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by m_eiman 10y ago
The 13" would benefit a lot more than TFA I suppose, since then we'd upgrade from Intel GPU to "serious" GPU, and not just dGPU to eGPU?
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by m_eiman 10y ago
Seriously, how many people have things on their phone that they are desperatly trying to keep hidden from their SO (and still don't DELETE THE STUFF)?
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by m_eiman 10y ago
Why do we know of several Soviet citizens who saved us by not following orders to launch nukes, but no Americans?
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by m_eiman 10y ago
I don't think there'd be hardware reasons not to, but I'd be surprised if anyone did that instead of just selling it as a reason to upgrade to a new phone :P
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by m_eiman 10y ago
Only two. I suspect next year's models will all have it. http://www.usegalileo.eu/EN/inner.html#data=smartphone
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by m_eiman 10y ago
You would need to enter a password, somehow...
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by m_eiman 10y ago
You also need to enable macros for Word "viruses" to work, but somehow they do… IMHO, this increases the attack surface of browsers by a fair amount to little practical gain. But then I'm not impressed with the "browsers
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by m_eiman 10y ago
I would be surprised if this isn't used to subvert the firmware of various BLE-enabled devices.
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by m_eiman 10y ago
It's called a Segway.
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by m_eiman 10y ago
I'm most concerned that this will make it feasible to perform rogue firmware upgrades to vulnerable devices that previously were protected by not being connected to the Internet, turning them into various kinds of surveillance and deni
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by m_eiman 10y ago
Software IS special. Compared to hardware, software is (usually) so easy to update that it's (usually) cost effective to not do it right the first time. NASA etc is different, and they work differently. Everyone knows this and act acco
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by m_eiman 10y ago
When the main product being developed is a tangible system, redos are way more costly. Even when primarily doing software, this can come into play. I know of a customer who had about 5000 card readers in an access control system, where bu
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by m_eiman 10y ago
haven't we as a species already denied natural selection long ago? No, how could we? We have influenced external pressures such as predators on our selection, at most.
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by m_eiman 10y ago
As long as the embedded SoC checks the firmware signature, it's not a problem.
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by m_eiman 10y ago
This is true, but the stdlib provided by the compilers aimed at these chips is usually very bare bones and size-optimized to begin with. So it's likely hard to save much space by reimplementing subsets of it.
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by m_eiman 10y ago
On a related note, I've noticed that when running Zerotier (virtual LAN over the Internet, free and nifty) my MBP sees the two servers I'm using as Time Machine destinations whenever it's connected to the Internet and perform
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by m_eiman 10y ago
I don't think they have accelerated 3D graphics, so probably not. Unless you play 2D games, of course :)
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by m_eiman 10y ago
The point was that the proposal is based on assumptions that don't hold true in ever culture, but would be forced onto those cultures if it were implemented. This is of course true for most, if not all, proposals for changing the way w
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by m_eiman 10y ago
Every 1rst is a Sunday. Except the week starts with Monday. At least in the civilized world…
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by m_eiman 10y ago
Is there any reason to suspect that the same technique wouldn't work to get root on iOS? Then there's the slight problem of rootless that makes it harder to do a permanent jailbreak, but getting root should be a pretty decent step
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by m_eiman 10y ago
I think we should require automatic updates (configurable to manual); said updates should obviously be signed and probably encrypted.
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by m_eiman 10y ago
Just some basic rules like: - no default passwords - no access from Internet until explicitly enabled by user would make a world of difference. We'll still have to deal with bugs, but this would go a long way.
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by m_eiman 10y ago
If the power supply is far away it's better to have a higher voltage due to voltage drop due to cable resistance, 24V is pretty standard AFAIK.
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Apple: Dash developer had two accounts, 25 apps, almost 1000 fraudulent reviews(imore.com)
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by m_eiman 10y ago
There's an app for that: http://locometric.com/ I've tested it briefly, and it seems fairly accurate as long as you follow the instructions.
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by m_eiman 10y ago
Isn't .private reserved?
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by m_eiman 10y ago
If neither Blurb nor Publit appeal to you, I've been using Lulu.com for making hard copies of our blog about our kids. Seems to be the same price as Blurb, and has a UK division. To generate the PDF, I use a nasty Python script to scra
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by m_eiman 10y ago
I've had these for a while and they're very nice: https://usa.denon.com/us/product/portableaudio/noisecancelin...
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by m_eiman 10y ago
It's already on the ESP32, kind of. This device: https://www.pycom.io/solutions/py-boards/lopy/ is based on ESP32 and is running Micropython; I don't know if their port will be fully open source, th
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by m_eiman 10y ago
That's exactly what Apple is doing and it's not getting them universal approval from techies, to say the least. "They're locking down my computer", "They shouldn't tell me which program to run", etc.

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