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by marshray 11y ago
So then why are retroviruses so relatively rare? Why aren't they the dominant type of virus?
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by marshray 11y ago
> "I can just walk into a big box store, take something off the shelf and walk out" Data security is where our intuition formed from real-world experience falls down. Physical theft in a store is bounded by many factors, not th
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by marshray 11y ago
My guess is that a professional analyst is not going to be particularly confused by the addition of a single user's non-Tor traffic to the firehose stream coming out of an exit node. But that's just my guess. Perhaps somebody shou
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by marshray 11y ago
> mingling your personal traffic with a Tor exit node provides plausible deniability for both you and the people using your node Wouldn't it be more effective to simply use Tor as intended with somebody else hosting the exit node?
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by marshray 11y ago
So, just do the computation twice and compare the results? OK, so there's twice the power to pay for but it seems like at $129k acquisition cost per 3.2KW consumption you could run for tens of years before break-even.
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by marshray 11y ago
I think if you consider the many tens or even hundreds of $B currently invested in Si foundry tooling which could be obsoleted by this transition the word 'disruptive' is appropriate. However, the semiconductor industry seems uniq
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by marshray 11y ago
Do you see the rubber pads on the floor and the dirty chair in front of the operators console? Surely it cuts down on the number of operators required compared to mid-20th century production methods, but these machines still require dedicat
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by marshray 11y ago
> But, if we've seen your browser behave elsewhere on the Internet acting like a regular web surfer and not a hacker, then we can use your browser’s good reputation to override the bad reputation of the hacker coffee shop's IP.
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by marshray 11y ago
Will the new VS Linux development stuff work for the newly announced "Linux ABI for Windows" too? [disclosure: MSFT]
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by marshray 11y ago
I was watching the stream and I think they said Windows console host will, in fact, directly support VT-100.
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by marshray 11y ago
When I was 20, I worked washing dishes in restaurants. I applied for a job at a semiconductor manufacturer but didn't get it. I jumped at the opportunity when it came to work with electronics at a small shop. I would have tried manufac
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by marshray 11y ago
The bleeping smart driving features are off by default. If you want them, you have to specifically turn them on every time you start the car.
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by marshray 11y ago
> Everyone knows the example of Spam. Please show an example of someone other than Hormel Foods Corporation marketing a meat product using any derivative of the name 'Spam' and getting away with it.
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by marshray 11y ago
Whereas developers and hackers tend to like a surfeit of user interface features, the mass market is not as comfortable with it. Apple really likes to be the party in control of the degree of minimalism in the UI expressed by iOS devices.
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by marshray 11y ago
As an old boss of mine put it once: "What this means to users is that there are no bugs in the program."
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by marshray 11y ago
This end of even the pretense of due process, 4th amendment, and Posse Comitatus is one of the most important shifts in American domestic policy in my lifetime.
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by marshray 11y ago
A diode will drop about 0.5-0.6 volts, which could eat 10% of your energy, so reverse polarity protection is usually used in devices where someone could plausibly install the batteries backwards. I think it's probably rare on something
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by marshray 11y ago
I know one thing that hasn't been too good for my teeth is GERD. I wonder if that's a contributing factor. Maybe it was not a common ailment before agriculture.
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by marshray 11y ago
Really? The pictures I've seen of ebola make it look like spaghetti.
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by marshray 11y ago
What, did you see the picture? That virus is literally a D20.
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by marshray 11y ago
What you don't seem to get is that the default scenarios for IoT are other organizations monitoring you. You're not the one in control of this data.
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by marshray 11y ago
The first article is about Gamergate, the second is a Daily Kos article with a title ending in a question mark.
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by marshray 11y ago
Do you have a link with some evidence of this political manipulation?
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by marshray 11y ago
It reminds me of one of the Xbox profile auto suggested gamer tags. "Disliked Sphere" was one.
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by marshray 11y ago
When you're limited to 140 characters, aesthetics become essential for communication. This is Twitter's blessing and its curse: It's a game we willingly play to communicate within its limitations. Even the greatest artists ha
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by marshray 11y ago
Don't worry, they're working hard to change that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11048523
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by marshray 11y ago
> Is it because there is a contingent of HN voters who are true believers in this stuff? Why does the world have to be divided between "skeptics" and "true believers"? I think a lot of us are in the "open minded
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by marshray 11y ago
That was an amazing read. "In 1993, Sears had the most extensive and sophisticated mail-order retail operation on the planet and they closed it. Two years later, Amazon.com launched" That's got to go down in history.
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by marshray 11y ago
I'd been wondering. The last few months on Twitter for me have felt much less engaging.
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by marshray 11y ago
NYT would have said "... I.S.I.L., I.S.I.S., ..."

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