mSparks

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by mSparks 10y ago
I'm not sure what you're basing your projections on, but China's growth rate has been heading down for the past decade. They are currently at half of their max GDP growth rate. lower growth last years was policy -prevent &quo
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by mSparks 10y ago
funny how americans blame the labour unions for the destruction of their car manufacturing. when the country and companies that forced that destruction have https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_unions_in_Japan
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This whole premise of this story has me wearing a tin foil hat. [tldr] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILQepXUhJ98[/tldr] Soooo many questions. so few answers. I'll start with my immediate thoughts. High dropouts a
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by mSparks 10y ago
videostream mobile and chromecast for the win.
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china gdp per capita even as it becomes the worlds larget economy this year is only $6,807. Their growth rate is not going to slow or deviate significantly in our lifetimes. Yes, I've seen the arguments to the contrary. But they are al
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If it is such high quality now why did Detroit become the largest city ever to file for bankruptcy in 2013, even after the $17.4 billion bailout to GM and Chrysler in 2008? How is that "vastly better"? We're talking about pro
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yeah. Detroit. still the booming global center of car manufacture it was in the 80s. Maybe if you close your eyes and click your heals together three times. Meanwhile. in the slightly more real world. http://theweek.com/arti
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only if you pretend things like this http://news.sky.com/story/china-signs-russian-gas-deal-worth... were not part of a gas for weapons agreement. which it. well. was. then you have stuff like http://m.sputn
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by mSparks 10y ago
well. japan destroyed us car manufacturing. and the ussr. despite everything. destroyed us global military equipement sales. China seems to be picking at a dead carcass tbh, not exactly much left to take. US is so scared of chinese tech adv
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Its not a mystery at all. China has tons of free world class education based purely on academic ability and a couple of billion people educated to a world class standard. The US has virtually no education system, what does exist is expensiv
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by mSparks 10y ago
Baseband processors in all mobiles have direct access to the microphone and it is fairly trivial to access remotely. Comes as standard on all stingray devices available to any and all perverts willing to use it. Only Samsung devices have be
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by mSparks 10y ago
yeah. And these days the US just goes straight for the hellfire fired from a drone. do unto others as you would have done unto you. So still missing an explanation of why they should expect less.
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Yeah.... right.. https://www.rt.com/news/166028-snowden-rendition-plot-cia/
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by mSparks 10y ago
That isn't what I said at all and you know it. We're not talking about "some people the US government employs". We're talking about cyber criminals of the highest order of the kind the US wants everyone to believe e
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>I don't bear these programmers the type of ill will that your encouragements of violence suggest. Neither do I particularly. I was just suspending my general disbelief for a moment and judging "the US" by its own standard
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by mSparks 10y ago
One word for you. Manning. If the US has that little respect for its own citizens. Why should these guys expect better treatment from rest of the world?
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And for the avoidance of doubt. That is nothing so much against lawyers, the are essential in the real world where land is a finite resource. But the better solution to problems in an environment when CPU ticks are not a finite resource, an
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by mSparks 10y ago
Quick vent. I'd much rather lawyers just kept of the internet entirely.
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It's not accidental. its the "unexpected behaviour". Tab, enter etc serve exactly the same purpose all the time. Backspace doing delete one character or delete everything depending on where the mouse is pointing could probabl
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by mSparks 10y ago
But it's different data. People use google and facebook with zero expectation of "privacy" - in fact, not being "private" is the actual reason they use them. Its a very big step to be in a situation where [i]everyth
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by mSparks 10y ago
At the risk of sounding like a Carlsberg advert, XPS13 is probably the best laptop I have ever used (if not the best computer). Still has windows 10 on it (my only windows machine) since I need occasionally to use the latest versions of off
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by mSparks 10y ago
Because, as power users, who use both the keyboard and stateful pages, forward "rarely" restores the state and is technically forbidden from doing so. So an accidental thumb tap a touchpad + trying to delete a character produces a
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by mSparks 10y ago
you mean, like, by clicking/touching the back button? Wow, never thought that would need explaining here :(
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by mSparks 10y ago
Very funny seeing so called "powerusers" complain they have to unlearn perhaps the most stupid shortcut key in the history of shortcut keys, and instead use another, much more obvious shortcut key (alt + left) and as a bonus, I ju
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by mSparks 10y ago
This is something of a strawman tbh. The computing equivalent of implying anyone who has ever taken their cloths off and had sex must be addicted to pornography. Just because people use some software or websites that publicly display themse
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by mSparks 10y ago
right about now the raspberry pi hwrng is about the only random number generator i trust. https://sites.google.com/site/astudyofentropy/project-defini... EDIT: Secondly This "Furthermore, the flaw makes a par
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they wont be asking that question about all the data android phones put in the 'cloud' then.... wifi passwords by default for example.
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Uh, good luck convincing anyone that April 2014 does anything other than demonstrate there are exactly zero reliable implementations of TLS. If the most widely used implementation can demonstrate that level of incompetence, what chance do a
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by mSparks 10y ago
"That’s worrying, but in practical terms, it’s unlikely to have significantly impacted the security of TLS because the elliptic curve random number generator in question is not often used." vs. http://www.loyalty.org&#x
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by mSparks 10y ago
April 2014.

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