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by Phlarp 8y ago
One of the major bits of evidence that the FBI used to establish a link between DPR and Ross was that very early on he used an account on stackoverflow that still had links to his true identity to ask a question about configuring servers fo
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People take their commuter Teslas off-roading? Every time I try it ends with strange looks from the tow truck driver.
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by Phlarp 8y ago
I live in Minnesota and have my entire life. I hope very much that self driving cars lead to a more sane response to icy conditions, which is to not drive. If the vehicles are in a position to enforce that at a technical level then all the
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by Phlarp 8y ago
Is AZ a significant outlier in this regard? Is AZ different enough from say, California, that Uber was incentivized to test in AZ as a way to mitigate liability exposure in the event of fatal crash? I was always curious why they were testin
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His personal bitcoin holdings have appreciated substantially in the time since Mt. Gox imploded too.
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Other companies hoping to do self driving better than Tesla has would do well to heed these free lessons from them.
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Sure, but think of how porous this could be even with HTTPS-- it doesn't have to be a google admin grepping inbound traffic. It could be happening with a custom installed certificate for a workplace or university network or it could be
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The amount of data to sift through? What website am I on right now? Just grep for 64 character strings. The regex is so simple I think it a little naive not to assume _someone_ has a script running to sniff out keys. It would be trivial fo
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by Phlarp 8y ago
I completely agree with everything you've posted on this topic, Elon is 100% his own worst enemy on this front. However, as I scroll through this thread I see lots of top level comments with a single reply from the same (green) account
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I thought this comment was being overly-dramatic but after clicking on the link it is exactly that bad.
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You can't deorbit something just by "dropping" it from a satellite. If you want to target a single "rod" they would need independent onboard guidance and propulsion.
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It would need a precise retrograde burn at a precise orbital location. This means it will be slower than surface based nukes and have a highly variable time to target. At a low orbit this could be 90 minutes, at geostationary orbit it could
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by Phlarp 8y ago
A hobby grade throttling and gimbaling rocket engine, with free documentation and open source guidance software sounds like an absolute proliferation nightmare scenario.
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By definition, a cache will only contain things you've accessed (or pre-fetched to be fair to the latest javascript whizz-bangs) Aether proposes to store its entirety on your local drive, although it is all text content, links can stil
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Maybe _you_ can only go 25mph, the other vehicles have no such restrictions.
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Many people think nazis are objectively much less acceptable than porn. Particularly the type of softcore "artsy" porn one would expect to find on Tumblr before the crackdown.
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I do know how 4chan works. It's a very well trodden trope that 4chan is easily manipulated, rushes to conclusions on impartial or inaccurate information, and has a predisposition towards group think that very often will contrive ways i
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by Phlarp 8y ago
Yea, no. This was centrally directed by 4chan and explicitly targeted at the individuals laid off buzzfeed and huffpost. Like any profession or trade there will be individuals more skilled than others, and individuals more honest than other
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While I think learning to code would be a great option for lots of these folks if they want to make a career change (both the journalists and coal miners). It does not need to be specifically triggered by a layoff. With that said, "peo
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If it breaks real news, with real sources, that turn out to be real stories that they had real scoops on does it matter? If it barks like journalism and wags its tail like journalism than is it not journalism? (it might also have fleas like
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by Phlarp 8y ago
If a single large vendor has ~30% market share and automatically installs locks for people with screws accessible from the outside surely it's a security issue of _some_ type for services that rely on those secure locks being installed
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A commenter above even provides a source for a novel U2F phishing attack, although it appears to rely exclusively on bugs in the chrome webUSB feature and is likely already patched. This argument does quickly devolve though; if an advanced
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Declaring U2F "phish-proof" seems premature at best. It is certainly much better than other existing options, but I wouldn't suspect it to stand up very long at all against a nation state adversary. Feels very much like &quo
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by Phlarp 8y ago
Is it not possible to capture both the login credentials and TOTP code from a phishing form and submit them to the real service in real time? It would seem push notification style 2FA ala icloud/gmail/Duo/blizzard is the bett
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I don't actually know this to be 100% true, I base this off the fact that my iphone (and android) still has plenty of reception in my microwave but is entirely cut off when in my freezer. This behavior could be inconsistent across micr
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From the advertisers perspective; they may not want to spend ad dollars on people who are already highly likely to use their product or service. Ideally ad spends have you picking up customers on the margins that you otherwise would not ha
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Imagine having a business so fragile that a single employee failing to show up could take down the whole show. This is entry level business school stuff, and something anybody running a business will learn first hand very quickly. Would yo
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Highest of double standards. There is not a thought to institutional knowledge when layoffs go out.
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Freezer is probably better.
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Read the thread and it should be relatively obvious: Don't sell out and let companies alter, remove, bury, hide or disguise negative reviews (or do so on the companies behalf). If you really want to beat the incumbents scrape their sit

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