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by shabble 15y ago
and not by just drawing that box over them in the original (textual content) pdf. You need to squash it down to images, then destroy the bits you need to. (There might be other ways, but enough Big Government Agencies have screwed it up to
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by shabble 15y ago
Without having looked into it too much (mostly just the video), there seem to be fairly strong parallels with the motion tracking/estimation that modern video codecs do. As I understand it, their system is trying to estimate the causes of n
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by shabble 15y ago
My (as yet unobtained) goal is to get familiar enough with org-mode[1] and figure out a personal workflow that fits with my company, so that I can manage a planning/clocking setup along the lines of http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html#Clock
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by shabble 15y ago
Yeah, I'm pretty sure it does, although I've never poked deeply enough / understood elisp well enough to know exactly how it does it. Swapping out those regexen you have wouldn't be too much of a challenge, I don't think, at least for a fir
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by shabble 15y ago
The simple answer is: because every single dollar/pound/yen you're not paying yourself, you could be using to grow your business. Imagine you're semi-profitable, you've got enough to pay wages for a few months while you finish off your next
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by shabble 15y ago
That code sounds pretty interesting, especially if it's adaptable to arbitrary open/close sequences if (.*?) { vs #ifdef .* ... #else ... #endif I'd be interested in seeing it, even if it's a pastebin/gist dump that needs
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by shabble 15y ago
It's theoretically possible (although definitely implausible) that drone/remote warfare will play out on the economic battlefield, rather than the human one. In the same way that the space race was an economic proxy of the Cold War, and fai
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by shabble 15y ago
I wonder how long it will be until the pilots and support staff of these drones start getting car-bombs or some nasty surprises in the mail. The argument that they're engaging a legitimate military target and not responding indiscriminately
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by shabble 15y ago
People like the GRASP[1] guys: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvRTALJp8DM are probably somewhere pretty high on that list. They still need to solve the location sensing issues though - having high-precision calibrated wall mounted sensors
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by shabble 15y ago
There's a guy building a USB thumb-drive type device called the ISOStick ( http://blog.elegantinvention.com/?cat=5 ) which appears to be both a normal storage drive, but also emulates an optical drive containing a virtual disk specified by
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by shabble 15y ago
Stick an accelerometer on there, and detect spikes corresponding to someone tapping the device. Then implement some sort of rhythm-based security as desired :) Turning it around would be pretty hard if it's plugged into a PC, and it can't r
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by shabble 15y ago
By strange coincidence, this ( http://i.imgur.com/N9yRX.jpg ) just turned up on reddit.[1] Someone hacked some flash memory and a USB hub inside a game controller, to carry the games and emulators. [1] http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/commen
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by shabble 15y ago
And some of them don't even understand basic arithmetic: http://verizonmath.blogspot.com/2006/12/verizon-doesnt-know-...
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by shabble 15y ago
It doesn't translate to direct costs, but my speed is largely dependent on contention with other users, and drops heavily during 'peak hours'. Then again, I suppose you could argue cost per GB = integral(download speed * time) / cost per mo
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by shabble 15y ago
From Rule 34 [1]: Ever since Filipino Jemaah Islamiyah hackers pwned an MQ-9 Reaper and zapped the governor of Palawan with USAF-owned Hellfire missiles, the Americans have gone back to keeping a human finger on the trigger: not because a
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by shabble 15y ago
The equipment necessary for generating versus detecting neutrinos is vastly different (and entirely immobile, to all intents and purposes). Calling half time and changing ends is a nice idea, but utterly impractical. Finding/building an alt
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by shabble 15y ago
Important Warning For Small Inquisitive Children: Do not begin with an Armatron[1]. You're ready to fiddle with all the wires and figure out a way to remotely operate the way-too-many-degrees-of-freedom controls, only to find that it's al
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by shabble 15y ago
"...and that was when I realised women were basically cellular automata - I had discovered A New Kind Of Dating."
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by shabble 15y ago
Reminds me of The Duck[1] [1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2349378/new-programming-j...
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by shabble 15y ago
There's a lot more info on a smart-phone than the telco necessarily stores. They'll have call records, ip allocations, and maybe some low-res traffic logs. Probably cell/subcell location info for a while too. I doubt they'd be intercepting
951.
by shabble 15y ago
Patent Trolls seem to favour the Eastern District of Texas[1]: " The district has been perceived to be a favorable jurisdiction for plaintiffs in patent infringement lawsuits, which win 88% of the time compared to a nation-wide average of 6
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by shabble 15y ago
VbV has to be some of the worst security engineering I've ever seen. iframe content, arbitrary domain (securesuite?!), trivially guessable or resettable details.
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by shabble 15y ago
I mentioned this the opposite way around a little while ago (mute the audio in countries where it isn't licensed, rather than blocking the video outright), but the conclusion was generally that the video and audio are muxed together into a
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by shabble 15y ago
It's hard to find any concrete details on the resolutions used by GE, and it varies massively by area. I recall their recent investment in one of the (GeoEye?) satellites had a theoretical resolution of 40cm, but is restricted by US regulat
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by shabble 15y ago
I can't find the original reference(s), but not that long ago the SEC suspended trading of some company for a short period of time because the site hosting some recently released financial report was DDoSed, leading to potential information
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by shabble 15y ago
I started a while back because of work stress, depression and anxiety. It's a very short-term fix, but by the time it stops "helping", you're dependent on nicotine to the point of continuing just to avoid the extra pain of having to quit, o
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by shabble 15y ago
The usual money-grabbing scheme I've seen is to require some excessive security deposit, and then contrive ridiculous reasons for keeping large chunks of it. One flat I shared the rental agency tried to withhold £150 for the changing of 1 (
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by shabble 15y ago
I'd have thought the opposite would be a more accurate comparison: Disney claiming "Pirates!" as similar to/confusable with "Pirates of the Caribbean" (discounting any issues of who actually owns what trademarks in reality just now). No men
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by shabble 15y ago
I think it's more like: "[...] that nobody else uses a term you have trademarked in a way that could allow consumers to be confused or misled into thinking that they (the non-registered mark users) are affiliated or speaking on your behalf"
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by shabble 15y ago
Ooops, that's a good point. I suspect that the whole DMCA safe harbour "we honour all correctly submitted takedown requests" is a bit of a get-out for a lot of these sites. Especially the ones that are pretty much basing their entire busine

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