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Re:What Apple should tell you when you lose your iPhone on Wednesday August 03, 2016 @10:26PM (#12222972)
Unfortunately every fingerprint reader outputs a unique hash per fingerprint, which is why if you break it you can loose all of your data. So even with a thiefs hash's you'd still need the thief to prove it was them.
Re:Moore's law hits the roof on Sunday December 27, 2015 @01:20PM (#10798235)
You mean the Semantic Web? It's here.
I dislike Microsoft in general, but I believe you can accomplish this with SQL server easier than other SQL databases. SQL CLR and your own defined types. Maybe you could even go as far as using some dynamic types with ExpandoObject to have fully dynamic lamda expressions on the columns, however I dont know how well this would perform.
Re:clib – C Package Manager-ish on Friday December 04, 2015 @09:24PM (#10680521)
Linux is written in C, Boost is C++.
Re:Ask HN: Home network for 1G fiber internet on Saturday October 10, 2015 @04:12PM (#10366817)
On my Apple Airport Extreme with 2 additional Airport Expresses and Cat6e from modem to main Airport unit, on Wifi I'm getting about 820Mbps. So wifi, with the right equipment is fine. At first I was skeptical that Apple's wifi hardware was any good, but after just 3 weeks I'm sold.
Theres a company doing this, I think its..... virtualpowersystems.com
Re:Google Cloud Shell on Sunday October 04, 2015 @03:06PM (#10328435)
Even experienced AWS users have trouble getting VPCs right given the state of the current documentation.

No, no we don't. It's quite easy, and usually it only takes us a few minutes.

Re:Immutable Infrastructure is the future on Monday May 11, 2015 @11:07PM (#9529352)
Make a dockerfile, make sure it works and you understand it. Then go into Elastic Beanstalk and click new application and there is an option for loading a dockerfile, boom. For you this may work, for me it's more complex.