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by chithanh 8y ago
I think that is more of a namespace collision than anything else. Even in mathematics, there are different definitions of "theory". One is that a theory is a body of knowledge, like set theory or automata theory. This is where I w
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by chithanh 8y ago
Not quite. Heliocentrism was introduced around 270 BC by a Greek astronomer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heliocentrism The oldest estimates for the Antikythera Mechanism are 205 BC. https://en.wikipedia.or
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ESSO - Standard Oil (well that wasn't voluntary, but still)
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Fortunately or unfortunately, neither cows nor whales are close enough. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interspecific_pregnancy#Causes...
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>> Teachers are also subject matter experts in the material being graded. > Some are. Maybe even most. But definitely not a universally true statement, particularly in areas where teacher pay is dramatically out of line with indust
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In the US, people need not resort to smuggling. Rather, they consume drugs intended for non-human animals. https://mashable.com/2017/08/06/fish-antibiotics-america-hea...
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> Grad students / postdocs / human lab rats aren't scum, the incentives just aren't in place to promote good behavior The question is, would additional incentives promote good behavior or just lead to more measurement
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> Better rewards for uncovering bad science keeps it from devolving into a political contest. No. If you increase rewards for uncovering bad science, it will just lead to false accusations. > If you're not seeing the right incent
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by chithanh 8y ago
It is "new" in the sense that it has not been described before. Much like a mathematical theorem, which of course has been true all the time since someone formulated the axioms, but when someone proves it for the first time it is
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by chithanh 8y ago
> I've yet to see any third party lawyer make a claim otherwise. You still don't get it. There is no disagreement in matters of law. Eric Lundgren even pleaded guilty to counterfeiting Dell restore discs. The only question that
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by chithanh 8y ago
I have followed this case. I know Microsoft's position and have read their public statements. I know that Microsoft told egregious untruths to the courts about the value of the recovery CDs. They claimed with a straight face that the v
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by chithanh 8y ago
> Please stop parroting that non-sense. Please stop the Microsoft apologism. It is not nonsense. Microsoft testified against the man in court. They wanted him to go to prison. And yes, what they did is lie to the court in order to achiev
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> Specific examples? Microsoft should come clean, admit their wrongdoings and recant doing from the following unethical practices: 1. Bullying the competition with software patents 2. Hijacking the ISO standardization process when they p
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by chithanh 8y ago
In what way is what Apple did to Henrik Huseby worse than than what Microsoft did to Eric Lundgren? I mean, Apple sued a business and wanted property confiscated. But Microsoft actually had someone sent to prison. Louis Rossmann who became
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by chithanh 8y ago
Someone on reddit made a screenshot https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/8xbqlv/arm_launches_... https://imgur.com/a/U2XGVee
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Or if you are a bank deciding whether or not to approve a credit line for Nokia...
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by chithanh 9y ago
> Signal is indeed an open protocol. The Signal protocol is public, but not open. It is a proprietary protocol which is controlled entirely by the company behind Signal.
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by chithanh 10y ago
No official statement yet, but I think they will support virtualization. There hasn't been an AMD CPU in ages without AMD-Vi/IOMMU. But lack of ECC support is a problem if you want to use virtualization for security, as Rowhammer
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Question is, is buying those historical AMD CPUs which support ECC a good idea? So far, none of the modern ones are confirmed to support ECC.
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More resilient maybe, but not Rowhammer-proof: https://arstechnica.com/security/2016/03/once-thought-safe-d...
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AMD does not support ECC on consumer platforms after AM3+. Socket FM1 through FM2+ are all incapable of supporting ECC. For socket AM1 there are reports that it may be ECC capable, however no actual products exist that implement this suppor
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by chithanh 11y ago
Exfiltration of logged keystrokes and other data is possible through introducing network packet jitter by the ME. This is virtually undetectable. https://events.ccc.de/congress/2013/Fahrplan/events/5380.h