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by sounds 12y ago
If you're really into avoiding these, at least on a laptop you can: 1) Use a blob-free OS like Trisquel. Heh, your webcam may not have drivers in Trisquel. Or tape over it. 2) Trisquel also. 3) Trisquel also. Another good alternative i
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by sounds 12y ago
Actually it's interesting to watch you take the contrary position on an internet forum, but without a concrete call to action. That was his point: what are you going to _do_? I work on a solution to this particular problem every day. I
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by sounds 12y ago
Interestingly, the hard part is not the core "OS" code. There are many, many good open source OS's available for study (and/or license). I realize I'm being pedantic. I think it illustrates my point: until the mid-9
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by sounds 12y ago
Since the spoofed data is an API, your proposed framework to "recognize spoofed settings" must solve the halting problem -- impossible. The spoofing API actually has only one requirement -- keep the app from accessing real data.
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by sounds 12y ago
Close. Yes, and spoof. It is none of the app's business if the "camera" it sees is actually just an animated GIF (in essence). It is none of the app's business if the "location" information it receives says, Mo
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by sounds 12y ago
You make good points but your message gets twisted by saying things like "this is the kind of mentality I addressed. Your solution is no solution" Why not just say, "This is the status quo. I want to change things by --"
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by sounds 12y ago
Please don't use acronyms such as PMITA. If you want to say, "Pound Me In The Ass," as in, "Go to Pound-Me-In-The-Ass-Federal Prison," it is a lot easier to read in expanded form.
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by sounds 12y ago
Part of what made the internet such a big change to "things" was that it didn't attempt to replace "everything" wholesale. I'm fairly sure that form of the idea was tried -- for example, PC/GEOS -- but the
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by sounds 12y ago
This is a very good point. Extraordinary claims... If you haven't hung around talk-polywell.org before, you might want to. It's focused on the polywell but they seem to at least try to fairly evaluate all contenders. New confineme
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by sounds 12y ago
That's a great point. I came to ask whether it is likely Google will be improving their product search? As someone who remembers all the way back to Froogle, I still find myself on product search, obsessively checking amazon, google, a
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No interest in Poettering's problems, says Torvalds(itwire.com)
6 points by sounds 12y ago|1 comments
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by sounds 12y ago
Perhaps you are looking for Spock-as-a-Service?
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by sounds 12y ago
This isn't about the software Poettering wrote, but instead it's about how he has a chance here to reflect on how the community responds. It's terrible that he was trolled with death threats. I won't feed the trolls.
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AMD Appoints Dr. Lisa Su as President and CEO(amd.com)
2 points by sounds 12y ago|0 comments
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by sounds 12y ago
Too true. Now that you're thinking along these lines, look at some of the alternative name-resolution systems and, hopefully, find one that you want to contribute to. We need at least one viable alternative to DNS. Competition.
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by sounds 12y ago
1.3 GHz is not bad at all for an ARM. It's not trying to compete with x86 for the performance crown. It's decently fast and runs linux apps like a web browser just fine.
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by sounds 12y ago
servalproject.org is free (and open source) P2P voice, chat and online status. Uses Ad Hoc networking, which iirc FireChat uses bluetooth so servalproject should get better range. I'm not affiliated with the project in any way (I'
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by sounds 12y ago
In the red hat links (already in the comments here) there is an LD_PRELOAD file which cleans the environment for _all_ your processes.
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by sounds 12y ago
SSH in and look at your iptables. If any inbound ports are open besides state RELATED,ESTABLISHED (required for NAT), delete those rules. Reboot the router and verify that the lines do not reappear -- you may need to add a startup script to
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by sounds 12y ago
These instance types are not affected: T1, T2, M2, R3, and HS1 instance types are not affected. http://www.rightscale.com/blog/rightscale-news/aws-reboot-su...
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by sounds 12y ago
I agree. Just ask yourself if National Geographic would let you dictate terms of a settlement because you claimed "someone sold [me] a license for art"? If National Geographic doesn't like copyright law, they should come out
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by sounds 12y ago
Unlike magnetic HDDs it does not matter what the "powered on" time is for an SSD. The most significant factor is the number of blocks erased (and presumably written to). High temps can also affect SSD life.
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by sounds 12y ago
> as soon as you turn the drive on, presumably you refresh the charge No, bits lose their charge slowly but it doesn't matter whether the SSD is powered on or off. http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/256180-32-rea
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by sounds 12y ago
Thrun's role as Google VP has been mostly moot for several years now. Those close to Thrun have made no secret of the fact he's focused on Udacity and thus, whether he would like to work at Google or not, he can only do so much.
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by sounds 12y ago
You definitely don't want to use drives from the same manufacturing run (batch) on the same array, since they are the most likely to fail all at the same time. Second to that, you probably don't want to go single-source for your d
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by sounds 12y ago
Seagate apparently has slipped in the last 2-3 years. (Could this be related to the hard disk shortage due to flooding in Malaysia?) Hard drive failures tend to happen more for drives that are power cycled a lot, and for drives that undergo
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by sounds 12y ago
Good call. The iPhone might be the exception that proves the rule. The original iPod was OS X only, didn't have as much space as a nomad, etc. But people used it organically and pretty soon it took over. The iPhone would probably have
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by sounds 12y ago
There are some who claim Intel is trying to kill eGPUs (external GPUs) and dGPUs (discrete GPUs) [1]. You're actually spot-on with the one killer use case of a thunderbolt connector. It's the same question dock connectors have als
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by sounds 12y ago
I've been cut when hand-launching a drone. The prop embedded itself in my finger through my fingernail. I still feel like safety cages and banning drones are not the solution. Proper training and respecting the tool are much more effec
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by sounds 12y ago
Using the /sourcedir inode number sounds right. Be careful not to create too many files in /tempdir (create a hierarchy of subdirs). Filesystems slow way down when they get "too many" files in one dir. But take a good lo

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