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As a test on various distros, I ran iconv -l |grep 2022 |grep -i cn and it listed ISO-2022-CN-EXT// and ISO2022CNEXT// before I made any changes. After editing the modules and runn…

i would be too worried that it would get triggered by accident or that someone would pretend to be me and hit the "panic button". i could imagine being on vacation and suddenly bei…

i would be a bit worried about accidental passwords getting into the syslog. i have typed passwords out of habit when they were not required or before a remote system responds only…

ground patrol cars or aerial surveillance require a person to operate them. GPS tracking allows for tracking many targets at once and then sifting through the data to find "bad guy…

i think it says more about how simple real humans are when they interact with each other. as limited as Eliza is, it has worked many times. how many times a day have you had face-t…

yes, notifying them is kind. simply not exploiting them is not. it's like saying i'm being kind for not robbing someone.

i agree with you that preserving anonymity is a valid goal. spending 20-30 minutes on the phone is not how one should run something like a whistle-blower's hotline. i don't agree w…

as i understand it, they were doing experiments to watch how neutrinos change between "electron", "muon" and "tau" flavors. the timing of when the neutrino was sent from cern and v…

pick up a Logitech Wireless Solar Keyboard and a compatible mouse (like the M305) and they can both use the same USB receiver. plus, it's a solar powered wireless keyboard! * you'l…

it goes without saying that a 17 year old series is more well known than a new game. on the other hand, i have never referred to "The Elder Scrolls" as just "Scrolls". i've called …

there might not be 17 trillion songs, but you aren't limited to the first 4 words of the song. there might be 100-300 words per song and you can pick your starting word anywhere yo…

as i understand it: 1) the bad guys found a website who's owner had the password as 'password' and set it up to receive phishing scam data. 2) the good guy found the phishing site …

i figured it was something like that but i felt i should mention it just in case. your concept did a good job in alerting me that the IP that was supposed to me mine was not :)

if you go to http://static1.robohash.com/ you get the same page as http://robohash.org/ but the IP used is not my IP. nice project though. :)

i was trying to figure out what the patents were for as well. i dug around a bit and found a description from when Microsoft was suing Motorola for using Android: "...synchronizing…

big concert promoters could point to all the flickr pages with pics of their shows from iphones and threaten to sue apple unless apple implements a means to disable taking pics at …

robo calls would be a bad idea. people lose phone numbers when they move or go away to school. an email token is the best solution. if you are in the subset that lost your PSN emai…

you are probably correct. the article just mentioned the BIOS. i looked around and could not find specific mention of the microcode in the laptop's specs : http://libreplanet.org/w…

is u-Boot a System BIOS? it appears to be a Bootloader: http://sourceforge.net/projects/u-boot/ Bootloaders are executed after the BIOS.

The article does mention that Stallman uses a "rather slow" Lemote Yeeloong laptop because it's the only laptop with a free BIOS.