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by jaakl 13y ago
that can happen also with physical voting. I have personal experience (years ago) that I was sysadmin of voting result calculations machine, and I was asked to change some numbers to fit them to the calculation system, as some vote counters
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by jaakl 13y ago
Is there any reason why this new physical level infrastructure would not be wiretapped by NSA right away?
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by jaakl 13y ago
What does this really mean: "as long as it's not illegal to host it"? This site is globally accessible, but legal rules are local. If you host something which is illegal say in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (not that hard to do), a
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OpenStreetMap creates and distributes free geographic data for the world(wiki.openstreetmap.org)
222 points by jaakl 13y ago|65 comments
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by jaakl 13y ago
It does not really resolve problem for the fully paranoid. Instead (and in addition to) of service providers the backdoors could be installed to your software, Raspberry Pi, or even to silicon. There is small number of providers of any of t
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by jaakl 13y ago
The query sample is interesting: it seems to be find objects (locations) nearby given point. But there is CPU-only solution to index the data properly and have 1000x faster response times: PostGIS. So if before you threw more CPU/RAM if you
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by jaakl 14y ago
Sometimes it seems that some think that the world biggest problem is that there are too few people on earth. No, it is not. We are killing our ecosystem already now. These other human problems like child mortality, poverty etc are of course
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by jaakl 14y ago
I must admit I have the hobby thingy.
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Use OpenStreetMap in iOs6 MapKit instead of Apple maps(wiki.openstreetmap.org)
1 points by jaakl 14y ago|0 comments
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Tanker antigrounded using Google Maps?
1 points by jaakl 14y ago|0 comments
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by jaakl 14y ago
I have a story about performance of two of these. I maintain a Drupal website which under MySQL. Single server system, not very high load. But recently, last Monday it was in news and load increased some 10 fold. People started complaining
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Tutorial: Android 3D maps SDK(nutiteq.github.com)
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by jaakl 14y ago
In 2012 there is only one producer who is bold enough to come out with new laptop model without touch-screen. And still it is leading edge.
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by jaakl 15y ago
Map qualifies as "set of facts" just as much as a photograph of something is representation of a fact. So no, maps are not facts. It is quite subjective model of the world. I would say that OSM is huge collaborative piece of art, and I'm pr
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by jaakl 15y ago
It is easy to get company registered, the issue can be getting a bank account. I have seen that UK banks do not trust a company if sole Director is a foreign company, even if from another EU state. Some have told that it is easier if Direct
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by jaakl 15y ago
The market of featurephones and apps on them is way bigger than smartphone market what everyone in tech world is talking about. It is way undervalued. But there are some issues: a) no proper infrastructure/ecosystem so far. Elements like th