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by pudquick 14y ago
Just for clarification - I completely agree with the testing that you have done here. I think you've proven that it's easier to get better results with CRF settings alone and that they're likely using x264 as the encoder behind the scenes.
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by pudquick 14y ago
Yeah, this response is partly why I suggested that testing protocol.
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by pudquick 14y ago
TL;D(id)R version: Beamr isn't claiming a superior encoder. They're claiming to provide a service for video compression that is similar to what the tools like optipng and jpegoptim do for images: recompression without (noticeable) loss. The
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by pudquick 14y ago
> When a cop pulls you over because there was a kidnapping a year ago, you do not end up in jail for making the claim "Don't worry, I'm not a kidnapper" No, but you'll get a more thorough check of your car (trunk and backseat), plus a
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by pudquick 14y ago
Yes, it's unfortunate that the flight attendant lied in this situation. However, it would have been impossible for the pilot to verify this - even if the author showed him the camera. Since the author was willing to 'prove' it, it had to be
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by pudquick 14y ago
Both Mega and reddit have recetly announced acceptance of bitcoins for payment. Not saying that's the reason, but I'm sure it contributes.
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by pudquick 14y ago
Actively working in the Windows server and desktop support world, I can tell you that rootkits are very definitely still an issue. Older XP clients where every process an admin user runs is elevated or newer Windows versions where a "profes
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by pudquick 14y ago
Given that the author of the blog post seems to understand cryptography - but doesn't seem to have much in the way of the forensics skill set - I did intentionally try to keep my post at the general consumer level (though I did mention dd,
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by pudquick 14y ago
iFunbox is great, free, and works on both OS X and Windows. Highly recommend it, it's what I personally use. Also - note that this build of Gridlee is equivalent with MAME 0.139u1 - so when looking for ROMs, you may need to lookup the ROM o
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by pudquick 14y ago
Unless you had logs in Transmit indicating it was used, I would recommend not saying they used Transmit to do it - considering OS X has a builtin command-line sftp client: http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin/... If
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by pudquick 14y ago
The central register for area code + prefix is here: http://www.nanpa.com/reports/reports_cocodes_assign.html However, sometimes the companies listed are subsidiaries and you can't tell the 'major' cellular provider for someone at a parti
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by pudquick 14y ago
> Sounds like they haven't really broken apple's DRM Yes and no. No, in the sense that they are abusing the pay-for Apple developer services in order to get the software pushed to non-jailbroken devices. As such, they are still playing
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by pudquick 14y ago
I think Facebook is on the right path with this as a potential money making idea. However, they need some modifications if they don't want to piss off their users in implementing it. Here's my suggestion(s): Let users specify how much it sh
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by pudquick 14y ago
You must have missed the part where Apple relented on that: http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20015954-264.html http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2010/09/09Statement-by-Apple... "In particular, we are relaxing all restrictions on the deve
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by pudquick 14y ago
Amusingly so far my privacy has been best protected by Mobile Safari on a popular iPhone model on the latest OS version: "Within our dataset of several million visitors, only one in 857,908 browsers have the same fingerprint as yours." As i
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by pudquick 14y ago
> We just take the data and sync it An image of the drive? Files on the drive? More data would be helpful. Do we ask for a particular drive size and you send it? What if I've got a 2TB drive with TrueCrypt volumes and I just dd it over
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by pudquick 14y ago
This is 100% correct. If you Google Image search for "gatekeeper warning" https://www.google.com/search?q=gatekeeper+warning&hl=en... all you see are dialogs telling you about unknown developers, or non-signed apps, or your settings k
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by pudquick 14y ago
The gray area here is their claim: That it was done without their approval. If the company is the copyright holder, then the license that the code was released under was invalid from the start - regardless of it being out in the public. Jus
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by pudquick 14y ago
Considering Netflix works in Windows on machines without a TPM (it is a hardware device), not sure where you got that idea.
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by pudquick 14y ago
If you need any more assistance come find us in ##osx-server on the Freenode IRC network :) We live and breath DeployStudio, NetBoot, etc. -- frogor@Freenode http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=%23%23osx-server
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by pudquick 14y ago
Did you mean verify that an account is associated with the credit card? Or just verify that the credit card number is potentially a legitimate one? Because if it's the latter, that's just the Luhn algorithm ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lu
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by pudquick 14y ago
From what I can tell about this, it seems to work like: 1.) Overseas / abroad resident has to apply for the email ballot. This should go through some sort of human approval process, making sure that the names for those particular voters vot
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by pudquick 14y ago
And a Chrome extension as well: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/remove-google-redi...
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by pudquick 14y ago
No. You need the $99USD/year iOS developer program from Apple to be able to compile it and install it on an actual iOS device (without it being jail broken).
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by pudquick 14y ago
Only if the torrent is marked public inside the torrent file itself. The magnet link is derived from a hash of a portion of the torrent file which includes the public flag/setting - which controls whether DHT/similar "trackerless" methods c
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by pudquick 14y ago
I think the reason it was submitted is that it's free today.
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by pudquick 14y ago
If you like unixutils, you might like GOW a bit more: https://github.com/bmatzelle/gow/wiki/executables_list https://github.com/bmatzelle/gow/wiki Kept up to date, every .exe (once installed) is self-contained (no external .DLLs) and po
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by pudquick 14y ago
The concept of "binning" has to do with the manufacturing process for chips. They're such complicated devices that even if they do everything correctly, in a given batch of chips, one may do it at a slightly slower rate or only stay stable
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by pudquick 14y ago
... And not having Java loaded in your browser and/or using Internet Explorer. The number of CVEs related to Java file execution vulnerabilities astounds me on a monthly basis. If you want to do one thing to ensure your machine stays secure
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by pudquick 14y ago
With the Qt framework, maybe: http://trac.webkit.org/wiki/QtWebKitPlugins Good luck at it, though - seems the hard way to go about it.

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