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by cgranade 17y ago
Wouldn't help in this case, though, if there's a separate backup maintained by Win7.
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by cgranade 17y ago
And we could get into swap, etc. No, it's not airtight, and I know that. I'll just say that the archival feature goes beyond this level of leakage. Whereas most, if not all, of what you mention is at least contained in a single partition an
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by cgranade 17y ago
Of course it is, but by storing the backup versions on a hidden partition as implied by the article, Win7 is clearly violating what the user intended to be the storage policy for the file. Had they instead stored backups on the same partiti
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by cgranade 17y ago
I would expect it to archive the ciphertext? Honestly, it sounds like TrueCrypt should warn Win7 users about the feature and maybe even hook into it if possible.
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by cgranade 17y ago
Good question. Where did Carol the cheater and Eve the eavesdropper get to?
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by cgranade 17y ago
At the risk of encouraging Yet Another Warning, would displaying a notice after changing passwords that sites are still authorized be a solution? I'd say that it should have links to more info and to the Connections page, but I despair of u
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by cgranade 17y ago
Your claim that somehow marriage is against "men's evolutionary nature" is a pretty strong one. Certainly, widespread attempts at reproduction (screwing everything that moves) is one strategy, but it's not at all clear to me that such a str
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by cgranade 18y ago
Not just on this site. io9.com has even opened up a "Spring Mating Season" category. Facebook and FriendFeed are covered in sex-related stories. Nothing wrong with that, really.
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by cgranade 18y ago
To what confidence interval? The article is interesting, but light on the statistics. Since everything is nicely binned up into "satisfied with money" and "not satisfied," you could easily do a hypothesis test to reject that the two categor
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by cgranade 18y ago
Of course it'd take more than $20 billion over the span of our lifetimes. I meant that within the context of the Iraq War spending, diverting even a few of those 600 billions of dollars could have made a very positive impact and would have
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by cgranade 18y ago
Not science? Better tell the computer scientists and the computational physicists... Science is, at its most basic, our attempt to understand the world. As such, science employs many different tools and approaches, including numerical model
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by cgranade 18y ago
Given how much we spend on entertainment and other luxuries, is it really fair to say call spending money on what is likely essential to the preservation of our species "literally stealing food and medicine from people's mouths?" Hell, give
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by cgranade 18y ago
Well put. Looking at it slightly differently, what are the potential consequences of inaction, and what are the costs of action? Besides global warming itself, there are other consequences of inaction with respect to energy production issue
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by cgranade 18y ago
It is sad to see someone whose business so heavily relies upon understanding copyright laws, licenses and derivative works fail to understand in such a fundamental way. The claim that "the result is what matters" is ludicrous, and should be
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by cgranade 18y ago
No... there's also paravirtualization. If a hypervisor is a part of the expected system environment from day one, then you can virtualize on the cheap, as Xen does for domU guests on hosts without virtualization-on-chip.
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by cgranade 18y ago
On a similar vein, Gobby ( http://gobby.0x539.de/ ) allows for real-time collaboration on code, and IIRC will syntax highlight anything supported by the GtkSourceView widget. The downside is that Gobby is an installable application, and nee
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by cgranade 18y ago
IANAL, but I think that there is a bit of an exception in the legal doctrine of promissory estoppel ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estoppel#Promissory_estoppel ), which says that one cannot withdraw a promise to another party that they have
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by cgranade 18y ago
This is really quite sick. By retreating on this issue Amazon makes it just that much harder for a reasonable interpretation of "derivative work" to hold, especially for any products that haven't even been invented yet.
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by cgranade 18y ago
Besides, if you wanted the definition of a word, you install Ubiquity, hit Cntl+Space and type "def". It's fast, easy and free of annoying pop-ups!
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by cgranade 18y ago
No. There's a correlation/causation problem to this argument. Are two-career marriages unstable because of something inherent about marrying someone else with a career, or is it that there is some other correlative factor? Noer's response
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by cgranade 18y ago
Really, we should be embarrassed as a society that those who openly espouse the subjugation of women to be no more than child-raisers are not immediately laughed out of town. Instead, we give these misogynists a podium from which to preac
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by cgranade 18y ago
From the article: Police and others say it could stop terrorists from coordinating during an attack, prevent suspects from erasing evidence on wireless devices, simplify arrests and keep inmates from using contraband phones. Now how i
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by cgranade 18y ago
It sounds to me as if they did, and as if the badware blacklist implementation was working fine, but was given bad data. Given the rapid proliferation of new badware, it seems reasonable to bulkload blacklist updates to an existing and test
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by cgranade 18y ago
I have to second simulated annealing if only because it gets too ignored normally. It's a wonderful technique for attacking the optimization of intractable problems, and one that belongs in any good mental toolkit for optimization.
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by cgranade 18y ago
The Deutsch-Jozsa Algorithm, while not immediately "practical" in the sense that it solved some real-world problem that had been vexing computer scientists, was instrumental in showing conclusively that quantum computers could be asymptotic
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by cgranade 18y ago
Make sure that some things can only be done in the wiki, forcing people to do it. Don't put people's e-mails in the wiki, force them to do so themself. I second this point. Essentially, you don't want to be in the position of doing for yo
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by cgranade 18y ago
Sure, there's no text yet, but I have high hopes. Given that one of the aims of Python 3 was to remove more confusing and unnecessary features in lieu of better-designed alternatives, teaching Python 3 from the start seems like a really goo
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by cgranade 18y ago
Sadly, it's kind of hard for me to come up with good hacker movies, but I can at least try to make a recommendation of interest to (most) hackers: Paprika. It's an anime film (by the same team that brought us Perfect Blue and Millennium Act
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by cgranade 18y ago
OK, you must work somewhere sufficiently awesome if pictures of Tigh come up on Tie Day.
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by cgranade 18y ago
Well, that's OOXML. MS chose to employ the pure content model, so that text nodes and elements cannot be mixed as children of a root element. That leads to monstrosities like this (I forgot the actual element names, so I made them up):

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