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   by raphman 14y ago

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2k1aztBGnWc#t=1h38m00s
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   by raphman 14y ago

   It prints colored 0s and 1s all over your terminal window. Nothing else. Line 20 (the 'trap sig_int_trap SIGINT') disables Ctrl-C. You want to comment this out.
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   by raphman 14y ago

   As discussed in the linked HN discussion, VCS/diffs are not compatible with the established workflow for discussing and changing laws. However, as far as I understand, this repository is not primarily intended as a tool for supporting lawm
4. 424.▲
   by raphman 14y ago

   ack. Working at living room table + children = disaster waiting to happen (and happened to me a few months ago).
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   by raphman 14y ago

   Ack, the first image is shown, then the github favicon appears again and blinks at every update of the pie chart (probably showing the pie chart for a fraction of a second). User-Agent: Opera/9.80 (X11; Linux x86_64; U; en) Presto/2.10.289
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   by raphman 14y ago

   > the gaming division of Microsoft seems to be genuinely innovative and doing some really great stuff with interfaces Just to provide some context: The whole EMG research presented in the article has been conducted by T. Scott Saponas (
7. 427.▲
   by raphman 14y ago

   random source from the Wikipedia article: http://exiledonline.com/malcolm-gladwell-unmasked-a-look-int...
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   by raphman 14y ago

   With the Humble Games Bundles, people reasoned that Linux users might be paying more because they were so happy to get games that run on Linux. The Humble Music Bundle indicates that there is more to it than just supply and demand. I would
9. 429.▲
   by raphman 14y ago

   Ack. IIRC Microsoft Research has the policy that researchers may never look at patents at all.
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    by raphman 14y ago

    So the government should build an infrastructure that allows anyone to anonymously report another person to the authorities and earn rewards for this? What could possibly go wrong if you encourage all citizens to spy on their neighbors? Wha
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    by raphman 14y ago

    and of course, drug cartel strawmen could earn money for selling rivals, defectors, or dangerous police officers to the authorities.
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    by raphman 14y ago

    Umm, I'm German and I participated in funding a Kickstarter project. Did I miss something?
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    by raphman 14y ago

    Nice. This reminds me of one of El Naschie's most awesome papers, published in 'his' Elsevier journal "Chaos, Solitons and Fractals": http://www.el-naschie.net/bilder/file/Photo-Gallery.pdf
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    by raphman 14y ago

    Is there any JS spreadsheet library that falls-back to <table>s for non JS-enabled browsers? Spreadsheets/tables are a great way to structure data. However, JS-'enhancing' such data makes scraping the data much more difficult. I am
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    by raphman 14y ago

    The DCI security specification was modeled explicitly to "control lightly, audit tightly" - exactly because technical problems would cause a lot of trouble to the cinemas. Seems like this philosophy has not prevailed in the actual implemen
16. 436.▲
    by raphman 14y ago

    Shouldn't it be the firmware's responsibility to prevent overcharging, overclocking, overheating, etc. - unless explicitly overridden?
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    Lessons learned from investigative crowdsourcing project GuttenPlag(de.guttenplag.wikia.com)

    1 points by raphman 14y ago|0 comments
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    by raphman 14y ago

    Some of the emails can apparently be read at [1], [2] - via [3] [1] http://pic.pwny.biz/x/ed_at_scientology.co.at/ [2] http://pic.pwny.biz/x/buchladen_at_scientology.co.at/ [3] http://blog.esowatch.com/?p=8247 (in German, of course)
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    by raphman 14y ago

    Agreed. And it is interesting that they did not even do simple fact-checking before posting such a headline.
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    by raphman 14y ago

    From the article: And Opera used to have a widget manager embedded in its browser, so it wouldn’t be too hard to dust it off and restart the project.
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    by raphman 14y ago

    For the record - Original discussion on HN: http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=4030746
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    by raphman 14y ago

    I would assume that the most likely attack would be for a country to buy weapons containing this chip and reading out the firmware using the backdoor.
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    by raphman 14y ago

    The chip in question seems to be an Actel Microsemi ProASIC3 (PA3) [1,2], given the hints in the screenshot of the paper. [1] http://www.actel.com/products/pa3/ [2] http://www.actel.com/documents/pa3_faq.html (I guess there is no real a
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    by raphman 14y ago

    You being downvoted could also be caused by you accusing the webmaster to be 'barely-competent'. This is an (afaics) unfounded accusation.
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    by raphman 14y ago

    Unlike website visitors, the teachers in a school are not acting completely independent of each other, but part of a social group. Even if you could adequately measure their 'teaching quality', you might miss factors that contribute to the
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    by raphman 14y ago

    The Openmoko phones are AFAIK the only mobile phones with open source hardware. http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Main_Page
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    by raphman 14y ago

    There has been a lot research on grasp detection and interpretation over the last 10 years. Touché is just a new sensing technique, not a new interaction paradigm. For example, Raymond Veldhuis has been working on smart gun grips that ident
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    by raphman 14y ago

    Interesting. Is this a recent measure to counter tax evasion? If not, it seems to have failed to have a significant impact.
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    by raphman 14y ago

    Thanks. Now I understand your point (and agree with it).
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    by raphman 14y ago

    Thank you for the explanation. I guess a lot of people (like me) were confused by this multi-layer insider joke.