for the author. Or you could buy what's cheapest and send the difference directly to the author. (This doesn't make sense to do because there's too much friction. One way to
776.
by cbr 13y ago
"This project was inspired by pwnall's chromeview, but it shares no common code."
777.
by cbr 13y ago
Looking at www.geeksphone.com I don't see any phones available for purchase.
778.
by cbr 13y ago
Companies do not, just for practice, interview people they have no intention of hiring.
779.
by cbr 13y ago
less than Apple and Google charge What your parent wants to do, "build an app to use on my own phone", is free on Android.
780.
by cbr 13y ago
The left-to-right evaluation order of the iterables is guaranteed. http://docs.python.org/2/library/functions.html#zip

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