Viewing profile — ewbuoi

It's just too bad they don't support ZFS or any similar filesystem. Their reasoning makes a lot of sense, but there are a lot of useful features that would be nice to have.

My school still has an old SPARC machine running Solaris 5.x that all of the CS students have accounts on. They even have gnome installed and X11 forwarding enabled, but I'm not su…

Even if it is real, I can't imagine them implementing that many APIs correctly. They also don't mention anything about OS versions, and I don't know why anyone would bother reimple…

The complexity of software doesn't preclude standardized "building codes." Obviously the codes would have to be just as complex, but software could be used to check that those code…

But how much of the core infrastructure is made by the Chinese?

Innocent people's lives are ruined by drugs every day. One example off the top of my head is people coerced into being drug mules and end up getting caught by Customs. If (violent)…

Can you find a source that doesn't show the UK having 5-10 times more violent crime than the US, per capita? I couldn't believe the numbers at first, so I tried but couldn't find a…

Complaining about it did get his blog to (at least) the top 4 on hacker news.

People have always used air quotes to show they're quoting someone's exact words, and also when they're being sarcastic and making up a quote. It's just hard to tell when people ar…

Can they really detain people and refuse to let people pick up their luggage? It seems pretty clear that it was the pilot's fault, and most likely an accident.

That doesn't mean that standing up to bullying countries doesn't work. There's always another superpower to run to, and they seem to like undermining each other's bullying.

Apparently this has been common since at least the cold war.

You could mail them the disk, and maybe a small processing fee. They could then destroy the disk and convert the license token to a digital copy. It would cost the customer, but si…

They could get a valid key pair from a CA and MITM the connection. It could be detected if the user knows what the public key should be and compares it with what they received, but…

It's funny how they put 4chan with the 'F's in the list of supporting companies instead of at the beginning where you'd normally find names starting with digits.

I think Manning had/has some mental health problems. I'm pretty sure he was struggling with depression. This guy sounds like he's in a much better place, mentally, to go up against…

He was making $200k a year, I don't think the best way to support him is to give him another $10k. If he needs money, he needs a LOT more than $10k.

I think this started when the NSA requested records on every American from Verizon, which then got leaked to a journalist named Greenwald. Greenwald then followed it up with an art…

Some even have a diagram of the fuse box in the fuse box.

Honestly, I'm not surprised at all. Students need to be thorough to show they understand the material, so their drawings are detailed. Professionals just need to put an idea on pap…

My doctor works like that and I love it. I've never had to wait in a waiting room or anything, appointments start promptly and last as long as they need to (I've had an appointment…

"Kudos to the FBI for taking this seriously and showing people you can't just say crap like this without any consequence. Living in a free society comes with a cost. ... Also, if y…

I got this error instead of question #3 for the Hawaii Motorcycle test: Fatal error: Call to a member function numRows() on a non-object in /hermes/bosweb26a/b2005/ipg.monologixcom…

My local hackerspace has 3, but I haven't used them yet.