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by Hoff 12y ago
Months are not a particularly long duration for spacecraft, and solar arrays are not at all unusual as power sources for spacecraft in the inner solar system. Some data on satellite lifetimes: * http://www.ospo.noaa.gov/Oper
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The Story of the US Federal Reserve on 9-11(m.dailykos.com)
13 points by Hoff 12y ago|1 comments
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Ghost: Stealth Attack Hydrofoil Uses Supercavitation(businessweek.com)
37 points by Hoff 12y ago|18 comments
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Tobacco Smoke Enemas and the origin of the Royal Humane Society(naturespoisons.com)
3 points by Hoff 12y ago|0 comments
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The email culture that is German, with reference to optimal queuing theory(marginalrevolution.com)
1 points by Hoff 12y ago|0 comments
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How Reuters got compromised by the Syrian Electronic Army(medium.com)
5 points by Hoff 12y ago|2 comments
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by Hoff 12y ago
Yes, there are OpenVMS servers still around. I work with a number of them, and with various folks that are still using them in production. There are recent builds of OpenSSL for OpenVMS: http://polarhome.com/openssl/
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The RAIDzilla II project(tmk.com)
1 points by Hoff 12y ago|1 comments
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by Hoff 12y ago
Something similar happened with various other of Google's properties a while back — Google's use of intermediate redirector URLs that broke cut-and-paste. I'd prefer to reference the destination URLs and wsites in the documen
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by Hoff 12y ago
A reference to Knight Capital Group, most likely.
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Exploit against Acunetix network vulnerability scanner(an7isec.blogspot.co.il)
3 points by Hoff 12y ago|0 comments
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The robot is ready – so when will deep sea mining start?(reuters.com)
2 points by Hoff 12y ago|0 comments
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Bluehost Provo Data Center Offline(twitter.com)
1 points by Hoff 12y ago|0 comments
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ARRL Helps Manufacturer to Resolve Arc Fault Circuit Interrupter RFI Problems(arrl.org)
5 points by Hoff 12y ago|0 comments
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Vertical integration of design and post-pcs(ilikecode.wordpress.com)
1 points by Hoff 12y ago|0 comments
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How to get beyond the parasite economy(ericgarland.co)
105 points by Hoff 13y ago|46 comments
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by Hoff 13y ago
Reportedly a very early and incomplete prototype. Much more detail available here: https://github.com/kentonv/sandstorm
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Apple and Google’s wage-fixing involved dozens more companies, over 1M employees(pando.com)
325 points by Hoff 13y ago|120 comments
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The curious case of the ninjamonkeypiratelaser backdoor(console-cowboys.blogspot.com)
2 points by Hoff 13y ago|0 comments
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by Hoff 13y ago
Clickbait title: Windows Phone didn't "overtake" Blackberry so much as the Blackberry sales declined below the entirely flat sales of Windows Phone. This is an article that describes the continued decline of Blackberry sales,
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by Hoff 13y ago
Another early system programming language: CMU Bliss. Bliss was used to develop operating systems within Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), including VMS / OpenVMS. If anyone here is interested in experimenting with a Bliss compiler
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Windows designer moves to new Microsoft job(reuters.com)
1 points by Hoff 13y ago|0 comments
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by Hoff 13y ago
Try some alternative performance-testing sites, and see if there's a difference with those; if there might be different QoS rules in play for specific web sites. The speedof.me site is one I've occasionally used, and that also avo
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by Hoff 13y ago
The Deathrow cluster offers a demo account and (free) accounts to an OpenVMS V8.4 cluster; on an Alpha and an Itanium. Some of the old VMS games are available online there, as well. http://deathrow.vistech.net If you want to
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by Hoff 13y ago
Serious question: this "arbitrary flag" would possibly be in reference to this widely-reported watering hole attack[1] (or was that attack misreported?), or are you referring to some other issue with that web site? [1] http:&#x2F
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Complete, Persistent Compromise of Netgear Wireless Routers(shadow-file.blogspot.com)
179 points by Hoff 13y ago|69 comments
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Blockbusters: Hit-Making, Risk-Taking, And The Big Business Of Entertainment(ritholtz.com)
1 points by Hoff 13y ago|0 comments
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Virtual Kidnappings: Internet Used as Extortion Tool in Fear-Ridden Mexico(laht.com)
3 points by Hoff 13y ago|0 comments
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Do These Chemicals Make Me Look Fat?(propublica.org)
1 points by Hoff 13y ago|0 comments
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by Hoff 13y ago
See the Reedy Creek Improvement District, for a US analog: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reedy_Creek_Improvement_Distric...

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