Kadin

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by Kadin 8y ago
People were pretty excited about using Bitcoin to buy drugs, but it turns out you need a more stable and convenient currency even for drug dealers to be interested. That was the high water mark of consumer interest as far as I've seen.
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by Kadin 8y ago
That seems like a pretty crummy way to solve that particular problem.
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by Kadin 8y ago
It's more impressive when you turn this number around: 89% of Americans "use the Internet", up from just over 50% less than 20 years ago. That is an insane adoption curve for a network that basically didn't exist -- at l
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by Kadin 8y ago
Putting an RFID chip into the lane reflectors / raised pavement markers seems like it would be a good step, and could be useful both to autonomous systems and driver-assist / navigation systems. I doubt it would add a significant
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by Kadin 8y ago
Very cool -- I was not aware of this. It's interesting that RFID developed out of, partly, a desire by freight train operators to track traincars as they moved around switching yards (moving past fixed readers). The Eurobalise system
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by Kadin 8y ago
If you're fine with physically digging up roads in order to cause car crashes, you can do that regardless of whether the vehicles on them are autonomous or not...
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by Kadin 8y ago
Agreed and the more informed speculation about the RQ-170 that I have read is very skeptical of the Iranian GPS-spoofing story. The RQ-170 supposedly has at least doubly-redundant, possibly triply-redundant, position-fixing systems, and it
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by Kadin 8y ago
ICBMs and SLBMs use primarily inertial navigation (with a starting position provided from the launch facility); the stellar navigation systems correct it by adding a mid-course position fix. I do not know for sure, but I would be willing to
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by Kadin 8y ago
There is presently no difference in accuracy between military and civilian GPS signals. The civilian / unencrypted stream is no longer intentionally degraded, as it once was (via "Selective Availability"). But there are st
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Yep. This attitude isn't dead, assuming you approach the developer via the right/preferred venue, and are polite, and they are still actively maintaining the project. And it really helps if you give a thorough bug report! I recen
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by Kadin 8y ago
If someone reports to you that a bad actor (spammer, bruteforcer, whatever) is on your network, it would seem to eliminate your plausible deniability and safe harbor defense. The real problem is economic; for any given ISP, they are going t
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by Kadin 8y ago
Only until someone does the same thing to the other chain. The logical next step is for the miners leaving the biggest chain to concentrate on a chain where they can successfully pull off the same attack that just drove them away, and on do
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by Kadin 8y ago
Easier still... in the US, many radio stations transmit the artist and song title that's currently being played, via a low-bitrate subcarrier encoding. (The proper name is "Radio Data System", IIRC.) There were previously som
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by Kadin 8y ago
Except that people rarely show off engagement rings once they're married. It's not about the ring, it's about the expense. The same purpose could be served by just piling up twenty-dollar bills and setting them on fire, an
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by Kadin 8y ago
They appear to be a brighter cut than they actually are. To know the difference you would need to examine one closely. They're pretty much identical on casual inspection, especially mounted in a ring.
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by Kadin 8y ago
There are lots of forensics tools which block USB writes to prevent modification of data on drives under analysis. However, the solution is to create tools that are easier to use and get the job done better than USB pen-drives. IBM seems t
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by Kadin 8y ago
Ah, got it. Well, another argument in favor of not overloading TLDs for internal domains, then, and just buying an additional domain if you really want to have separate internal and external domains.
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by Kadin 8y ago
Which is fine, I suppose, but your relatives don't have to do delete theirs , and the similarity of their DNA to your DNA means that someone could back out, to a certain level of confidence, whether you might be a match based on DNA c
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by Kadin 9y ago
I find it odd whenever people claim that there's just no possible way production can't be shifted back to North America and Europe. If there's no labor advantage, offshoring production is a logistical nightmare. I mean, the
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by Kadin 9y ago
Presumably to retain access to the US market, banking system, and preserve any assets they might have within reach of US law from seizure. Maybe they'll decide not to pay and withdraw from the US completely, but that would seriously co
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by Kadin 9y ago
> Not only that but it looks like "old Windows". Not convinced that's a weakness as opposed to a strength. Every time Microsoft changes literally anything about their UI, they alienate a legion of people who suddenly feel
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by Kadin 9y ago
Another comparatively difficult-to-block option is a bookmarklet that runs some JS to retrieve the latest IP address from some server somewhere. I don't really want to switch to somebody's random DNS servers to use SciHub, but dra
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by Kadin 9y ago
And yet there are whole fields that are dominated by open-access journals; presumably they also have societies, and those societies have found alternate business models. That someone is going to be forced to change their business model does
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by Kadin 9y ago
That's a pretty good argument for never turning on local news. It's garbage, just the video version of clickbait "journalism" in most cases. (There is some good investigative journalism still being done on TV, but it&#x
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by Kadin 9y ago
Isn't that what "unfollow" is for? For people who are obnoxious and you don't want to hear from, but you don't want to actually go all the way to unfriending (which would make it impossible to interact with them at
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by Kadin 9y ago
I've been thinking about this, and I think you need to work backwards from the existing awards and what makes them "tick" in the context of the industry. Why does anyone care about the awards? - Directors and producers care
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by Kadin 9y ago
An impressive shot... at their own foot. The only thing Cannes is going to hurt in the long run is its own relevance within global popular culture. If they want to restrict themselves to movies that have been shown in French theaters as de
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by Kadin 9y ago
That's a pretty asinine way to add a backdoor. I think we can give the intelligence community more credit than that. Plus, if you're an intelligence agency, the ideal backdoor is one you can use, and only you can use -- one that
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by Kadin 9y ago
Doesn't Icom make an entry-level 2m radio anymore? I have an Icom sitting around somewhere that I am pretty sure I got brand-new for under $100 back in 2004-2005. It's pretty primitive, sure, and I don't think it even came w
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by Kadin 9y ago
The QRP kits are cheap (and some very clever!) but QRP operation can be very challenging as a way to start in. Personally, I think an inexpensive 10m rig is the way to go, although if you live in a place with a decent 2m or 70cm repeater ne

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