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781.
by zeusk 8y ago
Here are some links for Project Catapult (Microsoft Research initiative for large scale FPGA deployment in DCs) which includes Project brainwave (TPU competitor): Landing page: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research&#
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by zeusk 8y ago
Flashpoint of some of the oils is higher than 350F. 100F and below is considered flammable.
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by zeusk 8y ago
mineral oil based cooling is well known in enthusiast PC builds but it leaves weird gunk on boards that is harmless but a big PITA to clean up. Also - some oils while won't hurt your circuits, they might start dissolving the various pl
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by zeusk 8y ago
https://imgur.com/a/QDbVHwH I'm surprised Google's documentation is not designed with readability in mind.
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by zeusk 8y ago
How is In-Q-Tel not an illegal state subsidy?
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by zeusk 9y ago
You should look at Halite by Two Sigma
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by zeusk 9y ago
> Windows 8 was also quantifiably a worse operating system than Windows 7 But not Windows 10 or arguably even 8.1 whereas the stability of macOS has been downhill since 10.8 - From my 2017 mbp running 10.12 because 10.13 is so much buggi
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by zeusk 9y ago
Having one doesn't make the laptop worse somehow especially when you don't have use it.
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by zeusk 9y ago
I have a 2017 13" touch-bar at home and a 2016 15" touch-bar at work. The work machine works fine and is mostly docked so I don't care about the ports either. My personal macbook however was a totally different story: - While
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by zeusk 9y ago
Yup, much better (if you're talking of type cover) and light years ahead if you really are talking about touch cover. Surface Covers had a lot of restrictions in terms of size, power and complexity.
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by zeusk 9y ago
Because AFAIK, the GPUs can't be shared across multiple VMs unlike CPU and RAM.
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by zeusk 9y ago
> a world where people dump hazardous waste into rivers to save money That mostly comes down to insufficient education, greed and lack of immediate consequences. Letting a live snake roam free is entirely different in that an uneducated
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by zeusk 9y ago
> a chip transaction can’t be faked due to strong cryptography. There is always a defcon pwn https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JABJlvrZWbY
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by zeusk 9y ago
> Again you are talking about the law, I am talking about ethics, surely you to not believe all thing that are illegal are unethical and that all thing that are legal are ethical? If you do believe that I return to my original statement
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by zeusk 9y ago
Guidelines and base severity levels only specify a maximum sentence, with counterfeit goods crossing state and national boundaries 15 months is completely appropriate.
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by zeusk 9y ago
> The issue is that judges used a value provided by Microsoft for the discs that is counter to fact (license =/= recovery disc, counterfeit or not) and massively inflated his sentence as a result. You don't understand Criminal
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by zeusk 9y ago
I'm interpreting law as I was taught. And if you're going to question my ethics and morality over my interpretation of the law and sentence, I don't take the work of others and distribute copies of it while claiming them to b
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by zeusk 9y ago
The gov operator would also have to input a key during setup and OOBE if the disk did not have a tampered key/activation mechanism.
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by zeusk 9y ago
Lenovo's SLIC wouldn't load an invalid key that required them to then copy the key manually from COA on the laptop itself.
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by zeusk 9y ago
> I strongly disagree that it's this. Those discs were not worth $700,000. Were they worth $200,000? 6 month term. $20,000? Fine and probation. Is your sentence estimation accurate? > The sentence is based on the value of the inf
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by zeusk 9y ago
> Microsoft in this case convinced a judge that a "copy" of Windows is worth the same whether it is licensed or not. That's not true, and as if it weren't enough that this misrepresentation of the facts took the day i
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by zeusk 9y ago
Go read Step 2. and 3. yourself They used the key later to show that the activation never appeared on Microsoft's servers even when using a genuine key which clearly shows the disks were tampered.
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by zeusk 9y ago
How can a Lenovo laptop have Dell's activation info baked into BIOS? If the disk had no activation info, setup would have prompted for a key (trial keys for 30 day are available online).
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by zeusk 9y ago
> Well, they didn't seem to actually activate Windows. That's exactly the point. After using the recovery disk on a lenovo laptop, the installation was loaded with activation info from Dell's original recovery disks.
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by zeusk 9y ago
Windows Vista and up support reading device activation information from the system BIOS. However, in this case you wouldn't see "Contact Dell for Support" on a lenovo laptop as demonstrated during the trial (see screenshot ab
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by zeusk 9y ago
> His discs didn't have licenses That is where you're wrong. Read the docket, better yet here is a screenshot from the demonstration that the discs had keys replicated from original Dell recovery discs: https://imgur
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by zeusk 9y ago
For most jurisdictions, an act is "criminal" if you have mens rea (malicious intent) and actus reus (malicious act). You never see someone getting locked up or fined for copying discs for personal use. All of the cases that I&#x27
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by zeusk 9y ago
They're a convenience and as such, cost something for commercial use. You can download Windows and create an image for personal use through Microsoft's own websites. Windows 7: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/
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by zeusk 9y ago
> This includes making commercial copyright violation a criminal, rather than civil, offence. It also includes things like making circumvention of technical protection measure illegal. > It's wide ranging, it removes freedoms, it
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by zeusk 9y ago
> if those thing do not cost a quarter, they shouldn’t cost much more) The software on those discs cost a whole lot to make, you know? Try buying your pharma drugs for the $.20 it takes in raw material.

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