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by rst 12y ago
He's referring to their standard for embedding hooks for DRM into web pages, the so-called "Encrypted Media Extensions": https://w3c.github.io/encrypted-media/
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by rst 12y ago
Actually identified on the first page as the "Ferranti Mark I" manual -- also known as the Manchester Mark II, because it was the commercialized version of the original experimental computer built at Manchester.
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by rst 12y ago
Exceptions are rare enough to get called out for praise. A few: Digital Apollo, by David Mindell (development of Apollo guidance and avionics generally) The Dream Machine by Mitchell Waldrop (technical development leading up to the Arpanet
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by rst 12y ago
On the flip side, other fairly recent claims of classified evidence from US officials have proven to be unfounded -- most notably, the claims of active Iraqi nuke and chemical weapons programs which were the stated basis for George W. Bush&
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by rst 12y ago
Ruby 1.9.x and later (at least in MRI) also guarantee to iterate over hash elements in the order in which keys were inserted. http://www.ruby-doc.org/core-1.9.3/Hash.html
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by rst 12y ago
I'm no fan of Java EE, but a "hello, world" Rails app would have a similarly complicated walkthrough if "rails new" made you choose which subsystems to include, and the tutorial described what each choice meant. (A
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by rst 12y ago
In the parts of the Mongoliad I managed to make it through, there were characters and plots and swordfights the way you find characters and plots and sex in a porn flick. If that's your thing, you'll really like the book, but I&#
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by rst 12y ago
Nasa's annual budget is around $17 billion, so $349 million is about 2 percent of it. A better comparison might be to the cost of significant individual programs: commercial crew has a current annual budget of $696 million, down from
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by rst 12y ago
No one's doubting his prerogative to shake things up (not even, by this report, the editors he forced out, who had no problem with the concept of digital initiatives per se). But the main reasons to buy an old magazine, instead of sta
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by rst 12y ago
Android apps update frequently, but core system components (where you'd expect dependency problems and tricky compatibility issues to crop up) update hardly at all, so it's not clear that it's a model to follow.
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by rst 12y ago
He also fails to state in any clear way what, concretely, Foer, Wieseltier, Ioffe, et al wanted that was inconsistent with his idea of a "businesslike" mode of operation, whatever that means...
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by rst 12y ago
There actually is a significant difference between having 'rkt' as a setuid-root process that's invoked from the command line, and having a docker server always running waiting for commands. There are more ways for a potenti
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by rst 12y ago
And the same museum at Bletchley Park (there are two) is building a functioning replica of the EDSAC, one of the first programmable, fully electronic computers: http://www.tnmoc.org/special-projects/edsac (Whether EDSA
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by rst 12y ago
Not applicable to C -- "Currently only supported by the Java and Fortran front ends." https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-4.9.2/gcc/Code-Gen-Option... There have been bounds-checked implementations o
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Node.js production ships unmaintained version of v8(code.google.com)
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Kaspersky finds targeted mitm for execs using hotel wifi(securelist.com)
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by rst 12y ago
Nu? SpaceX has had two successful launches since Aug. 22 -- AsiaSat 6 on September 7, and the CRS-4 ISS supply mission on September 21. The test article that blew up on the 22nd was not launch capable, and was reportedly missing some safe
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by rst 12y ago
The design is a technical marvel, but it won't keep the metal from corroding, and this isn't the first sign of trouble -- a few months ago, a different AJ-26 blew up on a test stand. It isn't yet clear that the engine was at
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by rst 12y ago
Actually, you quoted the misspelling. The shuttle's name is spelled "Endeavour" -- it's named after a British ship (Captain Cook's).
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by rst 12y ago
Boeing and SpaceX both submitted proposals, including a proposed price. They both got what they asked for; the process allowed the selection committee to say yea or nay, but not "could you do it for less?". And this particular p
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by rst 12y ago
And not even there, in my experience; my laptop and desktop reboot once every few weeks or longer, usually for kernel upgrades, and even with legacy init, bios-to-login-screen is not the longest part of that process. For interactive machine
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by rst 12y ago
Or http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2014/xv6.html -- the os used in a similar course at mit (based on Unix v6, as in ye olde Lions book, but updated to use modern C and modern hardware).
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by rst 12y ago
From the Post article linked here, "The person treated Duncan, the Ebola patient, after his second visit to the ER, on Sept. 28." This was not an ER worker, and their contact with the patient was after the diagnosis.
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by rst 12y ago
Not mentioned and highly significant: Apple hasn't shipped anything which is licensed under GPL v3. That cuts them off from a lot of upstream development, including particularly upstream versions of bash. I'm not sure they'
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by rst 12y ago
Confirmed in numerous reviews, including the one linked to right up top.
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by rst 12y ago
The film confirms that explicitly; it shows Greenwald giving the name of the second leaker to Snowden (whose jaw drops).
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by rst 12y ago
Plenty of other shells support backticks without the "export -f" magic. They must, as backticks are mandated POSIX behavior; few support "export -f" at all. (And at least one that did, the old Bell Labs post-v7 "R
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by rst 12y ago
I'm wondering if it wouldn't be possible to still support "export -f" while making it harder for attackers to fake it out. For example, if "export -f foo" put the function body in an environment variable named
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by rst 12y ago
NASA was unwilling to believe any discount offered for use of a refurbished spacecraft until they'd actually done it, so the bid was made on the basis of a new capsule for each mission. (The human-rated Dragon is going to be a differen
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by rst 12y ago
The last flu epidemic with a major death toll was the pandemic of 1918, which is estimated to have killed more people than World War I. A less deadly version of the same strain was officially listed as an epidemic in 2009.

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