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by cheeseprocedure 14y ago
Sorry, I don't understand the underlying principles enough to answer that question. How would journalling interfere with the behaviour of a tool like Eraser? (I do know that SSDs change the nature of the problem dramatically, as their inter
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by cheeseprocedure 14y ago
This application fits your needs on the Windows platform: "Eraser is an advanced security tool for Windows which allows you to completely remove sensitive data from your hard drive by overwriting it several times with carefully selected pat
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by cheeseprocedure 14y ago
I wish I was blessed with your mental filters for blocking out distractions. Open office plans drive me absolutely bonkers.
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by cheeseprocedure 14y ago
Imagine a "Half-Life" film composed of one continuous shot from the first-person perspective.
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by cheeseprocedure 14y ago
I've been unable to reproduce this on systems equipped with the controller in question. I'd love to see "ethtool -e ethX" output for a NIC confirmed to be vulnerable. /edit Ah, I spoke to soon; the author has updated his page here with diff
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by cheeseprocedure 14y ago
> (Separately, OS X's stub resolver has some neat tricks. e.g., using /etc/resolver/<domain_name> to route DNS requests for a particular domain to a specific name server.) I was about to give up and install dnsmasq locally to ge
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by cheeseprocedure 14y ago
HTTP headers agree: $ curl -I http://whytheluckystiff.net HTTP/1.1 200 OK Server: GitHub.com Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2013 04:37:51 GMT Content-Type: text/html Content-Length: 109 Last-Modified: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 00:31:03 GMT Conn
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by cheeseprocedure 14y ago
> Our food boom has helped create the population boom. Impoverished populations tend to have a high birthrate, which frequently begets more poverty. I'd like to think we can work to reduce overpopulation through reducing poverty (which
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by cheeseprocedure 14y ago
First, I completely agree that there are plenty of very complex pieces to the food security puzzle, and I hope I'm not painting GMOs as a magic bullet. > The problem is that in some parts of the world people are too poor to farm. GMO se
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by cheeseprocedure 14y ago
Apologies if I'm off base, but can you correct my logic? If GMOs[1] can enable the growth of more productive and nutritious food crops, it follows that they can enable more efficient agriculture. Lower inputs of resources (including time) a
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by cheeseprocedure 14y ago
I take it you didn't actually read his paper. "What you don’t have the right to do is to stand in the way of others who hope and strive for ways of doing things differently, and hopefully better. Farmers who understand the pressures of a
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by cheeseprocedure 14y ago
> Current techniques may be more risky, but generally speaking it should be hard for plants to produce a horrid mutation based on natural interbreeding mechanisms. What about the (widespread) practice of mutation breeding? [1] Blasting
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by cheeseprocedure 14y ago
The registration costs would need to be non-trivial to discourage abuse, which would harm legitimate small-scale innovators. Also, who decides (or validates) the "worth" of a patent? We would be replacing one regulatory nightmare with anoth
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by cheeseprocedure 14y ago
I'm not sure that comparison is in the same ballpark. (I'm also not supporting his stance.)
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by cheeseprocedure 14y ago
I had a chance to speak to one of the lead developers at Palantir a couple years back, and asked him about this apparent conflict of political ideals. His answer: by enabling agencies to properly apply the data they already have, Palantir's
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by cheeseprocedure 14y ago
I wonder if we'll be able to submit pull requests.
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by cheeseprocedure 14y ago
We[1] need to begin tearing down the stigma of mental illness before better care can really have an impact. [1] Canada/the US, at least; I'm not familiar enough with other cultures.
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by cheeseprocedure 14y ago
How about the millions of children who have been educated for 13+ years in the public school systems and go on to lead fulfilling adult lives?
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by cheeseprocedure 14y ago
FreeBSD has a simple and consistent upgrade path between major releases, excellent stability, excellent hardware support (on the server side, at least; that's where it matters to me personally), a magnificent packaging and ports system, exc
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by cheeseprocedure 14y ago
...Or, in the case of rootkits: > "Oh, this will never happen to me!" -everyone, long after they were hacked
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by cheeseprocedure 14y ago
> (100 bytes per TB are expected to go bad every year) That's unsettling. Source?
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by cheeseprocedure 14y ago
Er... it doesn't work reliably, and by definition, cannot work reliably. If market inefficiencies exist to be exploited, then someone is ultimately getting the short end of every stick.
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by cheeseprocedure 14y ago
On the subject of actual newsroom expenses: Pew Research Center for Excellence in Journalism has an interesting piece on the budgets of major cable news networks. [1] These charts (from [1] and [2]) are particularly interesting: http://www
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by cheeseprocedure 14y ago
It would be very interesting to see some data on the impact of government-funded blue-sky research (in other words, science that didn't have an obvious short-term commercial application). Intuitively, it seems like such spending would open
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by cheeseprocedure 14y ago
Wow. When was the last time Apple officially recommend another company's product as a workaround?
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Even worse, he had a relatively rare form of pancreatic cancer that is easier to treat. http://www.webmd.com/cancer/pancreatic-cancer/news/20110825/...
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by cheeseprocedure 14y ago
Be extremely cautious when using WD Green drives in a RAID configuration. They may be quiet/inexpensive, but they also don't ship with Time-Limited Error Recovery enabled ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-Limited_Error_Recovery ). This ma
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by cheeseprocedure 15y ago
Love the product shot covered in greasy fingerprints.