Absentinsomniac

Joined 12 years ago

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Working on various programming projects, going to school for CS, and writing a lot.

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Comment · 10 years ago
AFAIK, the exploit only works on older iphones. It'll quickly lose value going forward.
Comment · 10 years ago
Space isn't an empty vacuum, but that's tangential. The expansion in this context is metric explanation, which just means things are getting further and further apart between two points due to space "expanding" between non-gravitationally bound objects. The explanation for "why" is sort of "we don't know". AFAIK, the leading theory is a combination of momentum / inertia from the big bang and acceleration from dark energy. Which we also don't know a lot about.
Comment · 10 years ago
One of my CS professors had us writing papers, and we got extra points if it was in comic sans. I had to specifically install a ms fonts package for it. Ever since I've liked it, but don't actually use it. I think the whole thing surrounding comic sans is incredibly strange and I'm pretty sure I'm missing some context or something.
Comment · 10 years ago
Ya, pretty sure Sanders does better in polls against Trump than Clinton anyways.
Comment · 10 years ago
Unless you're just hiring people for the sake of employment to do things that don't need done. I've read China's housing market is in a bit of a pickle due to this. Course they also apparently have really clean streets.
Comment · 10 years ago
Maybe google just licensed or asked to use it as a part of an undefined April fools joke, and she / they assumed Google wouldn't do something irresponsible?
Comment · 10 years ago
I'm pretty sure it's a joke.
Comment · 10 years ago
Almost certainly not. Most likely no one in the world has that capability, at least as far as I can tell. It would be extremely surprising if any government somehow broke AES without researchers around the world figuring it out within the same general time-frame given some new advancement.
Comment · 10 years ago
If you start a graph at like 50 on the y axis it's easy to make data look more pronounced. The official graph showed they dropped to "zero", presumably a bigger difference than 50%. Like it would look like the line dropped to zero, but really the graph started higher than zero on the y axis to begin with.

Idk about the second one.

Comment · 10 years ago
I just down an energy drink that's sitting by my alarm clock every morning. Not healthy maybe but oh well.
Comment · 10 years ago
Yeah, foam doesn't really "soundproof" anything. Foam is normally for sound treatment, so you get less interference when making music for mixing / mastering / recording purposes. You need extra drywall / more insulation / sheetrock / mass loaded vinyl / wall decoupling to actually block sound.
Comment · 10 years ago
The distinction is important because people in government and people in corporations usually have different motives than people in general. (Particularly people in leadership roles within these org's)
Comment · 10 years ago
Or even the police, who last I read do sell their plate data gathered from their car cameras.
Comment · 10 years ago
That's the problem, where is the line? Because there barely seems to be one. Shuffle a few laws around and whoops, authoritarians in power have infrastructure to do as they please.

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