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by philpem 8y ago
That could lead to some interesting court cases. Employee gets fired for introducing a backdoor, but "may or may not have been" subject to one of these assistance notes (the Government won't comment either way, the employee i
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by philpem 8y ago
Oh, so much this. "I'm sick of you bringing me problems, bring me solutions! And I want that blockchain based big-data cloud IoT solution by the end of the week!"
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My background is safety-critical and -- speaking from first-hand experience -- it was truly incredible how much push-back we'd get when raising safety issues. System tick timer rolled over after 2^32 1ms clock ticks (a little over seve
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Ask HN: Jenkins – tracking quantitative (error rate) test results
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by philpem 8y ago
Bob is probably an engineer with twenty years experience, who's been thoroughly ground down by management and peer power-plays and has realised that the best solution is to keep your head below the parapets!
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(Brexit) UK Parliament votes down all alternative Brexit options(theguardian.com)
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Online, like it did on IRC? ;)
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Some vehicles already log the speed -- it's routine in road traffic collisions to read it out of the vehicle computers. As I understand, it only covers the last few minutes prior to engine stop / loss of power. There's also t
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by philpem 8y ago
They're great if you fit in with the group. If the group decides you're "different" in some way, you're going to get shunned, and shunned hard. Speaking from experience here. It works great for "normal" ki
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> Swapping hard drives with a buddy twice a month can be more bandwidth than most mobile contracts. Sounds like the 21st century version of Samizdat :)
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This is it. A human being can identify the context. Taking Fountain as an example -- a photo of a urinal on a building merchant's website is an illustration of the product they're selling, not an infringement. But the filter doesn
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by philpem 8y ago
How many small-time Patreon-funded content creators have the time and money to take on a major media company in court? Just because you could doesn't mean it's feasible from a financial point of view.
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The problem is the balance of power in this equation. You call your lawyer and ask them to sue (as an example) Google. I expect the response would be something to the effect of "are you mad, rich or both? Because this is going to take
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by philpem 8y ago
The DMCA has a similar provision (from memory it's something like "filing a false claim is considered perjury"). I've never, ever heard of a single charge being filed under that clause -- but I've heard of tons of i
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I seriously doubt Google would licence it to potential competitors either.
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Content ID uses some kind of fuzzy matching... a "single bit flip" (as you put it) isn't enough to confuse it. Yes it's true XYZ Music Corp would only own that performance (as it's Beethoven and the piece is long ou
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by philpem 8y ago
Ooh, nice one. That's an even better example than Beethoven. Even better still: there's a song which consists of 4 minutes and 33 seconds of silence. That's it - silence. "Your latest video upload contains 5 seconds of s
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by philpem 8y ago
You need only look at the rampant abuse of Content ID to see what the likely result will be... "Sorry, the video you uploaded 'Me playing Beethoven on the piano' contains BEETHOVEN'S 5TH SYMPHONY by BMG-EMI-XYZ Music Cor
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by philpem 8y ago
I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised if it pushes a chunk of the tech-savvy youth vote towards "Brexit at any cost". As I said elsewhere on this story -- the EU has possibly just handed Eurosceptic parties a massive win
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The difficulty is when the elected representatives decide unilaterally to pursue their own goals and aims, putting party before country and constituents. As evidenced by Merkel and Voss's reported comments (which were in the Wired arti
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by philpem 8y ago
They were about as well-informed as much of the general public. There's a Youtube video kicking around of someone (I forget who) going round Europarl asking MEPs if they'd actually read Articles 11 and 13. The most common answer,
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by philpem 8y ago
There are an absolute mountain of US sites which block European IP addresses to avoid GDPR. Mostly news outlets. I've never seen so many 451 Unavailable For Legal Reasons errors in my life! Still others present a "subscription req
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by philpem 8y ago
"About us We are EUROPE FOR CREATORS. A gathering of professional organisations of writers, musicians, producers, comedians, films makers coming from all over Europe.... [snip]" Translation: "We are GEMA, BPI, ...., and we m
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by philpem 8y ago
The stunning bit of this for me has been the attitude of my MEPs when I emailed them. One Labour MEP, both Conservatives - no response. Not even a form letter. Other Labour MEP - "You are being brainwashed by Google. This is the best t
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by philpem 8y ago
As I said on one of the other threads... 26 March 2019. The day the Internet died. (at least in Europe) But of course -- "the Internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it" -- so what we're likely to see is a
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by philpem 8y ago
So do I.
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26 March 2019, the Day the Internet Died.
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I love the concept - I've been working on something similar myself using an MMDVM (with custom programming) and a pair of Icom mobile transceivers. My only comments from reading the protocol spec -- and I need to emphasize, this is one
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Not even "Not supposed to be" -- it can't be. $4489 decoded is a valid byte, but with one of the clock transitions 'blanked'. If you decode $4489 via MFM then re-encode that byte, you'll get a 1-bit difference.
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Yeah, constant angular velocity (hub motor RPM is fixed) vs. constant linear velocity (linear speed over the disk is fixed). If memory serves, the 800K Mac and Commodore 1541 disks were actually Z-CLV or Zoned-CLV -- where the drive speed c

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