pmjordan

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by pmjordan 12y ago
The glass blur effect is actually disabled in VMware and other unaccelerated graphics devices. You can disable it on intel/AMD/nvidia too, the setting is in the accessibility part of system preferences. They've just removed t
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by pmjordan 12y ago
Yes, although the graphics card version (which was to be the first product based on the design) got cancelled, they persevered with the chip design itself.
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by pmjordan 12y ago
Unfortunately, that sort of static information frequently is targeted for phishing. The bank can keep telling people that they will never ask for all the codes at once, but some subset of customers will happily comply with such a request in
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by pmjordan 12y ago
I've seen this behaviour, too. Could it be worse in Yosemite if you have iCloud Drive enabled? Of course, Apple ought to listen to their own advice of "never do I/O on the main thread" but then they don't bother wit
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by pmjordan 12y ago
You'd be surprised how happily people will make abusive and hateful comments on sites with facebook comments.
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by pmjordan 12y ago
I read it as "If you don't want to be harassed, you shouldn't have a public presence." FWIW, immediately before that sentence, the thread-starter called into question the real danger of doxxing and calls to "action&
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by pmjordan 12y ago
This handily ignores that doxxing is not some virtuous research and release of pure facts in the public interest. Its purpose is to turn lies about the victim into the publicly perceived truth (defamation) by mixing them with the weight of
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by pmjordan 12y ago
Victim blaming/"they deserve it": "For the most part, high-profile "targets" from the troll's perspective are already known to the public anyway."
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by pmjordan 12y ago
Ugh. At the very least, this kind of victim blaming attitude and lack of empathy is presumably exactly the setup for people jumping on the harassment bandwagon without thinking things through. 1. You're pretty much advocating mob rule.
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by pmjordan 12y ago
Large parts of OSX userspace (Frameworks, daemons and pretty much all the system applications) and some of the kernel are closed source. Almost all of iOS is closed.
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by pmjordan 12y ago
90W is rather a lot. I'm looking at the Intel NUCs, which are a lot more compact and power efficient. Downside is that they only come with a single Ethernet port so you need to add any additional ones via USB3.
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by pmjordan 12y ago
This looks like it? http://www.audible.com/search/ref=a_mn_at_ano_tseft__galileo...
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by pmjordan 12y ago
Obviously it shouldn't stop working straight away, but presumably an attacker would actually use the password reset code, at which point they would set your password to something else, which you would notice.
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by pmjordan 12y ago
If someone hacks into your email account, they can just trawl through the email archive and harvest passwords from past password reminder emails. With a temporary reset token, they have to initiate a password reset request, which you should
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by pmjordan 12y ago
As I understand it, the PlayStation Vita has a rear touchpad. I've never used one, does anyone who has care to comment on how well it works?
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by pmjordan 12y ago
The whole reason this is even an issue is the ambiguity of the license on the subject of dynamic linking and what precisely constitutes a derived work. Of course, if Linus wanted proprietary kernel extensions, he should have picked LGPL, bu
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by pmjordan 12y ago
Many game companies won't even hire developers who are very good but don't have (much) game experience because this is seen as not being passionate enough about games. And yes, they're happy to hire the inferior but "pas
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by pmjordan 12y ago
Not the only one. If you access them from a German IP address, most game download services will only let you buy games that are rated 18+ in Germany between 10pm and 6am CET/CEST or some such time range. (I found this out because I hav
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by pmjordan 12y ago
The RRP of the Intel NUC Kit DN2820FYKH is $128: http://ark.intel.com/products/78953/Intel-NUC-Kit-DN2820FYK?... I believe that includes the Wifi/Bluetooth module already, but not the DDR3L RAM module or an S
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by pmjordan 12y ago
7.5h of work with 30 mins lunch break is fairly common in Europe; when my wife was an accountant in London, she had that schedule. In the UK, the typical hours for that would indeed be 9-5. (In some parts of Europe, 8-4 seems more common)
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by pmjordan 12y ago
The Intel NUCs are in a similar price range, especially once you take case, PSU, etc. into consideration. You can get them motherboard-only, but in the pre-built ones you just add RAM and Flash/HDD and you're done. The NUCs probab
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by pmjordan 13y ago
What specifically did he do recently? He was interviewed. To be honest I don't know why he agreed to it as I don't see how he could have thought that steadfastly dodging the issue would improve the situation. http://w
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by pmjordan 13y ago
We only see the diff between released versions, not intermediate commits. For all we know, Apple developers use a single-pane diff tool, where such bugs are easy to miss.
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by pmjordan 13y ago
I thought the whole problem with "just add more batteries" is that you drive up mass and thus reduce power efficiency, thus leading to a cycle of diminishing returns? I don't know how far along that curve a Tesla Model S is t
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by pmjordan 13y ago
That doesn't really help for online transactions. I'm not aware of any 2-factor authentication being used for online credit card transactions anywhere.
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by pmjordan 13y ago
Ah, true. x86 ABIs are much less unified than x86-64 ones.
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by pmjordan 13y ago
The x86-64 ABI does specify for multi-word structs to be returned in registers. If I remember correctly, it's up to 4 registers - rax, rdx and 2 others which I'll need to look up. This only happens if the struct fields on their ow
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by pmjordan 13y ago
You could try building a custom PC into a hard-shell travel case. I tried that, many years ago. I'll be the first to admit I'm not especially good at working metal, so it was somewhat crude. Keeping everything safely in place in
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by pmjordan 13y ago
Over the years, I've tried a few times to design a gaming capable PC that would easily fit in a suitcase and not make as much noise as a 747. I never found cases with a form factor like that with internal power supplies, and which will
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by pmjordan 13y ago
The executable binary generally dwarfs the assets (textures, models, level data, audio, etc.) so I doubt it makes sense to defer downloading code. If anything, you'd put any level-specific native code (rare these days - it's mainl

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