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by jonhendry 14y ago
If MIT does research related to military/defense technology, the possibility that such information was involved is probably enough to get the Feds interested, especially in the beginning.
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by jonhendry 14y ago
Never happen. The crazy right-wingers will see it as a another "sign" of the UN trying to take over the US.
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by jonhendry 14y ago
The US Gov also asks for the number they do have, the EIN. "Why d&b" Because it's the biggest database, and is international in scope. A local company providing services to a US Embassy or military base overseas is probably in the DUNS
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by jonhendry 14y ago
Apple can't provide the number. It's not their database. The number itself isn't the issue, it's what it represents: that your business is recorded in a large and reputable database of international businesses that is in widespread use by c
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by jonhendry 14y ago
They used D&B because D&B has by far the largest international database of businesses, and DUNS numbers have been around since the 60s. Many government agencies internationally require DUNS numbers if you want to do business with th
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by jonhendry 14y ago
Current brain-computer interfaces have 96 needle-like electrodes, so can interface with 96 neurons. That produces an enormous amount of data at the sampling rates used, but is already being used for things like controlling robot arms. In 7.
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by jonhendry 14y ago
I'm not sure how you'd prove the theory that dinosaurs were cold-blooded, short of taking the rectal temp of a Stegosaur. But you could falsify the theory by finding characteristics incompatible with being exothermic. Finding the dinosaurs
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by jonhendry 14y ago
Given the source, I can't help but suspect there's an underlying desire to willfully misunderstand how science works in order to dismiss all research that could be used to support or justify regulation. Hey, you never know, maybe in ten yea
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by jonhendry 14y ago
The upshot of the article is that little should ever be published unless you have perfect information and understanding about the subject. No publishing on DNA until we know everything, etc.
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by jonhendry 14y ago
Several of these are things that were the good-faith best effort at the time based on available knowledge and/or technology. (DNA, cold-blooded dinosaurs, star size limits, etc). I don't much like the depiction of scientific knowledge as "m
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by jonhendry 14y ago
"I don't suppose there's any harm in loading your children up with trivial knowledge, but I would certainly put more effort into teaching them thinking skills than specific knowledge." I find that kids are like sponges for details like name
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by jonhendry 14y ago
Learning the names with the dinosaurs seems harmless, as long as he also learns that sometimes they change, or were based on an erroneous assumption and the named creature didn't actually exist. Dinosaur names change or get dropped, only be
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by jonhendry 14y ago
The curved mirror exhibits distortion at the edges, which doesn't seem to be a problem with the two-mirror approach. Also the curved mirror doesn't present the image at full size, it appears smaller.
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by jonhendry 14y ago
"The more people are sharing existing child porn, the less profit there is to be made in producing new material." a) the producers aren't necessarily driven by a profit motive b) it's not like they spend a lot on sets and crew and equipment
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by jonhendry 14y ago
"Here's a proposal. Mere possession should be legal, as Falkvinge argues. What should be illegal is purchasing child porn." Really? Why focus on purchase, when sharing is just as bad as far as incentivizing people producing new material to
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by jonhendry 14y ago
And lots of Chinese mass production.
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by jonhendry 14y ago
"if we had the technology to recover data after it's been overwritten, we'd be using that technology to double hard disk capacities." If we have the technology, then like an electron microscope, it might not be feasible to implement at a si
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by jonhendry 14y ago
We didn't have large coastal cities with millions of inhabitants then.
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by jonhendry 14y ago
Sad pie. The DX is better for reading technical books, where things like code listings look better if they're not line-wrapped to hell and back.
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by jonhendry 14y ago
There's a minor hack that lets you use your own images. I don't know if it'll work as-is with the new devices, or if it needs to be updated.
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by jonhendry 14y ago
"But seriously, one side of the screen or the other? Haven't they heard that people hold the Nexus 7 with one hand while reading - and not always the same hand? If I'm holding it with my left hand, it's not easy to get my thumb all the way
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by jonhendry 14y ago
Kindles also go into screen saver mode after a while.
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by jonhendry 14y ago
Perhaps because if it's profit, then it's not going to the cause you're supposedly trying to help.
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by jonhendry 14y ago
"64-bit memory read. The source register contains a 32-bit byte address, which must be phrase aligned. The destination register will have the low long-word loaded into it, the high long-word is available in the high-half register. This appl
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by jonhendry 14y ago
"Comments like this do not add to the discussion." You'd have a point if that was the extent of the response.
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by jonhendry 14y ago
Yeah, the bounce-back really bugs me in contexts like OS X's Finder. I think I'd prefer some other kind of feedback.
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by jonhendry 14y ago
"Why would anyone care that someone else has purchased a cheap knock off of something he owned?" It could lead the manufacturer of the original product to end support for it, or to even go out of business.
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by jonhendry 14y ago
It's more of a problem with screenshots you didn't create yourself.
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by jonhendry 14y ago
If it stops one long-since-debunked urban legend from being propagated via a screenshot of an old, relative-dated post, it's probably worthwhile.
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by jonhendry 14y ago
Agreed.

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