salem

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by salem 13y ago
Did you read the blog? He's a teacher first, and defacto admin second due to everyone else's laziness and ignorance. That takes a lot of patience.
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by salem 13y ago
"The SEC brought 58 insider trading actions in FY 2012 against 131 individuals and entities." Seems like a small number to me considering the size of the market. The chances of being caught seems to be small indeed, unless someone
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by salem 13y ago
Selective enforcement? There don't seem to be that many cases: http://www.sec.gov/spotlight/insidertrading/cases.shtml
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by salem 13y ago
For extra entertainment, have a look at their privacy policy, it is amazingly broad and brazen in what they reserve the right to do with your data.
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by salem 13y ago
My initial reaction on the new regulation was "good luck with that one" but... like you point out, large organizations will likely comply to take down requests or risk getting blocked (for less tech savvy users anyway), and eventually reduc
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by salem 13y ago
People will have a really tough time complying with this. CALEA requires that the subject of the intercept not be made aware of intercepts being made. If a target can check that the IP of his peer and is own is public, by a side channel for
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by salem 13y ago
I think this is partly because the vast majority of 'tech' jobs in Sydney are as 'resources' in cost centers, not profit centers, ie 'IT department' not R&D. There are not yet enough big business successes in the area that leverage tech
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by salem 13y ago
It would be pretty irresponsible for them to standardize on a single source vendor for this, so what are the alternatives? WinMo? Plus the government already has a long history of investing R&D into securing linux-based systems.
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by salem 14y ago
Personally, I'm surprised this has not happened sooner. I heard rumors of other large US carriers planning this. Maybe now gamers will lead the charge on IPv6 :-)
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by salem 14y ago
OK sure, for all of NSW it's 3700+ intersections [1] (for a state with about half the population of LA), and 11000 across Australia [2] (about double the population of LA) with the same technology. I can't find any reference that mentions e
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by salem 14y ago
Fact Check: "the first major metropolis in the world to do so" N.S.W. Australia has had a coordinated traffic system since the 60's, lights have been coordinated across Sydney for decades. They may not be synchronized to the extreme that LA
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by salem 14y ago
I never said they lied, spin is a better word for it. Look it up http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwashing From their website ( http://www.apple.com/environment/our-footprint/ ) facilities make up 2% of the 'footprint' of Apple products.
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by salem 14y ago
Basically, they are talking about their corporate operations and ignoring the actual resources consumed during their products' lifecycle from manufacture->distribution->sale->use->recycling/disposal. Hence my comment that th
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by salem 14y ago
The point is that this is green washing, and the bulk of their manufacturing operations is excluded from this "100%" figure.
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by salem 14y ago
Different sources of electricity have different environmental impact, but at least you can have a good idea of where your utility gets power from. At the same time, you don't know if your gas came from tar sands or easy to get (but dwindlin
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by salem 14y ago
Just like any lock, I guess it just buys some time
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by salem 14y ago
From one extreme to the other. It's actually interesting that the Hobbit has gone to 48HDR, considering that image mastering of Lord of the Rings was very poorly done for it's theatrical releases. The digital master used for the final print
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by salem 14y ago
If they want to be able to pay for it, why not buy out the land, build a cut and cover subway extending south from the new central line, and profit from the increased real-estate value around the subway. It worked for Manhattan.
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by salem 14y ago
It would be great if there was an tracking/advert blocking solution that let you block based on what is in their privacy policy, if anything, in which country they are based, and so on. This could allow you to only permit advertisements/tra
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by salem 14y ago
At what point does the DOJ declare that they have a dominant share of the smartphone market, and that there should be increased oversight of anti-competitive behavior?
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by salem 14y ago
This is a pretty terrible article in many many ways. One of the few things I can agree with though is the Italy analogy. Someone needs to pull a Mussolini - sack everyone and start again.
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by salem 14y ago
This guy is cherry picking stats and quotes to back his argument, the same article that he quoted as showing that credit card borrowing was up also stated: "Credit card usage has fallen sharply since the 2008 credit crisis. Four years ago,
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by salem 14y ago
Well, actually a big chunk of your taxes is going to farm subsidies, and you wouldn't be 70% corn if it wasn't.
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by salem 14y ago
This is very cool. Re-use of these sorts of parts is already done in terrible conditions in developing countries, with parts re-entering the supply chain as counterfeits or sold as 'new'. But you probably won't see this accepted by manufact
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by salem 14y ago
The tone is not very constructive. I would say, at the very least you should read "Applied Cryptography" by Bruce Schneier and the most recent NIST recommendations.
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by salem 14y ago
This sounds like a problem of the airlines own making, underpaying junior pilots for years.
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by salem 14y ago
I guess this is ruining the airlines margins when you miss a flight and they cancel your return flight while they are at it, and pocket all the fares.
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by salem 14y ago
Really what should be happening is that Google Play and iTunes should support affiliate tags on URLs/intents that are passed through to the app on install.
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by salem 14y ago
At least on Android, this becomes a little more transparent, and why so many Android apps request permission to access to network and/or phone state, to get access to unique Ids.
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by salem 14y ago
Privacy-wise this strategy is bogus. It requires API users to do the right thing (TM), but has no real way to enforce it.

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