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by eksith 13y ago
Nope. That just means, they totally lost video down. I'm guessing they're dedicating a more robust connection for actual telemetry. To be fair, the video is mostly eyecandy. The actual meat is sensor data.
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by eksith 13y ago
This seems to work on a very similar principle to automated industrial cutters like those you would in factories slicing fabric or even automated drawing machines or dock cranes. Two tracks on either side with one main gantry and tool in th
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by eksith 13y ago
> Free speech is one thing, but abuse of free speech is another. When you perform an action that negatively affects the sales of a company and if you expect to benefit from it, in return for which the company doesn't allow you, I th
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by eksith 13y ago
I wonder if there are any projects named Dahomey. Or British Bechuanaland. Or perhaps French Guinea? PS: I'm originally from Sri Lanka, which used to be Ceylon under British rule. I'm sure it's a wonderful project, but a bit
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Useless machine(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by eksith 13y ago|0 comments
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by eksith 13y ago
A version/ratings graph might really help here. That will also dissuade devs from frequently releasing updates to hide the fact that their product is sub-par. If you have a whole bunch of recent releases with a handful of early 5-star
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by eksith 13y ago
Yes they can, but on those videos, you have to be aware of what you're commenting on. Those free energy, perpetual motion, water powered car etc... etc... videos aren't scientific. They're religious in nature and when you cha
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by eksith 13y ago
http://www.amazon.com/review/R3JUIEGFUTUWMI/ref=cm_cr_dp_cmt... "I purchased this product 4.47 Billion Years ago and when I opened it today, it was half empty." Brilliant!
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by eksith 13y ago
That's the total number of users. This is very specific to the Free-Trade-Zone which, at present, is in the process of being populated by businesses. I don't know if residences will increase there, but this seems to be more of a c
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by eksith 13y ago
Actually Heathrow is a terrible airport. I had a connecting flight through there and swore I'll get on a scrappy prop plane via Djibouti first before doing that again. The security "might" be impressive, but often there'
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by eksith 13y ago
I wonder how accommodating Logan is in Boston. Or JFK for that matter. Flying internationally via JFK (in my completely subjective assessment) is actually less painful than flying between destinations in the U.S. Flying locally can be a nig
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by eksith 13y ago
Are we sure that it was definitively war or merely the availability of resources that gave rise to civilizations? Water, rich soil, minerals (E.G. Iron, Copper, Gold etc...) This sort of modeling is very tricky and, even though I don'
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Stop webcam spies with free, 3D-printed "RAT TRAP"(arstechnica.com)
1 points by eksith 13y ago|0 comments
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by eksith 13y ago
This is similar to what happened to TheWebMachine which hosted tutorials for Photoshop/illustrator and family and simple HTML and a bit of PHP (anyone remember Shoutboxes?). "Rough around the edges" is acceptable, IMO, if you
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by eksith 13y ago
The door scanner may be easily fooled, but the computer login scanner they worked on is a bit more sophisticated. The "sub-epidermal" scan is actually what a gelatin synthetic fingerprint with a latex skin would duplicate fairly w
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by eksith 13y ago
Haha! Ok, fair enough :) Thanks for the details, though. That actually gave me a few ideas.
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by eksith 13y ago
I wonder if it may be simpler to write a site that outputs nothing but RSS/Atom. If user participation is allowed, they can contribute by using PUSH with JSON or something similar. I'm sure the vast majority of mobile apps already
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by eksith 13y ago
Would you be willing to let us take a peek at that code? It could be interesting to compare and contrast to what Lua offers.
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by eksith 13y ago
That's very true. IMO Apple has already thought of this and I think they're not storing the fingerprint or even a direct hash or other signature of it on the device. They may be using some sort of unique key (a salt perhaps?) that
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Baltimore residents line up to get laptops in exchange for guns(baltimorebrew.com)
1 points by eksith 13y ago|0 comments
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We are SpaceX Software Engineers - We Launch Rockets into Space - AMA(reddit.com)
7 points by eksith 13y ago|0 comments
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by eksith 13y ago
It's possible the device is storing a second key of some sort as well as regenerate each time a fingerprint is set. It may even regenerate it each time a scan is done and reset the password. I.E. hash( hash(fingerprint) + stored key )
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by eksith 13y ago
It should be worth noting, taking someone's fingerprint and duplicating it is surprisingly easy. In fact, a duplicate print has been used to open door locks and even computer locks as the Mythbusters have shown : https://www
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by eksith 13y ago
According to one of the comments on the page : "Facebook did permanently disable the advertiser’s account and it looks like the site they were advertising is closed as well." - Mike Reed So there you have it. Looks like
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by eksith 13y ago
"Never attribute to malice..." I can totally see the traffic spike = profit angle and that seems to be the most likely reason. If they're looking at raw data, then who the person is may not have even been a consideration. Fac
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by eksith 13y ago
This situation is slightly different IMO. I'm not saying ignorance is an excuse, but the "Keep Calm..." ads are manufacturing the offensive product. That company was actively engaged plagiarism and product is the trite reha
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by eksith 13y ago
At the risk of being indelicate, what are the chances the company that used the images actually knew anything about her? A lot of these companies grab whatever image they "find" online; their reasoning (not justifiable, but it&#x2
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The Sound of Sorting(panthema.net)
3 points by eksith 13y ago|3 comments
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by eksith 13y ago
Slightly off topic, but posts like this show, in stark detail, why it's a good idea to turn off comments. Good on you for being straightforward though.
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by eksith 13y ago
No worries :) I agree with you that Google is moving into an area Microsoft used to be in with IBM, but I feel like Google, while it does nice things like this, is similarly going to the same location. There's nothing stopping from oth

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