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by josho 12y ago
That's interesting. A computer hits a pedestrian, then presumably the algorithms are updated and the probability of that scenario playing out again drops to 0. While A human hits a pedestrian, and that scenario is likely to never occur
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by josho 12y ago
Nice. I should have known to spend 5 minutes looking for a gem instead of writing a comment. I suppose the parent could have done the same before writing their ENV wrapping and a blog post. ;)
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by josho 12y ago
At this point I think they are ready for a minor refactoring to name their code with what it's actually doing, ie. they aren't wrapping env, they are configuring their system, so let's have a Configuration class. For getting
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by josho 12y ago
This is exactly what will happen. During the transition you will still be able to use mag swipe, then after some period the reader will force the use of the chip and only use mag swipe as a fallback when a chip error occurs. I suspect after
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by josho 12y ago
The roll out for chip and pin in Canada started the same, but within the last year, I've found mag only readers to be extremely rare.
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by josho 12y ago
”someone can send a message straight to your base station to operate the camera in your phone, and the firewall will show you that the camera has been actuated [even though] the user hasn’t pressed a button to do it.” You've got to b
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by josho 12y ago
The article notes the $1 billion spent to deploy the machines, and later states that these machines are no longer in use. What is left unsaid is the cost to deploy the machines that replaced this model–suggesting another billion spent on mo
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by josho 12y ago
Good point, but rewriting the TCP stack has the upside of not relying on your vendors to provide the functionality. Presumably pushing this down commoditizes the service, which may not have value for you but it does for others.
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by josho 12y ago
I'm seriously considering framing your post. It is refreshing to receive reminders that working harder to consume more products does not make us happier.
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by josho 12y ago
I love this. But, am saddened that the troll hasn't lost. The troll is free to move on to the next mark, which likely won't have a free legal team behind them. I wonder if invalidating patents, that trolls commonly use, a good use
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by josho 12y ago
This is beyond a technology problem. For example, even with encryption everywhere we leak metadata about ourselves. Recent discussions here and elsewhere have shown the value of metadata. Further, at some point data needs to be decrypted fo
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by josho 12y ago
I wonder if we are experiencing the typical adoption curve of security. That is, a technology arrives, we rush to adopt. Then over time we become aware of the consequences of this new technology (eg. loss of privacy) and legislation/po
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by josho 12y ago
What Americans don't understand is that their democracy is a joke. -Real democracies don't suffer from gerrymandering. -Real democracies have a free media that will challenge their government (the US news agencies are controlled b
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by josho 12y ago
Wow. There is a fortune to be made for a company to support a commercial fork of this project, as there are a tonne of corporations locked into IBM mainframes. If this z/Os emulator does it right it might just be a pathway for those c
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by josho 12y ago
I like the way you think. The problem is that it is quite expensive to invalidate a patent. In fact anything to do with a patent is quite expensive, which is part of the problem itself. As to file a strong patent that can't easily be w
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by josho 12y ago
I appreciate your offer to help, but I won't be providing that detail. But, for the spirit of the discussion assume that it is similar to what the EFF described in their article. But, to make the exercise a bit more fun!? Don't re
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by josho 12y ago
I enjoy this forum as we can have an intelligent discourse. I appreciate your concern for my situation, but remind you that most folks here are pretty smart, so please remember that before calling people brazen and implying they don't
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by josho 12y ago
We are examining the patent in detail and finding ways that we can workaround the claims. The claims are wrapped in industry jargon and detail, so we feel we can add or remove steps to get around it. But, the core point is the patent did no
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by josho 12y ago
In my startup we are knowingly violating two other companies patents and it scares me. The patents are stupid (tagging a photo--ie. circle part of a photo to highlight where something is, and the second is adding GPS data to a record, so th
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by josho 12y ago
Accountability in society has been lost. What I don't understand is why we tolerate this. Are we all really too busy with status updates and mindless entertainment not to give a damn and demand it again? It's an interesting sign o
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by josho 12y ago
This reminds me of a Microsoft research paper* "It’s hard to blame users for not being interested in SSL and certificates when (as far as we can determine) 100% of all certificate errors seen by users are false positives." * http
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by josho 12y ago
I like your example better, because the energy utilities are quite similar to communications with active monopolies in some regions, a regulated environment, and huge infrastructure investments. With energy the infrastructure is regulated,
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by josho 12y ago
I think you give Microsoft too much credit. But, you correctly identified the importance of this case. Interestingly, I predict that if your outcome were to happen then Google will rapidly invest in Gmail to turn it into more than an email
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by josho 12y ago
Now it all makes sense. This HN crowd views the world as paying $20/mth for Xgb of data. But, the companies fighting against becoming dumb pipes much prefer to charge $5/mth for a base data plan, plus the $12 unlimited social pa
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by josho 12y ago
Wow, that is incredibly selective quoting! From the same article "Sea levels are obviously rising...the key problem is that sea level rise is likely to accelerate". The article describes that in the short term, bigger waves are le
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by josho 12y ago
I've been tempted to one up this approach by running a local DNS server that will direct all those ad hosts to a local server, then write a simple web app that will handle all those requests by serving up motivational quotes instead of
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by josho 12y ago
Your comment suggests that there is an expectation that police should have the ability to catch these guys. I find that ridiculous. Have you all really become that paranoid that a harmless prank needs to find justice because 'what if i
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by josho 12y ago
I remember back in the Sam Palmisano days (mid to late 2000s) watching him present in an internal all hands meeting (I'm a past Software Group IBM employee). He spoke briefly about mainframe margins, he didn't state numbers, but b
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by josho 12y ago
So, I guess this means Cuban has no stake in Apple & Google to name a few?
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by josho 12y ago
Cuban's not arguing this from an ethics perspective. He's saying that it may temporarily boost shareholder value, but the trade off is increasing his personal tax liability (he's assuming the tax shortfall will be made up by

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