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by robryk 13y ago
The only reason Space Shuttle has required a pilot when landing from the point when the re-entry burn has started was to push a button that lowered the landing gear at a proper point in time. In fact, there was some equipment stored on the
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by robryk 13y ago
Thanks. I didn't know that the differences change in space in such weird fashion. I guess what was meant were spatial differences, not temporal ones and it now the part about magnetic field makes some sense to me.
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by robryk 13y ago
Gregg Easterbrook wrote the following about simulated shuttle landings: > They've never flounced like a twig on the crazy rapids of "bias"--the bland physics term for unexplained variations in the earth's gravitationa
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by robryk 13y ago
There's Google Compute Engine, too.
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by robryk 13y ago
> No one's suggesting Amazon is actually going to spy on your business's bits and bytes (which are already encrypted anyway, right?) ... I don't get it. If I use the data in any way other than simply storing and retrieving
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by robryk 13y ago
How do we know that this is what has really happened? On the surface this seems to be possibly a case of parallel construction, in which FBI found the emails on TorMail first and then asked for a warrant for the GMail mailbox to get enough
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by robryk 13y ago
The point here is that Satoshi is believed to have access to wallets with a great number of early-mined bitcoins. The wallets were unused since a few years and can be used to suddenly increase the amount of bitcoin in circulation, which&#x2
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by robryk 13y ago
The problem is that getting top to start can take a long time if it's actually thrashing heavily enough. I'd agree that the LED is nonessential with HDDs -- you can just listen; and then you can even make out whether it's doi
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by robryk 13y ago
> ...but it's possible that the microcode for an AES round opcode could be intentionally flawed I guess that you mean that it'd still give correct output, but somehow leak the key (incorrect output seems simple to detect, unles
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by robryk 13y ago
I don't understand 5. RSA is used there to encrypt a random value that is used as a KDF input. I do get it that the size of the random value together with lack of any padding and poor choice of KDF causes issues, but can you explain wh
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by robryk 13y ago
Why do the autopilots/autothrottles control speed by throttle and altitude by elevators, even in aircraft that have AP and AT?
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by robryk 13y ago
That's not the case. The only case when browsers send no referer header is when an HTTP request is made from a page loaded over HTTPS. Cross-origin has nothing to do with that.
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by robryk 13y ago
Why do you want the watermarks to be visible? ig1's suggestion of invisible ones should work just as well for proving that a particular image got copied from you.
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by robryk 13y ago
> You are asked when you check in if anyone has given you anything to carry for them. You presumably answered "no" to that question, yet now you're saying "Yes, they asked me to carry this unknown data". Not nece
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by robryk 13y ago
Killing someone while driving and texting isn't murder in most (all?) jurisdictions AFAIK.
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by robryk 13y ago
There is always IMAP access. I had no trouble downloading everything via IMAP every time I wanted a copy on a new machine (and a random person on the internet would expect no significant trouble when setting up a new mail client, so making
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by robryk 13y ago
You can also count how often they are requested from the links on the home page. Granted, the additional popularity will probably cause people to share those more often.
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by robryk 13y ago
JVM has a garbage collector, so if we are talking about modifying JVM itself, we wouldn't need anything that works online: you could determine which parts are referenced in a simpler way during each GC.
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by robryk 13y ago
The point here is that those stay server-side and are thrown away together with the messages when they get deleted. Whatever's sent to the client can be stored by him/her indefinitely. BTW. There is probably a time limit: if this
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by robryk 13y ago
If you provide a phone number for emergencies, it will be used for non-emergencies by the most irritating kind of customer (`every problem of mine is an emergency!').
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by robryk 13y ago
Can Google Glass overlay its overlay over more than the small rectangly in the upper right corner? I thought not, but they seem to imply that it does (the overlay for the operating surgeon is provided by Google Glass). I'm also slightl
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by robryk 13y ago
Quite a few people can hear 20kHz. I can still clearly hear 18.5kHz (or what my laptop's speakers emit when I feed a 18.5kHz sine) and 19-20kHz gives me headaches.
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by robryk 13y ago
But you can always additionally simulate a keyboard. I've heard unconfirmed statements about some devices actually going that route to install their driver and/or associated crapware.
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by robryk 13y ago
I'd guess false negatives. You _really_ don't want persistent false negatives. I wonder what's the solution to the `I cut my index finger' problem. Does it require multiple fingers to be enrolled?
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by robryk 13y ago
Instead of clearing the cache, one could stop using If-Match and instead do a HEAD request and see if the ETag is the same. This increases latency by one RTT, if the resource has in fact changed. Also, it could be implemented outside the br
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by robryk 13y ago
Why would there be a parachute if the payload contained only non-returning satellites? I couldn't see anything I would call a parachute on the videos I watched.