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As was already pointed out, any protection scheme would most likely use asymetric crypto, so you can only dump the public key anyway. However there is a more pressing problem, that you would even have if symetric crypto was used:
In order to extract the key you would need to know how it is encoded, which you only know once you know the plaintext of the microcode (which requires the encryption key to read the microcode updates). You run into a chicken-egg problem.

Without the processor oracle, it would have been hard to impossible to start guessing the semantics of bitstrings. Also the physical ROM bits are not in the same order as the bits the CPU actually excutes during runtime. The mapping function is non trivial and we do not fully understand it yet. Finding this function required knowing what valid, plaintext microcode looks like so we could match the bitstrings from the ROM to it.
Impressive but yeah I don't really get that quote. Look at cricket just because I know it. It don't have the fight with other players but talk about the reflex time needed for the close catch, athleticism and presence of mind to make sure the ball doesn't go over the boundary.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boHfs7nopHc

But they are all really different. Different sports required different skill calling one set of skills most athletic is really weird.
Let's see how this turns out over the next decade or so. Both the US and the UK have and are slowly withdrawing from the world stage, making English less and less important. Without the UK in the EU, for example, why would English need to remain the common language when German is the most spoken language in Europe?
I always think that the way that is written, is irrelevant to the way that it is spoken. I don't want to read it like it is spoken (Irvine Welsh I dislike your books though have no problem with the films), I want to read the words that communicate the concept.
Yep. And silks, and leathers, and therapetics, and biosensors.

See: Muufri, Bolt Threads, Modern Meadow, Cell Design Labs, Logic Ink, etc.
I don't think that tri-state logic is used in ICs anymore (?).

EDIT: http://vswww.kaist.ac.kr/ENGLISH/old_lecture/ee878-2002/lect...

It probably does not imply that the chip is indestructible through microcode though.
Sure I can. I generally have the screen turned down quite low regardless and if I know I’m going to be without power I’ll close unnecessary programs, but I can do a bunch of web development with Sublime and a browser going for a full 7-8 hours.
I'm not security pro, but I think the best way is to use a separate account that you'd login to directly (on the physical TTY or via SSH) just to run the root commands. Going through your regular account is always more dangerous if you assume it might be compromised.

By the way, this is why Microsoft invented the UAC prompt: rather than a password, which can be intercepted, it generates a window which (presumably) cannot, thanks to User Interface Privilege Isolation.
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I had a Nexus 7 (2012) that was barely ever used. Even that became comically slow as dirt. Was really an eye-opener about how bad a lack of attention from a vendor can be. They'd moved onto the next thing and evidently did not care one iota.
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As an American, I want to punch those people.
Agree. Not limit to the energy policy. US politicians are more often doing serious but not quite visible damage to long term interests. Just most modern US citizen are not aware of. There are some exceptions like Taleb Nassim but the voices never go through main stream
Do they refuse, or are the facilities full or inadequate? What about the process by which people get into this state in the first place?
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I have said it elsewhere in the thread, but will repeat it and expand on it here. The helmet is a big red herring in the brain trauma debate. The trauma in football is caused by a simple physics problem.

Imagine a person moving at full speed. That person collides with an identical person moving at the same speed in the opposite direction and they both hit each other at their center of mass. These two people now come to a complete stop. Newton's laws of motion say that every part of their body wanted to continue moving forward, but this collision causes a chain of events that stops the entire body. First their torso might stop. Their extremities might lurch forward until they are eventually stopped by the pull of the bodies muscles and ligaments from the stopped torso. But even as the head stops, the brain still has inertia of its own. The brain doesn't stop until it collides into the front of the skulls. This is the type of trauma that is common in football and will occur regardless of whether a player wears a helmet or not.

The reason other full contact sports like rugby aren't as dangerous is because football is unique in that it has regular stoppages that realign all the players in the direction of their objective. You therefore have offensive and defensive players colliding head-on regularly on each play. In rugby this doesn't happen because the game is mostly continuous so offensive and defensive players are often moving in the same direction so collisions are less intense.

For a little video evidence, this [1] is the first result for "rugby biggest hits" on Youtube and this is the first result for "football biggest hits" [2]. Notice how in a majority of the rugby hits either the offensive or defensive players is at a complete standstill before the hit while in the majority of the football hits the players are both moving towards each other. It is a physics and rules problem not a problem with protective gear.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1A06stpydY

[2] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-1MQ0Cnbhs
Provide a source to your claims.
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So, in keeping with the JS and not the political part, it looks like this wouldn’t even work as designed.
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> best value storage system available

Except that nobody has any idea how much value it will have next week, let alone next year. The variance is just too high.
Firefox for Android has built-in tracking protection, which also boosts performance. You can enable it in the privacy preferences.
Taking a wild guess here, the issue sounds like a GPU hang or crash. This gives the illusion of total unresponsiveness when only the display is not updated anymore. It would be interesting to see if networking still works in that frozen state. The CPU seems to be unaffected from the looks of it (sound decoding and playback works).
Perhaps it's not obvious to non native British English speakers but the American use of "awesome" to mean something rather different to its traditional British English meaning is very clear and obvious example of 'undesirable' Americanisation of English. Any native speaker of British English would recognize the phenomenon from their own experience but the author provided some actual numbers to back up the reality of this particular linguistic evolution.

It's a change I've personally lamented due to the loss of the word awesome to use for its original meaning without a good replacement.
There is the definite possibility that it actually costs something like $69 billion, in fairness.
Ad blocking seems like a possible application for machine learning, to distinguish between ads and content.

Anti-ad blocking also seems like a possible application for machine learning, to distinguish clients that are blocking ads and those that are not.

In a battle between the two it seems like the anti-ad blocking side will win. They have resources (big companies with lots of money and server farms, versus small developers and browser-adons) and incentive (earning money versus improving my web experience).

I use an ad-blocker but I am not optimistic about the future of ad-blockers.
I'm not saying anything about sensor size or depth of field. I'm pointing out the misuse of the term "bokeh". Bokeh is not depth of field. It's the quality of out of focus areas. You want good bokeh when you have a shallow depth of field but bokeh is itself a subjective measure of quality, not quantity.

Calling depth of field "bokeh" is like calling focal length "framing".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bokeh
I ran into a term some years ago, giri. Seems to be a remnant from their feudal times.

Something about reciprocal duty or some such, meaning that workers put their honor into their work with the expectation that they get looked after by the boss/lord in return.

This also seems to be the background for a lot of "drama" in their entertainment, where a character will struggle between upholding giri and their emotions regarding the task.
Be in a country with the rule of law.

Structure things so if they betray you, they have a very high chance of getting detected and needing to go on the run - e.g. access control records, CCTV and whatnot.

Then hire guards who would have to sacrifice a lot if they went on the run permanently. e.g. guards with partners, school-age children, extended family nearby, friends, and community ties like membership of voluntary organisations, churches or clubs.
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How much electricity do they use?
> I don't get what system in our brain causes so much resistance to new obviously rewarding habits.

I won't go into details about what I think - but two books that have helped me understand and deal with the symptoms (and possibly helped me help others) are:

Do the Work - Steven Pressfield

The Now Habit - Neil Fiore
to call is rather objective, so I wouldn't say it expresses a stronger subjective kind of emotional connection, but truly, to reach out implies distance. but once you get in touch, that distance is covered, so its not strictly unpersonal. Not a native speaker, though.
Yes, mostly at amateur level. Rugby (union) also has problems with serious injury, and it shouldn't be considered a better, or safer American football. At national level many teams play a very direct style - smash repetedly into the opposition until you create a hole. I think the IRB should make whatever rule changes are neccessary to encourage more running-rugby, and make "the hit" less important.
I'm full nomad right now - driving my Jeep around Africa for 2 years - something like 80,000 miles through 30 countries over 2 years. [1]

I'm absolutely loving it. I will never go back to full time 9-5 5 days a week. At this point, I don't even consider it life.

Previously I drove Alaska to Argentina - 16 countries over 2 years and 40,000 miles. I also loved every second of that! [2]

[1] http://theroadchoseme.com/africa-expedition-overview

[2] http://theroadchoseme.com/expedition-overview
How do busses work without tri-state logic?
Or be replaced by open source alternatives.

And if you are wondering why they haven't already, it's because google/stackoverflow/reddit etc. are already providing the service for 'free'. So as soon as they shut down, someone else will make an alternative.
I'm not surprised at their behavior, I'm surprised that so many in this thread think this is a good response to these complaints.

Plenty of their customers will have already bought new phones thinking their current ones are just broken, and their response is to stop adding a 100% margin to this one product category temporarily.

If I was a regular customer of a company that overcharged me by that much, I'd expect to have correspondingly awesome customer support that would make me whole when they screwed up. I.e. in this case refund the new phone I bought because mine was slow.

But I suppose I should stop being surprised at the low expectations people have for Apple.
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Can you elaborate why it's gross? and why you need root level access?
If I recall correctly, WASM separates code and data, along with a bunch of other security features.
Unqualified, it is not unreasonable for 'English' to refer to the language spoken in England by the English people while 'American English' refers to the variant spoken in the United States of America by the American people, just as Canadian English refers to the variant spoken elsewhere in North America in Canada by the Canadian people.

It is especially reasonable when used this way by an English writer writing for a British publication.
I think you meant NCAA (not NAACP)
https://www.quora.com/log/revision/233604881

https://pastebin.com/myYsRUjq was in the original question

" It was basically that we needed 3 instances of the same functionality, each instance differing by the value of two variables. The coder could not see this and made function1 for instance1,function2 for instance2 and so on with function1 and function2 being mostly similar."
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I thought I might try a different headline since my last post didn't garner any attention.

Think of it as Stripe for online gambling - a suite of APIs to power any online gambling service.

I am more of a product guy with some coding experience. I have worked in product and operations management in the IoT space before and work on this project in my free time.

Email me at gamblingcto@gmail.com if you are interested!
I went backpacking for 3 months a while back, in the developing world and while the freedom is exhilirating, it does get boring and lonely from time to time.

It’s easy to make friends while traveling, but they are very surface level friendships and when you inevitably split up and go your separate ways, it’s sort of heartbreaking because you’re alone and have to start over again.

Not to mention that you’re essentially homeless, which has its own nagging feeling of insecurity.

Long term travel definitely worth doing, but I’m not sure I would want to do it again.
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Using machine learning for ad blocking suffers from the same issue malware detection has : your "environment" will actively try to game your detection system, which can greatly hinders the learning phase.

I'm not entirely sure AI is currently fit to solve cat-and-mouse games such as ad blocking.
By increasing the size of the backlog, you make it seem like high transaction fees will stick around longer. It also exaggerates the immediate issue of bitcoins low transaction rate.
you might even say there were as many tongues as there are speakers.
Doesn't help much. Once the attacker took over the account, nothing you do or see can be assumed to be real.

For example, the attacker could inject a LD_PRELOAD library that redirects execve() calls from /usr/bin/sudo to a fake version of sudo.
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Agreed. I saved the CNET URL to my GetPocket app and then j st read it from there. It cut out all the other bullshit
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Nothing happened, which just makes me even more appreciative of uBlock Origin in dynamic mode with default-deny on all 3rd-party resources.

I'll still set signon.autofillForms to false, though. For peace of mind.
Do you work non-stop, or do you have 1h pauses or stgh?
FWIW I replaced my battery (at a reputable place but not Apple). Performance actually got Worse - now scoring less than half the GeekBench norm for this model.

Battery life is great, though!
While the efforts made certainly help there is no getting around the fact that it is an impact sport. That combined with a culture of being tough means that few ‘good’ players escape completely injury free. Short of touch rugby there will still be head impacts and that will have an effect of varying degrees - just maybe not noticeable.

Personally I find it difficult to understand how parents can let their kids play rugby when there is such overwhelming evidence that it’s risky at best.
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Those types of limitations can be implemented either client or server -side. When it's clientside, removing overlays from DOM can easily circumvent paywalls and such, but when it's server side, there's nothing you can do.
This was such a beautifully written reply I thought it deserved a response!

1) Shakespeare did it for extremely gallant reasons though, he preserved the meter and make his text beautiful!

3) How about 'get in touch with'? This leaves the subtleties of how to make contact up to the individual preferences of the out-reacher and out-reachee. I think my concern with 'reaching-out' is it is rather overplaying what tends to be just a call to ask one question. I might reach-out to the community in an out-reach project, this might involve various methods of communication and a sustained campaign.

The usage I really don't like is 'Reach out to Joe to progress the spec', when they really mean 'ask Joe how he is getting on with the spec'.
> vanilla Linux tablet that had something like a 10 year SLA and basic support.

Would you be prepared to pay twice as much for it as the cheap tablets that may not be here next year? The production lifetime of a product is determined by the production lifetime of its inputs, and the cheapest components have the least guarantees of anything.
I think you're arguing a point that isn't even being brought up in this thread or in the article.

Of course it's just fine to have an index fund that's weighted towards certain types of stock, e.g. there's the S&P 500, then various "woldwide" funds, EU-weighted funds etc. The risks & benefits of those are well understood. Nobody argues that different types of index funds shouldn't exist.

Similarly, there's funds that cater to specific regulations, e.g. investing heavily in "green" stocks which may be subsidized by the government, or avoiding certain taxes (e.g. lower turnover for lower capital gains).

Both of those are categorically different from supposing that you know better than other people that tech stock in 2017 is overvalued, and trying to move away from that in favor of something else. Now you're making an active investment move which history shows you're more likely to lose on as gain anything on.
This author is either lying or has no idea how blockchains work.

See: https://hackernoon.com/ten-years-in-nobody-has-come-up-with-...

Blockchain will administer similar shocks to insurance, healthcare
and all mass payment systems.

Blockchains can do nothing useful for insurance and healthcare.

Publicly accessible databases with auditing and security mechanisms (double-entry accounting, git, and merkle trees predate bitcoin and blockchains) and a public API which will likely be branded as blockchain tech will always outpace any sort of PoW/PoS style blockchain protocol replicated database.

Intermediaries in the service industries will face a new world in
which their routine functions will be performed by machines,
programmed by artificial intelligence, while the blockchain becomes
the new means to do business safely, faster and less riskily.

This is just a poor writer grasping at buzzwords.
SciFi writers at least try to paint a more detailed picture to fit their buzzwords in. Blockchains are notably irreversible, so there's an inherent risk and immense inefficiency in their use.

the blockchain economic model is more efficient and more effective
the larger the network.

This is absolutely false.

Blockchains are insanely inefficient as a design feature attempting to prevent a single group from having write access to the database. As the network grows larger and more computing power is added, the effectiveness and efficiency goes down and transaction throughput remains the same (blocksize bandwidth usually has a hard limit, in rare cases blocksize can be variable and grow but this is unaffected by addition of computational work added to the network, granted the blocktime/hashrate consistency readjustment stabilizes)
This is bullshit, exchanges with the most rudimentary technology will not keep their funds under a single private key held by one single person at all times. Multi-sig exists.
OK - really dumb questions

- if your child (8years or so) loves minecraft but you think staying away from public servers is sensible, is there a good way to introduce them to these worlds or just wait for some years ?

- what are the tools and scripts for looking at the real world like a MMOneconomy game?
I think what he fails to understand, and many British for that matter, is that the language is not "owned" by anyone. Australians have probably augmented English more than us Americans, but I don't hear or see much complaining about their use of the language. The article comes off as whiny and unsubstantiated.

It's a tough time to be an American, and most people realize that. Exploiting that with bad journalism is just throwing gas onto a trash fire IMO.

edit: More importantly, if Brits want to preserve the language as they see it in their country, they should consider going the French route [1].

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acad%C3%A9mie_fran%C3%A7aise
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Same here. I bought Nexus 4 back in the day (February 2013). Couple of months later, I've got iPhone 5 from my company. Google's support for Nexus didn't lasted a year, if I remember correctly. I switched it on Cyanogen and gave it to my daughter, and the phone had constant issues with overheating (she was much more gamer than I) and finally the screen stopped recognizing touches at the top, so the drawer was impossible to open.

In the meantime, iPhone 5 went first to my wife, then to my daughter and finally to my younger daughter. It was supported until the last release of the OS, it's still in use, just got batter replacement a year ago. I'm not happy with Apple behavior lately, but they need to screw up something much, much bigger to make me think to switch to something made by Samsung or Google.
I think 90 looks better, but the same. Is it the same? Sierpinski's gasket?
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The actual analogy is walking into a store and being forced to buy something for walking in. I don't feel the store owner should be entitled to do that.

As for moral justifiability, I find it unacceptable that a website operator can sell data about me without my consent just for following a link to their site.
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San Francisco is a perfect illustration of a liberal ethos : "Let me step over a homeless person on my way to a party where I can pontificate with my compassionate friends about the homelessness over a glass of Aubert"