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by roxgib 4y ago
From the report it was recovered from backup files at the system level, it wasn't as simple as a save game file or whatever. It's possible there's more data there or that what's there has different interpretations - we c
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by roxgib 4y ago
> Unfortunately — and Shel was well aware of this very quickly, but of course by that time, it was too late — ISBNs are terribly abused in the United States. The company that issues ISBNs, Bowker, charges a lot of money for ISBNs (from t
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by roxgib 4y ago
I suppose if you're someone selling privacy to criminals, it's a lot easier to preconfigure mid-range Android phones to sell than to configure each individual customer phone for maximum privacy. Also, it's not just about keep
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by roxgib 4y ago
You're ignoring the main point of the comment you're replying to, which is that laws like this mean they can arbitrarily charge whoever they like because everyone is constantly in violation of some law. The argument that we should
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by roxgib 4y ago
At this point the data from his computer, at least the data from the flight simulator software, should be released publicly so that those with experience can apply their knowledge to reconstructing the data. It's entirely possible that
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by roxgib 4y ago
> They were tracking the plane on the Flight Explorer website, which, as they would only realize hours later, simply continued to display an aircraft’s projected path if its transponder stopped broadcasting position information. Oops
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by roxgib 4y ago
I understand the logic of requiring two keys, but why can't I have password + (security key OR single use code). This is what most services support - for something like GitHub I have an authenticator app on my phone or my YubiKey as th
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by roxgib 4y ago
On these sort of cases I'm a little less inclined to blame the justice system. Often there were statisticians or other experts who should have known better advising or testifying to the likelihood of guilt. People shouldn't be con
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by roxgib 4y ago
The Australian case mentioned in the article had a similar theme. Kathleen Folbigg wrote diary entries blaming herself for her kids' deaths, and these were interpreted as admissions of guilt (in fairness they could definitely be read t
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by roxgib 4y ago
This seems like the problem to me. Staff at the school would have probably turned off the light in their classroom at the end of each day regardless, but no credit is given unless you add this system which does the same thing for more money
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by roxgib 4y ago
But that adds yet another point of failure, and something with mechanical parts is probably going to wear out much quicker. And if it fails can I still flick the switch, or do I need to replace it?
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by roxgib 4y ago
Apple Silicon chips share memory between the CPU and GPU, would that play into any calculation of the relative benefits? Presumably the GPU isn't getting the full benefits of a GPU optimised memory set up so the difference would be sma
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by roxgib 4y ago
I suspect Apple was more worried about battery use in this case.
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by roxgib 4y ago
Another solution to this problem is to get a standalone numpad and assign the keys as hotkeys. Lots of macro apps allow different functions to be assigned to specific keyboards.
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by roxgib 4y ago
Same problem here in Australia, but honestly I don't blame the students - unis have turned themselves into businesses selling a service, students are just responding to that. And if I'm paying for a course, and I do all the course
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by roxgib 4y ago
Perhaps I've misunderstood, but is one advantage of a 5 point system that the resulting point are highly and interpreted favourably by review systems that assume a 4.0 maximum? I'm guessing a lot of them don't bother to read
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by roxgib 4y ago
I think this hits the nail on the head. Education seems to have two aims - educating students, and ranking them. I've always strongly believed that those aims are mutually defeating. I'd rather have external measurements of abilit
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by roxgib 4y ago
Hard to believe this even needed to be said, yet the FOSS entitlement continues unabated to this day. The post a few days ago from the developer of curl was pointed example of how bad this has become. https://daniel.haxx.se/
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by roxgib 4y ago
Facebook groups used to have this issue. A bunch of us at university got in trouble after being added to an inappropriate group without permission, and trying to explain to admin that we didn't actually join by choice was a nightmare.
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by roxgib 4y ago
I guess it's more about protesting and trying to fight the existence of secret warrants than any practical benefit for users? Which I think is fine if it's the best they can do.
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by roxgib 4y ago
So if they're allowed to reveal they got searched, why the need for the canary? And if it works on a company level, why does it not work on a user level?
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by roxgib 4y ago
It would be interesting to see a company implement this on the individual account level, rather than for the service as a whole. As it stands, while certainly interesting from a legal standpoint, I'm not sure this achieves much other t
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by roxgib 4y ago
Thanks for sharing, I had come here to post a similar take - fMRIs have their place, but they also generate a lot of junk science.
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by roxgib 4y ago
The disadvantage of this approach is that you can't invalidate those devices individually - if one is compromised (i.e. lost), they're all compromised.
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by roxgib 4y ago
Scammers and thieves don't care that you're old and scared of computers. Even if you don't think someone is going to want to bother hacking your email or instagram, surely we can all agree that online banks needs to be as sec
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by roxgib 4y ago
This annoys me a lot - I do sympathise with the fact that these services are regularly bombarded with users unable to log in, but modern authentication tools have existed for a while now and it's time everyone learned to use them. A lo
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by roxgib 4y ago
They're going to be giddy when they learn about Chromebooks!
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by roxgib 4y ago
That hasn't been the case for me, and I've been taking the medications for a while now. I don't drink coffee or any kind of caffeine so I can't compare, but while the effect of the medication did reduce slightly after a
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by roxgib 4y ago
What seems to link a lot of these cases is that the pilots tell the plane to do something and the plane decides it knows better. Throw up all the warning you want, but a computer shouldn't be able to override the pilot's decisions
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by roxgib 4y ago
It's weird to me that the pilots didn't notice that the engine thrust hadn't increased. I realise they have a lot to monitor and it all happened quite quickly, but it seems like not having your engines at 100% when they'

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