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by effie 7y ago
Everybody, including researchers, has a duty to publish things responsibly and if necessary, withhold the publication. Despite the economical incentives, the moral responsibility is to research and harden systems, not to publish whatever an
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by effie 7y ago
The other way would be that writers check for correctness of what they're writing with the impacted party (VLC). Distributions watch out and look for security holes in their packages such as libebml and then issues fixes as soon as pos
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by effie 7y ago
Could you give a reference for that rationale? That does not seem to be the right lesson to be learned. They need to watch out for security holes and prepare fixes for both bundled lib and shared lib model. The more likely reason for that c
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by effie 7y ago
Canonical probably does care less than in their desktop golden years, now they are perhaps focusing on the server os market (cloud). The distribution model has the advantage of single click install. Great for basic users, but you run outdat
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by effie 7y ago
You are right, 3.5" disks can be loud, 2.5" drives or SSDs are better in that respect. Other option is to spin down / suspend the box after inactivity.
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by effie 7y ago
For those wanting a quiet home server for cheap, go for a well-ventilated tower PC, best with passive CPU cooler and a quiet case and power supply fan. You can put that box in a bedroom and almost never see it/hear it. Rackmount server
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by effie 7y ago
> buying clockspeed can't create new bugs either Some software does not like high clockspeeds. For example, game engine in GTA V starts acting up when framerate gets too high.
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by effie 7y ago
You're forgetting the power a discontent population can have on government. In case all browsers took a stance against cooperating with silent MITM, this would be a great pressure on powerful entities not to do it. Governments can get
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by effie 7y ago
So? It matters to those who care about their communication not being spied on / silently modified by third parties. That set isn't empty.
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by effie 7y ago
History contradicts you. There are examples from communist block where technological solutions that bypassed government restrictions helped to spread banned information.
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by effie 7y ago
I saw this design on Youtube, it has to be the most senseless and tasteless thing ever sold in computer hardware.
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by effie 7y ago
That's the opposite of a nuclear missile. Those are useful now (deterrence) until they are not (when they are used).
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by effie 7y ago
Supporting local businesses and local jobs. This may lead to worse or to a better product, it depends on many things . There is no necessity of a catastrophe where the local product is worse and everybody is worse because having to use it.
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by effie 7y ago
Why wouldn't they do both? "Stealing" money via taxation is a legal and logical way to get some money to support their other operations, perhaps even "enabling their people".
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by effie 7y ago
Yes, France wants money too. Not unreasonable, considering the companies' activities involve French infrastructure and French citizens.
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by effie 7y ago
Cross border trade does not require allowing for the tax avoidance. And the E.U. is changing, just because something was enabled long time ago does not mean it will remain the same. Free trade zone can have many forms.
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by effie 7y ago
"Rogue governments"? The governments do not derive their power from U.S. or from tech companies. Regarding pulling out, that is always a possibility, but very unlikely one, even if the taxation was higher than what France demands.
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by effie 7y ago
Strawman, nobody is arguing for supporting companies at the expense of the rest of society. The parent is arguing for supporting companies for the benefit of the society. Both can happen, it depends on how and to what extent it is executed.
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by effie 7y ago
Without government or with a dysfunctional government that is not able to enforce security and laws that businesses rely on, there would be chaotical environment leading to increased poverty, see the Middle East mess. There would always be
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by effie 7y ago
George Carlin on euphemisms. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuEQixrBKCc&feature=youtu.be...
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by effie 7y ago
Perhaps you got the "disgrace version" of GT 1030 with slow DDR4 in place of GDDR5? [1] [1] https://www.gamersnexus.net/hwreviews/3330-gt-1030-ddr4-vs-g...
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by effie 7y ago
Well, they don't play as nice as AMD, but they do at least give you working drivers. They do have place for consumers, there are valid use cases for Nvidia on Linux, such as: 1) top performance available on the market; 2) off-the-shelf
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by effie 7y ago
I don't have the HBO scene at hand, but I found this documentary on youtube which the scene was probably based on. Physicist Nesterenko says the experts concluded there was a possibility that the corium explosion due to contact with wa
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by effie 7y ago
In this emotional response full of links, you forgot to articulate your point.
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“Bouncy” sulfur hexafluoride gas in tennis balls?(youtube.com)
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by effie 7y ago
The relation to the university seems pretty thin. I can find no mention of this on the official pages of that uni.
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by effie 7y ago
Come on, the classical nuclear power plant is highly expensive to build and decommission. If the problem was purely public perception, we could have hundreds of plants far away in deserted places and transport the power on power lines. In r
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by effie 7y ago
Probably overblown. The show was good, but some parts were technically scientifically inaccurate. The claims about megaton explosion certainly were.
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by effie 7y ago
It's a user vs. enthusiast things. Some enthusiast people deal with computers because they like the technology or the ideas.
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by effie 7y ago
Do you have a link where this is documented? Reports on this seem quite polarized.

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