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by iam-TJ 11y ago
Regarding Microsoft: The U.S. remedy of splitting Microsoft up (which was over-turned on appeal) and led to the more limited U.S. Consent decree doesn't negate the findings of fact: "Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson issued his findin
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I suspect one part of the rationale behind this is that as Android has gained dominance Google has moved some core API functions out of the generic AOSP source-code (which everyone can use) and into the Google Play services which require th
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If verified, the LinkedIn history [0] at least shows some expertise and progressive advancement in medical device design and manufacturer, which I don't think Theranos' CEO has. [0] https://www.linkedin.com/in&#x2F
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As the Beeching Report [0] itself states on page 6, in 1963 on gross revenues of £474.7m the total deficit was 33%; £-159.3m (net receipts £-86.9m, interest and charges £49m, capital interest £23.4m), which is 1.3% of the 1963-64 Public Spe
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Although I dislike the tone of this the underlying intention is balanced - preventing use of tax-payer funds for lobbying or seeking contracts. They can still do those things using funds from other sources. I disagree with it because in the
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I'm not arguing factory vs small-farm; the system processes imposed by factory methods can maintain consistency of production even given lower-skilled, lower-waged, less personally invested, employees. Generally though family farms are
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I was born in the mid-60s and my memories go back to 1970 when I first helped 'dress' the seed corn (wheat and barley). My grandfather was using much the same process when he began farming around 1910. Seed wheat, barley, potatoes
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It's turtles all the way down, though. How do we know that the firmware is actually erasing the block containing the encryption key? Maybe it just leaves the block/key intact and alters the NVRAM key-address to point to another bl
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Born-n-bred and live on a farm. GMOs are a form of proprietary lock-in backed by legal restrictions. The underlying problem with almost all GMOs is that they are tied to a particular chemical combination, and the seed must be re-purchased e
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'global food supply chain' is off-shoring; think of it in the same way as the mis-use of H1B visas and transferring I.T. work to low-wage economies, leaving 'local' I.T. workers out of a job. Much of the unstated benefit
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sudo /usr/bin/unattended-upgrade This will only use the ${dist}-security target. Most systems should have this installed and available. The default configuration is at: /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/5
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This is about the same report as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11436541 where I've added some links to technical documentation about this and other related projects.
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Same here, but I did figure out that the technology is a development of the existing 'Plugless' [0] by Evatran Group, Inc., and found an Idaho N.L. report dated 2014 [1] "Test Results of the PLUGLESS™ Inductive Charging Syste
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I was thinking of this in the context of trickle-charging by embedding the technology in the road at well-known bottle-necks, traffic lights, and anywhere where there is predictable very slow-moving traffic, as well as in the obvious candid
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Oak Ridge N.L. surges forward with 20-kilowatt wireless charging for vehicles(ornl.gov)
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it always helps to be paranoid!
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My aim isn't to guard against the answers being guessed, it is to deny the operator of the service asking those questions from gathering accurate data about me that may later be exposed. Someone then trying to fraudulently use my ident
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I 'time shift' each number in date of birth so neither the day, month, or year are correct. My secret key is the formula I use. For other questions I use answers that 'belong' to a friend or relative. My secret key is t
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It occurs to me if the company is that big, or that big of a target, it can manage to collect its servers directly from the manufacturer/supplier rather than rely on a third unrelated party for transportation.
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I was using the definition of 'derivative' from copyright.gov [0] The most direct quote I can lift from there is: "To be copyrightable, a derivative work must incorporate some or all of a preexisting “work” and add new origin
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Part of your comment illustrates the confusion I was seeking - and apparently failing - to point out. You wrote: "The issue is whether the conjoined pieces that Ubuntu plans to distribute constitute a single "work", for if so
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If I may I'd like to share my understanding of the technical aspects which, I feel, makes the issue easier to comprehend. It also pays to be precise and lack thereof is why so many people are confused and conflicted about the licensing
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In Debian and Ubuntu at least, all published files containing binary executable files (ISOs, .deb packages, etc.) are hashed and the hash signed by a well-known system pre-installed PGP key. Given trust in the protection of the private key
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Search uses regular expressions so generally no need for grep unless you need more complex filters; --names-only has the -n short-form: apt-cache search -n <regexp> More generally apt-get and apt-cache are designed to be backwa
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The site is at Must Hill Quarry. Previous finds include pots containing meals that were apparently abandoned when the fire started. See http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-35280290