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by moby_click 7y ago
One paragraph struck me as a pretty wild claim in an article about fake news: > Last year, for example, the British music industry association UK Music calculated that Google had spent almost €31 million to lobby against a stricter copy
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by moby_click 8y ago
On the other hand, people may try to create "Fixing Unix/Linux/Posix Filenames.html". I'd much rather have any bytestring as filename and explicit structure.
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by moby_click 8y ago
At least they added an explanation with regard to "best efforts": > When assessing whether an online content sharing service provider has made its best efforts according to high industry standards of professional diligence, acc
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by moby_click 8y ago
At least we now know the cabin dimensions with a precision of two significant figures.
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by moby_click 9y ago
I don't think, Backster's "research" on plants is convincing: http://skepdic.com/plants.html
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by moby_click 9y ago
For a while, I was pretty excited about secure enclaves, as a tool before homomorphic encryption reaches practicality. If remote code execution on the PSP means broken remote attestation, that hope goes down the drain, quickly. Maybe, the k
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by moby_click 9y ago
Usually, there's a medically expensive period before death and the burden may even begin in the productive years. Smoking probably causes higher incidence and severity of common diseases like influenza, additionally resulting in loss o
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by moby_click 10y ago
> There's nothing antiquated about a hierarchical filesystem with a single root. Unfortunately the hierarchical structure is lost in the name. It's one flat string and '/' and NUL have special meaning. In a way,
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by moby_click 10y ago
Are we talking about human mothers that have been confined in gestation crates for months, having been separated from their mother and their children in the past for generations?
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by moby_click 10y ago
A year ago there was a sad moment when the European Parliament laughingly decided to not limit methane emissions from ruminants: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/ep-live/en/plenary/video?debat... The relevant pa
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by moby_click 10y ago
I found some mention of a blockchain here: https://github.com/milagro-docs/docs.milagro.io-english/blob... and here: https://github.com/milagro-docs/docs.milagro.io-english/blob... For m
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by moby_click 10y ago
Having read a little further, I think offline attacks are possible and 4 digits alone are useless today but that still does not weaken the security level. You need a key, whether you choose to use a password or not. Correct me if I'm w
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by moby_click 10y ago
Thanks for the link. I think I saw his talk about the topic and that milagro resonates well with it. The use of threshold encryption works around an unfortunate aspect of IBE and is practical today. PS: As I grow older, I become more accept
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by moby_click 10y ago
I just learned about Milagro through this submission and only looked at a fraction of the docs but as someone who is not a cryptographer but put some effort into understanding pairing based cryptograph, I find the documentation excellent so
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by moby_click 10y ago
Xen offers a couple of ways to load and start a kernel and you'd want to start a kernel in long or protected mode. Ideally, you also use the hypervisors virtual device interfaces instead of scanning for emulated devices. I don't k
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by moby_click 10y ago
Maybe we have differing ideas of "general" but in healthy non-overeating people, the fatty acid profile in the body is reasonably close to the dietary profile. There is some conversion like elongation and desaturation of essential
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by moby_click 11y ago
1) According to the source article, a unikernel is a kind of library OS and I think you hit the right spot with 2) specialization. AFAIK the the concept of a library OS is from a time when single purpose computing was not on the agenda. We
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by moby_click 11y ago
Ideally we could also control the cooktop and at least on older electrical models it should be possible to hook into the circuitry that the knobs are attached to. Without automatic feedback loops such devices are less convenient but still
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by moby_click 11y ago
I attended a demo for Frima VarioCooking Center and have since been looking for a temperature-sensing pan for induction cookers (if that is possible). I understand why all those devices are marketed as "smart" but what I'd re
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by moby_click 12y ago
IANAL, but last time I looked, german data protection law regarded the level offered by other states within the european economic area as adequate.