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by gherkin0 11y ago
Yeah. And if I recall correctly, in very old versions of the Mac OS. You actually installed things like fonts into your system by copying the resource fork data from the font file into resource fork of the (singular) "System file&q
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by gherkin0 11y ago
> HFS+ isn't so much "crazy" as it is "really friggin old". Exactly. It was also developed for an entirely different non-UNIX operating system. Resource forks were really important and commonly used and unders
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by gherkin0 11y ago
>> Getting an accurate enough sample from your breath without cooperation and breathing into a tube is probably impossible. > There are numerous companies working on artificial noses that car manufacturers have been looking to inte
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by gherkin0 11y ago
Though, IIRC, the tank that's based off of was already designed to carry some passengers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merkava#Specifications_of_mode...
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> One of the most interesting cold war AFVs was an M113 chassis with a cherry picker and 15 TOW missiles on it. Armor is nice, but a hill is even nicer. Is this what you're talking about? http://russian-tanks.com/the
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by gherkin0 11y ago
If I remember that scene correctly, the gun stations on the Millennium Falcon seem more like the B-29 sighting stations than directly operated "local control" guns (but located directly behind the remote controlled gun rather than
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by gherkin0 11y ago
> perhaps because licensing costs too much to make it profitable, licensing isn't permitted for street vendors, varying climate doesn't make it as easy year-round, or ... I'm not sure that someone would be able to make a l
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by gherkin0 11y ago
> is the opportunity for vendor lock in Also the fetish for centralized control and tool standardization. Just imagine: you may soon be developing in a SAP-based IDE, chosen by feature checklist!
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by gherkin0 11y ago
> It happened before, with the transition from Mozilla Suite to Firefox. And it nearly killed them. http://www.pubarticles.com/member/user_img/216/1279777216.jp... http://www.joelonsoftware.com&
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> In a few years the all new HTML Firefox will come out. My bet is that it will suck. It will lack a TON of features that the existing Firefox has, but hey, it's all HTML! > As much as people complain about XUL not looking native
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by gherkin0 11y ago
> a web based IDE This is exactly what I didn't want. Please tell me that this "next generation" stuff is just inaccurate hype, and that this is really just some minor Eclipse offshoot.
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by gherkin0 11y ago
I don't think you're going to solve this problem by merely increasing penalties and throwing more years-in-prison at the perpetrators. Most of them seem to be kids who seem think they're invincible anyway. > At the very l
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by gherkin0 11y ago
I've heard that their newsroom is very liberal, even though their editorial page is conservative. They're run separately.
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by gherkin0 11y ago
If you're limiting it to the "The 5 Most Infamous Software Bugs in History," Heartbleed is definitely out. It just happened to be recent, so it has an outsized place in people's minds. Including it would sort of be lik
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by gherkin0 11y ago
> the anomaly is that it "doesn't work" on him. The fact is that most people do occasionally buy things because of advertising, particularly targeted advertising. I'm not so sure. It's quite a big claim to say o
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by gherkin0 11y ago
> It's fact that there exists multiple data-driven targeted advertising firms, and their data shows them that it works. If this is an unassailable fact because data, where can I see that data?
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by gherkin0 11y ago
Yeah, the "authority" for my old was the "Charleston Passport Center," the authority for my new one is the "United States Department of State."
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by gherkin0 11y ago
> Also, having a bank account does not matter. Bill, being unbanked, does not have the benefit of bank paper trails to prove where his money came from if challenged. It's also the reason that he to keeps, transports, and transacts
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by gherkin0 11y ago
> To clarify a few things, at least on the county level: > I review every single civil forfeiture in a rather large county Which county is that, and is your county representative of all counties in the US? > the affidavits officers
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by gherkin0 11y ago
Oh, I think that however it was done, it was done intentionally. My point was only that the "code" could have been kosher and the tampering done later via configuration.
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by gherkin0 11y ago
I don't think that was the one I read, but it's just as good.
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by gherkin0 11y ago
> What remains is explaining how engineering managers higher up (all the way to the top) could remain willfully ignorant of the fact > What remains is explaining how engineering managers higher up (all the way to the top) could remain
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by gherkin0 11y ago
> That may be, but it ignores the fact that software was written for the express purpose of not just identifying if a test was being ran, but then taking action to change the results of the test has no real world use. I think it depends
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by gherkin0 11y ago
I can't find the link, but there was a good article about this recently (maybe in the last year) that spent quite a bit of time talking about the selection of the Doge of Venice. IIRC, they had a very complicated process that included
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by gherkin0 11y ago
> Read to the end for this gem: "Under Representative McHenry’s bill, purchases would be restricted to investors who earn more than $200,000 a year or have a net worth of $1 million." Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn'
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by gherkin0 11y ago
> literally I have never seen anyone besides the employees gazing out forlornly at people on the street The bank branches should start selling coffee, food, or knick knacks on the side to keep them busy. I can see it now: Citicorp Coffe
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by gherkin0 11y ago
Language/dialect could also play a part. Humans form very large social groups that share a common language, so even if a culture comes up with a "unique" names (e.g. no special "name" words) in a local group, there
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by gherkin0 11y ago
If's he's a security researcher, he might actually appreciate samples of real government spyware to research.
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by gherkin0 11y ago
Is this the guy who claimed he hacked into an engine control computer via the in-flight entertainment system network? So is this evidence that he didn't actually do that, or just that the FBI was unable to decrypt or otherwise get anyt
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by gherkin0 11y ago
Cars are life-critical systems. If GM half-assed it by putting... > a potted Beaglebone Black (for its real-time subsystem) ...into an actual production car, what happens when the thing breaks down and kills someone? Death, recalls, la

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