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by forgotusername 14y ago
Can we perhaps edit "singularity is near" out of the title? This sounds impressive, but having a bunch of racks able to classify the outline of a face is vastly disconnected from machine and humanity merging.
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by forgotusername 14y ago
At a loss to find a single web page now that you ask. The stuff I read was explicit about avoiding the TV's USB port unless it was specifically labelled a USB port. The last time I saw this was a post on Reddit from someone who'd killed the
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by forgotusername 14y ago
There is a similar project for LG TVs that doesn't require a bof, however messing with these TVs puts you deep inside BrickVille territory with no money for the cab ride home (no simple firmware recovery). If you like the sound of tinkering
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by forgotusername 14y ago
Did you read the post?
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by forgotusername 14y ago
In my time at larger companies, DC power seems to be one of the weakest links in the reliability chain. Even planned maintenance often goes wrong ("well we started the generator test and the lights went out, that wasn't supposed to happen.
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by forgotusername 14y ago
Despite being a heavy computer user I'm positively struggling to fill 1TB even after 2 years of hoarding HD rips, so I'd love to know what you use 62TB for. Also wondering about idle power consumption.
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by forgotusername 14y ago
Going by the count of strings in the CSV attached to that page, and the $185,000 price tag quoted on Wikipedia for applying, that's already around $357M raised before the process has even got in full swing.
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by forgotusername 14y ago
Why should I have to type "canon.local" for my printer name, just in order to avoid an advert to buy a new printer? This destroys any sense of user preference in favor of large corporations pushing their shit further into your face even whe
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by forgotusername 14y ago
Namespaces exist for a reason. For example, what do you call your network printer after http://canon gets reserved by the printer manufacturer? Same with http://epson , whatever. And is http://printer1/ safe? Only until someone writes
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by forgotusername 14y ago
64 bit address space significantly improves the effectiveness of ASLR, 64 bit tagged pointers can store way more data (7 byte strings, dunno if anyone actually does that, though).
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by forgotusername 14y ago
Replying again since this is getting downvoted so hard. I made two distinct points, one of which was corrected by tptacek, the other, which is the above, I still stand by. There is a huge leap from "this is a technologically advanced piece
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by forgotusername 14y ago
Making an appeal to authority doesn't change anything. Most people seem to fail to grasp that there is an $8bn industry spanning the globe who thrive on secret software vulnerabilities. Beyond the presence of these, the only surprising fa
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by forgotusername 14y ago
Please don't refer to that NYT article as "data" (noun: Facts and statistics collected together for reference or analysis). The it-must-have-been-us presumptive mentality despite the absolute lack of concrete evidence bothers me to the po
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by forgotusername 14y ago
Note "working relationship" rather than "license": the obvious advantage of building a movie in a game engine is that you could quite possibly very quickly commercialize a game based on the movie if it turns out to be a success. And with th
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by forgotusername 14y ago
AFAIK Firefox already has the ability to blacklist offline extensions.
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by forgotusername 14y ago
I love the anecdote (and loathe working with that stereotype), but don't think it applies here. We're not exactly drawing a box labelled "DATA", one labelled "SERVER", and drawing a line between them: these protocols are significant, incomp
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by forgotusername 14y ago
Despite being entirely different beasts from a design perspective, they solve essentially the same problem: bidirectional communication designed to minimize latency over a single established TCP connection, with protocol-internal notions of
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by forgotusername 14y ago
Another dirty little secret is that WebSocket does not (yet) work over SPDY, despite the fact both protocols essentially originated in house at the same company. Both are effectively hacks on existing well established protocols, but both af
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by forgotusername 14y ago
Because SPDY "looks like" SSL at layer 5, while SCTP does not: common deployments of Squid (one of the most popular HTTP proxies on earth) will pass through SPDY if they allow SSL, without any config changes. On the other hand, SCTP has muc
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by forgotusername 14y ago
> Here are some things you should do immediately: create a unique password that has a good mix of capital and lowercase letters, as well punctuation marks and numbers; enable 2-step verification as additional security; and update your b
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by forgotusername 14y ago
What kind of productive, actionable result can this notification lead to for a regular user? "Oh, my government may-or-may-not be attacking me, I'm not even sure because it doesn't say, in any case I better just push this magic fix-it-all-u
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by forgotusername 14y ago
While I didn't expect to do well on this (if for no other reason, then lack of parenthesis to demarcate evaluation order!), however could someone please explain why CHAR_MAX == SCHAR_MAX? My understanding is that no such guarantee exists fo
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by forgotusername 14y ago
There is too much wishful thinking going on around Stuxnet, both on the part of the security industry and the general public who'd rather believe their own country originated it. If you were a world super power, wouldn't it be in your inter
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by forgotusername 14y ago
From the NYT article: > American, European and Israeli officials involved in the program, as well as a range of outside experts. None would allow their names to be used because the effort remains highly classified, and parts of it conti
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by forgotusername 14y ago
As ever a useful analysis, however what may I ask is it that you do at Google of relevance to armchair generalizing like this, that causes you to disclose your employment every time you post? It seems to me it detracts from the merit of oth
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by forgotusername 14y ago
Yield, if I had to guess. Manufacturing a 24" 16:9 300dpi screen would lead to a resolution of around 6259x3543. Now consider the manufacturing waste due to defective pixels in existing screens at current resolutions, raise that rate by a f
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by forgotusername 14y ago
Any group of reverse engineers who notice C calling conventions and conclude the function parameters are so uniform that it must absolutely be a deadly new HACKER LANGUAGE need to be taken out back and shot, but I doubt any actual enginee
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by forgotusername 14y ago
Aside from this not being a very useful comment, I think there's good cause to assume this may be a little dressed up: "Our aim was to perform advanced code breaking and to see if there were any unexpected features on the chip" - er, what?
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by forgotusername 14y ago
Along with Instant, in an ideal world simply by not existing. When searching online I find it vaguely insulting that my presumed default state is one of not already knowing what I'm looking for, and furthermore the question I'm asking is th
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by forgotusername 14y ago
After all, none of the other data-hungry vendors address bars behave exactly like a keylogger ( cough Chrome)

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