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by macavity23 12y ago
If the NSA gets access to your phone, there are hundreds of easier ways to identify who you are than having to go through the schlep of reconstructing your fingerprint.
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by macavity23 12y ago
I'm not sure how you make 'the British elite inner circle' and 'a privileged, decadent society' two different categories :)
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by macavity23 12y ago
Hip-Hop, love it or hate it, is a lot more than a music genre. It's an entire subculture that includes a significant proportion of the population, particularly the young.
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by macavity23 12y ago
Nonsense. Someone has to be operating at the sharp end of the enable prompt, and sooner or later it'll be 0330 and that person will type Ethernet0 when they meant Ethernet1, whatever management you have in place. When that happens, y
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by macavity23 12y ago
As someone commented last time I saw this posted: 'Dude can't even say Fuck Off in fewer than 200 words'.
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by macavity23 12y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=547596 - should probably have searched before posting original link :)
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by macavity23 13y ago
They're great against a low-tech adversary, but against serious ballistic or (some) cruise missiles, they're just slowly-moving seaborne apartment blocks. Good writeup here: http://exiledonline.com/the-war-nerd-thi
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by macavity23 13y ago
While a few years ago this card would have been great at mining cryptocoins, nowadays no gpu is ever going to be worth it as ASICs are 2-3 orders of magnitude faster and more efficient. https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mining
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by macavity23 13y ago
Nice project. A year ago I would have said that there was no market for this; it'll be interesting to see if that has changed in the post-Snowden world. I have one reservation. From https://kinko.me/faq/ : The bo
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by macavity23 13y ago
They have the guns and can simply use those guns to annex the necessary mathematicians You clearly have a definition of 'trust' that differs significantly from my own :)
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by macavity23 13y ago
One thing which would be great when posting these webgl thingies (and this is a very nice one, by the way!) is some idea of the toolchain used to make it - what bits of middleware/helper code/creation apps did you use? Or is it ju
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by macavity23 13y ago
Does an uncaught exception still kill the process? Because I'm really growing to like node, but this is a very strange design decision. Yes, you can mitigate it with forever or pm2, but you really shouldn't have to.
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by macavity23 13y ago
Good idea, but needs more info pre-request. I click on 'Genesis', it tells me 'Request an Invite', but doesn't give me any incentive. Why should I sign up? What are you doing? What projects are going on? Entice me :
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by macavity23 13y ago
Yes! The war dialling in this movie was great, as was the hacking (or 'cracking' if you're gonna be precious about it). Also there's a scene where David needs to make a call without change and hacks a payphone using a te
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by macavity23 13y ago
Nice shoutout to ag but doesn't link to it: https://github.com/Wilfred/ag.el Search the current project, the scope of which is automatically constrained by git/subversion metadata. Awesome sauce! This is one
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by macavity23 13y ago
Interesting. No matter what our opinions on globalization, or diversity of cultures are, the humanity is inevitably moving towards one culturally homogeneous world. In terms of geographically-based culture, which I think you mean, I agree
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by macavity23 13y ago
Another big reason is Active Directory. It's very surprising to me that there isn't a full-featured FLOSS alternative to AD, because what it does is pretty simple, but it works pretty much out of the box, and it scales massively.
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by macavity23 13y ago
You're actually agreeing with the parent, who stated the problem as 'two different tablets, with the same name , which can not run each others' software'.
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by macavity23 13y ago
This is a great point and should be modded up. Lots of people use the android-based 'smart tv' functionality in newer TVs. If the TV can have a steam box built into it, I suspect it would see a LOT of use, no matter if the game se
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by macavity23 13y ago
Likewise in the UK. 95%+ of speed checks are automated cameras with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anpr
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by macavity23 13y ago
"Bzzt! You are fined one credit for a violation of the Verbal Morality Statute."
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by macavity23 13y ago
He did: http://lefsetz.com/wordpress/index.php/archives/2013/06/02/f... He's worth following, particularly if you're interested in Things Media, and you like his stream-of-consciousne
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by macavity23 13y ago
Right. Speaking as an ex-happy-palmos and ex-angry-winmo user, what the iPhone introduced was the finger-usable (i.e. capacitive) touch screen, rather than the stylus-based (resistive) one - which genuinely was a paradigm shift.
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by macavity23 13y ago
Nice anecdote about Knight Capital: "When the market opened on Aug. 1, a new piece of trading software that Knight had just installed went haywire and started aggressively buying shares... By the end of Aug. 2, Knight had spent $440 millio
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by macavity23 13y ago
Interesting that localbitcoin are offering a 'blue market rate' on their site, but this is short on analysis. Try Jon Matonis' article here (but bear in mind Mr. Matonis is a major BTC supporter): http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonmatonis/201
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by macavity23 13y ago
He talks about technology eliminating (some) jobs at the start, which is true enough, but then there's a strange handwavy bit where people ponying up their information to bigdata providers makes wealth more concentrated and rots social mobi
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by macavity23 13y ago
Bodes well for the new Apple lappies, due to be announced at WWDC on June 10th.
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by macavity23 13y ago
It's also very easy to look up the user's rough location by asking a server and doing a geoip lookup for the client ip. Much less precise (city-level accuracy), but more privacy-friendly and usually good enough to base location-aware functi
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by macavity23 13y ago
Nice post! Good to see how the making & debugging processes translate to meat space. One other thing I'd like to see: how did you find your customers? Was it just F&F or did you do any wider marketing?
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by macavity23 14y ago
Agree with your analysis, but I'm not so sure it will end up with a monopoly. Stickiness amongst iPhone users is very high. I think something like an 70/20 android/iPhone split, with apple taking most of the highest-value users, would be a

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