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by gioele 10y ago
Schneier point of view is that government involvement will happen and it is better to shape this involvement before the US government is forced to intervene after a large-scale disaster. > Nothing motivates the U.S. government like fear.
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by gioele 10y ago
last.fm brought me to MusicBrainz. In 2007. ;)
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by gioele 10y ago
I cannot comment about the content, but for music metadata there is nothing as good a http://musicbrainz.org . Incredible amount of data, versioned and CC0 licensed, great and diverse community of music lovers, strong ties with
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by gioele 10y ago
> Qt is not open source Not only is Qt open source, it is also free software according to FSF. Core Qt and most modules are released under the LGPL, the rest under the GPL. https://www.qt.io/licensing/ Qt even has a
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by gioele 10y ago
Interestingly, the updates are done on the basis of only 2 external inputs [1]: the height of the bird in the screen and height of the aperture in the next pipe. Using only these two parameters the neural network decides whether to flap or
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by gioele 10y ago
The hyperlinked RFC from IETF.org: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7950
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by gioele 10y ago
Redutio ad bombarolum: Somebody detonates a bomb or throws a plane into a nuclear power plant => possible irreparable ecological disaster. Somebody detonates a bomb or throws a plane into a solar plant => a few broken glasses to clean
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by gioele 10y ago
(Premise: I love decentralized systems.) > A decentralized web would be vastly more efficient in terms of resources. A lot of the data could be deduplicated and a lot of backbone traffic could be avoided. Decentralization usually brings
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by gioele 10y ago
> The youngest member of the group, the lab’s technical director, is practically a child himself: Adolfo Kaminsky, age 18. I doubt that people referred to 18 years old men as "children" in 1944. In the '40s the average age
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by gioele 10y ago
I would be very happy to have a libre SW/HW BW printer that uses the technology of 1996 and must, then be based only on expired patents. Both '96 laser and inkjet would be OK for my limited use. For example, the OKIPAGE 4w costed
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by gioele 10y ago
> A similar phenomena was witnessed in South Africa with the Marikina massacre of 2012, where miners believed that herbs provided by a witchdoctor would make them invisible. The US market for homeopathic products was $6.4 billion in 2013
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by gioele 10y ago
> Heh - your comment reminds me of one of my impressions of Austria, where we spent a couple years: "a lot of the same bureaucratic BS as Italy, just administered a lot more efficiently". German administration feels exactly the
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by gioele 10y ago
I have been toying with a similar idea, but for born-FOSS source projects. I like copyleft licenses but I find the legalese in them too complex and I fear that they will cause problem down the road because of changes in the legal landscape.
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by gioele 10y ago
> You can't write a virtual machine with 20 GB of memory running on a real machine with only 10. Simulation isn't magic. You can, and it will work as long as the memory of the virtual machine can be compressed to less than 10 G
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by gioele 10y ago
> yup, there are a lot of re-uploaded videos and also command-line tools for downloading youtube videos The former _may_ classify as copyright infringement. The latter definitely does not.
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by gioele 10y ago
> if you were going to be storing a lot of tiny files, you should create your filesystem with a higher than usual number of inodes (the classic case was an NNTP spool mount). I wonder how many people understand what the term "news s
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by gioele 10y ago
The problem with these "trusted" and "secure" systems is not that they restrict what the computer can do. The problem is when only the manufacturer gets to choose what is allowed and what is not. For example, a secure bo
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by gioele 10y ago
> You see this play out with every generation. I read an article recently that incredulously reported that Millenials - the car rejecting generation! - have started buying cars. Of course they have, because they're coming into the a
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by gioele 10y ago
> Telecom companies like Comcast and Verizon "own" the backbone because they built it. In Europe most of the backbone has been built by state-run public companies with public money. Only with the wave of privatization in the 90
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by gioele 10y ago
> <xmp> is great when you absolutely, positively, do not want any entities rendered under any circumstances. It's unfortunate that it's being deprecated, since it has its uses. <![CDATA[ here &entities; or <
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by gioele 10y ago
> In some countries, like Germany and Italy, the head of state is an elected president, usually an fairly elderly politician. In Italy the only people elected by the citizens are the members of the Parliament. The head of the state is el
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by gioele 10y ago
My (excessively hermetic) message was meant to mean: "All the SSNs will one day be public. Even if the legislator does not make them public, they will leak one day anyway."
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by gioele 10y ago
> Make all SSNs public and therefore useless as a secret key. An exhaustive list of all US SSNs will be mishandled, intercepted and posted online. It is only a matter of when, rather than if. (For precedents of whole-country database dum
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by gioele 10y ago
The same Jony Ive who blatantly copied so many Dieter Rams/Braun designs? http://b-i.forbesimg.com/anthonykosner/files/2013/11/jony-iv... (I'd use the phrase "has been inspired by and has
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by gioele 10y ago
> Cloudflare - which has been a great supporter of v6 for a long time now - has been known to send 'log in from a new IP address!' notifications because my machine automatically rotated it's IPv6 privacy suffix. Either you
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by gioele 10y ago
> Signing actually helps against fraud: Signatures can be compared, PINs cannot – and you can be made liable … :( cough There is specimen of your signature on the back of the card cough
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by gioele 10y ago
> It seems unlikely that nationally-funded organizations will be made to cover bandwidth to stream outside their countries. I have been listening for years and from all around the world to FIP, BBC Radio 2/3/4, RAI Radio 2&#x2F
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by gioele 10y ago
> If what you say about "requests" and "responses" is both true and dispositive of the issue of authorization, then you're saying that virtually every SQL injection vulnerability on the Internet is also an "
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by gioele 10y ago
> China may follow a similar development history path to Japan. First the Japanese copied the west and made cheap bad quality items. Then the Japanese innovated and made very high quality items. Same story with Italy. It started its indu
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by gioele 10y ago
Past HN discussion (85 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7733658

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