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> How do you think IP owners can adapt when piracy is made so transparent that it doesn't even feel like piracy anymore? Maybe it is time to admit that copyright is obsolete? If crime is rampant, then there are only two possibilitie
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> Or for other apps to take extra precautions such as saving copies of dynamic state to non-volatile locations in case the power fails completely. The system can crash, hang, forcefully reboot or otherwise die at any moment, without war
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Try uMatrix. The uMatrix UI makes managing this a lot easier.
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> conflicting system level packages In Python, if you have control over the target system, this is solved with virtualenv. You can install whatever versions of libraries you want in there with pip without causing conflicts with system le
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"Further reading" links at the bottom just link back to the same page.
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I'll wait for Surface Book 3.11 for Workgroups.
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> The sum total of human activity for 150 years has warmed the Earth few degrees I mean, we just managed to do in 150 years what previously took ~100 THOUSAND years of natural activity to achieve. Not a big deal. I don't know why pe
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I don't have any particular feelings toward one or the other (it is a convention, get over it), but I think that zero-based indexing is just an artifact of C that stuck around. In C, the array syntax is "mostly" just syntacti
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> The first few were amazing: all cross platform, great stuff. Since then they've branched out... Into becoming a glorified Steam sale. 100% agree with this. I got in a bit late, but the first bundles were still pretty fantastic. I
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I think the discussion of what constitutes an OS is mostly academic. That said, to me, an operating system is basically any environment that allows me to run applications. Usually, that implies a kernel, since you can't do much without
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In addition, chip fabrication processes are notoriously fickle, especially at very high densities. I wouldn't be surprised if 10% of the NAND chips came out DOA from the production line. In the case of GPUs they can turn a defective GP
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Changes in Password Best Practices(schneier.com)
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This is just "feel-good" bullshit that doesn't actually solve any real problem. In my life, I have only reported two different vulnerabilities to two different vendors. One of them didn't care at all. They were transmitt
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Not strictly mathematical, and maybe not exactly 5 year old difficulty (some of these are HARD) but here goes: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/ There's an Android version of these puzzles
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I've used both mysql and postgresql and they worked just fine for my needs. But I have always been curious: how does postgresql (or even mysql) stack up vs proprietary databases like Oracle and Microsoft sql server?
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My cursory search indicates that Android Studio doesn't run natively on Chromebooks yet (well, not without faffing around with crouton, anyway). Seems like a huge missed opportunity for Google. They could pitch these as the standard An
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The biggest problem with these frameworks is that they ignore the elephant in the room. We already have a widely adopted, widely compatible, highly developed and open framework for cross platform development: webpages. My confidence that Mr
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> Does anyone believe in using the wrong tool for the job? Yes. PHP developers. :)
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> I still wish it had an "unlock under duress" mode The practical applications of this are close to nil. The government will not be fooled for one second because they can cross reference enough sources to know if you are lying.
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> Protectionism _destroys wealth creation_, hands down, period. That just makes you sound stupid. Copyright, Trademarks and Patents are protectionist devices that contribute billions to the economy and keep a ton of people employed. Yes,
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"each" and "filter" were used as examples of what you can do. You don't have "on", "off" and "trigger", for example.
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This is cute and all, but JQuery is slightly more than just a framework for accessing the DOM. My JS is a bit rusty, but I remember that in JQuery I could do: $("some selector").do_things() And "do_things" would be done
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_core > On May 21, 1946, physicist Louis Slotin and seven other Los Alamos personnel were in a Los Alamos laboratory conducting another experiment to verify the exact point at whi
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And what, exactly, does a Chromebook offer? Take this $1K device. Hardware-wise, for that kind of price you can get a nice laptop. Heck, for $200 extra, you can even get a MacBook pro if you wanted. Software wise, the value proposition look
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I haven't tried it, but apparently you can upload files, so it would be a matter of pushing the vim source tarball there and build it. (edit: oops, you beat me to it) As for network, they say this: >Can I access to the network from
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Android and its community are sorta schizophrenic towards security. On one hand, users are told that they should never ever, ever install applications from untrusted sources. They should always use the play store because applications are sc
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Bitcoin and Ethereum are cratering(arstechnica.com)
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> Yet another attack vector that doesn't exist at all in Linux distributions but invented by language package managers, sadly. https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/05/random_number... A.K
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Disappointingly, this list treats "yes" like a toy that just prints things over and over, and doesn't mention actual useful uses for "yes", like accepting all defaults without having to press enter. Practical exampl
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Many of those shifts from a majority male workforce to a majority female workforce seem to happen quickly (or even abruptly) at around the 1960s/1970s. I'm not well versed in American history. Did anything significant happen then

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