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by cnvogel 11y ago
Wow, that's a pretty bad illustration of leap smearing. I think a much nicer illustration would have been roughly like this (with obvious limitations caused by the ASCII spacing): Real: true time, showing the 61st second Comp
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by cnvogel 11y ago
One should make it clear that the quoted price on the Maxim product page is $0,76 @ 1000, so if you order 1000, you pay 76cent per chip. But you can easily find offers going down to about 50 cent. https://octopart.com/search
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by cnvogel 11y ago
Thanks for bringing up that to my attention, it's pretty funny! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXQ2lO3ieBA
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by cnvogel 11y ago
> 2 soldiers, 1 grenade, 1 coin, internet. You forgot the soda can. :-)
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by cnvogel 11y ago
> most of us have been in a position where we have > been forced to use a product that is inferior > or even completely broken I might have used equipment that was inferior, or been made to perform a procedure of
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by cnvogel 11y ago
For one thing, as far as bribes have been payed, I'd like to see this guy being charged to the full extent. Also there are charlatans selling magic stones or other nonsense to the mentally weak, and I think that humans susceptible to t
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by cnvogel 11y ago
I'm speculating here, but from my experience with Windows powered oscilloscopes: Windows is on the measurement device, it's not a networked or USB controlled peripheral with a documented network protocol connected to a standal
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by cnvogel 11y ago
You can download windows install files from Microsoft nowadays. There's a downloader that also includes functionality to burn a DVD image or create a bootable USB stick. http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8
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by cnvogel 11y ago
> he had so much spyware on his computer that it was easier > to just buy a new one than going through the hassle of > cleaning up his old one... I don't understand. Why not just reinstall the operating system from blank media
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by cnvogel 11y ago
I'm very happy with my Beyerdynamic DT770 which I own for many years, closed design, go around the ears. The furry padding is very soft, the faux-leather padding will isolate better. Many parts are exchangeable, built like a tank. Cost
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by cnvogel 11y ago
Well yes, but those could, potentially, be made to sound great if put into a housing that has been very carefully designed and produced. And also: Do you really think the drivers used in a Sennheiser HD 630VB (I just randomly picked this mo
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by cnvogel 11y ago
Usage of metal weights on its own doesn't really say anything about the quality. As an example: Computer mice have used weights for ages, just because those are awkward to use when they are too light. And no, I'm not a fan of this
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by cnvogel 11y ago
dd'ing to the target device, and then growing the fs to the full disk extent seems to be a splendid idea. Especially as Linux tends to replace quite a lot of code over the usual curse of updates... For a cluster system I had built a ne
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by cnvogel 11y ago
At least for Windows there's now a way to install the OS so that it only occupies one continuous large filesystem image with the compressed install files, and only stores the changes to this frozen filesystem images in the "tradit
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by cnvogel 11y ago
I've run a "arecord" on hw:1,0 (via pulseaudio, oh my....) to show that one of the devices (pcm0c) is currently capturing audio. Below is the "hardware status" as reported by alsa. On the pavucontrol UI application
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by cnvogel 11y ago
Personally, I tend to put the function arguments' names from the API documentation in comments if its kind of obscure or I guess that I'll forget if I need to revisit this piece of code. As in... texImage2D(100, 200, 300,
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by cnvogel 11y ago
[foxhedgehog, I seem not to be allowed to reply to your last comment (too deeply nested?) so I'll put it here] You said "Disseminating [information about actual harm] would be highly irresponsible." And my claim is that disse
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by cnvogel 11y ago
I don't think that the NSA really deals with plans about military operations. And also the original article mainly concerns itself with agents that had to leave hostile countries once their cover has been blown. But yes, certainly some
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by cnvogel 11y ago
In general surely that will be valuable information. But we currently have a high lack of confidence in the truthfulness of what secret agencies claim, and the only thing being constantly spread out to the media is fear mongering about how
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by cnvogel 11y ago
Also note the absence of even a single concrete example where actual harm for the security and safety of a western countrie's citizens was caused. One would assume, given all the propaganda, that it should be easy to document a dozen i
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by cnvogel 11y ago
I have three, upgraded from two. It's very useful when doing electronics layouting (one for schematic, one pcb routing, one full of toolbars). But I got the 3rd basically for free when a colleague upgraded, the quality of the toolbar m
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by cnvogel 11y ago
I have have a notebook with internal hybrid graphics and the max number of external monitors connected. Whenever the configuration changes the utilities installed along the actual drivers (Intel and Nvidia) begin to fight for who gets to co
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by cnvogel 11y ago
Also the update of the write pointer could be reordered to occur before storage of the actual data flushed to the buffer. e.g. buf[volatile_write_ptr] = c volatile_write_ptr++; might occur the other way 'round fo
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by cnvogel 11y ago
I assume that your serial port will run some kind of machine-to-machine protocol, and not just a serial console with user data (for which, frankly, I'll just ignore most errors). These serial prototols (like modbus, or the 10000s of ad
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by cnvogel 11y ago
Aphex Twin had hidden spectrogram images in some of his tracks in the past, unfortunately I think they are not well preserved by multiple steps of compression/reencoding to youtube videos. https://www.google.de/search?q
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by cnvogel 11y ago
> talking about ways you could actually achieve the claims of the product The thing is, you fundamentally cannot achieve the claims of the product, or rather: you can only fulfill the claim for an area of application which consists of
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by cnvogel 11y ago
I started doing serious FPGA work (VHDL development) the last months and finally get a little knowledgeable on how to properly architect a design of medium complexity so that it properly works at non trivial clock speeds. (after mainly doin
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by cnvogel 11y ago
You normally use such a scheme to pass data from the more critical to the less critical system. For example in nuclear power plants (that's where I know this scheme from) your low-safety systems can use data acquired by a highly safety
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by cnvogel 11y ago
Hence it is advisable to store the encryption key somewhere where erasure was properly accounted for during design, e.G. a TPM (trusted platform module).
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by cnvogel 11y ago
I don't think people weren't aware of the danger involved, eve in the 40s/50s. Especially as the experiments mentioned in the article were performed especially to get better data about the criticality state. If they had kn

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