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721.
Large German lobby organization supports ban on Bitcoins(forum.bitcoin.org)
33 points by gst 15y ago|30 comments
722.
by gst 15y ago
Offtopic: Btw, does someone know why the "reply" links are missing on some posts (such as the parent post)? Is this a bug? At least it works when "manually" opening the respective URL for a reply.
723.
by gst 15y ago
Right, cold boot attacks would also apply to suspend-to-disk. But currently I do not really worry about this scenario, as it seems that cold boot attacks are only feasible if you get access to the hardware within several minutes after it ha
724.
by gst 15y ago
That's my main reason for using suspend-to-disk instead of suspend-to-ram. With suspend-to-disk Linux allows me to save the RAM image to the encrypted harddisk. With suspend-to-ram it would be pretty easy to work around the encryption.
725.
by gst 15y ago
Similar ideas have been around for quite some time: http://frozencache.blogspot.com/
726.
by gst 15y ago
IIRC the German government stated that at least in the short to mid-term they'd offset the main part of the decrease in energy production with additional coal power plants. I doubt that that's a good move...
727.
by gst 15y ago
"Londoners apparently do not feel comfortable being driven by a non-living thing." Does not surprise me. Most Europeans have not even adapted to automatic transmission in cars, and still believe that a human can switch gears better with man
728.
by gst 15y ago
The unlocked and unbranded HTC Android phones that I bought so far did not have any locked bootloader. E.g., on my HTC Wildfire there was some kind of engineering bootloader preinstalled. Carrier-branded HTC phones are locked down, but IMO
729.
by gst 15y ago
I'm not sure if this is sufficient. It seems that most of the seized domains have been registered with US-based registrars, but some of them have been registered with foreign registrars. So either those foreign registrars complied to US gov
730.
by gst 15y ago
I don't really care about the price, but the fact that you can't get the 13" version with the antiglare option. I have my laptop in the backback all the time and the 15" and 17" versions are just too large and too heavy.
731.
by gst 15y ago
With a matte screen you have your thin matte layer directly over the screen. The matte layer itself offers no protection. So if something hits a little bit too hard against the screen, your screen will look like this: http://goo.gl/qSQxl
732.
by gst 15y ago
The only valid argument that I'd find for glossy screens is that you can build them more robust than matte screens. For example, it's much easier to clean the glass on the new Macbooks compared to a matte screen, which you wouldn't clean wi
733.
by gst 15y ago
It's not the input (= work) that counts, but the output (results) that you get. A year has 52 weeks. If I take 5 weeks of vacation per year that's 10% of the time that I have. So I will be 10% less productive (if I ignore increased producti
734.
by gst 15y ago
I guess that depends on the country. Here in Austria it's the norm to take all 5 weeks of holidays you get each year. If you don't take all of them you can either roll them over to the next year or have your unused days "paid for" by the em
735.
by gst 15y ago
Do you currently have any open positions? ;)
736.
by gst 15y ago
I can only agree. I plan to move to SF in the following months, but this is one of the issues why I think that I won't stay there permanently, but will move back to Europe after a few years.
737.
by gst 15y ago
Do US employers (especially startups) typically agree to agree to offer unpaid vacations? Or are those 0 to 10 or 15 days really a hard limit?
738.
by gst 15y ago
I currently live in Vienna, Austria. Besides lots of public holidays you get 25 vacation days per year and unlimited sick days independent from the vacation days. If you don't take your vacation days your employer must pay you for them, so
739.
by gst 15y ago
The new idea about .bit is that you have a decentralized system able to securely assign names to different participants. With existing systems the name is basically the hash of a public key which is not really that easy to remember or to us
740.
by gst 15y ago
The only "registry" today that is secure against such attacks is .bit. It uses a concept similar to Bitcoin, but instead of "mining" coins you get domain names. .bit is not available over the official root servers, to access .bit names you
741.
by gst 15y ago
This should not be a checkbox, but it should be the default. And that's exactly what Wuala is doing.
742.
by gst 15y ago
In my opinion one of the main advantages of Diaspora over alternatives is marketing and the hype around it. From a pure engineering standpoint I think that products such as http://onesocialweb.org/ are a much better solution.
743.
by gst 15y ago
I don't know if this is related, but the SRV record _xmpp-server._tcp.aol.com resolves to xmpp.gxmpp.oscar.aol.com. Might it be possible that AIM will also federate with other XMPP servers?
744.
by gst 15y ago
Yes, Firewire also uses DMA, but hardly anyone uses Firewire anymore :) And even the people who still use Firewire typically don't use it to connect to third-party devices (such as projectors). With USB I must to admit that I'm not 100% sur
745.
by gst 15y ago
Because Thunderbolt is basically an extension of the PCI bus. This means that the protocol _is_designed_ to grant full memory access to external devices (in fact that's the way how the DMA data transfer in Thunderbolt works). With other pro
746.
by gst 15y ago
From a security perspective Thunderbolt is one of the worst things that can happen. Imagine being a speaker at a conference where you use your own laptop for a presentation and where (at some point in the future) the projector only has a Th
747.
by gst 15y ago
I guess it's a simply off-by-one error. Most likely they are reading the file data into buffers of size 128, but then only compare the first 127 characters of each buffer (e.g., because they use < instead of <= in their loop).
748.
by gst 15y ago
Don't forget that this info page was written something like 20 years ago - or even earlier. At this time security requirements where completely different than today and it was not unusual for everyone in a lab to have root access to the mac
749.
by gst 15y ago
I don't have the same issue as the original poster, but I also experience some issues with SPDY that don't seem to be a problem with HTTP: For example, my ISP here in Austria drops my IP connection each 8 hours. After reconnecting a new dyn
750.
by gst 15y ago
IMO XMPP/Jingle is the best alternative: - Open standard - Supports federation between different servers - Open source cllients available - Also integrated into GMail (that's the technology that is used when you do a voice or video call) -

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