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> This includes the thing boxers put in their mouth to protect their teeth FYI, the English word is "Mouthguard" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mouthguard

The first radiation exposure related death was reported a few weeks ago from one of the plant's workers. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-45423575 Still, your point that nucle…

Interestingly, according to that link Mr./Mrs. Firstname Lastname left them a reply indicating his or her support for strong net neutrality. :)

> First, 10^11 P/E cycle and "practically infinite" aren't really two concepts I would associate with each other when discussing RAM. I think their point of comparison for this sta…

Would it be possible to use this to identify people running Tor relays?

As someone who regularly writes RTL for FPGAs during their day job, I like the idea, but am skeptical about the follow through. For years now, various companies have tried to make …

The shepherd of Jekyll [1] is also one of the lead developers of Octopress. [1]: https://github.com/parkr

Thanks for the correction. I'm on the hardware side of things, so my understanding was that the "allowed" algorithms were actually required, and I'm relieved to hear that's not the…

Good luck convincing your competitors to not take the business you're leaving on the table with that. :(

My understanding is the FIPS requires that the SSL library implements a certain suite of protocols (including the Dual EC DRBG discussed in the linked mailing list post) which have…

I have TWC and have had a lot of success in speeding up Youtube by blocking access to the caching servers that TWC uses. If I block 206.111.0.0/16, I can stream at full speed. See:…

> it has an incredibly sophisticated and powerful content-matching engine that does monitor what's being uploaded, and automatically checks new videos against a giant corpus of kno…

> automation is intended to eliminate [jobs] Automation has the potential to eliminate jobs, but also has the potential to allow much more work to be done by a single person, or al…

There are better (less expensive) ways to build credit than car loans. While I don't remember the name, my wife and I built credit getting some sort of secured loan from our local …

Tiberius. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_T._Kirk

Seeing as this is the military, I would guess that they have triple redundant systems for some things, but that still is a decent amount of computing power there.

I'm late to this discussion, but as a "real pro" VHDL coder, I can at least sate your curiosity. At my company, we abstract the vendor specific implementations to have a common int…