halomru

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by halomru 10y ago
>sales cold calls, though... you know people are going to do it. It is their job. Sales cold calls are illegal in my country and happen to me once every few years. My email address isn't so lucky. >Sure, junk mail is annoying and
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by halomru 10y ago
GPUs and i7 CPUs have radically different design philosophies. The i7 has great performance per core and giant caches, while the GPU has lots of (relatively) slow cores with tiny caches, and effectively only SIMD-instructions. For simple, h
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by halomru 10y ago
Possession seems to be a very nebulous concept in English and US law (probably because of their common law systems). In contrast, German law defines possession as "having effective control" (with some more nuance obviously). Posse
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by halomru 10y ago
At some point between 1982 and the late nineties ;) replaced :-) as the joke indicator. But with modern WhatsApp rendering ;) as a suggestive grin instead of a simple wink I imagine the current generation of teenagers has found a new innoce
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by halomru 10y ago
SQL (at least the subset used for querying and modifying data) contains no physical knowledge either. In a SELECT-query a physical table and a logical view look and behave the same. If you only give your users access to views instead of phy
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by halomru 10y ago
>paying well (i.e., actually being a good place to work). I don't think good pay and good place to work are synonymous in any way. They happen to be correlated because both are methods to attract talent, but one does not cause the o
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by halomru 10y ago
Sure, it's great in that one metric. But annoying me with the offer to get a bunch of emails I don't want isn't making me like your site. Even if I was the odd one and nobody else would mind those pop-ups: In the context of m
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by halomru 10y ago
>What would be the economic incentive towards carrying out a sufficiently complex MITM attack on a blog or a newsfeed? Injecting ads is a relatively harmless but hugely profitable application we are already seeing. On the more serious si
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by halomru 10y ago
Having the checksumming system unmodifiable would be similar to disallowing modification of speedometer and odometer. Important measurement instruments were always kind of a special case. You could use this to limit modification of some cru
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by halomru 10y ago
>This is because of the widespread assumption that anything that goes over port 80 is HTTP 1.1, which makes some middle-boxes interfere with or destroy traffic when any other protocols are used on that port. I'm not convinced that&#
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by halomru 10y ago
That's simply to give web developers another incentive to use TLS. There is no real technical reason beyond that. >any resource, even an image, being loaded from an insecure endpoint results in a warning By nessesity, unsecured reso
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by halomru 10y ago
> how do you expect a cop to run a hash sum on the vehicle software Any flash chip that holds vehicle software gets a tiny hardware component that once a minute hashes the entire memory and broadcasts the checksum over the car's mes
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by halomru 10y ago
By far not everyone modifying a car is a skilled mechanic. Many are, but by the same logic most people modifying car software will be skilled programmers. >software modifications are pretty impossible to detect I think there are two clas
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by halomru 10y ago
No, but neither can anyone else. I can't proof that the neutral network always behaves correctly, but with testing and statistics you can verify the network up to a chosen certainty (below 100% obviously). Or you can actively search
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by halomru 10y ago
>there is the problem of people modifying the software of their car, which should not. One should not just tinker with the algorithms used to control the engine, breaking and stability control. Why is that a problem that has to be solved
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by halomru 10y ago
Where JQuery was once a necessity for building complex dynamic crossbrowser web pages, on today's browsers the popular parts of JQuery mostly just make the syntax sightly shorter and fix tiny inconsistencies. JQuery functionality is fo
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by halomru 10y ago
>Otherwise, to minimize resource usage, let's all give up on civilization and go back to caves. We can't go back, unless we are willing to kill off most of the population. If we give up just one hundred years of technology we h
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by halomru 10y ago
>there are no algorithm changes (otherwise the results would be different Insertionsort, Mergesort and Timsort are three wildly different algorithms with different speeds, but on every possible input they produce the exact same result
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by halomru 10y ago
That depends on what you are trying to achieve with the locks? I think most cases where the lock would be actually useful could be covered with tamper-evident stickers. (You seal the zippers, TSA reseals with their own stickers)
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by halomru 10y ago
PNG is a very nice, extensible container format. In principle you can use it to store arbitrary image data, and still make use of all established metadata fields. In practice you probably shouldn't do that without changing the file ext
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by halomru 10y ago
Well, NSA's mission is foreign intelligence and counter intelligence. Fighting crime isn't related to their tasks at all. And I would really prefer if it stayed that way.
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by halomru 10y ago
>And it was legal for people to send this image to others, and to post it online unhindered Even if child pornography were legal, that doesn't remove all laws about personality rights. You can't make and freely distribute any p
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by halomru 10y ago
Not sure if you're serious? The fitness band doesn't store your SSH keys, but with a heartbeat sensor, GPS and an accelerometer it allows unprecedented insights in your daily life (your heartbeat accelerated inside the maternity w
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by halomru 10y ago
>I don't know how you make something capable of user interaction AND immune to keys, pocket fuzz and soapy water. It's a tall order. One consumer device that has consistently delivered that is the waterproof, rugged feature pho
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by halomru 10y ago
With all other words relating to absence of negation English uses the "binary toggle" interpretation (which is only binary as long as the described concept is binary). For example "Nobody is never not doing it" is equiva
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by halomru 10y ago
But if the shape of embedded in the text, font choice becomes meaningless. > undue effort on every computer maker, ect, to keep up. The effort to update the font files every few years? Unless you insist on supporting a new Unicode versio
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by halomru 10y ago
Emoji are widely used in text such as instant messages and forum posts. They are mostly in Unicode for use in SMS, but there are plenty of use cases in other forms of text.
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by halomru 10y ago
With a VPS-self-hosted VPN all your connections to the outside originate from a static, unique, unshared IP, making it trivial to track and correlate your behavior across all protocols. Instead of containable identifiers like cookies, your
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by halomru 10y ago
>what the end user is satisfied with as instant (maybe <1min). There's a number of thresholds you can hit: 5 minutes: this is taking a while, better grab a coffee 1 minute: this is taking a while, I can let my thoughts drift a bi
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by halomru 10y ago
>I needed a bigger kick in the butt to try something else At least in Germany Open Streetmaps has vastly better maps than Google Maps. On a global scale Google or Bing maps are very consistent while OSM depends on the local community, bu

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