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by rolux 12y ago
Thanks for providing that link. In addition, especially if you don't speak German, I'd strongly recommend to consult the English Wikipedia article about Bild, the Springer publishing house's flagship tabloid ( http:/&#x2
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by rolux 12y ago
"By the 1st century B.C.E., the Roman calendar had become hopelessly confused." At least one can treat the years in that period as numbers. For why Roman years before 300 B.C.E. have to be handled as names, not numbers, and should
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by rolux 12y ago
https://www.google.com/search?q=electro-libidinal+parasites
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'Secret Exception' To Reasonable Suspicion For Putting People On The No Fly List(techdirt.com)
3 points by rolux 12y ago|0 comments
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by rolux 13y ago
There are huge safety margins in aviation. Ascending to 45,000 ft or above is an aerodynamics issue, not a pressurization issue. Pressurization ("cabin altitude") will adjust automatically.
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by rolux 13y ago
Add to that list: - A depressurization event, either as a result of an accident or a botched hijacking (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helios_Airways_Flight_522 ) - Pilot suicide, with a somewhat unexpected signature
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by rolux 13y ago
This theory keeps coming up, but it doesn't make much sense. If your goal is to acquire a working Boeing 777, on a secret airfield somewhere in Western China or Eastern Kazakhstan (see this map for orientation: http://www.ai
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by rolux 13y ago
> But you should use data that you would have that an attacker would not. First and Last Name as stored in your system, User ID (like 128912) and User Creation date are good choices. These two statements contradict each other.
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by rolux 13y ago
Maybe, but that ship has sailed. No-one is going to reform this. There are many problems with time (see http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2009/04/making_time_... ), but the number of hours per day o
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by rolux 13y ago
Indeed: "In 2012, [the Corrections Corporations of America] sent a letter to 'prison officials in 48 states offering to buy prisons from these states in exchange for a 20-year management contract and a guaranteed occupancy rate of
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by rolux 13y ago
Yes, but as stated further up, that CPU could anyway just write arbitrary data to the memory that holds your entropy pool, if you use RDRAND or not.
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by rolux 13y ago
That critique of Foucault is much too cheap. To any halfway competent theory hacker, it will sound like "But Python uses significant whitespace, and Guido van Rossum's knowledge of language design is dubious at best." It&#x27
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by rolux 13y ago
At the same time, you can argue the exact opposite: Having to know all these libraries and frameworks makes programming substantially harder. When I was growing up, in the 1980s, I saw 10-years-olds around me code in assembler. They were no
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by rolux 13y ago
I don't think it's about skill as such, rather about increased productivity. People are generally expected to be able to drive, and for many, this ability comes with benefits. I don't see why basic programming (file system, l
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by rolux 13y ago
Just like the "prescribed foreign language course in middle school", a bit of programming practice may widen your horizon, and help demystify these seemingly opaque machines and networks. It's about practice, not "knowle
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by rolux 13y ago
> MMO's are packed with possible communication channels in addition to chat. Ever wonder if that annoying gnome in the auction hall is jumping in morse code? Could signals be sent with bids? Could a character's inventory conten
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by rolux 13y ago
These two comments on theguadian.com sum it up rather aptly: > > This is beyond farcical. Does any working at GCHQ or NSA actually have a fully functioning brain? > Yes they do, and recognize a well paid cushy job when they see one
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by rolux 13y ago
"UTF-32 (or UCS-4) is a protocol to encode Unicode characters that uses exactly 32 bits per Unicode code point. All other Unicode transformation formats use variable-length encodings. The UTF-32 form of a character is a direct represen
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by rolux 13y ago
Reference: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0393/
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by rolux 13y ago
In German, 'ß' is definitely not just a ligature of 'ss'. Consider 'Masse' (mass) vs. 'Maße' (dimensions). Uppercasing these words will necessarily produce ambiguity. It would be equally tempting -- a
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by rolux 13y ago
The next Silk Road owner will call himself the "CEO" of his operation and won't do an interview with Forbes, but an AMA on Reddit. Strange times. http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1fwi48&#x2
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by rolux 13y ago
Minus the GUI though, you can build something that's functionally equivalent to Time Machine, and it shouldn't take much more time than it takes to read `man rsync`.
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by rolux 13y ago
> If someone releases a huge dump of classified files, without any possible war crimes, would we still defend them? Politics that do not have immediate personal consequences (or politics too hopeless to engage in) can easily become a spe
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by rolux 13y ago
Please read the paragraph on Judith Miller. You must be kidding.
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by rolux 13y ago
> Blatant Intimidation and Control is not what the US Government does. If you want proof, compare the US handling of the Washington Post to the British handling of The Guardian. The Washington Post and New York times have been free to pu
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by rolux 13y ago
While I see the potential for "Zersetzung", it just doesn't scale as well as mass surveillance. If your communication (and location) data is stored by US companies complicit with programs like PRISM, and there is no hope that
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by rolux 13y ago
My hope would be that at least corporations are not lemmings. For a non-US company that does anything remotely sensitive or competitive on an international level, it's simply insane to use, say, Google's cloud services. I don&#x27
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by rolux 13y ago
Which is precisely what I was hinting at. The idea that the NSA would be capable of keeping this data absolutely confidential is ludicrous. And that's why in the future (most likely already today) it will be relatively safe to assume t
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by rolux 13y ago
I was using the term "blueprints" colloquially, meaning "plans" or "details". Quite a few of the leaked slides are exactly the type of material that one would expect the government to have "tighter control
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by rolux 13y ago
> I suspect that US tech companies who are complicit in dragnet surveillance - and PRISM specifically - are already understanding this. Absolutely. Just as 2013 is the year where "ordinary people" have begun to understand that

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