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by mirkules 13y ago
Would you be more comfortable giving your fingerprint or DNA sample to prove your identity? Side note: maybe there could be a way to irreversibly hash one's fingerprint or DNA sample into an electronic signature
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"Unfortunately, although perhaps inevitably, the U.S. and related players felt compelled to replace them with a global overlord." I am starting to suspect that creating a fully-controlled global network might have been a conscious
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by mirkules 13y ago
It may not necessarily be a win-win for Google. It could actually make search worse. Consider if I search for Southwest Airlines and get a big Jet Blue banner that takes up 88% of vertical space, this would actually make me very agitated as
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by mirkules 13y ago
iPhone 5 worked really well. However, on myiPad 2 it's really choppy? To the GP - if you think of it like a game controller you don't have to continuously keep swiping - just drg your finger lowky through the "levels"
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by mirkules 13y ago
Nobody stands while drinking Turkish coffee. :) But seriously, it's a social drink, which is why it will (or should) never be served in a paper cup. But being originally from a Balkan state myself, I may have a bias against "to go
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by mirkules 13y ago
"A lot of those "Just type this!" solutions I've seen involve sudo somewhere." Not sure if you're alluding to this trick: http://thejh.net/misc/website-terminal-copy-paste This particular
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by mirkules 13y ago
I think your approximations are focusing solely on keystrokes, whereas the parent specified just "data", which makes me believe that network traffic, application logs, etc are included in this. I can believe the 1PB/day numbe
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by mirkules 13y ago
If you were to read my profile and see my endorsements, you would think I am the master of all that is, ever was and ever will be in software configuration management using IBM ClearCase. I half-jokingly thought that my former workplace man
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by mirkules 13y ago
That's true, and I remember there was some talk in the astronomy community about disposing of nuclear waste in deep space or shooting it at the sun. Although, if we can recycle some or all aspects of batteries (the non-radioactive part
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by mirkules 13y ago
Fun fact: the ISS would be technically impossible to build on Earth because it would collapse due to its own weight. No gravity makes creating structures much easier both to move and to support.
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They also have conveyor belts in Las Vegas hotels and IIRC on some of the walkways connecting the hotels.
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It should be noted, however, that he correctly predicts that batteries should be disposed of only by authorized centers undoubtedly due to their hypothetical radioactive nature -- which is clearly wrong -- but I think we can give a quarter
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by mirkules 13y ago
I'm with you as well. I refuse to get navigation systems in cars (and I work in the automotive industry!) or radios without physical buttons. As far as texting, these days I find it easier to just use Siri to send a text message than
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by mirkules 13y ago
I have been around HN for about 4 years now (I lurked before I created my account) -- there used to be all sorts of interesting articles on the front page (not just about programming, but genuinely interesting things like music, biology, ps
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by mirkules 13y ago
My first thought was this sounds a lot like the "screen" command. Which is basically true, but with the added benefit of screen splitting. Also, tmux is distributed under the BSD license (instead of GPL). http://www.wi
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by mirkules 13y ago
Yeah. It's satire about overreactions that are so prevalent on many tech sites (including this one). Colbert would be proud.
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House rejects limits on NSA collection of phone records(latimes.com)
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by mirkules 13y ago
The problem with working at a company like that is that by the time you realize you are stuck, you have no relevant practical experience anymore and it can be rather difficult to get hired at places that are worth working at.
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by mirkules 13y ago
There is a really good book called Time Travel in Einstein's Universe by Richard J. Gott ( http://www.amazon.com/books/dp/B003L1ZYKG ) that explores different concepts of time travel and violations of causality
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by mirkules 13y ago
A "security researcher" posted a video with compromised accounts claiming to have deleted all the data after reporting the bugs to Apple: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q000_EOWy80 It is really unfortunate and irr
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by mirkules 13y ago
Interesting idea, but now you have multiple points of failure. All you would need to do is neutralize one point, and the whole system fails.
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by mirkules 13y ago
I love how it says "stand on glass". All I can think about is how it would make the Safety Police of 2013 cringe so hard. Back in my day, we stood on glass and rescued people who were being electrocuted
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by mirkules 13y ago
Sportacular for iOS is also great. Provides no-nonsense scores and news for almost every sport (I mainly follow basketball, tennis and soccer, though). It is a much better interface than what Yahoo's own web equivalent (sports.yahoo.co
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by mirkules 13y ago
Indeed. Paper calendars might have worked for WWI and WWII, but that took a lot of effort and was not instantaneous. I would also like to get up in the morning and not have to actively check the calendar to see what are my daily tasks --
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by mirkules 13y ago
Not really defeatist, but impractical. There are functions like reminders and invitations you just can't get with paper calendars easily.
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I'm skeptical. For the past few years that I've been attending, defcon felt at some times like an instrument for fed recruiting while paying lip service to its original "underground" feel. DT's message almost felt l
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by mirkules 13y ago
Whether you data is encrypted or not is really not relevant when the device's OS cannot be trusted. You can encrypt 'till the cows come home, but if the OS is stealing your data before you have a chance to encrypt it, your encrypt
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by mirkules 13y ago
It costs $30K for the time and effort to gather and organize the data. If it was that easy to find all beach access points and identify false signs, it would have already been done. The cost of an app isn't just the amount of man-hours
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by mirkules 13y ago
I don't see anything inherently wrong in building a business around a civil service. Your exclamation mark indicates that 30K is too much for an app like this, but I disagree because someone has to do the research to find each beach ac
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by mirkules 13y ago
When you start to look back, things like this start making a lot more sense in the present context: http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2... Maybe there isn't a plan to infiltrate exist

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