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by sehugg 12y ago
There's some potentially funky stuff there like CUPS, which runs a local daemon that serves binary CGIs (though I think it's bound to localhost by default). http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4169 Might be wise to
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by sehugg 12y ago
J2ME programming is actually kinda fun, because the concepts make sense, and there aren't many of them. Canvas/Screen is pretty straightforward. Android's Context/Activity/Fragment/Intent/Bundle/etc&#
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FTC case against Yelp shows that COPPA isn’t just for kids’ sites(business.ftc.gov)
2 points by sehugg 12y ago|0 comments
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by sehugg 12y ago
The relevant Easy Rider quote I had in mind is: "You know, this used to be a helluva good country. I can't understand what's gone wrong with it."
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by sehugg 12y ago
Indeed, flu viruses do react to selection pressures, but we deal with it by making a new vaccine each year: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antigenic_drift Which is not to say that we could not benefit from further resear
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by sehugg 12y ago
An appropriate Xorshift generator is likely much better (and faster) than java.util.Random: http://xorshift.di.unimi.it/ I've used them to improve my hashing collision rate.
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by sehugg 12y ago
I think there were some old Shockwave games ported this way too (Frogger for one)
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by sehugg 12y ago
Procedural, if you like -- the linked example uses a hard-coded sequencer to play the notes. But this ought to be fun to mess with.
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by sehugg 12y ago
Other deep-space spacecraft make use of non-trivial delta-v, around 200/300 m/s for some maneuvers: https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/4054/delta-v-of-de...
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After CIA gets secret whistleblower email, Congress worries about more spying(mcclatchydc.com)
2 points by sehugg 12y ago|0 comments
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by sehugg 12y ago
Also the funding they got ($111.5 million) was from the DOE under the auspices of building out a "Smart Grid" [1]. Doubtful that a full fiber connection to the home is required for these applications. [1] https://www.ep
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by sehugg 12y ago
I'm not sure if offloading sound to a seperate worker would be possible for something like JSMESS -- most emulators I've looked at are single-threaded save for rendering operations in certain safe cases, and sound generation is of
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by sehugg 12y ago
Both tests work, but there are issues with glitching and tempo. Seems also that pretty small audio buffers are being used due to the sound of the glitches. Possible future workarounds for JS's lack of realtime guarantees for low-latenc
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by sehugg 12y ago
tl;dr: Missing certificate in keystore. It'd be helpful to know the details; it's hardly an issue limited to Java (although it's harder to bypass certificate checking than in, say, curl)
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Obama administration advising local police to stay quiet on Stingray tech(news.yahoo.com)
6 points by sehugg 12y ago|2 comments
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by sehugg 12y ago
For something a bit more realistic, we are still studying nuclear propulsion in fits and starts since we halted its development in the 60s: http://www.nasa.gov/topics/technology/features/ntrees.html#....
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US Secret Service wants software to “detect sarcasm” on social media(arstechnica.com)
2 points by sehugg 12y ago|0 comments
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by sehugg 12y ago
Machine learning is sometimes used to train Go pattern evaluation functions, but we've gotten so good at Chess heuristics that there's very little low-hanging-fruit for ML techniques to pick.
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by sehugg 12y ago
Ha! I did the exact same thing when I beat Dragon's Lair, had the crowd gathered around, mic drop and everything. A computer gaming magazine had listed most of the moves so I studied up the night before.
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China Suspends Cybersecurity Cooperation After US Charges (nbcnews.com)
2 points by sehugg 12y ago|0 comments
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by sehugg 12y ago
I don't think they saved the photos verbatim -- rather, the idea was to use the CRT to slow-scan the photographs and analyze them by recording the light that transmitted through the film. http://www.computer-history.info&#x2
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by sehugg 12y ago
Core Data uses SQLite as its backend by default, so you may still potentially run into these kind of problems -- if say, an ad network decided to statically link in its own SQLite version. I have been frustrated by persistent corruption in
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by sehugg 12y ago
These are all fun games, but the Ouya's problem is that these are all the same games the author would have been playing a year ago.
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by sehugg 12y ago
I was reminded of this NY Times article describing how someone cleverly gamed a gun buyback program by making and returning homemade $5 zip guns: http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/02/the-very-brief-...
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by sehugg 12y ago
I wouldn't say scoring is trivial -- it depends on both players agreeing which stones are alive or dead. Experienced Go players "just get it" but computers don't: http://www.andromeda.com/people/ddye
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by sehugg 12y ago
Joe's Own Editor still mimics WordStar for those whose fingers never re-learned: http://joe-editor.sourceforge.net/
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by sehugg 12y ago
Yes, the strategy for rollouts (the rest of the game after you leave the currently explored tree) are still an area of research. The successful programs usually involve some sort of local shape matching or other heuristic, sometimes trained
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by sehugg 12y ago
This is part of a system the FAA has been trying to replace (unsuccessfully) since at least 1990: http://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/aviation-internationa... (The AAS often appears in software engineering classes a
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by sehugg 12y ago
This was mentioned in the White House's FACT SHEET [1] on solar initiatives, fwiw. Certainly the inverter is an expensive hunk of metal, but soft costs like installation and permiting dominate the average residential PV installation. A
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by sehugg 12y ago
Google probably based part of its decision on the huge existing body of code and tools developed by the Java community that depended on the existing API and VM, aided and encouraged by Sun (which included clean-room VM implementations). Fai

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