derobert

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by derobert 15y ago
Being between the front of the bike and the ground isn't hard to imagine if the cyclist is cresting a hill. Assuming the device is 2ft from the ground, and projecting an image 10ft out, that'd be mounted at an angle of 79° (with 90° meaning
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by derobert 15y ago
When you assumed the illuminated area to be 0.1m^2, you assumed the light source to not be a laser, spread evenly over a 30×30cm square (to get 1000 lux). Realistically, a several-watt fluorescent bulb would throw 100 lumens. And would of c
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by derobert 15y ago
I wonder if this is based on the search-by-image that Google Goggles (on Android) already does.
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by derobert 15y ago
Charging the reviewed for the review makes it very hard to write a negative review, especially for subjective reviews like restaurants. This will happen without any conscious effort: 1. Restaurants will only pay for the review if they're fa
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by derobert 15y ago
I think you've misread the part about the grants. Its not that they're being taken back, its that the state law would prohibit the state university from undertaking the actions the federal grants are for. Since the university can't undertak
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by derobert 15y ago
That'd only really be true if a significant portion files were hardlinked. My root filesystem (Debian GNU/Linux testing) has 393,410 files, of which 825 have more than one link. My /home has 0 out of 156,273 files hardlinked. Having 0.2% (o
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by derobert 15y ago
Its an official Debian package of dropbox. Official according to Debian, not necessarily according to Dropbox. Raphaël Hertzog is fairly well-known in the Debian community, and is a Debian developer. Note that its hosted on people.debian.
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by derobert 15y ago
They also spend roughly half the year at school (remember weekends, holidays, summer), so you should divide by six. So, you're now at less per prisoner than per child. Not that this strikes me as a valid comparison; makes more sense to me t
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by derobert 15y ago
Comcast does business connections as well. This isn't hard to find: for example, if you visit comcast.com, its under "products". Comcast does all sorts of business Internet connections including web hosting. I suspect they do in your area t
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by derobert 15y ago
Well, ignoring that you've pointed to an example of a licensed cab driver, as that's "not the point being made here", there really isn't a point to be made. What you've pointed to is a risk of allowing people to interact, and really has v
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by derobert 15y ago
Security recommendations must be understood and modified (even ignored) as the environment requires. If you're in an environment where security is very important, then having to send someone on-site to reboot a server may be reasonable. Or
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by derobert 15y ago
There are two (sometimes more) versions of Ubuntu: Server and Destkop. Desktop is definitely inappropriate for running production web servers (AMI or otherwise), for the reasons you indicate. Server, however, is perfectly appropriate, espec
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by derobert 15y ago
Since you didn't mention it, here is a good example of the well-off being better able to compete for them: http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2010/09/dastardly-clever-sche... . To quote the final sentence: In the end, the goal of the rent con
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by derobert 15y ago
Testing, it does not work on Droid X Froyo (also rooted). Guess I should upgrade, though if the final Gingerbread release is really coming out tomorrow, no reason to not wait.
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by derobert 15y ago
So is LastPass, you just click the 'log in locally' checkbox.
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by derobert 15y ago
Repeating a SHA-256 (or other hash) many times is essentially what PBKDF2 is. Though since 100 million SHA-256/sec is apparently doable on GPUs, even with 100,000 rounds, you currently need at least an 8-character random password to be secu
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by derobert 15y ago
Strikes me as it shouldn't be a question of if she knew, but rather is several months of Internet access worth nearly $200k? Taking dspillett's example, if what the victim claimed (and even believed) to be a priceless Stradivarius actuall
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by derobert 15y ago
Some data was transmitted in real-time to the Airbus maintenance facility. That's how we know (for example) that the pitot tubes appear to have failed, that the autopilot disengaged, it switched to alternate flight laws, etc. Of course, sat
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by derobert 15y ago
Visa, MasterCard, and American Express are each individually bigger than Sony (but comparable). Certainly Sony is big enough that it can negotiate with them, but its hard to imagine them being able to dictate terms. So, Sony may be allowe
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by derobert 15y ago
"The longest link he could make with existing point-to-point WiFi connections was 400-500 feet; with the new Super WiFi gear in the TV band, he can reach a mile—and it's not a point-to-point signal." Something doesn't make sense here.
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by derobert 15y ago
A really good password with a really good hash takes more time for values of time exceeding far exceeding any human's lifespan. Assuming a 10-character random alphanumeric, that'd be 62¹⁰ possibilities (26 uppercase + 26 lowercase + 10 numb
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by derobert 16y ago
Assumably the names were chosen in reference to the recent cracking of Comodo by someone from Iran, possibly the Iranian government.
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by derobert 16y ago
The FAT is many sectors long, I'm not sure why Windows would re-write the entire thing. Now, OTOH, you could just mark the areas the FAT uses, and all their aliases as in-use in the bitmap, that'd prevent them from being overwritten (but ch
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by derobert 16y ago
They mention both AppArmor and ModSecurity as replacing the Barracuda Web Application Firewall. Sounds like replacing it would use both. Hardly makes the like garbage.
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by derobert 16y ago
Hopefully someone with access to the full article can answer these: According to the abstract, they tested phones on and muted or off. A phone that is powered on (but not on a call) shouldn't be expected to use the radio much. Is it the cas
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by derobert 16y ago
Wonder if their hardware folks consider this kind of "performance" monitoring acceptable. Much harder to find a keylogger when it's in silicon. Samsung makes a lot of commonly-used chips. Or more importantly, how can we trust that their har
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by derobert 16y ago
The existence of a resale market likely increases the initial purchases of the item. How? Hypothetically, say the utility you'd get out a specific album is $8. The price is $10, so, naturally you won't buy it. However, you normally tire of
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by derobert 16y ago
Obviously a troll. Engineers using consistent units‽ HA. Maybe he/she meant chemist, in which case: - cm3 != cm³. Unicode is 20 years old now, no excuses. - flour is (a) measured by weight, not volume; (b) at most 14% gluten, and that's ver
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by derobert 16y ago
Most of it uses the Apache Source License 2.0, which doesn't require releasing the source. You can look through http://android.git.kernel.org/ (especially external) for some others, but they're mostly similar licenses. There are some GPL
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by derobert 16y ago
Everyone is moving to LTE, so this really doesn't sound like a huge deal, at least in the medium-to-long term. You will be able to get LTE from AT&T/T-Mobile, Sprint, and Verizon, at least.

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