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by nobody3141592 15y ago
If you think it was placed there by law enforcement and your intention is to cause maximum embarrassment- then you call the DHS/Fire/etc and assume that inter-agency cooperation is such that they wont have a note saying you are a surveillan
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by nobody3141592 15y ago
The arguement is whether this is simply the same as reporting your position in public. Or by tracking everywhere you go and correlating that with tracks of other known suspects and then extending that to tracking people that you travel near
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by nobody3141592 15y ago
Given my experience in dealing with military intelligence types - they probably have "PROPERTY OF FBI - SECRET UNDERCOVER OPERATIONS DEPT" printed on them along with an address and an orange flashing light.
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by nobody3141592 15y ago
The main implication would presumably be the discovery of an optimal travelling-salesman solution between all the donut shops in the city
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by nobody3141592 15y ago
I think the record is just under 1Billion hashes/sec on a couple of NVidia Tesla cards linked by SLI. You need a fairly expensive SAN to pull 1Billion MD5 hashes/second just from the raw disk - nevermind the DB lookup.
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by nobody3141592 15y ago
Only if you have been stupid enough to disturb a potential car bomb to see whats inside. Back when I worked for a defense company our cars were checked with mirrors on sticks everytime we went to work, we had special police numbers to call
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by nobody3141592 15y ago
There was a famous case in the UK in the 70s The security services bugged the HQ of the Communist Party of Great Britain (because the UK doesn't have a bill of rights it's legal to be a commie there). The members found the bug and destroyed
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by nobody3141592 15y ago
Introduce various independent levels of city, county, state and federal police with special separate forces in charge of major crimes, terrorism, drugs, money laundering etc Then they will spend all their time and effort fighting each other
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by nobody3141592 15y ago
Yes it would be so much better if a government law officer had to also get a rubber stamp on a form from a government court officer before doing this. That would remove any concern over civil liberties
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by nobody3141592 15y ago
Presumably if you discover a suspect package under your vehicle you would call the fire service and the bomb squad. (Then quietly also call the local news service.)
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by nobody3141592 15y ago
So merely battering a piece of metal (that other cleverer people have spent 200 years designing the alloys of) into shape is craftsmanship. While creating a piece of software - a functional machine out of pure thought - is somehow just grun
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by nobody3141592 15y ago
It does rather rely on you being on the tip of a continent where the gulf stream goes past the front door.
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by nobody3141592 15y ago
Compared to the amount of oil burned around the world for all the computers reading HN I think you can ignore the bottles
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by nobody3141592 15y ago
The official ones seem pretty ineffective. A child went missing 300miles from here a month ago, the freeway signs were all announcing an amber alert. But the first thing the police in the next state - less than 10miles from his home - knew
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by nobody3141592 15y ago
The worst offender is NVidia. They have half-a-dozen different developer logins for different bits of their site - and they all have different rules = your CUDA one must have a symbol but the parralel Nsight one must not etc
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by nobody3141592 15y ago
I for one welcome our self-replicating Teutonic arachoid robot overlords
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by nobody3141592 15y ago
You mean just like the natural pattern of storms and snow melt that the areas you build hydro in already have? Hydro here have carefully regulated flows to reduce the natural variation in the river so that for example an optimal flow is cr
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by nobody3141592 15y ago
Moore's law is all about improvements in the fab process which drives down not only design rules but also defect rates to mean that putting more devices on a single wafer is more cost effective. As you reduce the process costs then there is
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by nobody3141592 15y ago
I believe that with GPUs it's now faster to calculate possible MD5s on-the-fly than use rainbow tables. Hence the current advice is to use "alongpassphraseasyourpassword" rather than "L33$Pa55wd"
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by nobody3141592 15y ago
They are like traditional floods but much faster access - although much much more expensive
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by nobody3141592 15y ago
It's part of the GSM spec to always allow a 112 call - even with no SIM or no account for the phone. It's a bit of a problem in some countries - you get a lot of 'butt dialed' 112 calls - and the protocol in many jurisdictions if you have a
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by nobody3141592 15y ago
Typical solution would be to introduce a requirement that teaching materials had to meet some national standard- for the good of the children - the standard would of course be set by the major publishers and the certification wouldn't be av
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by nobody3141592 15y ago
Perhaps Texas only teaches addition, California only teach subtraction - they used to also include multiplication and division but the kids tested poorly on those and it was dragging the grades down.
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by nobody3141592 15y ago
Presumably Twitter as a private company has every right to reject accounts from certain people, Google has every right to remove them from their index and Facebook is bound to be able to find someway in which the politician violated their t
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by nobody3141592 15y ago
Not Russel Crowe - please not Russel Crowe
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by nobody3141592 15y ago
In the UK at least the library also pays a per-loan (a few *10c) to the author.
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by nobody3141592 15y ago
In patents 'a' is plural. Just try and write a patent in Word - it grammar highlights the whole document!
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by nobody3141592 15y ago
And the same British government refused to extradite General Pinochet to Spain for war crimes because there wasn't enough evidence! The courts are going to be very busy if months after every club 18-30 holiday you can regret a drunken 'roma
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by nobody3141592 15y ago
STEM students subsidize liberal arts by creating a world in which somebody whose only skill is art history can live without starving to death or dying of a childhood disease
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by nobody3141592 15y ago
If the problem is that large number of students enter STEM but drop out because they aren't equipped - then you have to prepare them better. Two options - one is to make STEM degrees 6 or 8 years and teach 2-4 years of what should be high s

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