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811.
by shabble 15y ago
I suspect it's for the same reason as they never reveal any details about their search ranking techniques or why some SEO or suspected fraud got your AS/AW account banned - it's an information leak which people will abuse. The downside to r
812.
by shabble 15y ago
You might also find eldoc-mode[1] and it's various mode-specific children (c-, perl-, ...) to a useful minor-mode. It displays a short string describing the function-at-point, and the order and name of it's arguments. Sort of zero-click doc
813.
by shabble 15y ago
My first thought was "It doesn't sound quite right", but then I remembered I was expecting the v90/56K handshake[1] with the BU-BONG BONG BONG near the end. [1] http://808hi.com/audio/conexantwm.mp3
814.
by shabble 15y ago
Yep, that's why s///e e exists :) http://perldoc.perl.org/perlop.html#s/PATTERN/REPLACEMENT/ms... "e Evaluate the right side as an expression. ee Evaluate the right side as a string then eval the result."
815.
by shabble 15y ago
If these sorts of 'strength checkers' become ubiquitous across enough places, I wonder how much value there will be in using reverse-engineered (most of these are in JS for UX latency reasons, right?) models of their strength testing as ano
816.
by shabble 15y ago
From the source[1]: The Raspberry Pi had to pass radiated and conducted emissions and immunity tests in a variety of configurations (a single run can take hours), and was subjected to electrostatic discharge (ESD) testing to establish its
817.
by shabble 15y ago
I wonder whether they've considered (something similar to) Google Courgette[1], for distributing compiled binaries with many similarities, but translating into abstract basic blocks and rewriting pointers to match. Although, both the genera
818.
by shabble 15y ago
The cynical side of me suspects that it's easier to reject appeals if you don't ever tell the person what you actually suspect them of.
819.
by shabble 15y ago
semi-OT, but I've occasionally wondered if these botnets for hire actually come with any sort of term of use/AOP. Certain behaviours are more likely to get the individual zombies identified and potentially notified and cleaned up, so you'd
820.
by shabble 15y ago
" [...]the humidity in the room, which had to be critically maintained at 60 percent — deviation either way could have resulted in an explosion large enough to destroy the entire base, not to mention the mountain that housed it and much of
821.
by shabble 15y ago
If you want to take it one step further, http://www.dwpg.com/content.php?contid=3&artid=57&or... is a thread by a guy using a buried water tank as a sink for his watercooling setup (Interesting pics start around here: http://www.
822.
by shabble 15y ago
It's exactly brute force. And the why of it is simple: performance. There's an upper limit on the heat dissipation capability of a directly mounted heatsink, no matter how much air you throw at it. Water has a much greater heat capacity, an
823.
by shabble 15y ago
This is something I've put a lot of thought into over the last couple of years, but I've never gotten around to figuring out an actual model or design. My basic premises are: * hearing aids are commonly moulded to fit the individual, and th
824.
by shabble 15y ago
slow news and he said/she said? My immediate thought was 'Hotelling's Law'[1], but apparently price is a special case and called the 'Bertrand Paradox'[2] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotelling%27s_law [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/w
825.
by shabble 15y ago
I'm assuming this is a (weak) joke, but in case you're genuinely wondering: git config --global alias.statsu status
826.
by shabble 15y ago
Get your first 10 JPanel()'s free!
827.
by shabble 15y ago
I haven't tried to find a cached/mirrored copy of their original sales/pricing page, but from what I remember they explicitly refused 'customer equipment', claiming security risks. The cost included a setup fee which essentially purchased
828.
by shabble 15y ago
The issue has been covered at least a few times before: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/07/satellite/ is one, and links to a great article about the hacker Chris Tarnovsky supposedly responsible, who has also been heavily involved s
829.
by shabble 15y ago
The issue is more about where on the functionality vs usability/support costs graph you draw the line. If there's a desirable feature that also has significant drawbacks (maybe accidentally racking up heavy data charges because you unintent
830.
by shabble 15y ago
I might be missing something (I haven't developed for android or rooted my phone), but isn't this essentially what HTC permits with their 'unlock your bootloader' tool ( http://www.htcdev.com/bootloader/ )? Or does Android require some addi
831.
by shabble 15y ago
Apart from Singh's incredibly famous one, I also quite enjoyed _Colossus: The secrets of Bletchley Park_[1] for technical history. The autobiography of Leo Marks: _Between Silk & Cyanide_[2] was a good (although I suspect quite heavily
832.
by shabble 15y ago
Argh, I've looked at that page several times, and each time I've managed to misread a 'm' on that 0.1 rem figure. Thanks for clearing it up!
833.
by shabble 15y ago
According to http://www.orau.org/ptp/collection/Miscellaneous/pacemaker.h... they're titanium cased and designed to withstand cremation, although I have no idea if that's true in practice. What surprised me was that the total expected exp
834.
by shabble 15y ago
I could have sworn it rather mentioned Lisp. Maybe I'm imagining it though. On a pro-python note, I'm also reminded of the not-that-long-ago idea by the SEC to require certain securities to include executable documentation: https://jrvarma
835.
by shabble 15y ago
That's a fascinating read. This kind of control and capability makes me wonder if they won't someday become common in a preventative/health monitoring role instead of only for cardiac defects. The risk during installation and problems with
836.
by shabble 15y ago
> Basically a 100' square catch basin on the roof of the building would provide all the water they need. Noise. Which raises the question: Why don't they just do that? I'd imagine it would be less effort to process, and even though you
837.
by shabble 15y ago
Hard er , to be sure, but definitely possible. See http://www.lps.umd.edu/MicroelectronicsIntegration/Microelec... and http://www.break-ic.com/topics/break-ic.asp for 2 overviews. There is an entire industry built around decapping and r
838.
by shabble 15y ago
Nothing, except it's entirely unnecessary for this task. See "Useless use of cat awards" from days of yore: http://partmaps.org/era/unix/award.html#uucaletter
839.
by shabble 15y ago
I'm not sure it would have to consistently exceed it, as long as it varied in a random fashion, and that your actual use of the network didn't result in an observable increase in instantaneous or average traffic. So if it saturates your con
840.
by shabble 15y ago
I would assume (hope?) that you've tried it yourself? If/how did it work for you?

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