rthille

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by rthille 10y ago
Well, sort of: http://hackaday.com/2016/01/11/introducing-the-beaglebone-bl... It's been kicking around for more than a year...
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by rthille 10y ago
But if you have root, then why would any software you don't want to know you have root, know you have root? That is, if you control the device, have it lie about the control you have to things that care...
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by rthille 10y ago
Also Moto 88110 RISC processors (though those NeXT products never saw the light of day...)
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by rthille 10y ago
It doesn't need six-sigma, just to be significantly better than humans, and for the manufacturer to take on the liability.
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by rthille 10y ago
I'd love something like a Yubikey Neo (NFC) with a fitness band type form factor (that I can shower/swim with), and an intention indicator (button of some sort) before the NFC would respond.
66.
by rthille 10y ago
Mine found easier to use my desktop pc to order cat food from Amazon... /me does not (any longer) own a cat.
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by rthille 10y ago
BeOS/BeBox was demoed at a MacWorld. There was a cool display of the utilization of each CPU and you could disable each CPU by unchecking a checkbox. The demo app didn't prevent you from disabling the last CPU. The booth-guy wasn&
68.
by rthille 10y ago
"Nice hat"
69.
by rthille 10y ago
It uses FB Messenger for the non-voice API. How is that NOT cloud-based?
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by rthille 10y ago
I think a display in my bathroom (smart mirror style) which would alert me if the night's low would be low enough to bring the birds in would work best for me. Plus maybe a push alert to my phone if the temp got low and I hadn't
71.
by rthille 10y ago
Even in Sebastopol (about an hour north of SF), (some) people never lock their front door.
72.
by rthille 10y ago
Heh, I still use RCS on a semi-regular basis...
73.
by rthille 10y ago
Sure, but if the people who own the oil can sell it outside the country for more they will. So the price/demand outside still matters. Unless you're planning on making it illegal to export?
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by rthille 10y ago
Might as well do the "pay people to bury money in coal mines and let people dig it up" then.
75.
by rthille 10y ago
Yeah, Google provides that service and many manufacturers sell the products which make use of it. (chromebooks)
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by rthille 10y ago
You don't need TLS for that, you could simply use an HMAC and a shared secret, assuming you're not worried about people with physical access (and ability to get the secret) being able to create updates. Of course if you've g
77.
by rthille 10y ago
I hope you can require a password in addition to the fingerprint for protection against physical compulsion by law enforcement.
78.
by rthille 10y ago
The thing sent to their service shouldn't be known by anyone but the user, then it can't be stolen from the website.
79.
by rthille 10y ago
I'm in the same boat wrt hardware, but I've got lots of interesting ideas about things to do with all the devices, just epsilon time to do it in...
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by rthille 10y ago
She's confused about what 'dark fiber' is. Dark fiber is fiber that's be laid/strung, but currently doesn't have lasers connected at the ends. That is, someone speculatively ran the fiber but currently isn&#x
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by rthille 10y ago
As I understand it: If memory is coherent then all cores see the same values when they read the same location at the same time. Stated another way, the result of a write to a location by one core is available in the next instant to all othe
82.
by rthille 10y ago
At that point, you probably just want to go with the subscribe and save program...
83.
by rthille 10y ago
Governments can only force inflation of the currency, not of all assets. That helps to keep value in investments that pay a return and increase real value to society over holding currency which doesn't.
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by rthille 10y ago
Really? By my reading RFC-5321 & RFC-5322 leaves interpretation of the local-part up to the software running on the host where the mail is delivered, but since that interpretation is up to those servers, intermediate servers must treat
85.
by rthille 10y ago
My use for an air-gapped machine is for a personal CA (certificate authority). I'm using a RPi2 for this (no wifi). Proceedure: 1. Download all the software needed for the CA (possibly getting compromised packages). 2. Disconnect from
86.
by rthille 11y ago
http://www.padlette.com/ is awesome for one handed reading.
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by rthille 11y ago
"Adobe had Display PostScript, but that never took off." Well, except for it's use in NeXTStep. Though I think they threw it out in favor of PDF/Quartz for OS-X.
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by rthille 11y ago
Could be actual random data is used, rather than a PRNG