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by testbro 13y ago
> Society can hardly intervene in every individual's self destruction. But it cannot allow drugs which are not useful for anything BUT self destruction. Why not? Should I not be permitted to destroy myself if I so choose?
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by testbro 13y ago
Doesn't Reader automatically infer which parts of the page to style rather than just applying a custom stylesheet?
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by testbro 13y ago
In a phrase: "does this just go into my iTunes then?". A large majority of Apple's customers presumably doesn't care about anything you mention, given by the simplicity of the iTunes model: you get music from the same pl
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by testbro 13y ago
IIRC most of these bugs arise because of things that should be available while the device is unlocked: the dialler and camera for example. Camera is supposed to restrict gallery access and the dialler is supposed to only permit emergency c
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by testbro 13y ago
Scientific publishing isn't just about putting stuff somewhere for people to read it. Publishers, through their parasitic relationship with academia, have kept themselves relevant through the critical mass of people continuing to use t
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by testbro 13y ago
On a similar thread, Julian Bangert and Sergey Bratus have an implementation of the game of life that performs its computation on the MMU using traps[1] that technically uses 0 x86 instructions to run the computation. There's a video o
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by testbro 13y ago
> Words cannot express how much of an impact this OS would have had if the amount of time and resources dedicated to Linux, which is yet another UNIX clone in an age where 4-year CS majors do UNIX clones as assignments[1], were dedicated
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by testbro 13y ago
The other companion to this work (recovering COS disk images) is worth a read too [1]. Someone picked up where Chris left off and managed to get the images booting in an emulator [2]. [1] : http://wayback.archive.org/web&#x2
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by testbro 13y ago
Isn't the point of dynamically loading content to reduce the perceived waiting time though? I wonder if focus on cleanly showing the user the page is rendering might be better placed on getting content to load faster instead.
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by testbro 13y ago
Scrollbars aren't but they still show on a scroll event (unless I'm mistaken - I'm only using 10.8).
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by testbro 13y ago
Travis Goodspeed gave a talk at 29c3 about forensic-resistant thumbdrives [1]. The idea is that the host OS can be fingerprinted by the pattern of reads it makes; the drive can return different data or erase itself if it looks like it'
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by testbro 13y ago
For anyone wanting to liberate their data from here, paste this into the JS console with the history page open (only tested in Chrome): var time = time=new Date("2010/01/01").getTime(); //set this to star
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by testbro 13y ago
There'll never be a way of filtering it correctly (is ASCII art of sex acts posted to reddit porn?) so the only real option is ensure people are aware of the risks (whatever they might be). Opting out is already possible today - don&#x
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by testbro 13y ago
Is a government mandated filter the best way to allow parents to go beyond just educating their children? As a childless person who isn't petrified of naked people, why should I pay for a service that's only any good for lazy pare
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by testbro 13y ago
Mission creep is a concern I have with this though. It's a short jump to go from optional blocking to mandatory blocking (as we already have with CleanFeed). The proposal is for it to be on by default - that's censorship in my eye
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by testbro 13y ago
In one out of the one trials I've expected OSX to automatically set the clock ("automatically change time zone") it hasn't. This touches on to the relevant point of DST. I no longer have to worry about changing clocks; t
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by testbro 13y ago
The attack could compromise other servers yes. I think the scenario you describe is a possibility, although there are some technical feats that would make wide-scale exploitation difficult - you need to know what you want to modify ahead of
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by testbro 13y ago
Britain already has a mostly mandatory filter designed to save it from child pornography. Cleanfeed is run by the Internet Watch Foundation who look for images of abuse and put it on the blocklist. They're responsible for blocking Wiki
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by testbro 13y ago
The same's true of mining equipment used to pull worthless diamonds out of the earth and the pollution it creates. The "problem" is the pointless mining generates valuable stuff in addition to waste heat.
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by testbro 13y ago
This is the flaw with the analogy, as with all analogies that try to map meatspace to the internet. It would probably make sense to say that the book has been left in an apparently public space.
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by testbro 13y ago
I'd analogise it to an open book in a public space. The information is there for you to see when you walk up to it, and you have to interact with it (turning the page) to see the other information. On being caught turning the pages on
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by testbro 13y ago
Do you think your experiences are typical? I get that MS does have some good offerings but at the same time I think the average consumer's perception isn't as good as it could be. > Let's see how it is when Windows 8.1 is
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by testbro 13y ago
Adjusting that for inflation, it's worth approximately 70% of that (based on 43% cumulative inflation 1998-2013).
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by testbro 13y ago
In the UK universities' research output are assessed by HEFCE using the "Research Excellence Framework" (which replaced the Research Assessment Exercise) [1]. Sadly, it suffers the same problem of being another metric [2]. It
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by testbro 13y ago
I believe the concern was that it ran on GPUs (mining on CPUs hasn't been cost-effective for quite some time). Since GPUs are rarely run constantly and don't see loads like mining produces during typical use, their owners might ha
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by testbro 13y ago
I'd wager that there are a lot of in-house re-implementations of GPL software because the license isn't permissive enough. I think the fact that good non-GPL alternatives exist supports my hypothesis; given the choice between GPL
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by testbro 13y ago
I'm not sure I can really make an appropriate generalisation of the broad attitude towards it. I can, however, cherry pick Diane Abbot's views because she's often called upon for soundbites and political debates. As a consequ
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by testbro 13y ago
To address your first point: the way the state religion works is a few bishops have seats in the House of Lords. That means they have the power to kick back legislation, but nothing else. That doesn't exclude the influence the Church o
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by testbro 13y ago
Isn't that sidestepping the morality of hacking foreign civilian infrastructure? I appreciate that national security is important, but should a nation state be permitted to break into whatever it wants without consequence?
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by testbro 13y ago
The readme mentions that the issue is reproducible in OSX and Windows which further supports your theory.

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