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steckerbrett

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    Comment #11513422

    > Obviously you have pay anonymously, with bitcoin, for exaple (if youuse it carefully) Bitcoin is anonymous? Time to go to jail.

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    Comment #11029540

    I've been wearing mine for 5 hours (since I got up) without noticing them at all.

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    Comment #11021876

    > I noticed their scan process is not using ASLR You can be pretty sure that none of their software is fit for purpose if they're not using basic protections for a process which ru…

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    Comment #11021826

    Ah the old, break the PoC to make the researcher stop complaining move but don't fix the underlying insanity. Classic.

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    Comment #11009464

    I don't think that's possible, it would be sheathed in extremely thick steel and not something you can just splice onto.

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    Comment #11009434

    For marine gear you either use a material which won't readily corrode, or you use sacrificial anodes which are galvanically consumed rather than something you care about.

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    Comment #11009176

    No, but it's a harder proposition to have fibre runs to a server which is in the ocean. You can throw a normal server somewhere silly and connect to it wirelessly, this is just the…

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    Comment #11009129

    > 50% OF US LIVE NEAR THE COAST. WHY DOESN'T OUR DATA? It's corrosive, expensive to get things to and from it for replacement, leaks destroy the hardware, it's not close to power g…

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    Comment #11003843

    Depends on the browser but there's usually a 1k character limit which isn't a great deal of state. Perhaps that's counted badly so you can get 1000 char * 4 bytes for unicode, but …

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    Comment #10585947

    Do you realize it's tens of millions of dollars to spin an 18nm ASIC? They're not doing additional revisions, the (at their websites admission) loss-producing miner is as good as i…

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    Comment #10585922

    They went to all the effort of getting it FCC certified and had injection molds made at considerable expense, this is the final product. It's all about the miner! Which is useless.…

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    Comment #10585895

    Pity there's absolutely no documentation for any of it.

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    Comment #10585589

    The setup guide involves a serial console and not putting it on a metal surface because the exposed bottom of the raspberry pi will short out. https://21.co/setup

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    Comment #10573407

    Why bother with it at all? Authenticated database sounds like.. postgres.

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    Comment #10564320

    Technically finding illegal drugs would make you a criminal.

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    Comment #10532769

    Running games in a VM is always a totally crappy experience, running it in wine is better but still not completely perfect. With Yosemite there's some graphical glitches which make…

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    Comment #10532752

    It was originally released with PowerPC binaries on the disk, and then later re-released with Intel OSX compatible binaries, the only reason it doesn't work now is the requirement …

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    Comment #10532706

    It's unfortunate how much the original game has rotted, the online servers are up but the program itself is becoming more are more unplayable. The OSX versions have been dead for a…

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    Comment #10512228

    Just to note, with large GPU farms the cost of the power to run them will exceed the hardware cost in a matter of weeks.

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    Comment #10510288

    I would prefer it be measured in size of botnet. Criminals don't use EC2. They use hacked boxes. They have no cost beyond compromising the machine.