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by devrandomguy 9y ago
OTOH, these "universal" web apps/sites can work quite well without JS. As long as the developer isn't doing silly things like using <button> as a link, or using an anchor to submit a form. At one point, I built a s
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
One possibility for a useful energy source, in a dirty crowded moon system, would be chemical reactors. Rhea has a thin, oxygen-rich atmosphere, and if you have oxygen, you can burn almost anything. Titan's methane seems like an obviou
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
We are receiving a wireless telegraph! It is from Marconi. He wants us to get off his lawn.
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
If we're going to do creative difficult things with orbital first stages, then I would like to see them used as space stations. 3.7m OD should be nice and roomy on the inside. Perhaps, a bunch of them could be linked together into a ri
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
If you want to put the first stage in orbit, then eliminate the second stage engine, and plumb the second stage fuel into the first stage tanks. Replace the central first stage booster's bell with a wider vacuum-optimized bell. Hopeful
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
Yet another use case for solar sail laser arrays: deorbiting clouds of debris and tiny satellites.
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
If only we had used Lisps for all the things! We could have had Lisp instead of JS, but no, that would have worked too well; management wants Java. We almost had a Scheme instead of CSS: DSSSL, which could also do structural transformations
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
In Qatar, it is illegal to criticize the ruling family, for example. It is also illegal to promote methods of circumventing the various internet laws, such as VPNs. Sites that are perceived to fall foul of this, get blocked. It is very irri
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
Because fear of the unknown is stronger than fear of the beast.
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IMO, assembly will remain an optimal tool for writing simple programs for very small microcontrollers. Consider the ATtiny4, for example, which has 32B ram and 512B of flash for code. If you can operate within those constraints, then you ca
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
Brown hat hackers have an incentive to create non-functional ransomware, to spread FUD on the legitimate ransomware. If news spreads that some ransomware does not actually decrypt the files after payment, then potential victims would have a
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
Trampoline would make a nice addition to Ramda. Unless I'm missing it under an unexpected name? http://ramdajs.com/
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
Imagine if your next surgeon had this sort of attitude about the cleanliness of her tools, the operating theater, and her staff's equipment. Cleaning is hard, maintaining cleanliness is hard, and pathogens evolve in amazingly clever wa
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
By simplifying the design, until your team can verify its security without throwing up their arms in frustration at the mere prospect. When people's lives are on the line, security is more important than features or convenience.
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
Critical devices should either be simple, or they should run open source firmware. If governments had required the ability to audit the IC designs that go into medical, military and national infrastructure equipment, then we would now have
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
I mean secure as in, when the last of that product line's devices have retired or died of old age, there have been no successful exploits against that product.
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
Linux is ubiquitous in the data center. We are not a low-value target. Also, corporations with cloud-based infrastructure are more likely to pay large ransoms for their data, especially if it is the backup/archive system that is attack
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
all software is vulnerable This is false, and spreads FUD. It does a great disservice to those who do meticulously maintain their systems, to those who sacrifice convenience and beauty for stability and security, to those who take t
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
An open source update can be audited much more easily than a closed source update. It is also usually possible, with OSSW, to find the discussion where the software's developers proposed various solutions, and debated their merits and
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
If it is infeasible to keep certain critical, networked device up to date, then I propose an alternative solution: those devices should only produce output, they should not read anything at all from their external ports. Their only input, s
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
Even information based value has limits. I feel those limits as heat when I push my hardware to its limits. There is also the space limit of how much information I can store, and the time limit of how much information I can experience or le
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
There is no way to know for sure, because we have not embedded telemetry / spyware in open source operating systems. One of the problems here, is that large organizations are reluctant to update software across a large population of co
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
OpenSSL was an example of open source done badly; neither of our communities can claim to be universally perfect. The solution, was to fork and replace OpenSSL with a superior project: LibreSSL. That part of the story, is a success for open
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
I think you are referring to diversity, not obscurity. Diversity does indeed increase the resilience of the network, but there will always be enough common factors across the board, that diversity alone will not suffice. In the end, the sof
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
The relationship between value produced and resources consumed may not be linear, but that does not mean that it is possible to have infinite production, or to produce a change in value from zero resources. If production is not limited, the
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
We are seeing new requests from existing bots, the historical data is not shown on this map.
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
Thank God for backups! And thank you for making sure people make backups. My mother is in a similar situation. She is an elementary school teacher, and has little time for unrelated endeavors like this. What time she does have, is spent in
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
There are real limits to everything, because the universe has a finite mass and volume. But, that doesn't mean that it is not possible to engineer a working UBI.
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It justifies security updates for all operating systems. It does not justify the installation of spyware or changes to the user interface.
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
This malware is well written, and uses strong encryption. I would suggest that you and your father spend the evening reading up on backup practices, and reconsider the value proposition of open source software. I hope I am not coming off as

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