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by gigama 6y ago
Does this mean Microsoft's BSOD now stands for "Blue Shield of Death"? "A stop error or exception error, commonly called the blue screen of death or blue screen, is an error screen displayed on Windows computers followin
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by gigama 6y ago
"And these services are much needed, as our use of data and the internet continues to scale up. By 2025, an average internet user will have around 4,909 data interactions per day, an increase from 1,426 in the year 2020. At the same t
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Charting the Scale of the Digital Cloud(visualcapitalist.com)
1 points by gigama 6y ago|1 comments
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by gigama 6y ago
+1 People are not mathematical spheres.
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by gigama 6y ago
"It doesn't discriminate and none of us are invincible," Appleby said. "I don't want to be an alarmist, and we're just trying to share some real-world examples to help our community realize that this virus is v
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Man, 30, Dies After Attending a ‘Covid Party,’ Texas Hospital Reports(nytimes.com)
3 points by gigama 6y ago|1 comments
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by gigama 6y ago
Sphere packing is a genuinely interesting math problem. But it really should not be thought of as any kind of solution to a serious public health threat. Six feet apart is only a recommendation. The virus can transfer based on many other
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A new approach to carbon capture: electro-swing adsorption(news.mit.edu)
1 points by gigama 6y ago|0 comments
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by gigama 6y ago
https://github.com/mindedsecurity/behave
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Behave for Chrome and Firefox warns you of port scans and local attacks(ghacks.net)
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by gigama 6y ago
The Onion really needs an .onion site.
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by gigama 6y ago
"As a technology demonstration, Project Freta is opening public access to an analysis portal capable of automatically fingerprinting and auditing a memory snapshot of most cloud-based Linux VMs; over 4,000 kernel versions are supported
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Toward trusted sensing for the cloud: Introducing Project Freta(microsoft.com)
3 points by gigama 6y ago|1 comments
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by gigama 6y ago
"... the vast majority of these smartphones don’t give users any way to switch off 2G support."
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by gigama 6y ago
"Apple, Google, and Samsung should allow users to choose to switch 2G off in order to better protect ourselves. Ideally, smartphone OS makers would block 2G by default and allow users to turn it back on if they need it for connectivity
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Phone Is Vulnerable Because of 2G, but It Doesn't Have to Be(eff.org)
4 points by gigama 6y ago|3 comments
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Charting the $1.7B Transfer of Military Equipment to Police Departments(visualcapitalist.com)
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by gigama 6y ago
"I'd like to have an argument please." [1] https://genius.com/Monty-python-argument-lyrics
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Wrongfully Accused by an Algorithm(nytimes.com)
3 points by gigama 6y ago|0 comments
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Daily decisions about risk: What to do when there's no right answer(health.harvard.edu)
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Visualizing the True Size of Land Masses from Largest to Smallest(visualcapitalist.com)
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by gigama 6y ago
Meanwhile Barr (and predecessors) complain about sigintel "going dark" due to encryption... always sounded like a red herring to me. When you manage to break an encryption method you protect your zero-day investment by encouraging
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by gigama 6y ago
My thoughts exactly, thanks for summing up so nicely. (upvoted) IA's decision was apparently done with good intentions and under extraordinary circumstances. The "open sharing" was not meant to be permanent, and anyway has
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by gigama 6y ago
"First, you must have courage. Winston Churchill once said that courage was the most important quality of all because it guaranteed all the rest. He was not just talking about the physical courage to charge the hill, run into a burning
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William McRaven's Commencement Address(news.mit.edu)
3 points by gigama 6y ago|1 comments
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German University Opens Up Its Hands-On Remote FPGA Lab(spectrum.ieee.org)
3 points by gigama 6y ago|0 comments
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by gigama 6y ago
tl;dr... "...there are several ongoing epidemics that affect crops and put global food production at risk. Oranges, olives, and bananas are already under threat in many areas due to diseases that affect plants' circulatory systems
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Engineers develop precision injection system for plants(news.mit.edu)
2 points by gigama 6y ago|1 comments
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upvoted
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by gigama 6y ago
"The researchers invented an AutoML system that trains only a single, large 'once-for-all' (OFA) network that serves as a 'mother' network, nesting an extremely high number of subnetworks that are sparsely activated

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