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by mshook 9y ago
2) was best explained by https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16239612 and in a nutshell is what the wired article mentioned above was about.
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by mshook 9y ago
I remember reading this couple of years ago and I guess the graph was more eloquent than anything else: http://mattmckeon.com/facebook-privacy/ What's also interesting is to read comments about privacy from 8 year
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by mshook 9y ago
It's a common misconception: not all flights are forbidden. Yes, almost all flights are forbidden above Paris, unless you're above 2000m (6600 ft) and you're a regular airliner or military transport... https://www.
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by mshook 9y ago
While humans can't hear higher than 48kHz, the higher sample rates are used for working audio files which might later be resampled or retimed. 48 kHz? Someone probably got confused between Nyquist–Shannon sampling theorem and the hum
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by mshook 9y ago
That's why companies doing HFT or stock exchanges often use microwave links... Just to crank it to eleven err to gain that 30% back. Information Transmission Between Financial Markets in Chicago and New York: https://arxiv.
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by mshook 9y ago
Fingerprinting has been done: https://cise.ufl.edu/~butler/pubs/sadfe11.pdf And given you can easily reprogram thumb drives and such, it's easy to do evil stuff with them. You can plug a thumb drive with a re
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by mshook 9y ago
Stuff like: https://themoscowtimes.com/articles/the-kremlin-eats-gps-for... http://money.cnn.com/2016/12/02/technology/kremlin-gps-signa...
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by mshook 9y ago
That's a good question but from my experience it's not the case. I live in France and 20 to 30 years ago, after hours driving on highways, it was quite common to have your car plastered with bugs. Now it rarely happens. And with t
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by mshook 9y ago
Regarding 1): rclone does the job. That's what I use with B2. https://rclone.org/
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by mshook 9y ago
People don't realize how frequent it could be because most of the time you don't see any of the consequences. Here's a "funny" consequence of bit flips: bit squatting. It's about exploiting a bit flip before a
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by mshook 9y ago
If you know a bug in the DNS resolving stack of the client, you can make it send a query to your DNS server and exploit it to establish a connection. So no, it doesn't have to know it's about to connect. A query is easily triggere
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by mshook 9y ago
They can, it's called firewall punching... Skype does that routinely: ever wondered how it can setup a point to point connection without port forwarding? So to agree with PP, NAT is not a firewall...
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by mshook 9y ago
I think you're mixing cultural identity and historical identity. Sure the first one is built on top of the second but mostly it's a by-product of society. People mostly become what they're surrounded by not because they'
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by mshook 10y ago
It's mostly true but the issues as far as I know are: - RAID 1 with more than 2 disks is not what you think it is: the data will be mirrored but only once, no matter how many disks you have (meaning if you have a mirror with 3 disks, y
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by mshook 10y ago
Not sure why that was down voted: I mean the goal of the 60% tax measure is to offer places to rent for locals, AirBnB doesn't solve that, it makes it worse...
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by mshook 10y ago
AirBnB makes it worse for the local population, that's what this 60% thing is about. Sure it's great as a tourist but as an owner, when you could rent your place for X € a month, on AirBnB you could probably rent it for 70% of tha
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by mshook 10y ago
First poster has a point, no need for people to live abroad and to rent their places to have problems... Laws in France are really leaning towards the tenants. First there's the "trêve hivernale" which could be translated as
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by mshook 10y ago
The main btrfs devs who were at Oracle have been at Facebook for a while, so you can't blame Oracle for btrfs not moving along haha
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by mshook 10y ago
The other big factor to keep in mind is Concorde hourly fuel consumption at cruising subsonic speed (something below Mach 0.95) was pretty much disastrous as it was the same than at vmo (which was Mach 2.02). So the goal was always to go su
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by mshook 10y ago
I read in duplicity's man page that "In order to determine which files have been deleted, and to calculate diffs for changed files, duplicity needs to process information about previous sessions. It stores this information in the
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by mshook 10y ago
I don't read it like that. From my point of view it's like saying if you sell virtualization as a way to isolate different OSes + applications for security reasons (compared to cost savings and all associated from using this kind
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by mshook 10y ago
While I'm a rider and I agree distractions on a motorcycle are not what you want, just being able to do the following without having to loose sight of what's in front of me would be great: - get my speed (for a traffic cam for ins
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by mshook 10y ago
It's not a bug, it's a feature. This way people won't fake being you by creating an account with a dot in the user part of the email address (at least that's the way I see it eventhough I've never seen an official r
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by mshook 10y ago
That's how elevators work in the company I am at. You don't have an up or down button. Just a keypad with all the floors (and some additional buttons for people with disabilities). The way it works: - when you select a floor numbe
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by mshook 10y ago
On the other hand, I remember watching something on TV where people in the money laundering / tax evasion tracking business were saying the nice property about this bill is it's easy to track because they aren't that common.
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by mshook 10y ago
Nice but: - admin interface? For having managed plenty of Apache servers running as reverse proxy servers, it's nice to have a GUI when there are hundreds of rules you can mess^Wfuck with - high end appliance? I mean it's cool 2 N
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by mshook 11y ago
I was about to get some Unifi gear for my personal use but decided against it when I read about the GPL problem they have...
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by mshook 11y ago
Have they fixed their GPL compliance issues? http://libertybsd.net/ubiquiti/ http://news.slashdot.org/story/15/04/07/1740217/how-ubiquiti... https://community.ubnt.c
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by mshook 11y ago
You could but letting dd take care of it instead of doing it yourself is much better IMHO.
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by mshook 11y ago
I really wonder how they could even do fly pasts at air shows. The only technical reason (technical not economical) Concorde doesn't fly anymore is because the type certificate, aka the airworthiness of the aircraft, was surrendered by

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