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by yew 15y ago
Five years isn't all that much time as far as bio-med research is concerned. I would expect to start seeing definite results in maybe a few years. As for detection and treatment, the subject being discussed in the Wiki article is the effect
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by yew 15y ago
I don't. Which is one of the main reasons I'm totally opposed to DRM. This particular title was popular enough to survive by way of being migrated from medium to medium over time, but plenty of historically-important software (not just game
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by yew 15y ago
I would tend to disagree. The end result is the same: Unless a title was popular enough to have been kept track of across half a dozen storage media changes, restoring it requires fighting against copy protection and is either very difficul
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by yew 15y ago
Probably not. I said "not entirely unreasonable" rather than "reasonable" for a reason. Anyway, my main point was that if the US is really in the top four countries for ease of doing business, we have a major problem.
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by yew 15y ago
If "doing pretty well" looks like this on a global scale, we've got some serious issues to resolve. Of course, I suspect the actual issue is that this is the food industry, which is (as already mentioned) heavily regulated for not entirely
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by yew 15y ago
Knowing that somebody is taking the effort to get this sort of thing right is really, unspeakably awesome. Though I guess not really, given that I'm posting it. This sort of thing is one of the main reasons I read HN. Hopefully the methodol
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by yew 15y ago
I think it might be better to say that in the days when the meaning of the word "hacker" was still entirely up in the air, getting at the insides of things (especially infrastructural things) was often associated with being "one of the bad
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by yew 15y ago
They are intended to be tamperproof, yes. Mirroring the contents of a TPM is an exercise in hardware deconstruction where you also have to worry about setting of auto-erase traps. It's not impossible by any means, but it's not standard pr
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by yew 15y ago
Most Unicode fonts don't include glyphs for all code points (and those that do are usually relatively low quality). If your selected default font isn't appropriate, an application can use font substitution to render selected glyphs using an
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by yew 15y ago
The term "driver" as engineering parlance for "something that impels" is also substantially older than electronics. It can be used to refer to tools and to mechanical parts that serve roughly the same purpose as the aforementioned circuits.
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by yew 15y ago
You shouldn't see that much difference, at least on a system designed for static linking (modern GNU/Linux is explicitly not such a system, see http://www.akkadia.org/drepper/no_static_linking.html ). There's still quite a bit of potenti
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by yew 15y ago
> I'm a little skeptical that it will change much, but we'll see. It will be interesting to watch. Likewise, on both counts. Though I think it's important to remember, even if this enterprise fails the state of California is a big enoug
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by yew 15y ago
. . . which is subsequently rendered useless by the TPM erasing itself. (The standard procedure is to encrypt the drive using a key stored in the TPM. The TPM then decrypts the drive when provided with the proper authentication. If the desi
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by yew 15y ago
Goto is actually relatively common in C code. As in this case, it's usually used for error handling in much the same manner as exceptions might be. The document "/usr/src/linux/Documentation/CodingStyle" actually recommends such usage.
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by yew 15y ago
X11 screen lockers (usually) work by filling the screen and grabbing all keyboard and mouse input. The UngrabAllDevices function interferes with this functionality, and optionally kills the "offending" process. Said functionality is entirel
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by yew 15y ago
sage_joch mentioned pirating works that would otherwise be in the public domain (eg, The Great Gatsby ), so I would say it's more equivalent to refusing to pay some particular tax that one disagrees with while still paying others. >
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by yew 15y ago
Not quite, though that's part of what the problem was. There's a mechanism (fsync) for forcing the changes in a particular file to be written to disk. As a result of the consistency guarantees made by the "data=ordered" mode, synchronizing
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by yew 15y ago
Originally, ext3 filesystems maintained journals of all metadata and data changes. This substantially decreases the likelihood of the filesystem ending up in an irrecoverably inconsistent state, but it also has major performance implicati
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by yew 15y ago
Certainly. I would never accuse Google of consistency in presentation. Consistency is usually very far down the list of things-that-matter when it comes to business; I suspect they're much more motivated by convincing people to use their pr
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by yew 15y ago
> It's not positioned with anything like the complexity you describe. I'm afraid that this is, at least to the best of my ability to judge, simply wrong. Gmail is affected by the rules of operation at Google, and by the law. They certai
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by yew 15y ago
Google isn't just a communication system, though. They're a very large corporation involved in numerous enterprises that often interfere with one another, and their actions are further modified by an even larger legal system that only imper
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by yew 15y ago
I was thinking of ". . .even though the word "Stall!" will blare through the cockpit 75 times." Looking back over it, I suppose that's not quite what that means. . .
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by yew 15y ago
The articles says it's audible on the recording. Stall alarms are usually very loud. I can't speak for Air France, but in general aviation the word "stall" (in English) is of global significance. I imagine they thought it was malfunctioni
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by yew 15y ago
That would appear to be correct. See http://www.gnu.org/s/stow , under "Latest news."
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by yew 15y ago
That depends on how the cost-benefit analysis came out. You did do a cost-benefit analysis, right? Personally, I would consider connecting critical infrastructure to the Internet without taking adequate security measures to be the crimina
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by yew 15y ago
This attitude towards the problem has always struck me as counterproductive. It's true, of course, that everyone has biases, but it's possible to address those biases without putting such a strong emphasis on their permanence. (I won't go i
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by yew 15y ago
Ah, my mistake. Interesting, thanks!
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by yew 15y ago
Passwords usually aren't sent letter-by-letter as far as I'm aware. Although that's mostly because doing so would make the server side much more complicated than it needs to be. These sort of attacks are very interesting though. Information
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by yew 15y ago
C will go away alongside modern hardware design "standards." Until that happens someone will always find a use for talking as directly as possible to the hardware (which, of course, doesn't care about types at all). Whether that'll take a h
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by yew 15y ago
Monsanto's primary business model is essentially peddling genetic DRM, and their secondary business model involves suing people who weren't particularly interested in associating with them in the first place. They've also been involved in b

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