Z1nfandel

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by Z1nfandel 9y ago
I see them driving all over the place and they put out a signup for beta testing the app/service, but noone I know has been accepted.
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by Z1nfandel 9y ago
Yes! I wonder if they happened to come from Eielson AFB. (Not expecting you to know that, but it makes me smile knowing that it stuck)
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by Z1nfandel 9y ago
Ohh man, the memories around this book. Lets just say it was required reading for intel analysts at my base, and we found every way possible to reference it in our reports/briefings. For example, the SA-6 was known as a "three sli
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by Z1nfandel 9y ago
"The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent." Recognizing a bubble and predicting the pop are two wildly different challenges.
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by Z1nfandel 9y ago
I thought the same, but then it made me wonder how many mines are built such that you are hauling ore down instead of up? I don't know enough about mines, and googling "most common mine design" isn't cutting it. Could an
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by Z1nfandel 9y ago
The most frustrating place to be in these scenarios is the IT (especially security) department. Go ask any security guy if they think their environment is secure. Very few of us will say yes. It frequently boils down to we ask for things, a
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by Z1nfandel 9y ago
In order for the windmill to turn, some energy must be taken from the wind and turned into that rotation. This hinders the wind. If you were going to try and go turn that windmill, would you just freely spin it with 0 effort? No you'd
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by Z1nfandel 9y ago
>I sorely hope the person you responded to manages not to feel too attacked and gives a frank and truthful answer on where their line is with respect to not wanting to profit off a corporate scandal. Nope, never felt attacked. Takes a lo
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by Z1nfandel 9y ago
>If you don't mind, I guess like a sort of prelaunch feedback, what would it take for someone like you, willing to profit on bad corporate behavior, to instead become a leader for change? I think it would take a few things, and I&#x
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by Z1nfandel 9y ago
So true. Most people just don't care. I've used this to my advantage over the past few years, as soon as a "big corporate scandal" breaks the stock tends to fall. Check their financials, buy the stock if it looks good, t
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by Z1nfandel 10y ago
Capable of writing the code, yes I agree there are others out there more than capable. But part of what makes stuxnet and others of its kind limited to Govt. sponsored is the amount of funding required to do the research to write the code.
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by Z1nfandel 10y ago
So you want to enact sweeping legislation that covers an entire industry because you feel that the CEO of a single company has a poor attitude and you want to spite him? I'm at a loss for how naive and petty that viewpoint is, and how
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by Z1nfandel 10y ago
Spot on. I think the most interesting thing in the article was (paraphrasing): You can write up a report on a conversation you have with a Pakistan official, and it becomes classified. Are you then expected to no longer discuss the same top
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by Z1nfandel 10y ago
My memory might be hazy, but I thought it was the other way around. INS as the primary navigation with periodic corrections from GPS. Obligatory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZe5J8SVCYQ
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by Z1nfandel 10y ago
Imagine you are a news outlet. You make money by creating articles that entice people to view your website. You make money to pay your expenses by having advertisements on your website. DDoS = No Website. No Website = no users viewing ads.
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by Z1nfandel 10y ago
Don't worry about his comment. He has no idea what he is claiming. These recent attacks are labeled record breaking because they actually are. This one at 620Gbps and the recent ~1Tbps against OVH are the biggest in history, and still
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by Z1nfandel 10y ago
But what you're arguing isn't reality. Show me a source article where someone has compromised a backbone router, and then used it for DDoS. This is almost exactly what I was addressing when I said "Unless you use the power of
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by Z1nfandel 10y ago
I'm going to call shenanigans. Do a quick google for the largest DDoS attacks on record, and this is one of them if not the largest. Pulling from places like Arbor, and their yearly reports, the largest previously seen were ~500Gbps. I
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by Z1nfandel 10y ago
Their Navy will be closer than you think. Take a look at the rate they are building ships. Their destroyer squadrons (Luyang II and III are amazing ships) have been rapidly growing, as well as their replinishment ships, subs, frigates, and
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by Z1nfandel 10y ago
You're in for a rude awakening if you think "China is not going to touch US in military terms during my life time" Most people believe that the US will always have the better fighter planes, the better missiles, or the better
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by Z1nfandel 10y ago
Umm, A-10s have flown for a long time with FLIR. They don't have it natively, but they always use their targeting pods. See SNIPER or LITENING pod. My pilots did night missions all the damn time. The trouble with the A-10s isn't j