trynton

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by trynton 5y ago
> I mean, good? Defending the nation and its citizenry (including their businesses) is ostensibly one pillar of the NSA's mission. Glad to see them act upon it. One backdoor got found-out so the NSA goes public with a pretend securi
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by trynton 6y ago
It's not the engineers pain, as it wasn't an engineering decision to mount the engines higher and forward of the wing. Precipiting a pronounced nose-up aspect. All the same, I admire your attempt to deflect blame from the manageme
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by trynton 6y ago
Without any verifiable evident, it just doesn't make sense. There is a continual exchange of information between Wuhan and other centers of disease control. So it would be very difficult to keep such a secret. Besides, if it was a viru
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by trynton 6y ago
@chefkoch: "Yes, but why would that help?" Most/all of these ransomware attacks use the built-in Windows encryption.
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by trynton 6y ago
@cl0ckt0wer: "You bough a brand new computer without an SSD?" I already have an SSD, I was planning on installing it and using the harddrive as an archive. Then adding some extra RAM and an M.2 memory card.
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by trynton 6y ago
Is it possible to disable the built-in encryption in Microsoft Windows?
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by trynton 6y ago
You never sent me a response on the question of what things an app [application] would do that would make it run with MSDOS and not run with DR-DOS, Bill Gates circa 1989
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by trynton 6y ago
@1vuio0pswjnm7: You forgot to post the sacarism smiley. “Bill Gates .. was such a thoughtful developer, e.g., autmatically overwriting MBRs installed by other OS with a Microsoft MBR, and making it impossible to boot Windows from partitions
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by trynton 6y ago
"Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves: Deprecated. A story from Arabia interpreted by a French colonialist and profiteered by Disney." "Blind Dubbing: Deprecated as we no longer need to use the term blind. Replaced with Reversed Dubbi
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by trynton 6y ago
I have a great deal of admiration for someone who managed to succeed despite the obstacles placed in his path.
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by trynton 6y ago
> 0 is actually what I'd expect as an answer. Even on very modern Python you get Given a four byte mantissa, it should be 1 for anything under and equal to 2^32 and 0 for anything over 2^32. Instead it outputted some random number.
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by trynton 6y ago
According to the link to ""ZX81 ROM Assembly Listing"", it used a "FORTH-like, stack-based language.". Amazing all the same how they managed to squeeze so much out of so little.
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by trynton 6y ago
According to something I read somewhere. The ZX81 floating routines did incorperate some unique math: (2^32) - ((2^32)-1) did not return 1 And the group of Cambridge mathamaticians that wrote the ROM turned out to be one man. "ZX81 ROM
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by trynton 6y ago
"Power Fx" is going to be a big advance on Python /s
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by trynton 6y ago
@perl4ever: "I don't have experience with dieting or diet pills per se" If you need to go on a "diet" then your eating too much for the amount of physical excercise you engage in. People who are morbidly overweight
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by trynton 6y ago
@biren34: Well put ..
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by trynton 6y ago
'Larry Sanger blasts increasingly woke Wikipedia's whitewashing of socialist and communist human rights atrocities as "propaganda."'
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by trynton 6y ago
@tovej: I concur, no one can be told what the Matrix is. You have to see it for yourself.
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by trynton 6y ago
@teh_klev: >> nebulous black boxes > Probably a nitpick, I think you mean "opaque black boxes", you can see things through a nebula. Your comment has been modded into invisibility :[
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by trynton 6y ago
@CyberRabbi Given the way most modern software is made, refering to the makers as "software engineers" is a bit of an exaggeration. If you could visualize the average software project, a Rube Goldberg machine consisting of cogs, w
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by trynton 6y ago
> .. I can't remember the last time Windows crashed .. Short-term memory loss ;]
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by trynton 6y ago
"bugs would have been completely prevented by using a memory-safe language" Relying on safe languages isn't going to work as the defect resides in the Memory Management Unit. You would think by now these 'integrated&#x27
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by trynton 6y ago
@srazzaque: "For those situations where someone emails me an Excel or Word file that they would like my edits in, and I'm simply not in the position to extoll the virtues of open formats or coach them in Markdown or LaTeX, I have
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by trynton 6y ago
@scruffyherder: "I had friends do the mail in but, I didn’t care as I used windows under OS/2.. I tried really hard to go full Linux before but compiling all the dependencies of everything got so old quick. Sadly nothing has chang
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by trynton 6y ago
@saberdancer: "When I saw this, I was blown away." I've seen something like that, that took a whole weekend to produce a report. I suppose it does the job, as long as the accountant doesn't mistake 30 for 0.03 (30%) in a
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by trynton 6y ago
"A malicious container running on a Docker-run host is deployed and ran" A most relevant question being, how does this "malicious container" get onto the host in the first place?
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by trynton 6y ago
Banksy the pretend street artist?
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by trynton 6y ago
"Bill Hicks on advertising" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gd01vfKfr0
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by trynton 6y ago
'Richard DiBona, a 53-year-old software manager at Wayfair, sent a message to his team letting them know he would probably be “getting bugged more” by his kids due to his wife’s new high-level job.' The obvious solution being for
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by trynton 6y ago
In such a serious case, once the accused was identified by TrueAllele, shouldn't a further test be carried out by a human to verify the results.

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