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If Paul Manafort Visited Julian Assange, There Should Be Ample Evidence(theintercept.com)
6 points by wolfgke 8y ago|1 comments
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> That's not what seem to work reliably, because Microsoft is free to change everything at any second, and the 'telemetry' list is moving target. Principally, you are right. But keep in mind that the paper refers to Window
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> The counter argument would be police departments rarely buy this equipment - it's given to them as part of a program between the Pentagon and law enforcement. They get the vehicles (and lots of other military grade equipment) for
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> When officers are inside them, they feel simultaneously invulnerable and threatened -- all this armor means that someone must want to kill them. And cars have airbags and seatbelts because other drivers actively want to crash onto your
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Why You Should Care About the Julian Assange Case(rollingstone.com)
83 points by wolfgke 8y ago|39 comments
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by wolfgke 8y ago
See chapter 3 of the linked German paper > https://www.bsi.bund.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/DE/BSI/Cyber-Si... for other suggestions. The variant with an HTTP proxy is described in section 3.2.1.
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by wolfgke 8y ago
Also see the updated text 42 Years of Microprocessor Trend Data > https://www.karlrupp.net/2018/02/42-years-of-microprocessor-... from 2018-02.
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> It's called Linux. It's called GNU/Linux. :-)
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> If you have Apple money, you buy Apple (either for the performance/value or as a status symbol). Rather: If you have Apple money, you buy a ThinkPad (either for the performance/value or as a status symbol). :-)
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How Windows Vista Turned into a Huge Mess for Microsoft(lifehacker.com.au)
5 points by wolfgke 8y ago|1 comments
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> There even was an East German gaming machine called Poly Play ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poly_Play ). You can actually play on one of these in the Computer Games Museum in Berlin (really worth a visit). But of
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> It's funny how close Brazil was to an eastern bloc country then. > -Foreign computer designs could be copied, beacause their IP did not apply (Unitron Mac was a notable example - actually better than the original); Where can I
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> I don't know man, my mom has called me a "computer genius" since I was 15. This is rather strong evidence for the statement that "ordinary people" are often not qualified to judge whether someone is a genius o
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> Usually, free software get a royalty free license. In the case of HEVC, software decoders are free as long as they are not bundled with hardware. The problem is that "bundling with hardware" is very vague. For example, if som
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> All these people do more harm than good. Their formats should be abandoned in favor of royalty free formats, for example like AV1. Know your enemy. :-)
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> Should tax dollars be used to subsidize development of consumer products primarily used for entertainment? If this means abolishing patents: then yes. By the way: video codecs have a lot more applications than entertainment. I just wan
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> The problem with h.264 was, that it dictated the business model for everything that embedded it. In this regard, it was exactly the same "cancer" as Microsoft once said about GPL. To add on this argument: another huge proble
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> Because paying is the problem, and expecting that prospective employers would pay for your expenses for a test that is used to infer basic competences is at best wishful thinking. I am cautious with this kind of statement, since this s
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> > MPEG is a rent-seeking organization that doesn't actually contribute anything useful to society. It just tries to lock up technology and standards behind patents, and then extorts money for use of those standards. > You&#x
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> Between having to endure a "stupid test" and have to shelve a wad of cash just to get a very expensive piece of paper, give me the stupid test every single time. Why not go fot the idea that one pays the cost in advance, but
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> Defence from whom? From system administrator? From the user, since SGX is also used/intended for DRM purposes.
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Prisoners of War and the power of pessimism(medium.com)
2 points by wolfgke 8y ago|0 comments
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I would never send my kids to school(supermemo.guru)
3 points by wolfgke 8y ago|0 comments
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by wolfgke 8y ago
Have a look at section 1.1 and Figure 1-1 of the Intel Whitepaper. There this topic is discussed.
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> Companies would prefer false negatives over false positives. If this is the case (i.e. companies can afford this behavior), all the claims about skill shortage are a lie and should be called out.
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by wolfgke 8y ago
Just out of curiosity: Are these kind of questions relevant/representative for the type of work that one does at Google?
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> It's kind of how in dating people have deal-breakers (e.g. no smokers, no kids, and so on) -- when looking for a job, this is one of mine. Not everybody can afford to be as picky as you regarding job choice (this is not meant dero
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> The example I was always given to point out the need of such a right is the police saying, "Alright, show us where you buried the body." And if they can "prove" that you buried the body but you cannot actually take
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by wolfgke 8y ago
Turn Cortana off.
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> we still need the pc revolution on mobile devices. The PC revolution happened because of very open hardware specifications and a non-monopoly on the firmware (the IBM BIOS was reverse-engineered by Compaq).

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