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by labawi 5y ago
I guess education and honest information would be too radical an approach. Governments and leaders are concerned that people don't trust them, yet the truth is, they don't deserve to be trusted. When the system is designed to crea
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by labawi 5y ago
Modern codecs not only chop the frame into variable size blocks, they also do fractional shifts, in many directions, and predict the shift from past and future and parts of current frame.
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by labawi 5y ago
Behavior of a program after data (as in value) races can be defined and constrained. If you have wild pointer writes (aka arbitrary memory corruption) and almost any non-trivial control flow, the results are pretty much undefined. As in, it
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by labawi 5y ago
I don't think radar can sufficiently differentiate between stationary obstacles and background - hence the long habit of smashing into stationary objects.
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by labawi 5y ago
Transflective displays seem like a dream technology for outdoor and indoor use. Unfortunately, large displays seem to be unavailable, at least not at anything resembling a reasonable price. I wouldn't mind if it was monochrome in sunli
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by labawi 5y ago
If you want it safe, then the C++ version should also add a (single) length check. To fix rust's multiple points of failure, move the check to the top, by add something like 'let length_check = slice[5]', moving the 'sli
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by labawi 5y ago
I find it unlikely. They probably just don't care.
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by labawi 5y ago
> .. uses Machine Learning to constantly improve. It's why Stripe encourage you to include their script on every page in your site The card system is totally backwards, when the merchant is supposed to vet the payment and is on the
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by labawi 5y ago
While the claims are (likely) technically true, if you are trying to insinuate it is less safe, then that is a false conclusion. As an example, many garages ban LPG cars, but don't care about CNG, AFAICT, because LPG can pool around on
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by labawi 5y ago
> highly explosive It's only explosive when mixed with air in confined places, as is gasoline, LPG, CNG, steel, wood and flour. Unlike most others, confinement is a requirement, otherwise it escapes too quickly. See [1] for comparis
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by labawi 5y ago
Do you run your lightbulbs 24/7? If so, you should get a LED alternative.
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by labawi 5y ago
Currently the blame should be on companies and people from the top, as the developers don't really have much choice (without unionizing or whatever). OTOH, it doesn't have to be this way. As an example, electricians are licensed h
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by labawi 5y ago
How much effort do you expect from the police if you gave keys to your house to everyone who ever visited. Or if you teach your butler to follow orders as long as they are prefaced with "dahfizz said ..." That is the current level
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by labawi 5y ago
The commit message indicates it is opt-in, but if you read their privacy policy [1], there is 0 mention of any right to choose and they consider it their right to get data about your system (overreach) and data necessary for law enforcement
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by labawi 5y ago
That's only true if the supply satisfies demand.
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by labawi 5y ago
What are you actually arguing for? For the record, I think none of your points apply.
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by labawi 5y ago
If the software used a one-way protocol, then unless you updated the closed-source agents, which are the parts I have the biggest issue with, there wouldn't be RCE. As for remote management. I'm saying you should wisely choose wha
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by labawi 5y ago
IMO, a big issue is conflating monitoring with management. Management is always going to have access, so maybe you should not enable remote management access of everything to a centralized system? Make it lean and secure, possibly segmented
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by labawi 5y ago
People shouldn't go to prison for being fuck-ups. Those negligently responsible should be fined and go to prison for leaking private data, endangering physical safety, possibly for compromising national security, damages from the toxic
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by labawi 5y ago
> thousands of years Maybe I should have used electrical installations as an example? > real-world equivalent. Physical security Physical security isn't a good analogue, because you don't have a line of hackers, trying to ge
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by labawi 5y ago
Correct on the differences. True, it cannot be deanonymized if that is the only data you have. However, if you have any other data, even if it is not PII by itself and doesn't even look interesting, there is no way to guarantee it won&
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by labawi 5y ago
"I don't worry I've left the oven on anymore. Now I worry some else turned it on."
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by labawi 5y ago
> There is no field of engineering where 100% perfect tolerances are possible This is a false proposition. All actual engineering professions I know of have processes, checks and balances to avert disasters and premature failures. No one
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by labawi 5y ago
1200W/h is still moderately nonsensical. The unit is 1200W, or 1200Wh/h if you want to put it that way.
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by labawi 5y ago
Seems like a weak excuse. I mean sure, you could do that, but it would be complicated, conspicuous, tiring for the user and you would still only get one-sided occasional transfer. It could exfiltrate data, albeit suspiciously, but it wouldn
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by labawi 5y ago
This article is the most thoughtful, insightful and well written article I've read all day, perhaps even week. Maybe they are not novel ideas, but well put together, connected and balanced. OTOH, I fail to see the connection between an
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by labawi 5y ago
It's actually the opposite (to a point, I think). Higher mean free path means more time to accelerate, then hit and ionize something else. That's how fluorescent tubes maintain discharge a meter long at measly voltages. Radiation
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by labawi 5y ago
I'm pretty certain an actual fine (not ceasing operations) has a limit of max(10M€, 2% worldwide revenue of previous year) and double if you're antithetical to GDPR. Also, it's per infringement and isn't a yearly free pa
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by labawi 5y ago
I wouldn't be too hasty to call it legal, and even if it isn't, I think most of it should be.
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by labawi 5y ago
A civilized approach. Pliers should be fine in a pinch.

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