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Excuse Me Sir, Would You Like to Buy a Kilo of Isopropyl Bromide? (1977) [pdf](library.sciencemadness.org)
89 points by keenerd 12y ago|6 comments
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by keenerd 12y ago
India uses A5/0: http://tech.firstpost.com/news-analysis/gsm-india-26616.html Blackberry threatened with suspension because of encryption: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/igeneration/blackberry
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by keenerd 12y ago
Cut the stubby antenna down to 68 millimeters and it will do even better. Set it on a cookie sheet for more effectiveness.
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by keenerd 12y ago
> We are nowhere near US or China in mass surveillance. Just because no one else in here (or even the original article) has mentioned it: cell phone encryption is illegal in India. All GSM is done in the clear. Think about that for a
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by keenerd 12y ago
Skip to 35 minutes. Edit: Skip to 84 minutes.
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by keenerd 12y ago
The problem with traditional fundraisers is that the rewards don't align well at all with FOSS projects. I ran a fundraiser for a FOSS project and part of the reason I feel it was successful was because I put a lot of work into coming
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by keenerd 12y ago
> If they had been given the prize for their underlying work on semiconductors, that would have been a lot more valid. Like how Einstein got the Nobel for his work on the photoelectric effect? It might have been "more valid" b
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by keenerd 12y ago
https://github.com/cantino/huginn
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by keenerd 12y ago
Scaled up insects work just fine when the atmosphere has 50% extra oxygen. Birds figuratively ate them for lunch, but for several million years 70cm wingspans were not uncommon for dragonflies.
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by keenerd 12y ago
Gates actually has stated what he feels is needed to ensure our future. Eliminate all CO2 production as soon as possible. To that end he's funding TerraPower's traveling wave reactor research. (Personally I feel this has a 50&#
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by keenerd 12y ago
> There is no way how to create and sustain a sufficient atmosphere to colonize this planet. A magnetic field is not necessary for an atmosphere. Venus also has no magnetic field, four times the solar wind pressure and somehow ends up w
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by keenerd 12y ago
And OpenCSG.
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by keenerd 12y ago
> Then you could run the raspberry pi or other system as the server itself. Or use the router as the server too. A $50 router will have a USB port (higher quality than the RPi's) and a 500MHz MIPS cpu that is not too far behind the
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by keenerd 12y ago
"No mentions at all of food or meals, nor cold weather." From TFA: "He keeps all of this in cubbies under a recently installed false floor, along with some camping cooking equipment." That setup is fine for cooking which
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by keenerd 12y ago
By that reckoning, 40% of the world and 99% of your ancestors never "lived" in their homes.
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by keenerd 12y ago
I can't speak for DSLR, but I can say why Puppy Linux runs as root without disaster. (Spent a couple of years writing utilities for them.) Basically you design the system so that root has no special powers. Imagine if all of your sto
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by keenerd 12y ago
Do you consider an 85 megabyte configuration parser to be minimal?
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by keenerd 12y ago
> they just need to offer quality online education - not 10 year old material. Quality and freshness are orthogonal, at least at the undergrad level. I earned an electrical engineering degree a couple of years ago. I also collect older
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by keenerd 12y ago
That might be out of context. There were a whole lot of points where the mission could have been safely aborted had any parameter been unacceptable. Look at Apollo 10, which was identical to 11 except for turning around when the lander wa
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by keenerd 12y ago
Who cares about mass except NASA? H2 is terrible by volume, a liter of gasoline has more hydrogen in it than a liter of liquid H2 and the gasoline is a lot more safe. Some little PDFs about the hurdles of hydrogen from one of my favorite t
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by keenerd 12y ago
> I wonder if there's really no way to stop Firefox from wasting that space above the tabs Don't put the tabs on the top of the screen. You are probably concerned about vertical real estate because you have a 16:9 display. Ho
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Show HN: Featuritis, a new model for FOSS fundraising(github.com)
2 points by keenerd 12y ago|0 comments
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A new approach to FOSS crowdfunding(kmkeen.com)
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by keenerd 12y ago
Hacking on RTL-SDR. I've been running a successful fundraiser [1] and have just posted a detailed progress report [2]. This might be the first FOSS software-development fundraiser where backers get to decide what features are added. [1
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A Month of RTL-SDR: IndieGoGo Progress Report(kmkeen.com)
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by keenerd 12y ago
> their prototypes were built as a head-mounted display and a small projector. Sounds like there are issues with parallax. Both head-mount and projectors have the benefit of a fixed viewer (or light-source, same thing) relative to the d
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by keenerd 12y ago
It makes a little more sense if you don't think about the game as an assembly of parts, which isn't really explained anywhere. For example there is some strategy with trying to make the ghosts be as bad as possible, so they are i
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by keenerd 12y ago
(Posted about the contest an hour earlier, only got two votes. Oh well.) If I am reading the problem correctly, there is no interactive component this year? You get one submission and don't get to test it against anything else. >
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2014 ICFP begins in under 30 minutes(icfpcontest.org)
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by keenerd 12y ago
It was a good read, but as general advice you should start with looking for information about the frequency and device in question. The willpower to avoid the checking for an easy answer was the most impressive part of the writeup. (A wee

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