miander

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by miander 11y ago
Why do they say 'potential' backdoor when it is so clearly a backdoor? I know it's good to hedge your bets but is there some kind of legal reason they say it like this? I'm curious because it is so common.
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by miander 11y ago
How frustrating that I can't manually enter a location.
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by miander 11y ago
Ahaha, I can't believe I didn't notice that! Thanks for pointing that out.
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by miander 11y ago
I don't know if there's a rule against this, but here's a link to a Google search to let you bypass the paywall: https://goo.gl/AfoDnl
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by miander 11y ago
You're right. There don't appear to be any 25 kV rail systems in Switzerland. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_current_systems_for_el...
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by miander 11y ago
It looks like the trains through this tunnel will be all-electric. I wonder why they went with a 15kV power system instead of a modern 25kV system? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15_kV_AC_railway_electrificati... https
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by miander 11y ago
I'm guessing you'd have mentioned if it was, but is your handbook published or otherwise available anywhere?
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by miander 11y ago
This is the premise they are betting against. "Quality" is not a one-dimensional value, and a team full of Ivy League graduates are going to have similar biases and weaknesses that could hard a team. I think that's what the f
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by miander 11y ago
A better power-supply system would be to use a step-down DC-DC converter on each strip or each group of strips to step down from a higher voltage (say, 24V). These converters can be had for ~$1 apiece on eBay. This would reduce the current
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by miander 11y ago
They say you don't know what you have until it's gone.
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by miander 11y ago
Please do not use that phrase... http://regex.info/blog/2006-09-15/247 EDIT: I take that back, you're actually using it in its original context :)
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by miander 11y ago
The page doesn't load for me, claiming that I don't have WebGL. chrome://gpu confirms that I do. Is anyone else having this issue?
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by miander 11y ago
Looks like the last update to the project was late 2014 and he's working on it off and on, so I see why it wasn't marked.
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by miander 11y ago
Definitely not dead for me!
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by miander 11y ago
Sounds like this wasn't caused by power surges reaching the equipment but rather an effect of repeated power loss to drive arrays not fully designed to handle it. The article is pretty unclear. Still sounds like an infrastructure probl
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by miander 11y ago
Sickening stuff. It's even worse when you realize you're afraid of ending up on a watch list for speaking out about this kind of abuse.
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by miander 11y ago
I think he meant more along the lines of "having a wedding" or "having a funeral" than "sacrificing a cow" (but pardon my ignorance of Catholic rituals).
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by miander 11y ago
Regarding the quote from the article, I'm guessing it's referring to code fuzzing and static analysis tools which have now become relatively widespread.
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by miander 11y ago
Something to consider is that during normal blackouts, critical things like hospitals have backup power. If this happened, they would have no option but to turn on the generators and pray. Most will lose their backup power unless unless the
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by miander 11y ago
And you are making exactly the same assumption he did. It is not clear whether they meant libraries first released in the past 5 years or libraries that have seen new releases in the past 5 years. He assumed the former, you're assuming
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by miander 11y ago
If you look at the non-mobile version at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sIYgqrytPK-CFWfqDntraA_F... you'll see that the images have been resized to the width of the page, probably from much larger images
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by miander 11y ago
It struck me from this article how thoroughly the USPS and investigators practiced due diligence and did their homework during the course of the investigation. They went through the proper procedures for opening the package and made sure th
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by miander 12y ago
I'm really excited about this! These chips are incredibly cheap, and this will really open the door for DIYers and budget projects to start being a lot more ambitious with internet connectivity!
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by miander 12y ago
When the extensions are removed from the Chrome Web Store are they removed from everyone's browsers automatically? I didn't see it mentioned here or in the article.
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by miander 12y ago
To me it seems like the intuitive resolution to this is that a non-black non-raven does indeed provide some evidence that all ravens are black, but only an incredibly small amount. The net effect on the argument is so small that it can be i
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by miander 12y ago
Can you elaborate on what you mean by ISP's charging extra? I'm not familiar with what you're referring to. Do you mean traffic shaping?
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by miander 12y ago
I completely agree. And I think that addressing that kind of situation, where competitors have no choice but to do the same dirty deeds or be undercut, is the one true purpose of regulation. If you change the rules for everyone you protect
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by miander 12y ago
My honest opinion here is that almost everyone is completely missing a crucial point. Nearly all of the reasons given for locking people out of modifying their cars apply equally to cars without computers. Changing the odometer? It's f
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by miander 12y ago
For anyone who was wondering why Google spent so much time and money acquiring the .google gTLD, you now have your answer!
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by miander 12y ago
Good heavens, all of the incorrect uses of "it's" are painful. I may be a bit oversensitive but it is very jarring and distracting to me.

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