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salem
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Comment #14427828
It would be great if phone makers commit to something like this as part of their environmental plans
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Comment #13535252
Who wouldn't love race car battlebots?
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Comment #13464393
My source? I would ask what is the source of that quote? The article no longer contains it.
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Comment #13446863
No, they actually did write parts of the paper. Leaving them out as co-authors would be misconduct.
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Comment #12308204
Makes you wonder if they could have made more money by pretending to find them and reporting them to the respective bug bounty programs.
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Comment #12307833
So it seems the dump contains at least one legit 0-day, and it's been in use for 3 years.
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Comment #12207069
Companies that make bluetooth ODB2 devices and smartphone apps should pay attention to this too.
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Comment #12161175
There were loads of DEC multia workstations selling cheap at some point. But even those where a pain to get booting into linux of FreeBSD.
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Comment #11947457
There was an Apple presentation that claimed lower decompression energy usage: https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2015/712/?time=4... On an iOS device this is a pretty hot…
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Comment #11423609
It's called covert channels. It could be done by flipping some unused/ignored bits in ip4/tcp headers in a stream of traffic that goes past a collection point.
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Comment #11120432
But maybe a better chance of getting away with it
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Comment #10728267
What's wrong for asking for the same terms as the latest round? Let's acknowledge that there is an opportunity cost for early hires.
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Comment #10678947
These side-letter deals and exits optimized for founders are probably not legal since they are often not in the best interests of shareholders, but I've never heard of them being i…
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Comment #10678343
Longer exercise windows and more info are great and all, but if you are still expecting employees to take less than market rate salary in exchange for options, you should be giving…
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Comment #10672940
It would probably make taxi medallions worth even less money. Package delivery subcontractors and couriers might also be out of business if a package delivery can be made on demand…
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Comment #10540649
I would add one thing, that the quota be issued throughout the year for immediate use. So you get a better signal of the winning compensation thresholds and so that people with ser…
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Comment #10502518
It's got to be cheaper than the USD $246,000 Javalin, which is often used against non-armored targets, like trucks and buildings. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FGM-148_Javelin It's…
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Comment #9450725
I think it was. We got good feedback from TA's who checked our progress to the milestones. At the time I went through, the work was done on the MIPS L4 microkernel, so the boot loa…
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Comment #9450705
This was hands down my favorite course at UNSW.
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Comment #9450685
I took this course, and was told that visiting a professor from MIT noted it was comparable to an advanced course there.
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Comment #9424839
What I'm curious about is the privacy policy. With the automatic VPN usage on wifi and the potential network architecture of the MVNO, Google could be in the path of all your cell …
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Comment #9424822
No, the big difference here is that Google's MVNO is dynamically switching between multiple providers. Most MVNOs are just resellers of a single network. They may migrate users bet…
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Comment #9371557
This is interesting in the context of Apple's patents on MVNOs http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/02/apple-wants-to-be-its-own-c...
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