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by zurn 15y ago
Lots and lots of things still use it in telco land, and many of those things have crawled out to the internet (like h.323 voip).
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by zurn 15y ago
> [HTC G1] grabbed a certain contingent of user who understood Android, understood the framework, and would follow Android to the grave [...] Somehow I have a hard time imagining a future where someone would say that about Windows Phone
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by zurn 15y ago
So this seems to be about using IP tunneling that is terminated at a commercial tunnel provider who promises anonymity, to hide your real address. As opposed to the usual meaning of VPN referring to IPSec or similar for confidentiality/inte
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by zurn 15y ago
I always understood the point being to split off some capabilities that can be used on their own safely, and leave the rest under CAP_SYS_ADMIN. Stuff like ability to bind to ports <1024 or configure network interfaces. So if most of th
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by zurn 15y ago
"CISC processors are dead today [...] Intel (and later AMD and others of course) started making processors with a RISC core that support the x86" That's a pretty far fetched argument. RISC/CISC is about instruction set, and the x86 instruct
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by zurn 15y ago
Both RISC vs x86 and monolithic vs microkernel were just dichotomies of their times, after that the disadvantages and advantages melted away through changing constraints and crosspollination. Other market factors since dwarfed these technic
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by zurn 15y ago
Aren't C++ smart pointers essentially reference counting? That's well known to be much slower than well implemented GC.
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by zurn 15y ago
What kinds of problems? I can't easily think of problems where C++ templates are more powerful than metaprogramming facilities of high level languages like lisp...
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by zurn 15y ago
They were ordered to do both IP-level and DNS-based tampering. Any ISP will already have some IP-based blocking mechanism system in place for fending off operational emergencies such as DDoS. Router ACLs and null routes are common ways to d
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by zurn 15y ago
It's not reliable. Think /tmp (deleted temp file data can be recovered), hibernate/swap, log files, and so on. And OS can be more easily tampered with undetected (rootkits/keyloggers etc).
1271.
by zurn 15y ago
My HTC Desire actually got dramatically worse on the Android 2.1 -> 2.2 update: the backup function disappeared. It's apalling there's no supported way to backup and migrate data.
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by zurn 15y ago
ITYM "WebSockets is now officially IETF Proposed Standard" or something like that. Publication as an RFC doesn't signify any status of the protocol standards-wise, almost any protocol can be documented in an informational, experimental or h
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by zurn 15y ago
"Pure Clojure code is, as far as I can tell, higher performance than pure CPython code." Not so here; the author mentions that the Python version is faster (in his blog post).
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by zurn 15y ago
Best joke is at the end: "These features [...] make modern C++ the clean, and safe, and fast language that our industry will continue relying on heavily for years to come."
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by zurn 15y ago
So what in the video "proves" it's a live situation? Probably half the countries in the world have some giddy geeks in bunkers demoing their their own LOIC clones.
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by zurn 16y ago
He's a US citizen now so it's called targeted killing when it's not wrong :)
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by zurn 16y ago
We are calorimeters. 300 calories of raw carrots is by definition the amount of carrots we would have to eat in order to extract 300 calories of energy from them. (but Taubes is right about the fallacy of the calorie counting-obesity connec
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by zurn 16y ago
Other way around here in Finland: in mid-90s, on joining the EU, their free market regulations dictated lethal denaturation agents could no longer be banned by national regulations, and deaths of destitute alcoholics spiked. (reference in