mSparks

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by mSparks 10y ago
Well, yeah, if the Xbox was usable I'm sure it wouldn't be so obscure. Which doesn't change the guys premise that if they opened sourced it, it could be ported to a less obscure platform.
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by mSparks 10y ago
Android, iOS, Blackberry OS10... Pretty much everything? Each has orders of magnitude more users than XBox.
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by mSparks 10y ago
I live (now) in a country with a GDP per capita an order of magnitude less than the US. Having just come come back from the US. I can say without doubt. There is much less poverty here. The average citizens quality of life here is an order
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by mSparks 10y ago
really? ive got an archos 55 platinum. would love to do this but cant find any way I'd trust to even root it.
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by mSparks 11y ago
You see. Right there: ... The article publishing charge at Lingua for open access articles is $1,800 USD. The editors had requested a price of 400 euros, an APC that is not sustainable. .. Morons are as good as claiming Wikipedia is not sus
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by mSparks 11y ago
Among the academics I work with there is general disgust with the likes of Elsevier. Uni pays them to do research. Then has to pay again to Elsevier et al to use it for teaching. Swartz created the push for open access (and bad reporting th
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by mSparks 11y ago
Except the pi zero has a 1ghz quad core processor and 512mb ram. This has 64mb and a terrible 400mhz single core processor (i think). So not really that comparable. Also not forgetting that without modifying the chip it gives the Chinese co
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by mSparks 11y ago
I have to apologise. but it shows. I simply can't take this claim it has better coverage at face value. because I only just finished testing a week or so ago and the js code we deploy that works on every platform from android through L
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by mSparks 11y ago
what's wrong with stereoscopic video cameras? turning them into a point cloud isn't that difficult and much better than lidar for recognition purposes.
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by mSparks 11y ago
maybe you're right. with awesome products like the never done before iWatch their future looks bright. on the other hand. the bears made good money shorting them this year. and their gains don't look likely to reverse any time soo
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by mSparks 11y ago
if you want to use the construction analogy. praising apple for making good phones is like praising Franklin D. Roosevelt for building a dam.
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by mSparks 11y ago
apple got rich from this patent. aka the phone with only a screen patent. it expires in 2028. if it is overturned before that they won't last that long. downsizing is never pretty.
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by mSparks 11y ago
this is for their "design patents" issued in 2007. which can basically be described as "a phone as a box with a touchscreen and no keyboard" all they "make" is the box. they don't own the rights to any of
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by mSparks 11y ago
well that should keep apple from going bankrupt for another year or two. ridiculous though that a company that basically does nothing but buy things from other companies and puts them in a shiny box should be allowed to win and lose cases l
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by mSparks 11y ago
been using tor browser for a good few years now for most of my net use for exactly that reason.
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by mSparks 11y ago
or you get the broadcom+ chip. which kindly breaches your entire network and sends the content of everything it finds to a Chinese ip address... don't have any data on that either. but I'm guessing it is more likely than getting w
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by mSparks 11y ago
What does it matter? broadcom wont sell you them. and you cant legally import them yourself.
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by mSparks 11y ago
raspberry avoid this by using chips only supplied to them.
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by mSparks 11y ago
don't we already kinda do that? I mean. most of us are switching our news sources to "trusted" peer review like Slashdot, ycombinator and various forums. often supported by donations or paid for by groups of friends. I mean.
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by mSparks 11y ago
better than that. let's you sign software as written by Microsoft
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by mSparks 11y ago
well. actually it's that the private key is the same for all machines and publicly accessible.... im going to have lots of fun with this. a ton of Dell machines about to get totally owned.
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by mSparks 11y ago
confirmed on my laptop too. nice reddit https://np.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/3twmfv/dell_ship... including examples of people using it to mitm https connections.
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by mSparks 11y ago
Terrorists are secure whatever they do. The 4 or 5 people in the nsa that actually do any work don't stand a chance against several hundred million baby breeders with ak47s.
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by mSparks 11y ago
I'd say it's more Dropbox getting nervous. Dropbox wants all this trade secret non sense. And everyone else give them their data. That they promise they won't read. Give me a break. Bittorrent sync and blaze pods in house for
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by mSparks 11y ago
coke contains virtually no calories. and a large coke from mac ds about 100% of your rđa of sugar. then people wonder why so many people have diabetes - an inability of your body to process sugar...
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by mSparks 11y ago
it's a proof of concept. I don't see how it changes anything. once you've got the browser displaying https://site you control pretending to be something else. fixing everything else is trivial.
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by mSparks 12y ago
Hmm, or it could just be there are a ton of very good free audio apps for android so no interest in paying for them?
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by mSparks 12y ago
+1 on the classic shell. Totally unusable without it.
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by mSparks 12y ago
Servers should get away from rsa based key exchange once a user has a password. client and server then have a shared secret, good IV and a strong cipher using that shared key, a strong IV and no more need for CA's and public keys can b
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by mSparks 12y ago
paswordz sites will have a field day. ->access any chineese bank account here: one click to transfer funds.

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