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541.
by sspiff 12y ago
Thanks for making my point a 1000% more clear.
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by sspiff 12y ago
What if you just make the walls thick enough to block signals? Or put things that block radio signals in them? I can't imagine this would be illegal. Jamming signals may be hard to do legally, but keeping them out is probably impossibl
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by sspiff 12y ago
People who grok C++ will be able to manage whatever would ever replace it.
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by sspiff 12y ago
2G is fine for what this phone can display. Opera renders and reformats data on their server farm, so it's not loading megabytes of Javascript and high resolution images over 2G.
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by sspiff 12y ago
Does anyone know if this will run J2ME software?
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by sspiff 12y ago
Not sure if you're serious, but if you are: "the willing" are often poorly informed or have little choice.
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by sspiff 12y ago
Yes, but everyone knows that it won't do that, and anyone who doesn't have brain freeze from the Rust Kool Aid understands that in programming languages, it's never so clear cut. I realize that Rust was designed to address th
548.
by sspiff 12y ago
While I love what Rust is trying to achieve and hate the many, many issues C++ has, this reads like a blatant propaganda piece. It's not comparing C++ with Rust, or at least not fairly. It's just listing the problems of C++ that R
549.
by sspiff 12y ago
And where would you hide your encryption key exactly? (Honest question, maybe this is a solved problem, but I don't know the solution).
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by sspiff 12y ago
I never heard about Axe, I wish I'd had access to it when I was in high school. I spent a lot of time in high school writing games in TI BASIC. Good job!
551.
by sspiff 12y ago
Not a very good starting point to consider phone app storage a reliable secure black box...
552.
by sspiff 12y ago
That's truly great to hear!
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by sspiff 12y ago
The reason the chips will be slower in practice is because they are produced in small batches, and need to be produced by smaller fabs and by extension much older process. MIPS is routinely produced at 95nm still.
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by sspiff 12y ago
Well, that doesn't work either - since it requires other people to switch, or me to use yet another messaging app. Besides, I don't trust the Telegram guys with their faux security claims.
555.
by sspiff 12y ago
Exactly. Right now, I have installed on my phone: * Standard text messaging app, for almost everyone. * Google Hangouts, which is a pain to remove and always logs in behind my back. I don't want to chat on my phone, it's just a nu
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by sspiff 12y ago
I'm not sure PC-BSD qualifies as an OS unto itself. Last time I checked, they were mostly a FreeBSD distribution with a bunch of user friendly sugar coating on top (an easier package manager, default installation includes a fully confi
557.
by sspiff 12y ago
I agree with your statement that wealth and power has always made men who hold them untouchable to anyone but the people with more wealth and power. That shouldn't mean we need to accept this. We can try new solutions, move the status
558.
by sspiff 12y ago
It's not even about fixing this one issue. Or improving my life. It's about enforcing fairness, and not continuing to signal to the rich and powerful that really, they can get away with anything. That their wealth and power doesn&
559.
by sspiff 12y ago
Colfax International. No restrictions, although they can't ship to Europe unless you have a DHL/FedEx/UPS/... freight collect account. They've been very helpful, agreed to ship the cards to a friend in the US, and w
560.
by sspiff 12y ago
Not true. The cores run independant threads and processes on an embedded Linux system that's running on the card, meaning they're much easier to program, and they allow porting of existing software without completely going back to
561.
by sspiff 12y ago
It's not the case. These are 57 independant cores, much like you'd see in a quad core CPU, except that they're Pentium-vintage feature wise (with the addition of some modern vector instructions and SMT). As far as I can tell,
562.
by sspiff 12y ago
I recently ordered a Xeon Phi 31S1P. They're under $200 at the moment[1]. The biggest problem I have is that you can't just plug them into any computer like you would a graphics card. You need a compatible motherboard, and those t
563.
by sspiff 12y ago
This is all really exciting! I order the required game before they get impossible to acquire (maybe I'm already too late, the shop said 3-4 weeks waiting time). I programmed the GBA as a teenager, and this brings back memories. I'
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by sspiff 12y ago
> the same executable, same as Java I couldn't care less about binary compatibility. As a developer, I'd rather have 100% (or 99.99%) source code compatibility. I don't mind setting up different downloads or running differ
565.
by sspiff 12y ago
I love paying taxes if the money is used to sent science labs into space.
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by sspiff 12y ago
I run a server on OVH, but I figured as I don't run any dynamic web app on it, I was unaffected by shellshock - the only way in is through the web server (which basically hosts a bunch of static files), or SSH. From what I understood,
567.
by sspiff 12y ago
I was still playing with toy cars back then, but how did people lose those IPs? Were they revoked?
568.
by sspiff 12y ago
This is why 40% of people who buy a smart TV never connect it to the internet, and over 80% don't connect after trying it once for the novelty after unpacking. (These numbers were stats collected internally by a minor TV manufacturer)
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by sspiff 12y ago
Oh no, he surely meant the terrible atheist beliefs Turing upheld during the later half of his life!
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by sspiff 12y ago
I would certainly not mind carrying a bulkier phone in exchange for modularity and personalisation. I may not be in the majority segment, but I'd wager there are others who feel the same.

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