Haplo

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by Haplo 4y ago
Similar systems are actually being build, but with a bigger scale (like big office buildings). There is no freezing involved, just heating the office space with warm water in the winter (cooling the water to ~10°C) and cooling it in the sum
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by Haplo 14y ago
They recently shut down all the servers of a Chinese reseller with 45 servers after a lot of their servers were the target of a DDOS. It's of course understandable to disable those servers in case of a big DDOS, but the problem was that the
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by Haplo 14y ago
Flash is still installed on over 99% of desktop browsers. And the pdf viewer is way too slow (at least for me) for real world usage.
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by Haplo 14y ago
It could very well be that the only civilizations that still exist are the ones that are good at hiding. All the others (even if they are the big majority) might have been destroyed after giving a signal of life/existence.
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by Haplo 14y ago
The placebo is actually there in double-blinded tests to remove any bias and other factors related to the experiment. And no matter how good/legitimate the experiment, any measurement pretty much always causes changes. The actual effect of
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by Haplo 14y ago
I think bundling makes it a lot smaller than 16MB. Rather something like 8MB (which is still a lot of course).
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by Haplo 14y ago
Are you sure this is the case? From the Adobe article it seems that after a certain date they will disable hardware rendering for flash games that use both domainMemory and stage3D. In that case it appears to be that you would only need to
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by Haplo 15y ago
Protecting the interests of RIAA and MPAA is one thing. China, Russia and a lot of other countries want a complete different level of censorship and the current USA actions will look quite benign compared to what other countries want. Let m
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by Haplo 15y ago
We are talking about phishing here. Don't you think they have access to a lot of recently-phished credit cards they could use to buy the forms? They would probably choose for a free competitor most likely since that is easier to automate an
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by Haplo 15y ago
Although this might prevent (a bit) that the phishers get the actual data and hence protect the victims, I am pretty sure that it won't cause any drop in phishing attempts. However for the legitimate users it will probably have a huge negat
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by Haplo 15y ago
I don't understand why something either has to be totally perfect information or totally useless. Yes, Alexa information is pretty bad. Yes, it is easily faked. Yes, it isn't representative. Yes, browser toolbar usage is probably declining.
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by Haplo 15y ago
So they actually made you pay for a paid app that is installed on your iPad and that you updated through their system. Big deal! That's hardly a bug of Apple, in my opinion. Installous should be hiding the cracked applications better, it's
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by Haplo 16y ago
Maybe some people actually do want to keep most websites free and don't mind the Google ads and sometimes even find them interesting. (Yes, it may be hard to admit for some people but sometimes the ad is actually right what you want/need.)