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by zaxomi 9y ago
So.. self driving cars... I'm not sure I can trust them. Looks like an easy way to kidnap people.
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by zaxomi 9y ago
There are a lot of weird things... You are assuming 8 bits per byte, but a byte can be any number of bits. With two bytes of 7 bits each, the range is only about 40 years. Is is also impractical when the storing media is punch-cards, and th
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by zaxomi 9y ago
Back in the days it was probably 7 bits, but the word size is not that important. The problem still exists today with a modern 64 bit computer: Even if a system internally can store a timestamp with nanosecond precision since the beginning
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by zaxomi 9y ago
Yes, it probably is. But it is a very big difference that someone can prove that a specific printer they are in possession of was used by comparing the printed papers, or if they can just look at the paper and get the serial number and time
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by zaxomi 10y ago
Incompetence. At least that was the reason why my ISP at the time blocked both outbound and inbound port 25. It took a couple of weeks to convince them that they where wrong and open for inbound again.
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by zaxomi 10y ago
If you where using LastPass, and visited any page controlled by an attacker on any domain, they could get your passwords to all sites that they tested for, for example twitter, gmail etc.
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by zaxomi 10y ago
Does this solve something that ssh-tunneling can't do? By the way, maybe it should say in the title that the post is from 2011?
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by zaxomi 11y ago
How about more than 2 minutes of digital audio "Tom's Diner" on an unmodified c64?, https://livet.se/mahoney/cubase64 On the page there is links to videos and a description of how the programmer did it.
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by zaxomi 11y ago
It is forbidden in Sweden.
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by zaxomi 12y ago
Sounds stupid until you realize that the kids could be allergic or have religious or other reasons to not eat certain things. I'm pretty sure that the teacher have had to deal with angry parents in the past and now want to avoid it.