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Bruce Schneier: Refuse to be terrorized(schneier.com)
152 points by iwr 16y ago|40 comments
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by iwr 16y ago
Still, I don't see how the photons would be travelling at different velocities in the same medium.
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by iwr 16y ago
Photons move at c in all frames of reference.
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by iwr 16y ago
So reading more about this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photon_gas , it looks like a scenario where a blackbody container was created, with a Boltzmann "temperature" peak equal to the energy level of the incident photons. Thus, all absor
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by iwr 16y ago
What does "temperature" mean with regard to photons? A photon has an energy level given by its wavelength or frequency. But temperature is a macroscopic phenomenon (equivalent to the kinetic energy of a group of particles).
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by iwr 16y ago
Once you JOIN Oracle, you have to abide by their referential constraints, otherwise the general employee database will TRIGGER a DELETE on your records.
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by iwr 16y ago
Other factors have to be considered as well. The wealthy or super-wealthy (individuals or companies) are usually more mobile. A middle-class, working individual, with a mortgage, is pinned down to a greater degree. It also depends on the mo
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by iwr 16y ago
Already posted: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1937059
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by iwr 16y ago
1. The HP CEO, Mark Hurd was forced to resign by his board. 2. Larry Ellison welcomes Hurd to join as co-CEO of Oracle. 3. HP sues Hurd for supposedly breaking the time-limited non-compete clause in his severance deal. 4. Ellison promises r
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by iwr 16y ago
At least it's not XSLT (technically Turing complete).
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by iwr 16y ago
Second rule of Apple: one button and no more. If you need more, just use the on-screen buttons.
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by iwr 16y ago
Are you aware of these square-hole adaptors being sold with standard drilling kits?
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by iwr 16y ago
So in theory, a compact enough data store could have an explosive potential.
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by iwr 16y ago
The shock meter could be certified and sealed by NIST or an agreed third party. The delivery company could then advertise as "the world leaders in package handling". Insurance companies would have a stake in this as well.
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by iwr 16y ago
The configuration would be saved in Flash memory and loaded at boot time. Also, you'd need to reboot the FPGA each time a new configuration would be written in. I am not yet aware of FPGA-like chip architecture that can be reconfigured dyna
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by iwr 16y ago
Leprosy is slightly contagious, but significant over very long exposures.
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by iwr 16y ago
While the notion is simple, the math is not.
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by iwr 16y ago
The idea that medieval people believed in a flat Earth is not true. The shape and approximate size of the Earth was knowm since ancient times (3rd century BC). Columbus was not turned down at first because people believed he'd fall off the
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by iwr 16y ago
I wonder why package monitors are not a standard equipment. The monitor would comminucate wirelessly through encrypted channels. Once at the delivery location, the customer may inspect the package logs and he could refuse delivery, or deman
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by iwr 16y ago
If the citizens can't be mustered to pay taxes, then that too is a condemnation of the state. Note that countries with high levels of corruption also tend to have high tax evasion among the tax base.
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by iwr 16y ago
The greater idea would be that free people should not be forced to go and wage aggressive war. If a political entity decides in favor of war and there is conscription, individuals can't legally refuse if they disagree. Sure, aggressive wars
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by iwr 16y ago
What did you use for server-side JS? It's not a common option for app development.
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by iwr 16y ago
While flying twice as high as passanger aircraft, the sonic boom would still be a problem with the Concorde. The restriction would be greatly reduced with a suborbital plane, which cruises outside the atmosphere.
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by iwr 16y ago
This may sound harsh, but an army of slaves (i.e. conscripts) is incompatible with a free country. If the citizens can't be mustered to volunteer in its defense, the current state as a social organization becomes obsolete. Granted, there ar
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by iwr 16y ago
Is it really that big of a secret when some party is "fucking a country really bad"? The fact that a politician was heard saying it should not have changed things. The level of debt, regulations and taxation is pretty much public knowledge.
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by iwr 16y ago
Would this also mean new C programming libraries for the FPGA?
177.
by iwr 16y ago
Couldn't scientific journals, or journal databases like Springer Link make the data behind papers available?
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TSA workers are stressed out(today.msnbc.msn.com)
2 points by iwr 16y ago|0 comments
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by iwr 16y ago
You could write a wrapper that outputs SAX events to predetermined files or named pipes, say, selectable as command line arguments; for instance, the startElement event could be outputted to startElement.txt. Then your script can monitor th
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by iwr 16y ago
You don't need to build the entire document tree in memory. You just have to use a sequential parser like SAX or StAX.

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