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by gpcz 13y ago
Doesn't that just offload the backdoor potential to the FPGA rather than a CPU?
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by gpcz 13y ago
It seems that the only reason he got the drop on the conspirators was that they posted about it publicly. What happens when the conspirators don't leave a huge paper trail to give to the police beforehand?
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by gpcz 13y ago
Lockpicks leave evidence of their use (src: http://www.lockwiki.com/index.php/File:Forensics_pin_picked.... ). If the victim was confident that the lock was picked, they could hire a forensic locksmith to find this ev
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by gpcz 13y ago
As implied in Cory Doctorow's "The coming war on general-purpose computation," modern cars are really computers with an engine and wheels. This event has proven that computer security breaches in cars can have real-world leg
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by gpcz 13y ago
I can understand the police officer acting as a conflict-resolution mediator, but unless the officer passed the bar exam I don't think it's appropriate for him to give what could be misinterpreted as legal advice on civil law.
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by gpcz 13y ago
In terms of Windows, developers are already entrenched in the system either through lock-in or business decisions imposing Windows on them. Those types of developers are unlikely to abandon the platform no matter how much Microsoft treats
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by gpcz 13y ago
I wonder if blog posts like this will cause some kind of reform. I was under the impression that Microsoft was aware of how important keeping 3rd-party developers happy is toward the long-term success of any OS or platform they publish.
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by gpcz 13y ago
Clause 6 of the Open Source Definition ( http://opensource.org/osd-annotated ) states that open source software licenses cannot discriminate against fields of endeavor. That is, you can't state in your license that an
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by gpcz 13y ago
Wasn't FF8 released along Brave Fencer Musashi?
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by gpcz 13y ago
I recommend Soul of a New Machine as an excellent example how not to manage knowledge workers for the long term. The book has a romantic "gung-ho" energy to it that might appeal to start-ups in crunch time, but the environment de
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by gpcz 13y ago
The first Lisp compiler was written in Lisp, not the first Lisp interpreter (src: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_%28programming_language%2... ).
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by gpcz 13y ago
There's a game theory element to this as well. If customers know that the product is likely to get discontinued shortly unless the product reaches an arbitrary and invisible (to the user) goal, then only early adopters are going to use it
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by gpcz 13y ago
> Why does anyone read WSJ anymore? Currently, your post is at DH1 ( http://paulgraham.com/disagree.html ). What point in the article do you disagree with and why?
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by gpcz 13y ago
I'll assume that he knew of the ENIAC since it was publicized in 1946, which means he probably didn't "predict" mechanical/electrical computation. Regardless, he successfully predicted digital feedback control systems, lights-out manufactu
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by gpcz 13y ago
It's interesting to see that the idea came to him while taking a shower, similar to Clifford Stoll's "Operation Showerhead" idea that took down Markus Hess. I wonder how many of the world's most important inventions were thought up in a sh
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by gpcz 13y ago
Are you saying that the "You can probably stop reading" quote was out of context? If I remember correctly, it was the first sentence. What context are you referring to?
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by gpcz 13y ago
One important detail to remember is that Facebook, Tumblr, Yahoo, Google, etc are not in the search/blogging/social media industry. That's all a smokescreen. People who follow the money and value chain see past the porn and cat GIFs and c
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by gpcz 13y ago
I believe the term Grugq used was "fail-closed" (at least that's what he said rather than wrote). By that, he didn't mean that Tor was foolproof, but rather that you should use a setup that sends information through Tor by default (opt-out
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by gpcz 13y ago
I think mediocrity is a function of the risk your company is willing to take. The more risk-averse, the more mediocre. I don't have data to back this up, but I'd bet dollars to donuts there's a correlation between risk-aversion and compan
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by gpcz 14y ago
Since it seems that the voting record is the only transparency we'll get for now, this was passed with unanimous consent by both the House and Senate, and it was signed by the President yesterday (src: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery
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by gpcz 14y ago
As the footer to the article says, this is a shortened version of a much longer essay he wrote in 2010 (src PDF: http://dobelli.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Avoid_News_Par... ) that shares a similar layout to the article. There's some
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by gpcz 14y ago
Based on the friends and family that likes to bounce engineering ideas off me, it seems that a lot of people's imaginations are too optimistic -- we end up going in circles with what inevitably becomes the trade-offs or limitations in the d
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by gpcz 14y ago
That expression already indicates an ad-hominem rebuttal, and ad-hominems can offend by definition ("against the person"). By using a higher DH-level (src: http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html ) in argumentation, you can avoid a lot o
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by gpcz 14y ago
It looks like pretty good progress! Are you going to be implementing the Quake Virtual Machine (QVM) architecture so that your engine can run the Quake 3 game and its mods?
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by gpcz 14y ago
This type of thing was also commonly done in hardware back in the day. For example, DEC VAX microprocessors sometimes had etchings that taunted Soviets reverse-engineering their technology (src: http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/creatures/pages
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by gpcz 14y ago
As the last sentence in the article states, I believe the modern-day form of mutiny is brain-drain. Ships were closed systems with limited means for dissatisfied crew members to leave. The business world, on the other hand, is an open sys
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by gpcz 14y ago
Yes, IE6's inability to render transparent PNGs and CSS rendering incompatibilities are as big a crime against humanity as genocide on an industrial scale and molesting/raping children.
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by gpcz 14y ago
The Chinese approach is similar to the approach taught in an entrepreneurship class I'm taking at the University of Michigan right now (ENGR 520). They teach a variety of tools and models, but most of them revolve around how to identify th
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by gpcz 14y ago
I've got bad news for you about your perfect system...
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by gpcz 14y ago
In theory, yes. I guess I just wouldn't trust my career's integrity on such a flimsy notion, especially when the psychologist would be on the same payroll. Maybe I have trust issues.

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