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by elwin 13y ago
Historically, different nations' intelligence agencies have often infiltrated each other. I'm sure someone will eventually gain access to the NSA's weapons, but I think they would be more likely to steal details to add to the
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by elwin 13y ago
Attacking Tor by passive analysis is one thing. Installing spyware, creating a botnet, and making the infection process quick and easy is another. There might be some justification for the former. The latter is too risky.
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by elwin 13y ago
The more we learn about the NSA's capabilities, the more it seems like the Manhattan Project. They are developing the "cyberwarfare" equivalents of weapons of mass destruction. This exploit delivery network goes so far beyond
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by elwin 13y ago
The articles call it a "Trojan", so I expect they trick people into installing it.
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by elwin 13y ago
Imagine that cyberwar really is a new kind of warfare that is about to emerge. This may or may not be a useful way of viewing the situation, but governments do seem willing to attack each others' infrastructure, causing great damage to
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by elwin 13y ago
I've run some CPU benchmarks, and the $80 droplet is roughly equivalent to the $40 linode. But if you get lucky and no one else on the same host is using much CPU, the linode will be over 50% faster. Of course, most customers aren&#x27
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by elwin 13y ago
Statically typed languages also have worrisome features. #define readinto(obj, fd) (isatty(fd) ? readbuffered(obj, fd, findttystate()) : readfromfile(obj, fd))
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by elwin 13y ago
I had a professor who did optics research sponsored by the NSA. They didn't tell him the intended application, but he suspected it was to tap optical fibers by evanescent wave coupling (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&
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Fedora 19 released(docs.fedoraproject.org)
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by elwin 13y ago
William Freehling's Road to Disunion covers the topic thoroughly. Most of the founders expected slavery to die away gradually. The idea that it should remain permanently didn't appear for another 50 years and was never universal
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by elwin 13y ago
The info wars will not have a winner, any more than warfare with black powder, warfare with motorized artillery, or warfare with airplanes produced clear winners. The best possible outcome is to survive until the next kind of war makes the
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by elwin 13y ago
> We aren’t sure if this will bring again the “Other OS” functions to Playstation 4 It will at least have to be possible to install other systems. The screenshots show GRUB 2, which is under the GPLv3, so it should be unlockable.
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by elwin 13y ago
Another virtue of That Hideous Strength is that Lewis is good at blurring the lines between "good guys" and "bad guys". Instead of Thought Police, he shows Mark Studdock and Feverstone doing evil things out of ordinary
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by elwin 13y ago
They get appointed by the Chief Justice, not the administration.
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by elwin 13y ago
No, I don't think the request is a brilliant idea, and I hope the investigation doesn't ask for the records of anyone's private phone numbers without some more justification. My point was that instead of dismissing it as part
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by elwin 13y ago
Many of the comments here are complaining about the partisanship of this request. I think such complaints are shortsighted. Yes, it's annoying that the representative is trying to make the administration look bad and further his own pa
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by elwin 13y ago
That's the problem with logging everything. Unless they deliberately filter out all the data coming from the White House, they have it, even though having it is only useful for their political opponents.
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by elwin 13y ago
They offer the same amount of RAM for less than Linode, but they offer fewer cores, which makes me suspect they're putting more VPS's on a single host. I haven't yet run any benchmarks, but I think Linode gives you more CPU a
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by elwin 13y ago
My guess is that the idea of objectivity started around the 1890's, when people like Pulitzer and Hearst realized they could sell cheap newspapers funded by advertising and do without the support of the local political machines. But I
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by elwin 13y ago
This is one of the oddest things I've read all week. It accuses Snowden of a lack of character and claims that lack is a threat to society. But this society and its government are designed to minimize that threat. The reason we have a
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by elwin 13y ago
Separation of powers was designed to prevent a few bad actors from seizing control of the whole system, as frequently happened in ancient republics. It's actually worked well for that purpose. It wasn't intended to defend against
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by elwin 13y ago
When you type "tmux" into a terminal, that starts a client. A client is the instance of tmux that's running in your terminal emulator. tmux manages a collection of pseudoterminals, and clients display whatever is going on in that collection
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by elwin 13y ago
That's X11 panning, which has a similar effect. The X server has one big screen buffer, and the physical screens get mapped into regions of it. You can enable it by using xrandr with the --panning option, and it will work with any DE. fvwm
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by elwin 13y ago
fvwm uses a virtual desktop. "The screen is a viewport onto a desktop which may be larger than the screen." You can move the screen around over this virtual desktop. Moving down has the same effect as moving all the windows one screen heigh
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by elwin 13y ago
I use fvwm. The ability to work easily with windows bigger than the screen is vital on a netbook.
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by elwin 13y ago
> That rule of thumb seems to apply to only a particular class of chips. Wouldn't the number of pins be somehow proportional to the power draw, as at higher currents induction would become a more severe problem? I think it depends on th
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by elwin 13y ago
There are some interesting reasons for that. When a lot of transistors in an integrated circuit all switch at the same time, it can cause the chip's power and ground voltage levels to shift, relative to the circuit board's power and ground
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by elwin 13y ago
There are manuals and an emulator here: http://www.floodgap.com/retrobits/kim-1/
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by elwin 13y ago
Interpersonal skills are not a one-dimensional quantity. You and the OP are saying Steve Jobs was terrible at making people happy. That's different from making people do what he wanted, an area in which he was far from terribly unskilled.
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by elwin 14y ago
The advantage to FPGAs is that they can be designed rapidly. ASICs are cheaper to manufacture and usually run faster.

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