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by ldite 12y ago
I pay for email because it's the keystone to my online 'identity' - pretty much the single point of failure for recovering all sorts of accounts, and the thing in the way of theft of many accounts. Technical merits aside, by
92.
by ldite 12y ago
I recommend the originals as those enhanced versions are either buggy or unfinished. Yes, but they're impressive technical achievements - disassembling a DOS game and completely rewriting its rasteriser and I/O subsystem. Anyway
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by ldite 12y ago
For people interested in playing Elite 2 & 3, some impressively dedicated fans have disassembled the original executables, and re-engineered them to use DirectX, high resolution models, fix gameplay bugs, etc: http://www.elit
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RFC2616 (HTTP 1.1) is Dead(mnot.net)
2 points by ldite 12y ago|0 comments
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by ldite 12y ago
I think a major factor is that TinyOS is written in nesC, so to bootstrap it on a new device you first have to get the nesC compiler ported, then get the OS working. Contiki, meanwhile, is written in fairly vanilla C.
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by ldite 12y ago
Note that it's got a pretty good emulator, with a VM image to get you up and running fast: http://contiki-os.org/start.html (ironically a 1GB download for a Micro-OS) The emulator lets you do interesting things, like e
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by ldite 12y ago
As pointed out here; http://www.metafilter.com/138858/Artists-Notebook-Ramsey-Nas... He's probably using the wrong value for LANG in his terminal.
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by ldite 13y ago
See also http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/radio3/posts/Radio-3-in-40
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Live streaming to the browser using Media Source Extensions and MPEG-DASH(bbc.co.uk)
12 points by ldite 13y ago|2 comments
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by ldite 13y ago
I found this diagram informative (although not comprehensive, and probably a bit politicised): http://reason.com/assets/db/07cf533ddb1d06350cf1ddb5942ef5ad... (via http://reason.com/blog/2008&
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by ldite 13y ago
Well, to be pedantic, most Django projects have a WSGI file, which is the single entry point of the application. (The WSGI file is part of your application code, but it typically just calls django.core.wsgi.get_wsgi_application(), which ret
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by ldite 13y ago
If it's a complex query of some sort, create a query repository that returns model objects rather than a "fat" static method on the model itself. I believe that the "Django way" of doing that is to have a custom &
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by ldite 13y ago
C: CD windows win
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by ldite 13y ago
Stuff like typedefing a manual fixed sized int type to be cross-platform compatible If you're lucky enough to be able to rely on C99: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stdint.h#Fixed-width_integer_t...
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Women in technology, in US census sample, are paid less(metafilter.com)
1 points by ldite 14y ago|0 comments
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by ldite 14y ago
This is less to do with the "public" internet as accessed from mobile/desktop browsers; it's about enabling the next-generation of HTML5 based interactive TVs and STBs to interoperate with already deployed DRM and encryption platforms, such
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Youtube demo of DASH (dynamic http streaming) [Chrome canary only](dash-mse-test.appspot.com)
1 points by ldite 14y ago|0 comments
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by ldite 14y ago
Do people in the UK feel that these amounts (at current exchange rates) reflect the situation over here? The numbers seem a lot higher than what I've come across.
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by ldite 14y ago
Anyone who's tried this know if it's possible to extract the keys for the device's CI+ certificate? If so it's a bit of a loophole in the DRM... (Ref; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CI+ )
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by ldite 14y ago
Nice and nostalgic, but a few inaccuracies; Firstly, it could do the basics very fast. ...if you had a fancy TV that cached the carousel index pages. If not you type in the page number you want and wait for it to cycle around in the carou
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by ldite 15y ago
For Alt-drag you want http://www.autohotkey.com/ and either this script: http://www.autohotkey.com/docs/scripts/EasyWindowDrag_%28KDE... Or one of the similar ones from: http://www.autohotkey.com/wiki/index.php?title=Script_Listin...
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Breaking CSA (digital TV encryption) in near real-time(hgpu.org)
7 points by ldite 15y ago|0 comments
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by ldite 15y ago
> I'm pretty sure they'd have announced it if Python 3 ever got faster than Python 2. According to this blog post, 3.2 performance now exceeds 2.6 and 2.7, using the same pystone benchmark that the 3.0 release notes refer to: http://ww
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by ldite 15y ago
This means that if a provider such as Netflix wanted to, they could supply you with (say) a USB crypto dongle that you would plug in to your PC, which could then interact with your browser to authenticate you, and potentially even decrypt c
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by ldite 15y ago
HTTPS is is fundamentally incompatible with caching proxies, CDNs, etc. This scheme would (amongst other things) allow secure exchange of keys (and other data, such as license) while distributing the bulk of the content via http. This means
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by ldite 15y ago
An MPEG standard for adaptive streaming (DASH) has just been ratified: http://www.streamingmedia.com/Articles/ReadArticle.aspx?Arti... http://dashpg.com/?page_id=25 Firefox and Chrome both seem to be working on implementing it: https:/
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by ldite 15y ago
Proposal includes a good FAQ section; http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/html-media/raw-file/tip/encrypted-medi...
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W3C Proposal from MS, Google, Netflix for adding copy protection API to html5(dvcs.w3.org)
108 points by ldite 15y ago|102 comments
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by ldite 15y ago
Well, according to the other NYT article on the front page the annual household income required to be in the top 1% is $383,000. Many people in the top 1% probably don't consider themselves to be all that wealthy... https://www.nytimes.com
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by ldite 15y ago
I'm not particularly familiar with rails (or even web or client/server in general -- I'm more of an embedded/systems type) but this post gives me a strong feeling of the youth of today rediscovering the lessons of yesterday, to wit, properl

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