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by personZ 13y ago
This benchmark is a bit artificial (though still interesting and illuminating), given that much of what we do on our smartphone is not so computationally intensive in our own code, but instead most apps are a relatively thin layer of glue a
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by personZ 13y ago
The rareness assumption comes about given that the general response to the exploit is a complete blindness to the possibility that it was exploited before it gained public awareness: There seems to be a complete lack of ability by almost al
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by personZ 13y ago
How would they know this? Presumably they would have to log the entirety of IP communications with their services.
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by personZ 13y ago
Further I've seen a shop deploy hundreds of thousands of CentOS nodes to avoid RHEL license fees Such decisions often happen at the engineer level, and it isn't for money management reasons, but rather "avoid purchasing and
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by personZ 13y ago
Could sympathy not have played a part? Given his position, Jobs could conceptually have held himself responsible for enabling poor nutrition. Indeed, most organizations that offer on-site catering have such paternalistic concerns. Google hi
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by personZ 13y ago
The biggest impact of these sorts of changes are future users who are trying to get their first configuration going, following various web tutorials. Many of those tutorials are now misleading, but via the nature of accumulated web content
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by personZ 13y ago
Why would that be an anti-trust concern? What Ptacek is referring to is a CA compromise being detected. At that moment the CA would be, quite correctly, with a gun to their head as their entire purpose for existing -- their whole business
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by personZ 13y ago
I'm not sure how big a part the name and branding, per se, played in the wide reaction to this vulnerability. I would argue that people reacted because they knew it was incredibly serious, impacting almost every site out there. Further
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by personZ 13y ago
Windows doesn't use OpenSSL, and Schneier's host is using Apache. I assume that he must not have direct control of his host or for some other reason cannot immediately upgrade/restart.
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I was speaking more to the capabilities of the hardware than specific games or apps, and it is absolutely true that most games optimize for the lower end (in vertex count and texture size), so they don't really show off the high end. A
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by personZ 13y ago
Since Hacker News has been going through some introspection recently, I just wanted to pontificate on the comments thus far: Almost universally garbage. Just terrible . There is some sort of bizarre urge for people to rush to explain &quot
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by personZ 13y ago
How is the simple inclusion of the feature the "worst aspect"? You don't have to play games on the device, of course. They didn't force the controller with the base purchase. Given that it's Android powered, I suspe
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by personZ 13y ago
Aside from it being available via Amazon Instant, note that HBO Go is listed as a partner, announced as "coming soon". It is an act of remarkable honesty that Amazon put HBO Go with no checkbox, as most vendors would have put a ch
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by personZ 13y ago
Smart TV saturation remains small, so I don't see it being a proposition where they need to convert people: If you put the Amazon Fire beside an Apple TV, for many people the Amazon device may very well represent a better choice. As to