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901.
by saganus 11y ago
Aha! Thanks for the correction. I knew I might be off.
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by saganus 11y ago
I think it would actually happen a lot. Maybe not on our daily lives, so I don't think (I hope..) there will not be wide spread panic. Maybe a few groups here and there but nothing we've never seen before. What I would expect t
903.
by saganus 12y ago
One thing that might off topic or it might just be my lack of farming-related knowledge, but, it seems in the third picture, the one with the calves (sp?) drinking milk from bottles... aren't those bottles too high? I mean, it seems li
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by saganus 12y ago
What does it mean to be hellbanned and why can we see the posts anyway?
905.
by saganus 12y ago
I guess you are right. It wouldn't make sense to make a rocket that can withstand vertical AND horizontal forces. That would be like launching a brick I guess. Thanks for the pointer.
906.
by saganus 12y ago
So kind of GameDev Tycoon meets Capitalism meets Starcraft?
907.
by saganus 12y ago
But can't the vehicle carry them to Mars? Kind of like the airbag system for one of the rovers, can't remember which one (Curiosity?) Or even better, how about getting it to land sideways on purpose? I don't see how that woul
908.
by saganus 12y ago
"...or maybe from a Krrrrraken!" :)
909.
by saganus 12y ago
Kudos to the team! This is probably not interesting to anyone, but I remember the first (and only) time I published a paper, based on Mr. Farach-Colton's and Mr. Bender's (specifically this paper [0]) work, and after presenting it
910.
by saganus 12y ago
I guess you have a fair point. And I'm certain I've made such mistakes as well, it's just that I can't stand those two particular errors for whatever reason :) Maybe I'm getting old...
911.
by saganus 12y ago
Really? I did not know this. Interesting. What kind of dialects are you referring to?
912.
by saganus 12y ago
I know this is nitpicking but... I really hate when journalists who I would presume have some studies in literature, confuse "then" and "than". I'm not a native English speaker and I know the difference, and for som
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by saganus 12y ago
Stretching this a bit, when someone marriages this with the MIT things that auto-assemble... we'll risk getting some sort of Stargate's Asurans race, which are based on nanites. Self-assembling nanobots [0]. Of course this is just
914.
by saganus 12y ago
I remember a story (someone told me it was in Mexico), very similar. A guy was printing $20 pesos bills but only when he needed some extra money. He had, IIRC a print shop, and since he was humble enough, he never raised suspicion. So I gue
915.
by saganus 12y ago
I think it risks to harm everyone. At least based on the EFF's analysis since IANAL. It sounds like this will make it easier for corporations to extort signatory countries. As I see it, it will probably promote patent trolls, draconian
916.
by saganus 12y ago
I've never taken a polygraph or even heard about this. Care to elaborate? How is a polygraph test stressful? I mean, obviously it's probably stressful just for the fact that some random stranger is going to ask questions, some o
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by saganus 12y ago
Discussing ? Wow. That's truly sad. I mean, if only talking about the subject already gets you into trouble, I don't want to know how LGBT people in your country actually live. We always hear about these things in the newspapers
918.
by saganus 12y ago
Edit: So maybe you do have better control, but what if the etchings are so small that there's no significant contrast change when viewing from different angles? I'm just basing my speculation on the fact that these guys probably h
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by saganus 12y ago
I don't see how that will help. Wouldn't it be harder to try to get a good picture of the chip in such an angle that you could read the etching? I assume this angle will most likely be "from the top", such that it basica
920.
by saganus 12y ago
Besides being a very interesting hack, this made me laugh: "(and contained as to not get IN the scanner, as that does NOT help the process)" Not sure why but this seemed really funny in the technical context.
921.
by saganus 12y ago
> We could all hope all was open source but short of that, we use the tools that are available --with the understanding they could disappear tomorrow. And even then, open source projects get abandoned all the time or get shut down as wel
922.
by saganus 12y ago
Maybe he meant that coloring them red means that something went wrong or that there's something that you should pay attention to. Of course I'm just speculating here.
923.
by saganus 12y ago
And then you will probably be charged with trying to hack the U.S. Government and get like 1000 years of Guantanamo time. Jokes aside... it would be interesting to see what would happen if someone had such nerve.
924.
by saganus 12y ago
Ah yes. This is very nice. Thanks! Edit: BTW, thanks for ruining my productivity for the whole day :)
925.
by saganus 12y ago
Aha! that makes more sense. I read that as if the user would get money for using ask.com toolbar. But yeah, thanks to both of you. Now that I think about it, I'm not sure if ask.com is willing to bundle their toolbar with any product.
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by saganus 12y ago
I think the point is not for the user to make money, but the people bundling the toolbar. I think ask.com pays whoever bundles their toolbar so it's basically advertising money, at least it seems like that for me.
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by saganus 12y ago
Ironically, one day later there's a post in HN that links to old copy protection schemes. And there's a pic of the manual of course: http://www.vintagecomputing.com/wp-content/images/copyprotec...
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by saganus 12y ago
You are quite right! never thought about it but yeah, it's more copy protection. Thanks.
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by saganus 12y ago
Precisely. A purple-ish brown and very glossy background.
930.
by saganus 12y ago
Icon is the correct term. SimCity had one of the earliest form of DRM I remember. The almost-impossible to Xerox manual (highly reflective paper so photocopies would come black) was used to answer a question the game asked you, about the po

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