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by gvb 9y ago
Not likely. If the cables are short you might get away with it but not likely. The problem you will have is that the signals require high bandwidth and the cables are carefully designed to have low crosstalk, high immunity to noise (both vi
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by gvb 9y ago
The key is that it's somebody else's problem, not yours.
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by gvb 9y ago
His recommendation is based on the USA consumer protection laws so it may or may not apply in other countries. For credit cards, US law limits your personal liability to $50 (typically $0). "Under the FCBA, your liability for unauthori
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Kaspersky: Yes, we obtained NSA secrets. No, we didn’t help steal them(arstechnica.com)
166 points by gvb 9y ago|126 comments
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by gvb 9y ago
I started at 17 (Basic on a terminal via a dialup modem to a mainframe). Physically, I age linearly n . Mentally, I age logarithmically 17 + ln( n ).
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by gvb 9y ago
Likely the source was used to build an object library which then got linked in to form the executable. If the library Just Worked, there would be no reason to rebuild it.
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by gvb 9y ago
Linux too. Chrome was eating all my ram to the point where my laptop was dogging down horribly, sometime even swapping (excruciating). FF is fast and much lighter on RAM. My laptop is fast again. Thanks, Mozilla!
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by gvb 9y ago
At one point I wondered how seawater killed you since there isn't anything (directly) toxic in it. Your kidneys excrete the excess salt you ingest. The problem is, sea water has higher salinity than the kidneys can excrete so your kidn
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by gvb 9y ago
It has no horn?! "What Makes for a Street Legal Vehicle?" Horn – It may not seem the most important piece of safety equipment, and many big cities even limit how it can be used, but to be street legal every vehicle must have a ho
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USS McCain collision ultimately caused by UI confusion(arstechnica.com)
6 points by gvb 9y ago|0 comments
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by gvb 9y ago
UPC is a product code (what it is). Bunnie's blockchain code is a serial number that is (theoretically) impossible to guess or fake. This prevents scammers from guessing/faking serial numbers to scam him out of product.
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by gvb 9y ago
So what is the downside to using a VPN if you're aware that they aren't foolproof vs not using a VPN at all? The downside in a nutshell: "Researchers recently tested 300 free VPN apps on Google Play and found that nearly 40
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Google Even Fear Intel ME, Reduce Their Attack Vector with NERF(phoronix.com)
48 points by gvb 9y ago|2 comments
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by gvb 9y ago
My guess is a lighter weight (than Lua, Python, JS) embed-able language. A quick build creates a .so that is bigger than lua as reported below, but that is a naive and probably invalid comparison metric. make DEBUG=0 STATIC=0 USE_MALL
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by gvb 9y ago
The article is aggravatingly short on details. It looks like the MIT sensor this is based on is: http://news.mit.edu/2016/wireless-wearable-toxic-gas-detecto...
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by gvb 9y ago
Correlation of confession vs. firing != causation. He very likely was going to be fired either way; the public apology was likely his attempt to avoid being fired. From the OP: He was artistic director of a local theatre, and he came under
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Apple and GE announce deep partnership(techcrunch.com)
1 points by gvb 9y ago|0 comments
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by gvb 9y ago
I interpreted it that the plane dragged the wire in the sea in front of the minesweeper in the heading of the pilot. This would have drawn a line in the sea, as it were. That would be a totally unexpected behavior, which would give the mine
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by gvb 9y ago
I disable JavaScript on all sites and then whitelist the sites I'm willing to accept JavaScript on. The whitelisted sites are sites with whom I have an ongoing relationship. For example, HN which uses JavaScript to expand/collapse
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by gvb 9y ago
Needs to be updated for Microsoft Edge: "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/39.0.2171.71 Safari/537.36 Edge/12.0" Also, "And so Microsoft made their own web br
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History of the browser user-agent string (2008)(webaim.org)
1 points by gvb 9y ago|1 comments
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by gvb 9y ago
That is where depositions come in. Keeping all the lies consistent across time and consistent between different involved people is incredibly hard. The deposition process is used to expose those inconsistencies. “If you tell the truth, you
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by gvb 9y ago
Context: Here, the story takes a bizarre twist. The investigators visited the shredding facility twice in an effort to confirm Levandowski’s story, but when they showed Levandowski’s picture to employees, no one recognized him. Levandows
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by gvb 9y ago
The risk of minor injury (sprains, etc.) is pretty high for slides and there is some risk of serious injury (broken bones and worse). They are used when the alternative risk is death.
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by gvb 9y ago
I've gotten that but it is an unfulfilled promise. It was just another cheap trick to attempt to get me to click their link.
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by gvb 9y ago
The Art of Engineering http://www.kirkhammotorsports.com/book_aoe/aoe_22.pdf
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by gvb 9y ago
I configure all my email clients to not display external images and ask for confirmation if a RR is requested. In the gmail web browser client, that is in the general settings: (*) Ask before displaying external images
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by gvb 9y ago
From the other side of the coin, HTC sold their "seed corn[1]." Without their (premier?) phone development team, did they sell off their path to regaining phone market share? [1] http://www.thefreedictionary.com/To
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by gvb 9y ago
Broad strokes (and very simplistic) philosophy... Patents are most useful for inventions that can be easily reverse engineered. If the competition can disassemble a unit and create their own derivative from the knowledge gained, a patent bl
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by gvb 9y ago
I want to build a peer-to-peer search platform on the blockchain. How does the blockchain figure in? How are you not doing ______ "but now, with blockchain!!! " Why would an expert (presumably) sign up to answer questions from

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