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by kbaker 12y ago
At least looking at its current featureset it looks much closer like it wants to be Logstash or Apache Flume, but with an included frontend. They note the deep inspiration from statsd as well. Also all communication is over UDP at the momen
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by kbaker 12y ago
But since the meter would know the current difficulty level and with the auto-adjustment of difficulty to the amount of hash power in the network, the meter would be just as secure in 25 years as it is today even with incredible advances in
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by kbaker 12y ago
Also this is an interesting link, Debian's ReproducibleBuilds effort: https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds#Why_do_we_want_re...
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by kbaker 12y ago
Also, they are receiving matching funding for the 5 million and the original 1 million raised, for a total of $12 million.
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by kbaker 12y ago
Monty links to his demo pages [1] at the end of the slides, with a good introduction to the codec if you are new to Daala (like I was.) Also, these demos are linked from the main xiph.org page as well [2]. There's more context and expl
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by kbaker 12y ago
Not sure about this one, there are lots of Bitcoin Stock Exchanges of varying trustworthiness. [1] Bitcoinstarter is also a more entrenched platform for crowd-funding... [2] [1] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Category:Stock
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by kbaker 12y ago
The problem with RFID for pallets is that the logistics space is still too decentralized. I work for a company which does a lot of custom RFID integration (we have worked with the companies in the article for tracking pallets.) First, the R
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by kbaker 12y ago
Hilarious... I liked this one linked from the article which created a patent out of the Communist Manifesto: ... Figure 1 is an isometric view of the progressive historical development of the proletariat. ... The present invention is itself
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by kbaker 12y ago
QUIC already has a lot of TLS support baked in afaik... NaCL already exists and CurveCP is a part of that, why not just add a Rust port? (and a protocol for certificate transport)
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by kbaker 12y ago
It does seem like WAAS at first glance, but I actually think they are creating their own GPS-compatible satellites: > To put it simply, with QZSS it is like the number of GPS satellites has been increased. Because QZSS has interoperabili
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by kbaker 12y ago
I don't know, if you use this hack to get through life, you end up dying after a bitter, troubled life, having never created anything - you are always hitting 'buy more stuff' instead. Hmm...
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by kbaker 13y ago
Twitch.tv is probably the biggest competitor in the gaming area... maybe even bigger than Youtube for game uploads. edit: looks like twitch is supported, definitely as well as youtube, and includes live broadcasting of gameplay... http:&#x
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by kbaker 13y ago
No, usually each manufacturer has a custom pinout for the SODIMM connector, they are not interchangeable. For that you may want to look at the Qseven standard: http://www.qseven-standard.org/ This also gives you a bump in p
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by kbaker 13y ago
No, the machine could store and reject the capsule ids that have been used to prevent this. And maybe write a 'used' bit into the tag memory to prevent its use on other machines.
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by kbaker 13y ago
Yes, and inexplicable why they carried this behavior over to Windows Server 2012. It is not likely we will see touch interfaces in rackmount servers any time soon. It is nearly impossible to hit the charms hot corner inside a windowed RDP s
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by kbaker 13y ago
I think the analogy to water or electricity billing is actually a very good one. My electricity bill shows only X kWh per month. There is no "itemization" of usage. However I can purchase watt meters that can monitor power anywher
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by kbaker 13y ago
Just make sure you don't get the v3 version... I had a WNDR3700 v1 that was working great, needed to buy another one, and didn't check that the whole radio chipset changed with v3 and is not supported. Still works well with the st
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by kbaker 13y ago
But, remember that Visa doesn't transact immediately in cash-equivalent USD either. There's no reason why they couldn't settle accounts on the merchant and consumer side using BTC instead, with equivalent convenience at the p
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by kbaker 13y ago
Yes! I love this keyboard, and use it everyday. 10-key-full though, with Cherry MX Browns (also the US layout so there's a real backslash key): http://www.keyboardco.com/keyboard/usa-filco-ninja-majestouc...
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by kbaker 13y ago
I think a big driver of ubiquity would be a transaction processor / guarantor similar to how Mastercard or Visa work on top of USD; then using BTC would be as easy as using a credit card. Why is this not an option right now? - Volatili
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by kbaker 13y ago
At the time of the talk (Feb 2011) 1 BTC was equal to 0.50 USD. Amazing that it is up 100000% in about 2 1/2 years.
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by kbaker 13y ago
I bought a Samsung ARM Chromebook to play around with and see what Chrome OS is like. It definitely has a single-purpose, very limited use case - to deliver web content. But, it does this extremely well. The good parts: Automatic syncing wi
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by kbaker 13y ago
This is their biggest issue... They have no incentive to bootstrap and provide legitimacy to what would end up becoming their biggest competitor in the future. They are stuck - they can see the short-term huge benefits and profits from bein
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by kbaker 13y ago
There is a fixed curve that determines the rate that new Bitcoins come into the Bitcoin economy. Right now, that adds 25 BTC per block (or about 3600 BTC per day, or $720,000 USD/day). The number of coins added per block halves about e
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by kbaker 13y ago
Their breath is not wasted! This is an article about securing a Linux server, and explicitly talks about adding a firewall with iptables. If it will only defend against IPv4-enabled attackers, then the server operator is at risk of leaving
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by kbaker 13y ago
There are ICs that do this negotiation already. Like the MAX14636: http://www.maximintegrated.com/datasheet/index.mvp/id/7968
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by kbaker 13y ago
Cool game, and nicely presented! I got a 250, then 400. It might be good to ask the user where they are from (non-intrusively of course, maybe a simple country selector or IP lookup) to get another dimension on the statistics. Or what langu
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by kbaker 13y ago
Idk, sounds like the year of Linux on the desktop is closer than it has ever been. :) But you should really look at Chromebooks/ChromeOS for one glimpse of what a consumer-friendly, non-MS system would really look like. Right now it is
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by kbaker 13y ago
Hi, just curious, any reason this is using Arch as a base instead of a Debian base? I understand if you want to target specifically the RPi first but I think that using Debian will make it easier to port to other arches in the future (speci
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by kbaker 13y ago
Back of the envelope, and assuming their design is the same like their board pictures posted on the kickstarter page (i.e. no PA, all RF done inside the chip): The CC1200 puts out 14 dBm [1]. Receive Sensitivity from the datasheet at 915 MH

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