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by s_q_b 12y ago
Or your IT department could force you to use a Golden Master of 10.9, and not let you update.
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by s_q_b 12y ago
We could probably do this with an animal model for testing, and work up to human subjects pretty quickly.
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by s_q_b 12y ago
Not necessarily. It's probably still possible on modern Apple hardware, albeit with a lot of firmware hacking, according to the authors of the paper: http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/117937/how-to-use-
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by s_q_b 12y ago
I booted up one of those G3 candy colored clamshell iBooks from the early 2000s recently. Not only did start flawlessly, it found and connected to the WiFi, and actually loaded Google on Internet Explorer for Mac.
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by s_q_b 12y ago
Don't worry, my company uses plenty of Macs, and they're plenty upset. As does the U.S. government. I wouldn't count on this "oh, we're just not going to backport the update" sticking around. Unless they want t
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by s_q_b 12y ago
Substitute Constitution for Revolution and I'm in full agreement.
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by s_q_b 12y ago
> The 4th Amendment - and specifically its warrant requirement - is often misunderstood to be about protecting individuals from government searches. Warrants will generally be granted, and the search of any particular individual is going
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by s_q_b 12y ago
Someone actually did it to China's PLA Unit 61398 using a technique similar to this: http://www.gizmag.com/microphone-room-mapping-epfl/27985/ , so I'd say it's worth worrying about in the wild.
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by s_q_b 12y ago
You have an array of microphones in your phone alone, not to mention the speakers, which are just low-fi mics. But in any case, you can do it with one microphone. E.g. http://fab.cba.mit.edu/classes/862.13/students
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by s_q_b 12y ago
Instinctually, I'd be a little wary of that, because Na+ and Ka+ do more than act as ions within the neurological system. I'm not sure a higher concentration, even at the right relative concentrations, wouldn't have adverse e
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by s_q_b 12y ago
You can also extrapolate a fairly decent image from the microphone, sort of like a make-shift SONAR.
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by s_q_b 12y ago
Yes, you can activate the camera without activating the LED. The LED is not directly wired to the power supply.[0] [0] http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/12/18... Edit in Reply: N
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by s_q_b 12y ago
I agree. A change in quantity is a change in quality when it comes to privacy. The occasional flyover to look for narcotics operations may be permissible, because there is no expectation of privacy in a public space. But monitoring an entir
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by s_q_b 12y ago
Electrolyte balance in general seems like a good research question. We load our food with sodium chloride, but natural diets are far higher in potassium chloride. The relationship between the various electrolytes is something about which we
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by s_q_b 12y ago
What's the key differentiator from Grubhub/Seamless, or is it simply a direct competitor?
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by s_q_b 12y ago
No, I wasn't. And I was wrong. I'll fully own up to that.
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by s_q_b 12y ago
My sister, a summa cum laude classics major gratuate from Princeton, analyzed and translated previously unknown fragments of Sappho as her senior thesis. Her advisor stole her research wholesale, down to her direct phrasing and mistakes, an
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by s_q_b 12y ago
Free speech is an ideal I hold closely, and I would rather let myself be locked up, with all that entails, than acquiesce to governance that required I renounce it. So if I no longer live in a country that feels as I do, which I very sincer
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by s_q_b 12y ago
I've heard others (mostly Chinese-American engineers) tongue-in-cheek describe the Xiaomi units as "Android with Chinese characteristics."
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by s_q_b 12y ago
I realize this is unpleasant, but I firmly believe it needs to be said: there is an element of volatility inherent in the firm at least until it goes through a major product launch without Steve Jobs.
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by s_q_b 12y ago
Given the relatively recent passing of its founder, a founder who remained so intensely and directly and involved with new product development up until the very end, Apple's stock is so bizarrely difficult to value right now that I can
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by s_q_b 12y ago
The main reason for the abandonment of centralized version control was as much about Git and Mercurial having the advantages of DVCSes as it was about SVN starting to show its age. I found SVN literally painful to use, perhaps because it wa
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by s_q_b 12y ago
Then the Great Depression becomes a lot more difficult to explain.
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by s_q_b 12y ago
"I think one of the things that really separates us from the high primates is that we’re tool builders. I read a study that measured the efficiency of locomotion for various species on the planet. The condor used the least energy to mo
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by s_q_b 12y ago
I understand the money supply and the multiplier effect of fractional reserve banking, but with an appropriately designed cryptocurrency you don't need it. You can literally just create more currency out of thin air and pump it into th
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by s_q_b 12y ago
> The article is pointing out that governments like to increase the money supply every year and Bitcoin doesn't allow that. But that's nonsense. If anything a sovereign digital currency would give governments even more fine-gr
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by s_q_b 12y ago
To assume that autism is a single disorder is to get the scientific method backwards. There's no proven underlying cause, just symptoms that vary greatly from individual to individual. What evidence is there that autism is a single dis
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by s_q_b 12y ago
It also reminds me of "soothe rocking" in autistic children, which frequently involves tightly constricting the knees up against the chest with both arms, creating pressure.
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by s_q_b 12y ago
"Autism" is probably like "cancer" in that it is likely a series of pathologies with similar presentation rather than one specific disease. It wouldn't surprise me if neurosteroids and neurohormones are involved, as
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Obama Calls for New Consumer, Student, and Energy Data Privacy Laws(arstechnica.com)
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