jacobsladder

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by jacobsladder 10y ago
Criticizing Apple for deciding to remove another port, is really shallow and superficial way to spread FUD (Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt) against this large corporation. Just so we are on this page, you will _still_ be able to connect 3.5mm
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by jacobsladder 10y ago
Ok, you are right, it was naive for me to pull out this "black market" number from the ass, especially because I should know better, coming from Russia where there are many of these forums. However, I still stand behind that this
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by jacobsladder 10y ago
$1000 for the bug bounty? This is incredibly stupid! How can you make a living off that? You could make hundreds of thousands of US$ from exploiting this. You could sell it on the black market. I am surprised that most of the corporations,
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by jacobsladder 10y ago
Then why do you admire them? Would you also admire them if you were their investor? Dropbox management is obligated by law to act in the best interests of their shareholders, i.e. to make them as much profit as possible. It's more like
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by jacobsladder 10y ago
Why does this guy hates cats so much?
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by jacobsladder 10y ago
I don't think so. I use Linux a lot as advanced user now, and I definitely appreciate what it has to offer, but if I was forced to use Linux before, it would have been a disaster. There are just so many programming applications that al
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by jacobsladder 10y ago
I don't understand why couldn't the immigrant family just get a pirate Windows? Torrents are standard solutions to people who have no money to purchase software. They break the law, but the risk of prosecution is slim to none, so
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by jacobsladder 10y ago
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by jacobsladder 10y ago
Sorry it looks like a flooding, but to add to that, having program self-check itself is also unnecessarily ties the program to its usecase in the radiation environment, it creates unnecessary strong dependency to its execution environment,
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by jacobsladder 10y ago
To clarify, each piece of the puzzle must do what it is expected to do, otherwise it will be hacky. It's not expected for C++ program to detect its underlying hardware problems, there are no tools, nothing for that. So any solution wou
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by jacobsladder 10y ago
Doing any modification to the source code to prevent this is not a good design. C/C++ is not designed for this use case, so it's going to create a mess if one will try to work around this. This might lead to similar problems that