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Comment · 5 years ago
However, looking at the Pentium Overdrive pinout the extra row of pins doesn’t seem to be at all essential. There is a number of extra power points and some signalling pins to support L1 cache coherency when using write-back. Nothing too much to worry about.

Uh... sure, if you say so.

Comment · 5 years ago
In Canada you can still buy that over the counter. You get id-ed and they keep a record of your purchases, but since it's now generic pills it is now much cheaper than it was before
Comment · 5 years ago
"Viable" as in "you have no other choice sometimes". This forces you to deal with 3 libraries each with their own quirks, pitfalls and incompatibilities. Sometimes you even deal with dependencies reimplementing some parts in a 4th or 5th library to deal with shortcomings.

I really don't care that much which of them survive, I just want to rely on less of them

Comment · 5 years ago
That is the nature of captchas by design. 2000s captchas can probably be solved by off the shelves OCR.
Comment · 5 years ago
My take on that is that it's up to the kernel maintainers to unban them. If they end up the investigation with: "Yeah, that was bad but we won't do anything about it", it's unlikely to get the banning side to move an inch.
Comment · 5 years ago
If they really care about being banned, they'll have no choice but to follow thorough
Comment · 5 years ago
This indeed looks like a FUD statement, implying that they can have an infinite amount of potential vulnerabilities. Realistically though, writing parsers that do not yield control of your whole device is not that complex. The people exploiting iOS zero days can certainly do it.
Comment · 5 years ago
It seems to be a retaliatory measure against this:

> When Cellebrite announced that they added Signal support to their software, all it really meant was that they had added support to Physical Analyzer for the file formats used by Signal.

Your case is valid about potential judiciary impact, but it would require for Signal to monitor cases involving Cellebrite and step forward to help the defense while unprompted to do so. Furthermore, Cellebrite clients seems to include entities that do not care so much about a fair trial.

Comment · 8 years ago
We live in a society (many of us) where "low calory food" is synonym of "healthy". I think it's one of the ultimate modern luxury, to look for food that will yield little energy for you.
Comment · 8 years ago
China showed a few years ago that blasting satellites with missiles is neither subtle or sustainable. This kind of thing could be weaponized much more efficiently
Comment · 8 years ago
Russia announced the abandonment of the su-57 yesterday. https://www.news.com.au/technology/innovation/military/russi...
Comment · 8 years ago
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/facts-and-figures

It is possible that code itself is not that complex, but the interaction between all modules certainly has a high level of complexity.

"In the International Space Station’s U.S. segment alone, more than 1.5 million lines of flight software code run on 44 computers communicating via 100 data networks transferring 400,000 signals (e.g. pressure or temperature measurements, valve positions, etc.)."

Comment · 8 years ago
The code base for the International Space Station is probably also VERY complex
Comment · 8 years ago
This is a critical part to consider in "current" fusion research. Most of it rely on the deuterium / tritium fusion which will probably require a classic nuclear plant to generate the fuel. This makes the whole "infinite clean energy" claim pretty bogus for now.
Comment · 8 years ago
Wow, dropbox made it long and annoying to give them less money. Verdict : I love it!

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