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by raphman 12y ago
Huh? You are questioning the commenter's sincerity just based on how often they want to post a comment on HN. Witch-hunting does not really make HN a better place.
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by raphman 12y ago
Someone apparently defaced the project description replacing "Bitcoin" with "Buttcoin" and so on. Someone else apparently restored the original version.
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by raphman 12y ago
As others have already written, many webmail providers send the user's IP address in the SMTP header. GMX ("satoshin@gmx.com") definitely sends the user's IP address in the header (Source: GMX user myself).
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by raphman 12y ago
> "Based on volunteers not micro-payments" It seems that this does not really help the original poster. Very interesting, nevertheless.
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by raphman 12y ago
And more on this topic: "Back-of-device Interaction allows creating very small touch devices" by Patrick Baudisch, Gerry Chu (CHI 2009): http://patrickbaudisch.com/projects/nanotouch/
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by raphman 13y ago
I have to second this. EU-funded research projects seem to be quite inefficient in at least the few cases I know of. You need several universities and companies - distributed over as many EU countries as possible - to cooperate and communic
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by raphman 13y ago
The internal Syngenta documents the article talks about can be found at http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Portal:Atrazine_Exposed Exhibit 19 is a scan of Sherry Ford's notes on Syngenta's FUD strategy.
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by raphman 13y ago
Thanks. The founders of this site [1] are not anonymous, however, but a professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a lecturer at the University of Melbourne. Definitely a strange site containing quite crude ad hominem a
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by raphman 13y ago
my local news station (Bavarian public radio) almost exclusively used the term "civil rights activists".
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by raphman 13y ago
Locking manhole covers (or welding them shut) prevents assassins from easily placing bombs under them, and makes it harder for people to enter the sewers. Also, manhole covers may be used as weapons or shields.
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by raphman 13y ago
from his blog [1]: "Funny story about travel – I was on my way back from 30C3, going through securty in Frankfurt. The security agent looked at my laptop and asked me what I do. I said “computer engineer”. He then asks, “did you make
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by raphman 13y ago
Just a small caveat: There is some evidence that best paper awards do not really correlate with great influence of those papers, as measured by the number of citations a paper receives afterwards [1]. [1] http://www.bartneck.de&#
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by raphman 13y ago
also: http://www.slayradio.org/ (C64/Amiga chiptunes)
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by raphman 13y ago
This '400,000 prostitutes' figure seems to have originated from Hydra e.V., a prostitutes association [1]. It is at least three years old and seems to include part-time prostitutes as well. Generally, it seems to be an upper bound
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by raphman 13y ago
It uses an OEM modem module (non-free) and PowerVR graphics (non-free). At the moment there is just no really viable open-source baseband/graphics hardware available (though people are working on both). However, building working, comme
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by raphman 13y ago
No personal experience but someone blogged (in German, unfortunately) recently about a bug in 23andMe's analysis algorithm that resulted in him being told that he was terminally ill. He spent a lot of time learning everything about the
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by raphman 13y ago
Interesting 28C3 talk about German railway safety mechanisms (for people understanding German): "Can trains be hacked? Die Technik der Eisenbahnsicherungsanlagen" [1] [1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwaKYZfgY8k
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by raphman 13y ago
This "hosting service" is an academic journal. They do not only host the document but also organize review of submitted papers, edit the document for publication, and ensure long-term archival of published works. And - most import
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by raphman 13y ago
There are numerous threads on Reddit that explain very well why this concept is not really feasible [1,2,many] The (imho) most important ones in short: * Mechanical modularity increases size and cost, makes it harder to create a beautiful p
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by raphman 13y ago
It might also be interesting to rate-limit commenters (perhaps based on their previous upvotes per comment). If you are new to HN, you may only post one comment per week. The "better" (as measured by karma) your comments are, the
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by raphman 13y ago
FWIM: The linked article is from 2011.
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by raphman 13y ago
This figure is just for two specific devices [1]: >Out of 227 remote wakeup events from a USB mouse and keyboard: > - 163 transitions from RExit to U0 were immediate ( < 1 microsecond) > - 47 transitions from RExit to U0 took u
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by raphman 13y ago
Hmm, is the "request" for attribution mandatory? To me it seems that attribution might be optional. As "The Getty does not claim copyright in digital images of public domain artworks." (your link), I would assume that cr
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by raphman 13y ago
Sorry, here it is: http://www.transcend-info.com/Support/DLCenter/dllogin.asp?L...
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by raphman 13y ago
There is a >50 MB "GPL download" on the Transcend website. So I guess they are at least partially complying with it.
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by raphman 13y ago
Right-click download is an implicitly inherent feature of the HTML5 <video> element that is used, not an explicit choice by the creators. I love it, too.
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by raphman 13y ago
Just an update: the author states on Twitter that he already had notified Xerox a week ago [1]. Apparently, Xerox has only now contacted him because they thought it was a joke [2] ... [1] https://twitter.com/davidkriesel&#x2
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Xerox scanners/photocopiers randomly alter numbers (no OCR involved)(dkriesel.com)
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by raphman 13y ago
Maybe they got a special deal.
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by raphman 13y ago
One might argue that ID cards actually preserve privacy. In order to give some company or person proof of my identity, I just have to show them my ID card. This transfers less personal information to them than a driver's license, birth

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