tjaerv

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   New study sheds light on the pandemic flu virus of 1918(medicalxpress.com)

   8 points by tjaerv 12y ago|2 comments
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   New leak exposes how the FBI directed Anonymous' hacks(rt.com)

   2 points by tjaerv 12y ago|0 comments
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   by tjaerv 12y ago

   "'Our group removed half of the OpenSSL source tree in a week. It was discarded leftovers,' de Raadt told Ars in an e-mail. […] De Raadt told ZDNet that his team has removed 90,000 lines of C code. 'Even after all those
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   OpenSSL code beyond repair, claims creator of LibreSSL fork(arstechnica.com)

   12 points by tjaerv 12y ago|2 comments
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   by tjaerv 12y ago

   Here's a good article on solving false sharing in Java with cache-line padding: http://mechanical-sympathy.blogspot.com/2011/07/false-sharin...
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   Kickstarter's biggest hits: why crowdfunding now sets the trends(theguardian.com)

   2 points by tjaerv 12y ago|0 comments
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   by tjaerv 12y ago

   And in case she happens to be a sociopath, as so many politicians are, she wouldn't even fully grok what "wrong" means in the first place.
8. 38.▲
   by tjaerv 12y ago

   Thanks for that, that's the best formulation.
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   by tjaerv 12y ago

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth's_law Wirth's law: "Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster." Sometimes paraphrased as: "Intel gives, Microsoft takes."
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    by tjaerv 12y ago

    And they'll add a little pork on top for flavor, too.
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    by tjaerv 12y ago

    Check out this presentation by Rob Landley (@landley), who started the infamous BusyBox lawsuits: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGmtP5Lg_t0 He talks about the lawsuits and the effects they had.
12. 42.▲
    by tjaerv 13y ago

    Thanks!
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    by tjaerv 13y ago

    For the benefit of those who don't know who he is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theo_de_Raadt
14. 44.▲
    by tjaerv 13y ago

    Link?
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    by tjaerv 13y ago

    And, of course, the Mechanical Sympathy blog itself: http://mechanical-sympathy.blogspot.com
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    by tjaerv 13y ago

    And best of all, the implementation is in the public domain (CC0): https://github.com/psankar/simplefs/blob/master/LICENSE
17. 47.▲
    by tjaerv 13y ago

    Also, Nicky Case recently raised $43K for his uncopyrighted game, a good portion via bitcoin donations: https://back.nothingtohide.cc
18. 48.▲
    by tjaerv 13y ago

    Seconded.
19. 49.▲
    by tjaerv 13y ago

    If you need to ask...
20. 50.▲
    by tjaerv 13y ago

    Amen. Particularly the passport scans and other personal information.
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    Gravity waves from Big Bang detected(scientificamerican.com)

    892 points by tjaerv 13y ago|171 comments
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    by tjaerv 13y ago

    "It would seem the charger of choice would be the Micro-USB as of now, though who knows what the next big thing will be." Forcing everyone to use a government-sanctioned standard is a good way to prevent the next big thing from ha
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    by tjaerv 13y ago

    For the particular reviewer who did this work, anyhow.
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    by tjaerv 13y ago

    Indeed, a priori one would have to assume it less secure than an open-source implementation that has been reviewed by experts. "We built our own" merely amounts to security through obscurity.
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    by tjaerv 13y ago

    You, sir, must be from the future, what with the uncopyrighted, bitcoin-based crowdfunding campaign. Backing this effort is a no-brainer. https://back.nothingtohide.cc/
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    by tjaerv 13y ago

    Given that cancer cells are fueled by glucose (i.e., sugar metabolism), you might read up a bit on carb-restricted diets: http://www.proteinpower.com/drmike/ketones-and-ketosis/carbo... "Since cancers can&#x2
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    by tjaerv 13y ago

    The China study's results are a massive dataset of statistical correlations, useful as input for hypothesis generation. On the other hand, "The China Study", Dr. Campbell's best-selling popular book wherein he attempts t
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    by tjaerv 13y ago

    http://www.proteinpower.com/drmike/statistics/observational-... "Researchers doing observational studies have much the same problem. They try to think of all the differences between two large populations of
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    by tjaerv 13y ago

    Rick Falkvinge mentioned this earlier as one of ostensibly two Mt.Gox-linked suicides so far: http://falkvinge.net/2014/02/28/the-gox-crater-crowd-detecti...
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    by tjaerv 13y ago

    > These aren't people who suddenly wake up and start talking after tDCS Did you actually read the article? "Some recovered the ability to communicate"