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by pja 11y ago
The argument is that once they have this precedent in hand, they can then use it to force Apple to alter the code in the secure enclave of all current Apple devices so that the security services can gain access to them on demand. Or else,
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by pja 11y ago
That said I think John McAfee and probably a few people on here could get in, so the tl;dr is ya they coming for that secure enclave. Small note - in the case of this particular phone it doesn’t have a secure enclave. But yes, I’m sure p
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by pja 11y ago
Works for me.
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by pja 11y ago
Homebrew lacks many packages. Coming from Debian / Ubuntu, the package repository was always the first place to look when I needed some software. MacPorts is more complete in my experience, but tends to lag behind Homebrew for the ne
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by pja 11y ago
The energy is dumped into gravitational waves rather than electromagnetic radiation & they don’t interact with matter much. I’m not sure you’d notice it happening in the same galaxy unless you were looking for it.
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by pja 11y ago
The energy was all dumped into the gravitational waves we detected, not into electromagnetic radiation: Gravity waves don’t interact with matter very much (the cross section of the graviton is believed to be extremely small) so the quantity
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by pja 11y ago
The Higgs detection was not a single event but resulted from the statistical analysis of many events.
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by pja 11y ago
I wouldn’t place any trust in the Daily Mail whatsoever. Do you have a more reliable link? As far as I’m aware, NASA knew that there had been a foam / ice strike on the orbiter but had no idea how bad it was. Given those circumstances,
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by pja 11y ago
The mosquitoes are genetically altered to need a particular chemical in order for their offspring to be non-sterile. (Tetracycline IIRC) Without tetracycline in their food, any offspring the have will be sterile. (I’m afraid I don’t know th
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by pja 11y ago
It’s been standard practice to treat schizophrenia with anti-psychotic drugs as the first-line treatment for decades at this point in time. Do you have some weird grudge against psychologists?
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by pja 11y ago
Late, Great, Sir Tony Hoare Tony Hoare is very much still alive to the best of my knowledge!
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by pja 11y ago
Fairly informal, occasionally jokey writing is a hallmark of the British press. For us, it’s a bit of a culture shock to read the mainstream US press which takes everything very seriously.
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by pja 11y ago
Using adjectives in the “wrong” order doesn’t really change the meaning significantly though, it just sounds a little weird to a native speaker. I don’t think anyone claims that spoken Chinese is particularly hard compared to other language
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by pja 11y ago
The Jewish students were regarded as the undesirables and given the 'coffin' problems in order to eliminate them - read the links up-thread.
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by pja 11y ago
The idea isn’t that money came before barter - barter has always been around on the fringes of things. It’s that credit came before money & that credit tokens backed by a credible issuer turned out to be extremely useful as tokens of
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by pja 11y ago
Only in London - in the rest of the UK rents are usually monthly.
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The $8.2B Adtech Fraud Problem That Everyone Is Ignoring(techcrunch.com)
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by pja 11y ago
Lets Encrypt only generates certs with a 90 day expiry, so if longer than that is a requirement for you then you need to look elsewhere. You won’t be able to use the automated letsencrypt scripts to generate a cert either - you’ll have to u
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by pja 11y ago
It’s well attested that the people in charge of the Minuteman missle systems had the same concerns & set the PAL codes on all the missiles to 000000.
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by pja 11y ago
No, because the github / U2F keys don’t have any writeable local storage.
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by pja 11y ago
Love it.
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by pja 11y ago
ghci will (usually) tell you: phil@arod:~$ ghci GHCi, version 7.6.3: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ :? for help Loading package ghc-prim ... linking ... done. Loading package integer-gmp ... linking ... d
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by pja 11y ago
These guys probably aren't really working all that hard. If you have time to read emails and surf the web then you should exercise harder. True if you’re doing cardio exercise. If you’re doing some kind of weight program for strength
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by pja 11y ago
The game logic in modern games is usually scripted in some form or other whilst the world mesh & textures are “just” data structures. Reverse engineer both & you can make a game engine dance to your own tune.
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by pja 11y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20151210170144/https://www.reddi... Deleted for not being a question I guess.
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by pja 11y ago
Sleep disorders are notorious for bringing on mental problems as well, including (but not limited to) severe depression. Meanwhile depression can cause sleep issues all by itself. Teasing out cause and effect for patients like this must be
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by pja 11y ago
Given ARMs dominance of the mobile processor industry for any large tech company to buy them would invite the close scrutiny by anti-trust authorities that none of the major tech companies are particularly keen to attract. Since ARM is happ
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by pja 11y ago
ARM2 had hardware multiply & more shadow registers and came in at 30k transistors according to Wikipedia. Everything2 thinks the ARM2 came in at just over 25k transistors though, with the ARM1 using less than 25k.
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by pja 11y ago
So the ARM1 had no cache & no microcode. 15 user visible 32 bit registers, with some (Nos 10-15 IIRC) duplicated for use during interrupts (FIQ mode). I think a couple more registers were also duplicated for use during other interrupts.
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by pja 11y ago
A bit of Sugru works as an alternative to silicone tape IME. I’ve got a bunch of frayed cables which are still going strong thanks to a chunk of Sugru round the frayed part.

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