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by zmb_ 13y ago
You should be aware of this when considering Sweden for hosting: http://wikileaks.org/wiki/New_Swedish_law_draft_for_centrali...
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by zmb_ 13y ago
As a European I wouldn't say I see the USA in the same light as China and Russia, but I definitely feel uncomfortable when I have to travel to the US for work. Given the US's recent track record with human rights and the ongoing m
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by zmb_ 13y ago
What is worse are idea people whose pitch to technical people is "I have this great idea that will revolutionize industry X" and/or "I will take on megacorps X, Y and Z with this idea", and then continue immediately with: "But I cannot tell
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by zmb_ 13y ago
When it comes to services like email, the quality of the user interface is really secondary. The primary concern is the ability to trust that I will remain accessible through the identifier (email address) that I've spread around to many pe
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by zmb_ 13y ago
As a developer I see it as a cheap smartphone. Some devices that I currently have, for comparison: Samsung Galaxy S4 - 690€, Galaxy S3 - 520€, Nexus 4 - 485€. iPhones go up to almost 1k€ for the top model.
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by zmb_ 14y ago
Genetic algorithm for filter generation with a human fitness function.
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by zmb_ 14y ago
I don't know about Germany, but in Finland universities have yearly quotas for incoming students. The applicants take an entrance exam and the quota is filled based on the scores. How could the admission process be any more "competitive"?
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by zmb_ 14y ago
He explicitly stated that in Finland "you don't have to worry about which school you go to" because they all offer consistently good education. Everyone gets equal primary and secondary education, and the universities are free and select th
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by zmb_ 14y ago
Well, good is bit of a stretch. On first try I got disconnected during loading the level. On the second the level loaded but accelerometer does not work, only the buttons do. Also the screen on the phone (Galaxy Nexus) is upside down.
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by zmb_ 14y ago
Because technically speaking they are different things. "example.com." refers to a domain name in a system with a nameless root (like the Internet DNS namespace managed by ICANN). "example.com" would refer to some different (non existent) d
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by zmb_ 14y ago
>Is there any scenario where Apple would 'approve' an application by Google that would be instantly significantly better than their native App? Yes. The scenario we're currently in. By approving Google Maps app now, they give their user
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by zmb_ 14y ago
Not really. The UDID itself is not a "horrible, insecure system", it's just a unique identifier. It's the app developers who came up with the horrible, insecure systems due to how they used the UDID. The problem is that the developers do no
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by zmb_ 14y ago
Secret questions are extreme bad security practice. They're essentially a way to trade off a large amount of user security for reduced customer support costs. It's the same as telling your users to pick a weak password (one that's very like
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by zmb_ 14y ago
The problem is that the CA mechanism (in particular, blindly trusting whatever list of root certs your vendor ships) does not provide security. I cannot go and validate the practices of those CAs, and all it takes is one of them to get comp
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by zmb_ 14y ago
> Patents are there to stop people stealing a technology you invented and letting you have a fair shot at making a living from it. Patents are quite explicitly not there to stop people "stealing a technology". You can already do this
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by zmb_ 14y ago
This article seems terribly confused. Of course academic papers are a terrible discussion forum. They're not supposed to be any kind of discussion forum. Academic papers are supposed to be contributions to science. They take by definition a
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by zmb_ 14y ago
And isn't that scary? It's not like this is any kind of secret or obscure detail, it's something you would learn in any half-competent Java 101 class or if you bothered to read the docs to the methods you're calling.
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by zmb_ 14y ago
Object.hashCode() typically returns the memory address of the object, obviously it won't be the same across processes. This should be common knowledge for all Java programmers. The only way to do what the author wants is to define the ser
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by zmb_ 14y ago
If someone really wanted to make a pirate version off of a cinema copy, they could. This DRM, like all DRM, is pointless since by definition you must be able to decrypt the stream at some point, and at that point a copy can be made. The res
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by zmb_ 14y ago
It is fairness in terms of "I will let you use the source code I wrote, but you need to let me use any changes you make to it". It's not about "everyone's freedoms", that's what Free Software and RMS are all about. Linus has always said tha
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by zmb_ 14y ago
In theory, perhaps. In reality this is not feasible because the hardware guys would never go for it. The mere existence of an IPv4 header extension causes a packet to be kicked out of the hardware fast path (or dropped entirely) by all the