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by faragon 9y ago
My point was about those agencies catching ransomware authors.
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by faragon 9y ago
In the meantime, what are doing the FBI, the NSA, and other agencies that exist precisely to avoid that?
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by faragon 9y ago
Industrial automation is very expensive, and human labour, with semi-automated processes, is very productive and flexible. So fully automation is far for happening, except for massive production.
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by faragon 9y ago
Looks like server chips with less L3 cache.
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Rumor: Intel to crank desktop chips up to Core i9(liliputing.com)
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by faragon 9y ago
May be it could be related to a output-code post-processor (e.g. instead of using generic entropy coding postprocessing, compress indexes with an new specific algorithm). If this allows good compression without an additional post-processing
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by faragon 9y ago
Those fast LZ77 I pointed before use linear time (O(n)) and constant space size (fixed-size hash tables) -which is O(1) space, even better than O(n) -linear- space complexity-.
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by faragon 9y ago
Regarding reducing run time, zlib/gzip already use a O(n) algorithm (Rabin-Karp rolling hash search), despite being "slow" in comparison with other "pure-hashing" LZ77 implementations (e.g. LZO, LZ4, LZF). I don&#x2
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by faragon 9y ago
Why are Finns so unhappy, while Swedes are as happy as the world average? Edit: I found a BBC article saying just the opposite [1], may be Finns are happy, after all? :-) [1] http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/2011062
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by faragon 9y ago
Bad move, in my opinion. So now most 30$ Android-TV devices are not going to be able to run Netflix? I hope they don't blame piracy afterwards.
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by faragon 9y ago
LZ77 was already linear time using hash tables for the search (e.g. lzop [1], LZ4 [2], LZF [3], and other similar LZ77 compressors using the same technique). [1] https://www.lzop.org/ [2] https://github.com/
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by faragon 9y ago
I hope the CCC rotates among other German cities in the future, so with the excuse of the CCC we could also enjoy other beautiful cities in Germany :-)
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by faragon 9y ago
The Anandtech article is better [1], in my opinion. [1] http://www.anandtech.com/show/11372/intels-itanium-takes-one...
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by faragon 9y ago
Ryzen is amazing, I hope AMD fixes this via BIOS update for motherboards, so the updated microcode can be loaded before the OS boots.
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by faragon 9y ago
In a medical environment there are two kind of devices: - Critical devices (that in most cases don't even run Windows): already safe, because using higher security standards. - Administration devices (patient reports, etc.): don't
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by faragon 9y ago
Windows file sharing (SMB/CIFS) is complex, in comparison to delivering remote applications using HTTPS (TLS/HTTP) through one single port (which is very simple, and easier to secure). So compare: local applications running many c
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by faragon 9y ago
PCs without network are useless in a hospital context, anyway, as everything is already networked, even with applications being running locally (the database is not stored locally). It is easier to ensure connectivity through simple protoco
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by faragon 9y ago
In my opinion, hospitals should never run any kind of software accessing complex protocols locally. Should run everything, except real-time critical devices, using virtualized remote applications, so the security gets ensured at data-center
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by faragon 9y ago
Not a country, but a region inside a country. Enumerating countries members of the UE having "separatist" regions, you'll find at least 3 similar cases.
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by faragon 9y ago
Yes, it was a typo (in my mother tongue it lacks the "h"). BTW, for ethnocracy I mean e.g. regions with 55% of people having language A, 35% people having language B, but because being ruled by people having language B (because in
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by faragon 9y ago
Well, in the EU we have regions ruled by people that explicitly say they'll go against the rule of law (say, and do, with any available law loopholes, wasting citizens money and time). So go figure the "quality" of the democr
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by faragon 9y ago
Sure. The problem is that many people is not aware that $democracy != $(tyranny of the majority). E.g. people asking for "voting" in order to crush minorities, e.g. "we want to vote", so we can impose you a freak technoc
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by faragon 9y ago
TL;DR: Don't try so hard. Like Queen's song. [1] [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7kUc5RcMqc
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by faragon 9y ago
In my opinion, software equivalent in functionality to Ghostscript should be written using a BSD or similar license. Is there anyone willing to sponsor it?
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by faragon 9y ago
Wow, no, thank you! :-)
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by faragon 9y ago
Sure, the point is what is their core business. E.g. Sony core business is electronics, despite having financial, entertainment, and other branches. Same thing for SoftBank: yes, it is a holding, but its main business is telecommunications
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by faragon 9y ago
You can buy SoftBank telecom suscriptions and services [1], with its trademark, while e.g. Berkshire don't sell soft-drinks (Berkshire has Coca-Cola stock, but it is not Cola-Cola). So, in my opinion, it is not the same thing. Not even
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by faragon 9y ago
If a Telecom like SoftBank has piles of money to spent gambling buying and selling international companies (ARM, Improbable, Supercell, and others), may be there is not enough competition in Japan. Do they have huge profits because of not h
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by faragon 9y ago
I wish Star Citizen to success. At least, the idea of a massive multi-player in the space, with economics, politics, roles, etc. it is very interesting, in my opinion.
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by faragon 9y ago
I would use the "dummy screen + keyboard" only when plugged, obviously.

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