darkpuma

31 ms·

271.
by darkpuma 7y ago
No way, 100Mbps is fast today for most people. This 8K youtube video is 5m38s long and 850MiB large: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1La4QzGeaaQ Do the math on that and you need 21Mbps to stream that video without buffer
272.
by darkpuma 7y ago
That analysis assumes that supply for academic opportunity is elastic. Is that a sound assumption? Because otherwise, it's not fair to say you've lost nothing when a college graduate leaves your country. Edit: Response to delet
273.
by darkpuma 7y ago
Hypothetically if they had the technology to create a paperback book that self-destructs when anybody but you opens it, would that business model be illegal? As far as I know, SCOTUS said companies can't use the legal system to prev
274.
by darkpuma 7y ago
The term wiretap is a term of art and as such is bound to be used imprecisely by people who aren't experts in that particular domain. Getting upset over somebody saying 'wiretap' instead of 'pen register' really e
275.
by darkpuma 7y ago
It's still trivial AFAIK (I last did it one or two years ago) if you have an old kindle device, and can therefore convince Amazon to send you the poorly encrypted files meant for old kindles. I use a "Kindle Keyboard" e.g.
276.
by darkpuma 7y ago
DRM on old model kindles is trivial to crack, the key is apparently derived from your kindle's serial number. For this reason, I transferred all of my kindle ebooks to my oldest kindle, and was then able to strip DRM from the entire
277.
by darkpuma 7y ago
> "Could a bookseller add a license to a physical book, and suddenly you can't sell it or lend it out? " Probably. I mean, they're already selling physical items laden with DRM (DVD/bluray), presumably in tho
278.
by darkpuma 7y ago
That's a difference in priority between particulate emissions and CO2 emissions, right? With one favoring a relative reduction in soot and the other favoring a relative reduction in CO2. That's my understanding anyway, I&#x27
279.
by darkpuma 7y ago
The word "wiretap" has a specific obsolete meaning. The state of telephony moved on and so did the state of "wiretapping", rendering the term itself an anachronism. Incidentally "pen register", e.g. recor
280.
by darkpuma 7y ago
Even knowledge of the existence of such a system could be used to bully people. If the victim knows that such a system is in place, then the bully can claim to possess imagery from the system. The system's public existence bolsters
281.
by darkpuma 7y ago
Even when you're morally and legally in the right, sometimes people get harassed anyway. Lots of whistle-blowers have had their lives turned upside-down for doing the right thing. Too few people understand that privacy protects the i
282.
by darkpuma 7y ago
I'm glad I got bullied instead of going to a school like that.
283.
by darkpuma 7y ago
With that kind of hardware, is hardware decoding and encoding of media a possibility? A DLNA server with hardware transcoding is something I've been thinking about recently.
284.
by darkpuma 7y ago
I am sure a fascist can hide in plain sight. But my currently unanswered question is how can you measure that? Is there any objective data here, or are we talking about our subjective perceptions of society?
285.
by darkpuma 7y ago
> "Because the question isn't what the art means!" Of course it is. You've got a bunch of hysterical people saying the mural is in support of slavery and genocide. How can you say that the meaning of the art isn
286.
by darkpuma 7y ago
On the bright side, the children have had a front row seat to an important lesson about society. But I wonder how many were truly paying attention. Almost 15 years ago I saw a similar situation unfold in Dover PA. I know at least some of
287.
by darkpuma 7y ago
How could you say it doesn't matter if the artist opposes or supports slavery?
288.
by darkpuma 7y ago
In America nutella is an obscure condiment generally considered too desserty to be useful for much, sort of like "marshmellow spread". Yet the average European gets approximately 80-90% of their yearly caloric intake from Nutell
289.
by darkpuma 7y ago
The same thing has ruined potato chips. All the good chip brands in this country now have limited regional distribution at best. The tyranny of Frito-Lay has totally ruined the chip industry.
290.
by darkpuma 7y ago
Of course it's in France; the Norman invasion was some lads from Normandy . William was born and died in Normandy. Perhaps the French could gift a statue of William to the UK; they could put it next to the statue of George Washingt
291.
by darkpuma 7y ago
> "But do you see public art glorifying the Normans?" Of course, why shouldn't there be? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_of_William_the_Conquero...
292.
by darkpuma 7y ago
Are we talking a lot in relative terms or absolute terms? How many is a lot and how did we get these estimations?
293.
by darkpuma 7y ago
I wonder who the bulk of that $600k will go to (certainly not the laborers!) and what their relationship is to the people who decided to spend that much.
294.
by darkpuma 7y ago
> "If none of the Unix shells are remotely compliant with the "Unix Philosophy", then what is the "Unix Philosophy" other than inaccurate after the fact rationalization and bullshit?" Precisely that! It&
295.
by darkpuma 7y ago
America and Russia have both put proper fission reactors into space too.
296.
by darkpuma 7y ago
> "Meanwhile, telling users who to blame does nothing for them. They don’t care. To them, the best entity to blame is the distribution, that’s pretty much their job." I think there is value in telling users to vent their frus
297.
by darkpuma 7y ago
I'm in love with this analogy. Too many modern GUI applications are the software equivalents of 'unitasker' kitchen gadgets. However I must note that not all GUI applications have this problem; a few exceptional examples st
298.
by darkpuma 7y ago
Which should drive home the point that "everything is a file" does not accurately describe the reality of the Unix "philosophy".
299.
by darkpuma 7y ago
Wayland developers, who are not GPU reverse-engineers.
300.
by darkpuma 7y ago
This is one of those cases where danger is proportional to power.

More ›