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by mctavjb9 15y ago
The Worldwide LHC Computing Grid: http://lcg.web.cern.ch/LCG/public/ It's designed to handle up to 15 petabytes of data per year. Data transfers from 11 data centers around the world are handled via 10 Gbps point-to-point optical links.
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by mctavjb9 15y ago
Noticeable shaking on the 3rd floor of a concrete building in Cambridge, MA. Some people evacuated. Being a former LA resident, I deemed it minor and didn't bother.
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by mctavjb9 15y ago
It depends how you define "secure." There are numerous weaknesses of 2G (GSM) security that were addressed in the 3G (UMTS) standards. The major ones: 1) GSM supports one-way authentication only (handset to network), so man-in-the-middle
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by mctavjb9 15y ago
"Rarer than a free quark" would save your analogy.
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by mctavjb9 15y ago
Oh come on, BostInnovation is not a misnomer. There are plenty of certifiably innovative startups and several well-known VCs on the Right Bank of the Charles. Runkeeper and Cloudant are on the same floor of my former office building in th
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by mctavjb9 15y ago
Happily not the case in my family. The Apple II Plus was my Christmas present in 1980. My younger brother (now an MBA) was content playing video games when I wasn't hunched over the keyboard writing BASIC programs with alarming numbers of
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by mctavjb9 15y ago
I spent 2.5 years at CERN as a grad student in experimental particle physics in the 1990s. I never experienced anything like the condescending head patting or bad pick-up lines the OP refers to. In fact, those years at CERN were the closes
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by mctavjb9 15y ago
My knee jerk reaction to this story was "do any women work at this company"? (I'm female and do pushups every day as a component of marathon & triathlon training, so I'm not whining about the hypothetical possibility of feeling exclude
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by mctavjb9 15y ago
Definitely my experience. I still have vivid nightmares about the general exam more than 10 years later. It was an 3 day x 8 hours per day written test with no breaks. If you wanted to eat, you had to bring food with you into the test ro
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by mctavjb9 15y ago
The fact that "Joey" was annoyed with someone willing to clue him in on social norms that he could easily glean through careful observation is a sad commentary on what seems to be an increasingly pervasive lack of common sense and misplaced
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by mctavjb9 15y ago
David Skok of Matrix Partners has blogged comprehensively on this topic: http://www.forentrepreneurs.com/ The content may seem obvious, but how many startups can you think of that have utterly failed to achieve LTV > CPA?
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by mctavjb9 15y ago
I can totally relate to the statement: "If, like me, you'd rather eat glass than sit down to write some Java code in Eclipse, it would appear that you are out of luck when it comes to implementing your next project on Android." I've been at
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by mctavjb9 15y ago
This result should be taken with a large chunk of NaCl until the analysis is internally approved by the collaboration and peer reviewed. Although it's been a while since I got my Ph.D. in experimental particle physics, I do remember that d
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by mctavjb9 15y ago
Yes, but the LHC is actually running at this very moment and will be operational through the end of 2012. CERN opted to run at 7 TeV and put off the shutdown required to increase the energy to 14 TeV. In fact, the LHC just set a world rec
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by mctavjb9 15y ago
FPGA designer here. I don't think it's accurate to claim that SystemC is replacing VHDL and Verilog for ASIC/FPGA design. I view SystemC as a niche tool to allow software engineers to dabble in hardware design. I use C for embedded softwar
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by mctavjb9 16y ago
I'd be curious to know what the results of this survey question were from companies that made it to the first round but were not selected for the incubation phase. I had the entry fee waived through endorsements last year, but had an exper
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by mctavjb9 16y ago
Why do you think OpenBTS is illegal in Brazil? There's a research group at UFPA in Belem that's been quite active in the OpenBTS project. I met two of the guys at the OpenBTS Workshop in Germany last summer. See-- http://ieeexplore.ieee.
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by mctavjb9 16y ago
Yes, it was recorded: http://justin.tv/mitef/b/273997550 Be warned that the audio isn't so wonderful and the running time is 1h41m. Thiel had some verbal tics that were distracting at times, but the talk was totally fascinating. Off the
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How to Argue Online Without Resorting to F-Bombs(fastcodesign.com)
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by mctavjb9 16y ago
Sorry to be a buzzkill, but the LHC beam circulates in an extremely high vacuum. There's no way a hand could even get in the beam without breaking the vacuum, thereby causing the accelerator to shut down automatically. Also, it's cryogeni
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by mctavjb9 16y ago
Here are some suggestions for further reading: http://www.villagetelco.org Steve Song's blog (Telecommunications Fellow at the Shuttleworth Foundation): http://manypossibilities.net/ http://openmobile.futuretext.com/ There was an art
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by mctavjb9 16y ago
Low bit rate codecs with acceptable quality will be a boon for VoIP over satellite. Satellite Internet service is both bandwidth-limited and hideously expensive-- Inmarsat Fleet Broadband for cargo ships, for instance, typically costs $6/M
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by mctavjb9 16y ago
I read this statement quite differently: the sample size is small, so the author makes an extra effort to learn from the experiences of others that she views as role models (i.e., successful women in tech). Not everyone who seeks advice is
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by mctavjb9 16y ago
Are you referring to Chris Paget's demo at DEFCON at the end of July? OpenBTS can in fact be used for nefarious purposes (or to demonstrate the intrinsic insecurity of the GSM standard). It could also in principle be used by law enforcemen
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by mctavjb9 16y ago
As a point of reference, the BOM for last year's Burning Man setup can be found at the bottom of this page: http://gnuradio.org/redmine/wiki/gnuradio/OpenBTSBM2009RF The default hardware for OpenBTS is the USRP, not the USRP2. The USRP +
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by mctavjb9 16y ago
This demonstration is neither particularly novel nor particularly legal. http://laforge.gnumonks.org/weblog/2010/08/01/#20100801-on_r...
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by mctavjb9 16y ago
I'm all for women hackers/entrepreneurs self-organizing on an informal level and comparing notes, but I must confess that I have the same visceral reaction to women-only hacker spaces that I did to girls-only math classes when I was in 6th
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Anything Goes Lab: new Boston startup accelerator (bostinnovation.com)
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by mctavjb9 16y ago
Almost all GSM phones sold in the past 4-5 years are quad-band phones-- 850 MHz/1900 MHz (US, Canada, a few other places), and 900 MHz/1800 MHz (Europe, Asia, Africa). An iPhone in the US, for instance, connects to AT&T for voice calls
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by mctavjb9 16y ago
Unlike Switzerland, the American Enterprise Institute isn't exactly known for being a bastion of neutrality. The author's other cause celebre is that people should stop whining about women being underrepresented in math and the hard science

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