grkvlt

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by grkvlt 10y ago
And, what level of threat you perceive to be relevant. For myself, I am not worried about the NSA, TSA or ICE inserting custom hardware into my devices while they are in transit...
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by grkvlt 10y ago
I don't believe we are anywhere near the physical limits of computing at all; the laws of mathematics, physics and information theory give us an enormous upper bound on capacity. There are technologies like quantum computing we haven
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by grkvlt 10y ago
If you assume USD 250k per engineer, they would need to have had more than 16 engineers working on this for the 3 months to spend more than a million on salary. So, I'm guessing they probably came out ahead on that...?
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by grkvlt 10y ago
I don't think DRM is that big of a problem for future archive access. I assume that in 50-100 years, we would simply brute-force the DRM keys in milliseconds. EDIT - Note that this assumes knowledge of the DRM algorithm. I admit the br
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by grkvlt 10y ago
Would it help to just take e.g. a kindle with a few best sellers on my international flight, and keep my uncharged/wiped/whatever devices in hold baggage? I seem to recall in the US you go through passport control _before_ retriev
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by grkvlt 10y ago
Ah yes, of course, another of those irregular verbs from 'Yes, Minister' - I have an independent mind, You are eccentric, He is round the twist...
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by grkvlt 10y ago
Sorry, a bit dense maybe, but what's 'oppositized' about it? That looks like a verbatim quote to me. EDIT: Oh, not your usage! You're suggesting people somehow haven't realised the GP was mis-quoting JFK, I guess?
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by grkvlt 10y ago
I think the image that is being tarnished here is yours... Imagine we aren't told who the astronauts are until a long time after the mission (the photos and video have their faces redacted or something) would the revelation that one of
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by grkvlt 10y ago
It's actually a good analogy. The F1 Cars (equals Apollo CSM vs. Crew Dragon 2) have much improved since the 70s, but the Tracks haven't changed and Silverstone is still Silverstone (and the Moon is still where we expect it sh
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by grkvlt 10y ago
Actually, they are Berthing [1][2] the Dragon craft with the ISS, which means something slightly different - grabbed by the thing you are connecting to and pulled in, vs. a (controlled) bumping into the thing. I believe that Nautical termi
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by grkvlt 10y ago
Oh, you really do! The format for COM object based documents like XLS and DOC is actually a FAT filesystem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compound_File_Binary_Format
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by grkvlt 10y ago
Berate whoever was wrong mercilessly, of course
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by grkvlt 10y ago
> Amstrad in UK had its own DOS I remember my PC-1512 (XT clone with 512 Kb RAM, two 5.25" floppies and a mono CGA monitor) and it came with MS-DOS 3.x and DR-DOS boot floppies and also included the GEM window manager. I believe the
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by grkvlt 10y ago
I believe this is essentially what The Guardian is set up to do, being owned by the Scott Trust [1][2] rather than normal shareholders. Assuming you agree with their politics, it is possible to support them by becoming a member [3] with a m
615.
by grkvlt 10y ago
It always intrigues me how people manage to persuade themselves, or get the impression, that country X or city Y has more attractive women than anywhere else. I guess it's a 'Grass is always greener...' effect?
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by grkvlt 10y ago
Well, Rolex PR department didn't invite the blog to tour their factories just because they were feeling generous that week. However it's difficult to write about things that people want to buy without advertising them, in some sen
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by grkvlt 10y ago
The fact that it is an international border makes all searches reasonable by definition, I believe.
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by grkvlt 10y ago
> very accessible overview of particle physics in 2016 In general, Symmetry is an excellent site; they describe themselves as "An online magazine about particle physics" and are funded by the US Department of Energy, via Fermil
619.
by grkvlt 10y ago
Or, maybe you forget which directory you are in, and delete the wrong one that way: `rm -rf ../*` when you think you're in `/mnt/work/grkvlt/tmp` but are actually in `/mnt/work/grkvlt` at the tim
620.
by grkvlt 10y ago
Sadly, with these new Iridium satellites, the 'Iridium Flare' phenomenon of a bright flash visible in the sky when the old satellites passed through sunlight and reflected it downwards when overhead, will no longer occur. I liked
621.
by grkvlt 10y ago
SpaceX has landing pads (see LZ-1 at the Cape) on land as well, and used one for a successful landing already. For the Falcon Heavy launcher there have been plans reported for two, or maybe all three, of the stage one cores to return to the
622.
by grkvlt 10y ago
NASA did operate the STS throughout the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s though, which landed and re-used, albeit expensively, the orbital space-plane component.
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by grkvlt 10y ago
Was that PRESTEL, maybe? Did you ever take advantage of the ability to have the modem train as the server side of a 1200/75 connection? That way, you could upload at the blistering speed of 1200 baud, with the downside of trying to n
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by grkvlt 10y ago
In SQL, 'NULL <> NULL' is true as well, you have to use 'NULL IS NULL' instead, so the concept has a long and somewhat respectable pedigree...
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by grkvlt 10y ago
Apart from the cited situations mentioned in the article, you mean, like: > In Seoul, South Korea, a speeding up in traffic around the city was seen when a motorway was removed as part of the Cheonggyecheon restoration project. It also m
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by grkvlt 10y ago
Yes, that seems like a much more useful takeaway (at least, assuming that the usual standard of GP care is better than a sugar-pill placebo twice daily; shouting things at a brick wall; playing with kittens; and even 'folk' remedi
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by grkvlt 10y ago
What? I'd be willing to bet the T&Cs have a section along the lines of "Amazon is not liable for accidental purchases made by the user, minors, exceptionally realistic sounding parrots, or other unauthorized persons that are i
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by grkvlt 10y ago
One thing I hate is when I say 'OK, Google' and my watch, phone and tablet all try and respond! I wish it was possible to customise the trigger phrase between devices in some standard way, e.g. 'OK, Watch', 'OK, Pho
629.
by grkvlt 10y ago
I also like the new Canadian passport pages, which have clever highlighting under UV light [0] and this Hungarian EUR 20 note is inspired, with UV light showing the skeletal structure of the pictured bird [1] but sadly its just a mock-up fr
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by grkvlt 10y ago
Not as cool as Finland, though. Their passport design features a moose on each page, which doubles as a flip-book animation of it walking! See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ym4v2TBJwuI

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