tripletao

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by tripletao 9y ago
How do you expect the EU to enforce the GDPR extraterritorially? Like, do you expect the USA to comply with an EU request to impose a fine? Or do you think they'll be successful in pushing enforcement out through the target's cust
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by tripletao 9y ago
Is the 20M EUR maximum reduced by law, or just by regulatory discretion? The USA is currently demonstrating (with DACA, marijuana enforcement, etc.) the fragility of the latter.
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by tripletao 9y ago
Everyone describes their experience in the light most favorable to them. That's different from inventing a past job entirely. If you get caught in the latter, then many (most?) companies will reject or fire you. If you can't get a
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by tripletao 9y ago
I understand that Germany may impose criminal penalties for certain violations of the GDPR, maybe other countries too. In that case yes, you could get arrested changing planes in Frankfurt, and spend time in German prison. The probability o
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by tripletao 9y ago
"Failing" seems a bit harsh. Lots of people run websites that don't make money, and lots of users get value from such sites. Sometimes the operator still hopes to gain from the site (in publicity or whatever), or sometimes it
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by tripletao 9y ago
Oops; you're totally right. I read the datasheet title, and didn't read to the subtitle. In any case, the trick is alive and well with 74HCU logic, good in to the tens of MHz whenever exact gain and distortion don't matter.
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by tripletao 9y ago
CD4009 is a buffer. If you connect its input to its output, then you get a bit of SRAM, not an amplifier. CD4049 is an inverter. If you do the trick above then you indeed get an amplifier, nonlinear and with poorly-controlled gain but an am
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by tripletao 9y ago
Perhaps I'm misunderstanding you somewhere; but this is basically what I do for a living, so I don't think I'm wrong. I have carefully re-read my comments above, and would urge you to do the same. Again: Can you write the qua
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by tripletao 9y ago
Oh, and to be complete: The reason why multiplying by 100 = 2^2 * 5^2 helps when dealing with cash is that 0.20 isn't exactly representable in a finite-length binary number (since that's 1/5, and 5 isn't a power of two).
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by tripletao 9y ago
That part of the story seems severely underexplained to me. Web.com doesn't seem to have any marketing content not in English, so their EU business is probably small compared to this reputational hit. Concern that France would eventual
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by tripletao 9y ago
Do you have a source for this? That sounds incredibly implausible--analog tolerances are basically never tight enough that you'd rely on them for something like the DC value of an RNG's output, over temperature, normal production
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by tripletao 9y ago
A forensic image of the encrypted disk is useless (assuming strong passphrase, no bugs, etc.). The article is about the risk that an "evil maid" injects software/firmware into his laptop that presents the expected UI but secr
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by tripletao 9y ago
I don't think he thought he was targeted, if he thought the hacker stickers would make a difference. But if I had an exploit like that and was targeting a security-conscious journalist, then (a) I'd be mystified when he checked hi
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by tripletao 9y ago
Your comment is deeply misleading. Floating point is mostly just fixed point plus some rules for automatically moving the decimal point. The point is that depending how you express the formula, you need to "expand the size of the space
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by tripletao 9y ago
If this were a job interview, then I'd say "put the spare bags in with the laptop"... Or the "bag" can be the laptop's existing case. You can put seals (stickers, or the sparkly nail polish trick mentioned belo
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by tripletao 9y ago
I'm pretty sure integer (i.e., fixed point) math suffers from the same problem here. The only difference is that (a) for a given size, you get a little more precision, since you're not spending bits on the exponent, and (b) you ha
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by tripletao 9y ago
Pure handwave. Let's call an "exposure" a one-way trip plus half the hotel stay. So the author's laptop got (3+5) * 2 = 16 exposures. Air passengers make about 3B trips per year. A laptop lasts about three years. I said
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by tripletao 9y ago
Tens of millions of laptops have been exposed to at least as much evil maid opportunity as the author's. That's either a much stronger natural experiment than his artificial one, or the biggest sleeper attack in history. Like, the
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by tripletao 9y ago
If you care about this, then put the laptop in a tamper-evident bag. Those are necessarily imperfect too; but there's work making tamper-evident seals to resist up to state-level attacks, since that's relevant in stuff like enforc
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by tripletao 9y ago
The usual argument isn't that "all drugs are great". It's that meth, heroin, etc. are harmful, and even more harmful when they're banned, because the second-order consequences of prohibition (funding organized crime