kryten

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by kryten 13y ago
Yes: no software, no ports, all media is tangible, no storage, hard to fingerprint (compared to say inkjets). However there is one problem with typewriters people generally forget: you can extract everything that has been typed from used ty
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by kryten 13y ago
As per all magazines, it declined to 10% content and 90% advertising that you had to pay a large chunk of cash for. Good riddance to them all.
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by kryten 13y ago
there are no facts in your comment. Please cite your sources. Not only that, my hypothesis hasn't been debunked or disproved.
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by kryten 13y ago
My point is that it will show up in a diff of the binaries.
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by kryten 13y ago
Actually that's a really bad comparison. The binary size may be similar but that doesn't mean the content is. Consider the two cases below to back up my assertion: 000000WE_COME_IN_PEACE000000000000000000 000000WE_COME_IN_
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by kryten 13y ago
You underestimate the problem. Look at just chrome for example, which I've posted my rationale for here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6035091 Not a chance in hell.
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by kryten 13y ago
That assumption relies on two uncertainties: 1. The probability of discovering something in all that binary code, especially with the intricate and non-orthogonal nature of x86/x64 assembly and odd compiler optimisations. This isn&#x27
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by kryten 13y ago
Well you hope it is. All sorts can happen between source and binary.
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by kryten 13y ago
Yes but some things rarely work perfectly. It scales fine. In fact it scaled for hundreds of years before electronic calendars appeared. They mobilized two world wars with pens, paper and typewriters. Synchronisation is not an issue if you
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by kryten 13y ago
Congratulations on making me snort tea up my nose :)
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by kryten 13y ago
And before someone else says this is bollocks, I've worked at a company with shared source access to Windows and there are still bits you can't get at like the CSP implementations so there may still be stuff like that in there. No
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by kryten 13y ago
Well considering targeted advertising is fundamentally based on surveillance, it's pretty much the same thing.
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by kryten 13y ago
I can't really be bothered with all that after basically writing that entire solution for a private company. Another metalanguage to learn... Plus I have to have a network connection and log into a UNIX box for it which I can't do
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by kryten 13y ago
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6026280
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by kryten 13y ago
This is where Microsoft was 6 years ago. Before that, IBM/Lotus. Times will change again.
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by kryten 13y ago
Evil is boolean if you ask me. Corporations don't deserve a second chance either.
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by kryten 13y ago
You don't always hear reminders and invitations don't always work properly. I'd rather have neither than any that aren't trustworthy.
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by kryten 13y ago
I spent several years using outlook, apple ical and windows live calendar. I then ended up having to write a backend for icalendar protocol and saw what a shit crock everything is. It's a miracle any of it works. Last year I moved back
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by kryten 13y ago
LINQ is not a magic bullet. It has some serious pitfalls. I'd like to aee people using the right tools for the job.
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by kryten 13y ago
True. I only connect to two hosts and ssh on from there so non issue for me.
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by kryten 13y ago
It's also really easy to shoot yourself with unless you understand everything and think each problem through. Four killer issues I've seen so far: We had a major production performance issue which turned out to be a stray ToList w
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by kryten 13y ago
Or even better, right click putty on your taskbar in windows 7 and all your profiles are listed.
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by kryten 13y ago
To be honest I think exposure was the software as you could reliably underexpose it and get the result you wanted. Colours, probably dynamic range as you state. Looking at the curves for a pure white photo suggests range of blue was a littl
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by kryten 13y ago
Yes. They are cycled out after a week. Our data is useless after then as most of it is real time. Audit logs are kept offline in gzipped daily text files per client and these are handed over to the company and deleted.
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by kryten 13y ago
I know the details and understand pixel oversampling etc. In the real world they produce acceptable photos for the type of device but it is nothing special and definitely over-marketed. I used an 808 for a week when they came out. Wishy was
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by kryten 13y ago
megapixels are pretty meaningless. A decent bottom end DSLR (Nikon D3100 for example) will run rings around it simply because of the sensor size and optics.
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by kryten 13y ago
Any system of significant complexity be it hardware or software cannot be trusted unless it is 100% open source both from the hardware level to the software level and all systems that are used to manufacture it are open source as well and t
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by kryten 13y ago
HP are lying. The article title is correct. You can use many well known kernel vulnerabilities to get root on the box after logging in as hpsupport. At that point you can do block reads off anything you want.
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by kryten 13y ago
1. SSH to the box 2. Username: hpsupport 3. Password (from SHA1 lookup): badg3r5 Yes that shit. We have some of this kit in and I've tested it and it works absolutely spot on. Fortunately it's all firewalled off but it's not
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by kryten 13y ago
It's perfectly possible and reasonable to delete all of your data. It's just hard. We have to do this with our clients if they shift off our platform and believe me, it's not much fun deleting 20-100Gb datasets from a shared

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