derobert

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by derobert 15y ago
Well, or possibly not if the routers were made outside the US, then first sale may not apply at all (e.g., the 9th Circuit in Costco Wholesale Corporation v. Omega, S.A.). See also the EFF's blog at https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/01/ef
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by derobert 15y ago
Ummm, that already exists. That's how XHTML (delivered as XML) works. Make a syntax error in the page? Browser gives up, displays an error. It didn't catch on. The various HTML strict modes turn off "quirks" mode as well.
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by derobert 15y ago
The BBC ( http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7071611.stm ) tells me there are 17 million families in the UK. 99*17 million = 1.7B. So, if Apple wants AppleTV adoption in the UK, it'd be cheaper for them to just mail every household in the UK a free
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by derobert 15y ago
It'd be easy to provide a server, sure, but the problem is maintaining it. It is much easier to maintain stuff that you control 100% because once you've given it to someone else to put on their network: 1) You have to get remote access to
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by derobert 15y ago
You need a very low false positive rate for something to be useful in screening for unlikely events. We can't compute the false-positive rate here, though, because we don't know how many people the dogs "scanned"—only how many positives t
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by derobert 15y ago
Where exactly do you think data 'in the cloud' is actually stored? Given, this may well require fewer hard drives (due to better capacity utilization), but still requires hard drives.
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by derobert 15y ago
Amendments 1–10 and 27 were products of the same Philadelphia Convention that produced the US Constitution, and were proposed along with it. You could try Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Bill_of_Rights#Ph...
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by derobert 15y ago
You may want to lower your monitor's backlight level (if LCD) or brightness/contrast (if CRT).
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by derobert 15y ago
$ iostat -kx sda sdb sdc sdd Linux 3.1.0-1-amd64 (Zia) 12/19/2011 _x86_64_ (8 CPU) avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle 0.93 0.02 0.72 0.25 0.00 98.08
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by derobert 15y ago
Depends on how you define robot—do my Roombas count? Does my bread machine? If they do, I wonder, do most of us already?
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by derobert 15y ago
It'd need to be mirrored and striped over a lot of strangers, as otherwise a restore would be painful, as you'd be bottlenecked by the minimal uplink speed of the average residential Internet connection. That plus encryption probably solves
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by derobert 15y ago
I'm pretty sure that said hypothetical impact can't exist. The object either has far too little energy to significantly change its orbit, or alternatively has enough energy but there is nothing moon-like left after that collision. The moon
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by derobert 15y ago
This isn't new to ICS. "pm disable «packagename»" works on Gingerbread, at least.
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by derobert 15y ago
Two things: First, GPS satellites are in orbit ~20,000 km altitude, so this rocket is nowhere near too high. The beamwidth is pretty wide (it covers the entire half of the Earth, after all). Some quick research shows that below 3–4000km, th
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by derobert 15y ago
If your active-cooled drives are getting that hot, then something is very wrong with either your ambient room temperature (is it 40°C?) or with your active cooling. Active cooling in a reasonable-temperature room keeps even 15K drives well
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by derobert 15y ago
If you're going to go the iterations route, instead of rolling your own, use PBKDF-2 which is documented in RFC-2898 and RFC-6070.
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by derobert 15y ago
Merge sort w/o using insert (and probably with some bugs...): tmp = VA.length merge = (start1, start2, end2) -> out = start1 end1 = start2 - 1 for x in [tmp+out .. tmp+end2] if start1 <= end1
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by derobert 15y ago
You might be able to parse /proc/net/tcp yourself faster, especially for just counting by state.
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by derobert 15y ago
You're missing the key point of arbitrage: its risk-free. Say you borrow $100k at 0% for 1 year. You then buy (at $1734/oz) ~57oz of gold. Next year, you plan to sell it and pay off your $100k. But you've taken a risk. If gold is only $1500
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by derobert 15y ago
Its done on purpose. For example, high-gain communications antennas need to remain pointed at Earth, else they don't do much good.
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by derobert 15y ago
Well, it doesn't cost exactly zero, as there are costs to handling the paperwork, etc. And if you look at economy-wide costs, it distorts economic decision-making, which definitely has costs. But what the OP is referring to as "cost" would
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by derobert 15y ago
xrandr gives useful information on some cards. You can also try "nvidia-settings -q all" on nVidia boards (or try setting DynamicTwinView to false, see the nVidia docs). As for the ambient lighting, I don't think it will once you use black
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by derobert 15y ago
See also a previous post, "Alternatives to GoDaddy" at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2753471
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by derobert 15y ago
Modern "electronic" fluorescent ballasts don't flicker, at least when not broken. (They use a frequency that is high enough that the phosphors' glow hasn't stopped before the cycle is over). The old "magnetic" ones did, but those really oug
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by derobert 15y ago
You could also use a photodetector placed over the TV's power light, and I bet you could even input that to a PC with very minimal hardware, over a serial port or microphone jack. Cost would be very low, even if you have to buy USB<-&#6
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by derobert 15y ago
It's quite possible to produce a nuclear reaction with lasers. You just need some very serious lasers, for example http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Ignition_Facility
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by derobert 15y ago
California is also the most populous state in the US. Looking at one figure without the other is rather silly. Per capita, California does not bring in the highest amount of revenue of any state. In 2008 (the latest year I could quickly fin
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by derobert 15y ago
Pirating a movie doesn't get the movie from the movie company, for free or otherwise. Instead, the pirate gets it from a friend, random people voluntarily in a bittorrent swarm, etc. Analogies to physics goods are silly because physical go
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by derobert 15y ago
Dual-band, double-width-channel 11n might be able to do that speed. But even if not, the gigabit wired ports ought to be able to.
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by derobert 15y ago
Around the same latency as I see on FiOS. Which residential fiber products have huge latency?

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