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931.
by taejo 11y ago
It's not illegal to know how to make nuclear weapons, but a law against making them is not unreasonable.
932.
by taejo 11y ago
What does the content creator gain from the user seeing a black box? That's way worse than them seeing the content and the creator getting money for it, from both the user and the creator's perspective.
933.
by taejo 11y ago
If they wanted to donate the money to the EFF, they wouldn't have needed to bind themselves to that in the settlement.
934.
by taejo 11y ago
... and it's a heck of a lot cheaper to put a notice on the product than to make your peanut-free products in a cleanroom.
935.
by taejo 11y ago
X.509 certificates don't contain any Turing-complete languages, so the fact that X.509 interpreters have the same class of bugs as font interpreters, that supports my point that Turing-completeness itself is not the problem.
936.
by taejo 11y ago
Would a primitive recursive language be less dangerous? Well, it depends on the language. > They are dangerous to parse not because they can potentially run forever, but because due to their expressiveness, it is very easy to arbitraily
937.
by taejo 11y ago
Turing-completeness isn't a problem per se (lots of people get this wrong) because no attacker is trying to compute something: they want to run some shellcode, or redirect an HTTP request, or display something on screen, or somethi
938.
by taejo 11y ago
There are many examples, including "This product may contain traces of ..." and California's Prop 65: "This building contains substances known to the State of California to cause ..." It's required in some cas
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by taejo 11y ago
* model and forecast the weather (over the next days to months) and climate (over the next decades to centuries) * search/compare/cross-correlate DNA data * simulate chemical reactions, folding of proteins, ... * simulate material
940.
by taejo 11y ago
Yeah, Europe isn't the Netherlands. In Germany, at least, there are corporate landlords, both for-profit and cooperative, but everywhere I've lived has been a building with five to ten apartments owned by one old rich person (some
941.
by taejo 11y ago
And Europe doesn't have landlords?
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by taejo 11y ago
Most everybody. The Zim dollar is not legal tender any more; it's not printed any more. This is just the bank trying to get rid of its reserves. Sometimes Botswana Pula and Zambian Kwatsha are also used (esp. near the borders) but ATMs
943.
by taejo 11y ago
"a" is an article in Yiddish (like English); אָן (on) is indeed the word for "without" (of course it's related to German "ohne").
944.
by taejo 11y ago
> There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. -Tony Hoare
945.
by taejo 11y ago
This is assuming sufficiently elastic demand (i.e. there is unfulfilled demand at the old price).
946.
by taejo 11y ago
This is an instance of Jevon's paradox ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox ): making a process more efficient in terms of resource requirements (in this case labour), causes the process to become more prof
947.
by taejo 11y ago
Those survey results show people who are "for a free trade and investment agreement between the EU and the USA" -- not those who are for this trade agreement; the objections to TTIP are arguably not about the freedom of trade a
948.
by taejo 11y ago
The article doesn't mention the fact that 78% of people in Botswana are ethnically Tswana and speak Tswana, which is a level of homogeneity that is almost unheard of in Sub-Saharan Africa. On the other hand, nearby Lesotho and Swazilan
949.
by taejo 11y ago
You have: 2^128 seconds You want: yottayears * 10783128 The universe is less than 14 gigayears old. I don't know of any estimates of how long it will last, but by the Copernican principle we can expect it to be on the or
950.
by taejo 11y ago
It crashes if you try to run an executable from DOS.
951.
by taejo 11y ago
How?
952.
by taejo 11y ago
The x86 shift instructions do the same, so I'd guess that's why the JVM does it that way.
953.
by taejo 11y ago
University Challenge in the UK is a great example of this.
954.
by taejo 12y ago
I don't get this warning. Is your ISP/company/hotel/OEM/... MITMing your connections? I get a certificate with SHA1 fingerprint DE 20 3D 46 FD C3 68 EB BA 40 56 39 F5 FA FD F5 4E 3A 1F 83
955.
by taejo 12y ago
The EFF's Privacy Badger ( https://www.eff.org/privacybadger ) does this, and detects and blocks other tracking widgets.
956.
by taejo 12y ago
I did this with a PC (and a MIDI keyboard rather than playing MIDI files) but never got it working with multiple channels. Well played.
957.
by taejo 12y ago
Yes, but we don't know what that labeling will be in the future.
958.
by taejo 12y ago
Because Apache is where code goes to die, and Java code is dying ;)
959.
by taejo 12y ago
> the shaX functions do that perfectly. The SHA-2 family (namely SHA-224, SHA-256, SHA-384, SHA-512) are good candidates, and probably SHA-3 too. Let's stop recommending and start phasing out SHA-1 (and definitely never use SHA-0);
960.
by taejo 12y ago
I don't see why it's funny. It's not that ISDS is good for America and bad for Europe, or good for Japan and bad for America; according to opponents, it's good for big business and bad for ordinary people.

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