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by shabble 14y ago
Despite comparing people explicitly submitting their own DNA in order to search for traits or relations with law enforcement DNA matching, the article misses a pretty fundamental issue: What access does law enforcement (or "The Government"
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by shabble 14y ago
The problem is getting the authorities to see the funny side, e.g. Paul Chambers and the airport: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/south_yorkshire/8673196.s...
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by shabble 14y ago
"I spent 10 hours making a system to perform this 1-hour task in 5 minutes!" Note that this only pays off if that task occurs frequently enough to offset the upfront programming cost.
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by shabble 14y ago
I think a good chunk of it was probably installed as a consequence of terrorist attacks during The Troubles[1], which led to the "Ring of Steel"[2], a fortified security/surveillance cordon around the financial districts. If you compare tho
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by shabble 14y ago
One of my accounts uses a relatively long domain, so I often type it once, Ctrl-A Ctrl-C to copy it, then paste into the dupe field. Assuming I'm not the only person that does this, entering it twice isn't going to help in any significant
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by shabble 14y ago
It'd probably be quite a barrier to signup, although I guess a 'mailto:register@example.com?subject=signup-for-$uniqid' link might solve some of the hassle. The major issue I can see with it is that many people might like to use a email ali
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by shabble 14y ago
See, for example, Tetris on a ('secure hardware' platform) chip & pin machine[1] The same group (security research at cambridge) are also the ones who produced the 'chip and pin is a joke'[2] paper you might be referring to. [1] http:/
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by shabble 14y ago
not to be confused with Amazon Silk[1], which is the browser offloading to AWS for kindles. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Silk
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by shabble 14y ago
One of the more ridiculous examples I'm aware of is Sparkfun: http://www.sparkfun.com/news/300 In which, some lawyers hilariously try to argue that people might be confused when trying to buy some SPARC hardware, and could end up with a c
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by shabble 14y ago
Normal users, sure. But I wonder what fraction of developers use regularly/have ever used commandline tools? I can certainly see some environments in which you might never be exposed, in things like Visual Studio, XCode, or Eclipse. My reco
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by shabble 14y ago
Wouldn't you rather have at least an approximate map showing the more swampy areas on your random walk up Performance Mountain (or is it down into Performance Valley? The sight of all these top-rooted trees is confusing me)?
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by shabble 14y ago
Maybe they plan to divide it into smaller chunks and loan them out to people via some kind of internet website for that sort of thing?
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by shabble 14y ago
The neatest part about the HDCP hack is that all the overlay stuff is done on-the-fly in the FPGA, without any easy way to actually dump out the unencrypted content. That makes it much harder to use for actual DRM stripping, and thus easier
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by shabble 14y ago
It's possible that even a 'failed' device by their mission standards is still capable of sufficient manoeuvring to either push itself into a stable salvageable orbit, or do a controlled burn-up reentry. I can think of a whole bunch of thing
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by shabble 14y ago
Part of the reason for using a swarm is rather than just one Arkyd is, counter-intuitively, the cost. “The key is redundancy and safety in numbers. We’re planning for a certain amount of failure, and it’s a lot cheaper to work for 80% reli
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by shabble 14y ago
I haven't looked at the flux-less bonding patents mentioned in the article, so I'm not sure just how difficult it would be to create that bond without flux, but otherwise it shouldn't be that difficult in principle to spread a thin layer of
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by shabble 14y ago
The biggest problem I'd imagine with the direct-soldered die is that it's a much more rigid interface, which means any localised heating is going to put much more mechanical strain on the die. In contrast, the TIM is much more flexible, and
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by shabble 14y ago
Hrmm. It works as you want for me, but there may be some other config item I've set. The other alternative is to try: autoload -U select-word-type select-word-type bash which should override C-w to do what you want. I haven't l
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by shabble 14y ago
In my past experience, prompt/history corruption is quite often due to missing/incorrect use of \[ and \] around all the non-printing sequences (colours, formatting, etc), which cause Bash to compute the length of the prompt incorrectly, an
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by shabble 14y ago
bindkey '^[^?' backward-kill-word might do the trick? (possibly '^[^h' depending on what your backspace key sends. Ctrl-v <backspace> should give you something you can copy)
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by shabble 15y ago
This has happened, to some extent: At the Instituto Oncologico Nacional in Panama, some doctors discovered that they could fudge things to circumvent some limitations in the software that calculated shielding block geometry for radiotherapy
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by shabble 15y ago
I edited my original post to include a link to some 2010 stats, and just found http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/TSA-Agent-Slips-Through-DFW... from sept '11 as well. I'm not sure how they could run realistic tests in any other way than wi
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by shabble 15y ago
My suspicion is that, in the (presumed) absence of actual terrorists, the screeners are tested using 'secret shopper' style undercover people. They might try a wide range of scenarios, from 'oops, I forgot I left that gun in my trouser pock
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by shabble 15y ago
maybe because they're part of a "$foo High School class of '99" group/page/whatever with some friends, or perhaps both parents and grandparents are linked as friends, making it pretty easy to figure out mother's pre-marriage surname? It's n
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Trapped on Technology's Trailing Edge - Fighting Obsolescence (2008)(spectrum.ieee.org)
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by shabble 15y ago
The algorithm looks pretty trivial. All it does is take the mac address, reverse the byte ordering, and use the result modulo 999999929. That's probably simple enough that even I could read it in assembly and figure it out. I don't know if
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by shabble 15y ago
it would be relatively easy (and I'd be surprised if someone hadn't scripted it to make it easier) to have a set of project specific configs which you merge into your global configs and exec a subshell per project. If you did it inside scre
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by shabble 15y ago
If you're lucky it'll have some amazing cable lacework[1] holding the various bundles together. Sometimes I've thought that the insides are actually better looking than the case. It's a shame that it's dying out in favour of cable-ties and
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by shabble 15y ago
That's a good point actually. I'm in the opposite camp just now - I'm on a mac, but I'd quite like a way to alter the WM behaviour for some apps. The Apple 'our way is best' approach is often great, but when it fails, you're stuck without
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by shabble 15y ago
There is a school of thought that prefers applications to delegate their window handling duties to the window manager, in order to have consistent behaviour across applications. In that case, both MDI and tabbed UIs remove the capability of

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