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by shabble 14y ago
It's possible (although I have no idea how plausible) that Mr Balasubramani could have written that letter pro bono , which would be excellent advertising given the coverage this is getting, and since he's on the Good Team, it's probably m
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by shabble 14y ago
if someone is misbehaving (and is aware of the system), I would imagine with a certain discipline (say, rotate the keyboard 180degrees and try to touch-type, or just hunt-n-peck with some significant random variation) it would be reasonably
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by shabble 14y ago
A comparable but significantly lower tech solution is using a high-strength magnet integrated into a ring which manipulates some part of the trigger mechanism, unlocking it for use, eg: http://www.tarnhelm.com/magna-trigger/gun/safety/magn
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by shabble 14y ago
For interesting research here, see: Keyboard Acoustic Emanations Revisited , Li Zhuang, Feng Zhou, J. D. Tygar http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~tygar/keyboard.htm "We examine the problem of keyboard acoustic emanations. We present
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by shabble 14y ago
ah yes, that does explain it nicely, thanks!
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by shabble 14y ago
I think you'd find it's much closer to the historic "Rough Music"[1] form of social justice, in which people disapproved publicly enough to make it known, but typically refrained from violence. I don't know what the numbers would show, but
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by shabble 14y ago
I once went to a theatre where the projectionist came out and announced that they had just broken a lens (apparently they had the largest lenses in town at the time) and couldn't project the film as they wanted to. They offered a refund, b
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by shabble 14y ago
Moving rapidly off-topic: That is an accusation, trying to backhandedly hide it behind "I'm not going to do exactly what I am doing right now" is just as disingenuous as people who say things like "not to be a dick, but ..." as they procee
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by shabble 14y ago
Whilst a cunning idea if it catches some unsophisticated crook who just dives in and starts looking for goodies, I'd expect that it's common enough knowledge (e.g. image-bugs dropped in spam to check account liveness) that a serious attacke
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by shabble 14y ago
Of the implementations listed in the WP article, which, if any, are suitable for general purpose use? And what manner of implementation screwups are most likely|hazardous? [With the obvious caveat: Advice not for production use, If you have
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by shabble 14y ago
I have a suspicion you have it exactly backwards. It's now a requirement for some|many devices to have non-removable moulded plugs (although they still have replaceable fuses). I'm not certain on the exact motivation, but I think it's a mix
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by shabble 14y ago
Have a look at the Underhanded C contest[1] and see which of those entries (suitably scaled up, possibly spread over several commits by different people) would be likely to be spotted by OSS maintainers or contributors. I'm not sure the 'al
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by shabble 14y ago
We do, something like http://techreport.com/articles.x/16255 or http://www.anandtech.com/show/1697/5 although I don't think they actually have a full NV backing store. They definitely exist though, and have done even before SSDs, it jus
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by shabble 14y ago
The wide proliferation of really terrible ones seems to tie into some murky SEO tactic of getting a designer to whip you up something 'viral', stick it on the www.totallylegitadultdiplomaswithfreeviagra.com root, and then have a cute little
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by shabble 14y ago
Seems like a really neat solution to an (in hindsight) obvious problem. Makes me think of the guy with a camper-van full of PCs dedicated to form filling parked near the Chinese consulate in New York: https://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/
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by shabble 14y ago
The article/blog author does have a disclaimer at: http://coding.pressbin.com/61/Caveat-coder-About-the-code-sn... but I fear that those most likely to just grab this code and run with it, are the least likely to even notice that page, le
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by shabble 14y ago
One of the more non-obvious issues around pagination, especially with something like a webcomic where you're expecting to view multiple pages, is to have the page layout ensure that the buttons appear in the same place on each page. This me
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by shabble 14y ago
For a more technological solution to the copied image problem, and also the reorientation necessary throughout the year, I think you could perhaps build a very large Pin Grid[1], with actuators for each pin, able to extend or retract them t
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by shabble 14y ago
I think this[1] is probably what you're looking for. If I'm understainding you correctly, the 2nd example will have mapped 2/stderr to &1 (stdout), before pointing stdout to the file, so you end up with both in the file. [1] http://wik
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by shabble 14y ago
and on top of that, the last thing you want to do for many actual spam lists is to click their per-address unique tracking tag which tells them that your address is valid. If you've already started communicating with them I guess it's proba
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by shabble 14y ago
For a compelling example, see Anscombe's Quartet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anscombe%27s_quartet
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by shabble 14y ago
No, I was going for Page Fault[1], which, if I recall my comp. arch. lectures, suspends the requesting process until the required page has been read from disk and put in memory somewhere. So wall-clock time passes, but the process itself do
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by shabble 14y ago
No, the major benefit of virtual memory is simplicity for applications. Instead of having to be aware of everything else in memory, and carefully allocating around other things and taking care not to step on each other, it can just assume t
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by shabble 14y ago
If an establishment has a declared service rate, I'm much less likely to consider tipping in excess of that rate, even for service that would receive more from me elsewhere. If they've decided what they're worth, who am I to argue?
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by shabble 14y ago
Probably the same reason that stuff I order internationally and pay import duty on invariably includes the cost of delivery (which can be £50+ for US reasonably-fast shipping) as the 'package value' declaration. I can't easily imagine a sys
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by shabble 14y ago
That would probably be here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18103772 and the HN thread from the other day: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3991411
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by shabble 14y ago
or to spin it back the other way, the psychological impact of "Hooray, I just scored a great bargain", even if actually provably false , might also provide a boost of happiness beyond the nominal opportunity cost. I wonder if there's a mar
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by shabble 14y ago
Having been in both situations, I'm pretty certain the magsocket has saved more in avoiding damages than I could reasonably expect to lose on those that are already battery-dead. And if it's a permanent failure, epoxy or sugru or something
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by shabble 14y ago
This is a really neat idea, it's kind of like a randomised 3D Hirth Joint[1] which means you can lock the joint into a far stronger piece than it'd be able to maintain by actuator strength alone. It also reminds me a lot of the electro/mag
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by shabble 14y ago
I guess it's similar in idea to something like the Cell[1] processor with 'processing elements'/cores sitting on a blob of local memory/cache, with very NUMA-like access to everything else. Scaling the ram per unit / # units is probably whe

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