granos

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by granos 10y ago
How do you deal with the short to mid term skyrocketing prices of everything that gets moved by truck/train/boat (e.g. Food)?
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by granos 11y ago
I gave up on that hope a while ago. And also on developing for Microsoft platforms in general.
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by granos 11y ago
I actually switched from VS to vim (while doing a project that integrated ironruby and C#). It took me about a week to reach 75-80% effectiveness with vim. At the end of 2 weeks I was back to full speed. At the end of 2 months I was conside
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by granos 11y ago
By forcing you to use a QR code that links to their site they can track how frequently BSODs happen and what the most common error codes are simply by reporting on web server logs. Its a way of forcing people to report crashes when they oth
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by granos 11y ago
Maybe I'm paranoid, but my concern with these things has always been that Facebook (or Google or some other personal data aggregator) would buy the company and suddenly my toilet would be calling home to their servers (à la Occulus Rif
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by granos 11y ago
They are trying to extort money. They are always trying to extort money. Look at all these nasty things I released about you. I wonder what else is in this large trove of files that I can slowly leak over a few years to keep you in the news
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by granos 11y ago
I feel like this needs to be an xkcd
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by granos 11y ago
When you (or the recipient) don't want the recipient to be able to read the data, but only to store/transfer it somewhere. In some cases its impossibly/impractical to create a direct connection between 2 computers: you must u
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by granos 11y ago
Is that a problem with the fs and its features/implementation or a problem with how some application/developer chose to use those features?
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by granos 11y ago
Is it that they "don't have the guts" or that they just don't have a product offering enough value to support itself on a subscription model?
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by granos 11y ago
I'm not 100% certain, but when I setup 2FA for many services they give you ~10 single use emergency codes that you can use to get into the system in the event that your second factor is unavailable for whatever reason (phone stolen, yo
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by granos 11y ago
The point isn't for regulators to have to sift through code line by line or do something complicated like verifying compilers. I'd propose that the industry can pretty much do whatever they like in terms of technology, so long as
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by granos 11y ago
If you have source code then you can tell whether a particular executable was built from said source code. Pull the executable out of the car and also build the source code yourself as instructed by the manufacturer, compare the two binarie
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by granos 11y ago
The hardware may be identical and only the software different. They may be able to get away with fewer devices in congested areas if the throughput is better without Listen Before Talk.
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by granos 11y ago
At the same time (from the article): 47 U.S. Code § 333 - Willful or malicious interference No person shall willfully or maliciously interfere with or cause interference to any radio communications of any station licensed or authorized by o
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by granos 11y ago
He also lost his license to practice law and this case now serves as a sentencing precedent for such crimes committed in the future. Anderson, being in his 60's, probably wouldn't be practicing for too much longer anyway. The next
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by granos 11y ago
Those algorithms are called lawyers.
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by granos 11y ago
It feels likely they could claim that any court order to transmit and log the keys would be "unduly burdensome" and would in fact fly in the face of their carefully considered business practices.
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by granos 11y ago
Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat, but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires. - John Steinbeck (disputed) Lots of otherwise reasonable people are willing to delude themsel
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by granos 11y ago
Unfortunately many employers require a degree to even be considered. They are basically expecting you to come in the door with skills that they used to have to train employees in. In highly technical / safety critical fields I can unde
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by granos 11y ago
For #1) If a judge's private key were compromised there are solutions. Treat the judge as an intermediary CA cert (I'm assuming there would be an actual root somewhere) that issues individual certs per warrant. The software on the
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by granos 11y ago
We were in their software services vertical (I forget the name)...the one that had never turned a profit and wasn't sexy. I've known one person who had a great experience on the Watson team. So maybe its a different experience?
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by granos 11y ago
The problem was their justification. It went something along the lines of "Employees are often thinking about their personal lives while at work, so they should also be thinking about their work life while at home." I'm sure
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by granos 11y ago
I hope it works out for StrongLoop. When a company I worked for was purchased by IBM, about 3/4 of the engineering staff left once we heard about "Work Life Integration (tm)". It's really hard to work inside Big Blue whe
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by granos 11y ago
It's important to note that most of the horror stories involving Tor nodes are related to "exit" nodes. These are the nodes that bridge the open internet with the Tor network. As such, you can see what traffic is traveling th
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by granos 11y ago
Wheatley's voice
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by granos 11y ago
Yahoo bears some, but not all, responsibility. As for version blocking you are correct that that falls entirely on Adobe and the browser. One of the most difficult parts of an attack like this is to get people to actually "run" th
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by granos 11y ago
You can't agree to a contract by inaction. I suspect that whether Apple violates his copyright would come down to exactly how they implemented the system. If they pulled posts directly from his servers they would probably be ok. If the
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by granos 11y ago
Also, even it were provably true that some hash algorithm has this property, we would have to implement it properly. That requires the algorithm itself as well as all of its dependencies to be implemented properly. It's very easy to ma
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by granos 11y ago
But they don't control the IP for the actual boost circuitry. Thats trivially easy to do. And from the comments in this thread it seems like lots of electronics already do it.

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