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by plorg 10y ago
Don't forget the rumors of cabinet positions for Ben Carson and Sarah Palin. I'm not sure I would call it cronyism as much as the promotion of craven sycophants.
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by plorg 10y ago
I don't think OP is saying there is literally no hardware on which to run the OS, just that by restricting it to Apple products and then not producing any actual server-grade hardware, the offering seems pretty pointless.
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by plorg 10y ago
It seems clear even from the summary that this process was used to test the silk fibers, not to produce them. Presumably the control silk and the nanotube/graphene-fed silk were both subjected to the carbonization treatment and the the
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by plorg 10y ago
It was difficult getting past the words Windows Meta File, the cause of one of my many software headaches in graduate school. I never found a way to export vector graphics from Matlab (admittedly not a Microsoft product) in a way that they
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by plorg 10y ago
They used to teach this as an open enrollment course in college (at least mine, which was not atypical of the larger liberal arts college scene). It was called "music of non-western cultures", and pretty much everyone who took it
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by plorg 10y ago
I've given up using the 3.5mm jack in situations where there might be stress on the plug (e.g. when you have your phone in your pocket). I've destroyed so many sets of headphones (or, in my case, replaced the cord on so many headp
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by plorg 10y ago
It's unclear how much A/B testing has to do with this. If I use a mobile user agent (e.g. Nexus 6 via the Chrome Dev Tools) I get the option to enable or disable autoplay.
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by plorg 10y ago
For me, visiting on desktop only allows me to choose between "SD only" and "HD when available". There is no option for "disable autoplay".
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by plorg 10y ago
That and podbay occasionally do the trick, but not always.
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by plorg 10y ago
For the most part I like how the podcasting environment currently functions, but I do think that Apple's outsized power leads to some frustrating practices. I have found many podcasters who only list an iTunes URL. I rarely if ever use
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by plorg 11y ago
More like "reserving". Clearly they're actually using the exploit in question. I would associate "stowing away" or "hoarding" with hiding or putting a later circumstance. In any case, the original title (&
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by plorg 11y ago
Clearly this is evidence that their environmental report was created in their Irish subsidiary (of Double Irish fame), propagated to the U.S., and then modified for the rest of the world (here, Australia).
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by plorg 11y ago
Notably, to me, they have recovered 4x as much steel as aluminum, suggesting to me that a significant part of their recycling operation is on non-Apple PCs and or quite old Apple equipment since the bulk of their current products (for in so
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by plorg 11y ago
Elsewhere the article described him buying up "1-kilogram" bars. I don't know where you would get such a thing (I'm not in the gold market), but this does make more sense with the figure of $20M dollars (although it stil
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by plorg 11y ago
Since the Revolv products themselves already run such an OS it might just be a matter of popping a root shell, curling a dropbear, and killing the update daemon.
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by plorg 11y ago
On the other hand, this seems to provide a really good opportunity to hobbyists, if they can get the ball rolling quickly enough. If the problem with smart-home devices is their over-reliance on the cloud, the best solution would be to crea
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by plorg 11y ago
I can't edit the URL, but a more narrative story is here: http://www.securityweek.com/dhs-mistakenly-releases-840-page... It details a research project demonstrating the ability to use protective relays in power system
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FOIA request for Google hack returns details on electric grid security [2014](muckrock.com)
2 points by plorg 11y ago|2 comments
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by plorg 11y ago
Anything you may have heard is almost certainly speculation. It seems pretty likely that a particular Israeli company supplied the FBI with an exploit, but no one has said anything about that exploit being specific to the 5c. Even Apple doe
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NSA Wanted Hillary Clinton to Use the Windows CE Sectéra Edge(zdnet.com)
2 points by plorg 11y ago|0 comments
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by plorg 11y ago
Maybe this is an opportunity to test out different battery chemistries that may initially move into their cars. Alternately, the magnesium chemistry could be cheaper than lithium but less energy-dense, hence not a great choice for the cars.
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by plorg 11y ago
This reads a lot like a Huxleyan ("soma") dystopia compounded or facilitated by turning every passive human decision into another rent-seeking market. I could not imagine a worse hell.
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by plorg 11y ago
I have it as "\e[5~": history-search-backward "\e[6~": history-search-forward This allows you to continue using arrows for absolute chronological history then use PageUp and PageDn for history search. You co
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by plorg 11y ago
From the article the next level of appeals is the (U.S.) Supreme Court. It would just depend on whether that court decided to take up the case.
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by plorg 11y ago
Oh, I'm sure it did in some way. And I'm sure the Reactions will change the way that we create posts in the future. I'm not sure, though, if it will change in the way you suggest. I suppose I would be interested if certain su
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by plorg 11y ago
The way I used to look at it the 'Like' button was intended as a signal of affirmation to a person than to their comment. That is certainly the way my FB "Friends" use it. Often other people don't have a perfectly d
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by plorg 11y ago
People keep suggesting that on the slippery slope of Apple complying with cases of limited scope the next logical step is compelling the production of a signing key. This is the very essence of why a slippery slope is often a logical fallac
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by plorg 11y ago
That's cute, but the statement doesn't even suggest all life would be gone. If I had to guess, "most life on Earth" would be the majority of macrofauna and macroflora. In other words, life would probably still persist in
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by plorg 11y ago
The age of the law should not be an indicator of how applicative it is. Consider that the All Writs Act was written at essentially the same time as the fourth ammendment. Similarly, it appears to be written broadly with the very intent that
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by plorg 11y ago
Each attempt takes 80 ms. That's in hardware. There is a separate retry delay that increases exponentially then tops out at 1 hour per unsuccessful attempt. The 10-try limit is the number of consecutive unsuccessful attempts before the

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