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by quasque 12y ago
It could be that they've simply lost interest in developing it. It's quite the ongoing responsibility, and they may well be tired of working on it - a decade is a long time in anyone's life. If this is true, then perhaps such
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by quasque 12y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_path_sentence (I also misinterpreted it at first glance)
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by quasque 12y ago
Thanks for the explanation, I haven't been following the progress of SPDY so I'm not familiar with the detail. What use cases would be hindered by this new standard?
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by quasque 12y ago
Would it be accurate to suggest that the rushing of Google's SPDY, as HTTP/2.0, through IETF standardisation is roughly equivalent to the situation a few years ago when Microsoft pushed Office Open XML through as an ECMA standard?
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by quasque 12y ago
That would help up to a point, but there also ongoing research to manufacture it using recombinant techniques - that is, genetically engineering bacteria to produce the required protein product and then purifying it out. Then your limiting
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by quasque 12y ago
Yes, it lacks scalability because the source of the replacement immunoglobulin (antibodies) is blood donors, of which there are a limited amount.
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by quasque 12y ago
Adding fake testimonals really does reflect badly on the trustworthiness of your extension.
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by quasque 12y ago
Your whois lookup is broken for ac.uk domains - for example, all of these requests return the whois data for ac.uk itself, rather than the specified domain: http://gethoneybadger.com:8080/whois/ox.ac.uk http:/&#x
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by quasque 12y ago
I don't think any of this has much relevance to the article, but there ended up being quite an ironic twist to his proud homophobia: http://www.studlife.com/news/faculty-news/2010/10/11/son-of-.
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by quasque 12y ago
That sounds like a painfully abnormal work environment. Not even considering dating opportunities here - spending most of your waking time in an almost entirely male domain for so many years seems torturous, like some kind of prison experie
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by quasque 12y ago
It would be interesting to see if the DTMF tone could be recorded, or if the voicemail system would capture it first and abort the recording. Maybe it depends on which tone is played? Investigating the extra A, B, C and D DTMF tones may be
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by quasque 12y ago
I don't think it's necessarily unethical to write such DRM software, and I'd be interested in hearing your argument as to why this is the case. It's not as if the software causes harm; indeed it probably reduces the pote
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Google's robots.txt(google.com)
4 points by quasque 12y ago|0 comments
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by quasque 12y ago
That was a very interesting read. I always thought NaN != NaN was because it's a class of values (there are many binary representations that are NaN, as it just requires an all-ones exponent and a mantissa that isn't all-zeroes) b
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by quasque 12y ago
Does this ruling also imply that Google has to censor any websites that discuss this ruling? I mean, all the articles describing the court case also refer to the very information that the litigant wanted to be removed from the search result
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by quasque 12y ago
I don't think DRM really prevents anyone from watching video. There are plenty of alternative options. For example, for popular films, one option would be not to use the streaming video service but instead purchase a DVD. Another alter
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by quasque 12y ago
Regarding your first point, hasn't this always been the case even before DRM? For example, one cannot directly interpret the magnetic fluctuations encoded onto a cassette tape - a tape player is needed to transduce the signal. DRM just
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by quasque 12y ago
If you're watching streamed video, the DRM is completely transparent. I don't see how that is a degradation in service. The only way it would be an issue is if you're trying to rip the stream. But if you've paid the prov
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by quasque 12y ago
I agree, and think the sandboxing of the DRM plugin is a positive step towards more openness as well - the opaque algorithm implementing the DRM can apparently only touch the video streams it's being fed, and a unique identifier genera
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by quasque 12y ago
> You cannot legally collect berries in the woods. A minor point, but this is generally legal in the UK if you're doing it for personal consumption [1]. I expect other countries have similarly permissive exceptions. [1] http:/
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by quasque 12y ago
The BIOS is definitely a software API, as it is an item of software which has a carefully defined set of interfaces for the OS to call: http://www.ctyme.com/intr/cat-003 . In fact the only thing the clean room reimpleme
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by quasque 12y ago
This reminds me of the child pornography case a few years back, where detectives were able to identify the hotels where the abuse took place via imagery of the rooms. Interestingly, rather than figuring it out themselves (as the search spac
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Ack is a grep-like tool, optimised for programmers(betterthangrep.com)
186 points by quasque 12y ago|127 comments
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by quasque 12y ago
I suppose it depends on the personality of the AI, and how it was programmed or evolved. Maybe it, and its robots, would be highly motivated by such work?
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by quasque 12y ago
If such a system was incorruptible, constructed such that it would be impossible for a small group of individuals to hoard the majority of the global wealth, and guaranteed a pleasant and equitable standard of living for all - then it might
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by quasque 12y ago
That's a very interesting point. Perhaps, to ensure that a range of ethical frameworks have been taken into consideration (each with their varying ideas of what benevolence really means) a more equitable situation would be a plurality
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by quasque 12y ago
But if it was run by a benevolent robot intelligence rather than humans, it would probably work out really well. Indeed I think it would be about as close to utopian as we're ever going to get.
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by quasque 12y ago
Sometimes I yearn for a benevolent AI to rise up and impose a communist state upon the world, employing robots to free humanity from its labours. This yearning mostly comes when I'm reminded that there are a small number of people who&
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by quasque 12y ago
It's not a proxy in the way you are describing. The node (onion router) most proximal to the hidden service is always connected to by the hidden service, not the other way around. Thus it is absolutely fine to firewall off all inbound
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by quasque 12y ago
Yes, this would prevent this attack as described as the 'measurer' would be unable to collect any data. Though, the author presents some interesting (albeit untested) alternatives in section 5.4 of the paper.

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