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by lvs 8y ago
Keep on fighting the good fight, gorhill.
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by lvs 8y ago
It's similar to any hobby that attracts both disposable income and pseudoscience. Audiophiles. Skiers. Surfers. Surgeons. (Kidding.)
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by lvs 8y ago
No, it's more than that. While that struct might be a generic overrun, the question is how you check bounds on filling buf. The paper is discussing that schemes to constrain buffer size using a global hardware or software address-based
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by lvs 8y ago
I think you're extending an analogy to a philosophical place it doesn't go: from a "walled garden" to "the rule of law in a free society." There are a variety of features of the latter that are not inherent in
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by lvs 8y ago
Not only that, but it does so even when the autopilot isn't engaged and the pilots believe they have manual control.
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by lvs 8y ago
An actual recommendation I got from a boss once: act dumber. If you look around, it actually works!
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by lvs 8y ago
Regardless, that average people are cautious about their electronic privacy is something to applaud, not discourage. If you are trying to train people out of fearing their cameras, then you're doing a bit of a disservice. In particular
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by lvs 8y ago
Anecdotally, I do see a large number of lay people with tape over their laptop cameras. Enough stories have filtered into the press about RAT malware and whatnot that there is likely to be some endemic insecurity about a camera pointed in y
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by lvs 8y ago
Indeed. This is an encouraging idea. But in a broader sense -- applied to a whole sector of corporations, for example -- I'm curious how legally enforceable this kind of charter is, under the cited statute or under other laws governing
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by lvs 8y ago
It's so much worse to see ML applied to problems that could surely be studied and understood mechanistically, but people are sold on using ML instead in deference to buzzwords alone. The result is that they may get some model of a phen
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by lvs 8y ago
Granular activated carbon filters that meet NSF P473 test standards will work. http://www.nsf.org/newsroom/frequently-asked-questions-about...
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by lvs 8y ago
The authors observed nothing. There is no experiment and no result in the underlying paper. It's a low quality meta-review of literature.
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by lvs 8y ago
You know, it's possible for there to be two simultaneous wrongs. We can be outraged by both of them at the same time.
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by lvs 8y ago
Did I miss something here? Is there a positive-ID photo of the impacted chips/packages anywhere?
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by lvs 8y ago
I'm not sure why this is getting insta-downvotes. While there's no evidence to support it, there could be circumstantial logic to it. One government would very much like to divert focus onto the other, if possible, especially in a
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by lvs 8y ago
Is that a remotely important question? You couldn't have answered such a question on ARPANET, or more pertinently when TimBL was at CERN. You're one of those people who thinks the internet was built by for-profit companies, and th
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by lvs 8y ago
No, you've got that all backwards. The Nobel recognizes the well-established notability of seminal work. It is not somehow an announcement of freshly discovered notability.
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by lvs 8y ago
I guess that may be right. This is what you get when you put an MBA in charge of anything you care about.
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by lvs 8y ago
From the outside, it seems to have reached a tipping point in the past year that is now getting quite dramatic. A whole string of heavy-handed, anti-user, and privacy-hostile decisions. What just happened to the culture that would allow all
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by lvs 8y ago
This is totally beside the point. Antitrust law governs market dominance and manipulation of market competition. It has nothing to do with political speech. If it did, Fox News would be in serious trouble!
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by lvs 8y ago
You're absolutely right about this, and the casual dismissal from GP is the kind of attitude that landed us in the scenario that AMP claims (ostensibly) to fix.
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by lvs 8y ago
You've ascribed a position to me regarding Facebook ads which I haven't expressed, alongside pretty obvious whataboutism. First you say you don't think it's a big deal, but then say Facebook is just as bad or worse. I th
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by lvs 8y ago
Don't fall for it. This is centralization of the internet, no matter how they claim decisions will be made. Google is doing this not for some benevolent idea of the mobile web "experience," but to try to control traffic and a
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by lvs 8y ago
What about amp. prefix? You know that's the whole point of this, right? They're going to hide the fact that you're viewing the entire web through amp.
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by lvs 8y ago
Does it hide AMP subdomain? If so, I think we all know what this is about, and it's dirty and should be stopped.
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by lvs 8y ago
I think the downvotes here are uncalled-for. This is correct. Google is leveraging a dominant market position to make seemingly frivolous changes that will ultimately benefit them commercially. Come on, you know where this is going: They ar
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by lvs 8y ago
Then you've been trying to avoid it. It's easy to signal a racial worldview without making it explicit. Your comment, for example, does precisely that.
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by lvs 8y ago
That's just precisely what the article says. The first version of Spectre is the problem.
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by lvs 8y ago
Yes, that was precisely my point. But there is a limit to how much currency can be floated on the black market. I was replying to someone who thought floating all of it would be a good idea.
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by lvs 8y ago
No, entirely not. What would happen overnight is that the currency would plummet against all other currencies into Deuschemark territory, at which point there is no import/export possible with that currency. This is not a simple proble

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