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by Hilift 2y ago
ARPANET was established in 1969. In 1966 Ken Knowles at Bell Labs created the "Computer Nude" which "by scanning a photograph with a camera and converting the analog voltages to binary numbers, which were assigned typograph
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The west could have kept the Soviet Union alive. The Soviets were poor and an easy adversary to plan for. After witnessing what occurred in the 1991 Gulf War, they realized the writing was on the wall. The Soviet or Russian military would n
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Strategies change over time, including Microsoft's. TPM was previously envisioned as a broader physical storage for secrets, such as virtual smart cards. Microsoft no longer likes virtual smart cards, but TPM is still used for storing
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by Hilift 2y ago
People not aware that DEET bug spray is effective in airports/airplanes/public transportation for lice/bedbugs seems to be a recent phenomenon.
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Harold Shipman with the NHS killed about one person per month for 30 years, and the response was to ask if doctors could be monitored to discover this earlier. However, the systems they conceived "eventually cast suspicion on the innoc
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It's stable when pure. This guy made his own, and lost three fingers in the process. It seems to have developed a reputation with suicide bombers, probably due to the illusion of easy manufacture.
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The US Treasury just announced they had an incursion by Chinese threat actors. Their "cyber security vendor" had a remote access key compromised, enabling the attackers access to endpoints within Treasury.
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BitLocker may also be configured for a password. This attack is very narrow.
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In 1500 there were 60 million north american natives. In the early 1600s when the English settled, there were six million, most due to disease. It wasn't a single event of course. The smallpox epidemic of 1862 killed far more native pe
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The vulture capitalists just bought a whole bunch of data.
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"...but as you can see, there is not a single mitigation that Apple implemented to detect commercial spyware samples on the device"
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What you describe is the artifact of an ecosystem where the consumer is a second class citizen. These exploits don't work on a desktop or notebook precisely due to that ecosystem is obtuse and pretty much the opposite of an extensible
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Trump got lucky a bit with the immigration issue. There are 11 million unauthorized immigrants in the US. The barriers to removal that existed 15 years ago are mostly gone. Everyone is so connected now, finding illegals is straightforward d
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SF real estate transfer tax for 2024 is $177 million, 5% less than 2023. Astonishingly, the city had projected revenue of $222 million. That means there is another $45 million revenue gap. SF is now expecting an $876 million deficit in 2025
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> Remarkably, the Inca managed to forge this vast society without the wheel, the arch, money, iron or steel tools, draft animals capable of ploughing fields or even a written language. No horses until they were reintroduced by the Spanis
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by Hilift 2y ago
Iceland could leverage geothermal energy to produce green forms of ammonia or hydrogen. Not a jackpot but strategically it is fairly inexpensive to leverage. The EU doesn't have a good alternative to cheap Russian gas at the moment. Th
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Our area restrictions and homesteader tax exemptions. But there's plenty of places where "government regulations" aren't the order of the day. Also if an area is economically depressed, the government isn't going to
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by Hilift 2y ago
A short while back, Google implemented what I call "Constantly Opt-Out". Google Photos frequently prompting you to "backup those photos to ...".
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Perhaps it's the legion of kool-aid drinkers that preceded you and influenced their design.
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Russia has many of these types of boats. They are inexpensive. The "equipment" is portable in suitcases. There is a lot of marine traffic in the Baltic Sea. They may have thought they could do it during the holidays and move the e
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It's an awesome contingency. If the island falls, they can destroy/impair the local infrastructure, and reconstitute it in the US. Destroy in this context does not mean mass physical destruction. It is a combination of removal of
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>current AI should not be used for serious applications. "If an an artificial person can do a job and make fewer mistakes than a real person, why not?" Is the question everyone in business is asking.
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Global production of hydrogen is about 75 million tons, about half from ammonia, half from capture during petroleum products (refining). That's a problem primarily due to it is plateaued and there isn't capability to increase sup
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Egypt doesn't have an equivalent to the NTSB. There simply isn't enough depth. They established their own agency in 2002, but it is basically a placeholder.
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Some guy wrote a book recently and claimed that about 10% of workforce-eligible men are long term out of the workforce, due to some type of disability. Also 50% either aren't engaged at work or don't really do anything essential,
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Before the US had a rust belt, a meth belt, and opioid belt, you could go to Western Auto and put a bicycle on layaway. I think the malls out-competed a lot of the older nostalgic stores. Walmart did siphon away enough business from malls
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Both Lexmark and Xerox have Mopria-certified printers. Windows 11 24H2 added Mopria support. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mopria_Alliance
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In the US, you could take 75% of your money allocated for savings and invest in an index fund and it would be a safe investment and probably make money. I don't think the average China consumer has access to that type of safe investmen
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> And you believe that in an economic crisis, people are going to want to buy these things? Gold is obviously more common in some cultures, and could be used for trade if paper money swings wildly. For example, a kilo of gold (32.15 troy
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I guess normally it's difficult to stop an employee from leaving nitpicky comments. But with AI you can finally take control.

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