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by problems 9y ago
I believe Java and C# enforce specific byte orders to get around this issue, so I doubt you'll see a problem there unless interacting with C++ libraries.
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by problems 9y ago
Anyone who's been on the internet too long might do it - it's been a around for the past decade - more as a meme making fun of Bill O'Reilly than anything in support of him.
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by problems 9y ago
Totally true, I don't know where people get the idea that only the poor eat McDonald's, being able to grab something quick and consistent is an extremely handy thing. Their breakfast is quite tasty and cheap too. Maybe I'm in
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by problems 9y ago
The craziest part to me is that they've got some of the fastest developing countries on the planet, the ones bringing millions of people out of rural poverty every year committed to this - but a country that's so much further alon
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by problems 9y ago
Probably not much more than viewing a few ads in the first place. They can't cheat that hard or they'll get caught.
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by problems 9y ago
> the best predicate tipping point is based on intent. So, what of intent - are those people taking unique device identifiers, account names, installed package lists, etc not of a malicious intent with them? I'd say so. I'd say
337.
by problems 9y ago
Does this encompass malware that sends unique device identifiers to 3rd parties? Google account names? Or are those extremely common practices not considered malicious at all? In my opinion those are much more malicious actions. The only wa
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by problems 9y ago
It often takes my personal information, unique device identifiers etc and sends them over the internet without my consent. That causes harm. IMO, much more so than defrauding some advertisers.
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by problems 9y ago
It's not self-modifying code, it's looking specifically for google.com frames, see the source in the link. This is hardly worse intent than any other mobile ad these days.
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by problems 9y ago
> Lot's of adware can be equally sticky because it keeps on loading new crap on the system if you just miss it in one place. Tbh the worst disaster system I've seen usually involved adware, sure it's not a total data loss
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by problems 9y ago
For sure, but any extra battery and resource consumption here would be extremely minor compared to a bitcoin miner. Many apps do various forms of push advertising and background reporting which does quite similar things, do you consider tha
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by problems 9y ago
Yeah, technically I can see it as malware, but not really in the same way... keyloggers obviously harm the user in collecting data against them, there's no malicious intent against the user here. This is only a minor increase over the
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by problems 9y ago
This isn't really malware in the traditional sense, it doesn't damage users of the app itself or harvest information from them, this is simply ad fraud, it only damages Google and its advertisers. It seems to me like CheckPoint is
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by problems 9y ago
Not really the truth - Android apps are all sandboxed and have relatively little access. In fact the only thing this oh-so-evil malware did was generate fake Google Ad clicks. Not really an offense against its users at all and it can be tri
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by problems 9y ago
That may just be the game for you - depends where you are. Compare your pokestops against the Ingress map if you're not sure.
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by problems 9y ago
I think a lot of it is a mostly failed competitive aspect - they wanted to make it so players had to compete, which makes the game more exciting, but also motivates cheaters and prevents those with limited play time from really succeeding.
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by problems 9y ago
> The network uses Reed Solomon erasure coding to prevent against failures. You can pick your own redundancy scheme, but the default is 10-of-30 today. (3x overhead). Oh wow, I misunderstood that completely. Very cool. Will this be a use
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by problems 9y ago
All files are encrypted on the hosts and only can be decrypted with the key, usually present only on the storage buyer's machine. All files are uploaded to 3 different hosts to avoid issues if someone flakes out, and could be to more i
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by problems 9y ago
Maybe I'm alone in this, but ever since Microsoft went to the ribbon-style UI I've not much liked the MSO user interface, it hides too much stuff. I find LibreOffice's menus far simpler to follow and find things in. Possibly
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by problems 9y ago
Depends how your stream encryption is done and what you mean by stream encryption. - If you mean encryption of messages using a stream cipher, generally a single IV is used per message so it could be used there. - If you mean encryption of
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by problems 9y ago
I too almost quit and posted a comment complaining after the first few paragraphs, but fortunately I read a bit further first. They go into "Teasing out the cause from the correlation" which actually talks about the design of a st
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by problems 9y ago
I shall make it my duty to become a fiction-grade villain, torturing the AIs that enter my system. insert evil cackle here
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by problems 9y ago
I'm in the same boat here actually. If I actually feel like going to sleep at the correct time I feel like I'm just not getting any value out of my life unless there's something that interests me at all times. I just keep pou
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by problems 9y ago
Can we get this renamed to reflect that that is a cryptocurrency bubble and not a "crypto bubble"? It certainly isn't discussing companies working on cryptographic technologies like I initially assumed.
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by problems 9y ago
But this isn't a case of A going away making B go away, it's a case of A being a part of B. That's not a shifted goal post. That's the simplest understanding of what I said that's possible and I have no interest in
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by problems 9y ago
Simulated consciousness is simply not consciousness, "emergent" or not. It's simulated, simulations can be terminated, restarted, removed, etc. You cannot take something, simulate it by implementing it entirely differently an
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by problems 9y ago
Disabled or sick people are not fully dependent on a machine for their existence. They exist as separate entities, not just on a machine. They may need a machine to support their life, but they can own that machine, they do not exist solely
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by problems 9y ago
Bits cannot suffer, they simply simulate suffering. Just because your tamagatchi is a really good tamagatchi that can simulate a human brain doesn't make it immoral to torture it - it's still just a simulation. It takes biological
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by problems 9y ago
> How does the fact that it lives in a silicon chip make it any different? > It suffers like you and I. That's the whole premise of this discussion. No it doesn't. I set some bits to flag it as suffering. Its suffering is ve
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by problems 9y ago
> Would you also be ok with you being tortured for fun on a daily basis by your "owner" in the "do we live in a simulation" example? Yes, if I'm owned, I'm owned, not like I have any choice in the matter. &g

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