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by adricnet 12y ago
While cheerfully acknowledging there is controversy, I dispute your immediate dismissal of these reports. For other readers, then: http://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/08/qa-on-the-reported-theft-... https:/&#x2F
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by adricnet 12y ago
Absorption of some nutrients happens in the mouth and gums. Perhaps the poster is speculating that sugar (simple carbs?) molecules might be quickly absorbed into the bloodstream through the mouth and esophagus while caffeine has to be diges
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by adricnet 12y ago
One of the things done right at one place where I did a great many interviews for technical candidates was at a late phase to break out the technical interview and the management interview. This allowed a group of potential peers to have a
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by adricnet 12y ago
This Tim O'Reily blog post on Linked In is about a Time magazine article which is about the rescue of the Healthcare.gov project by technical experts from "outside government" and is actually pretty interesting, at least to s
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by adricnet 12y ago
You might enjoy A Bug Hunter's Diary by Tobias Klein. It's a detailed series of technical essays about vulnerabilities the author discovered in real software, how he went about finding and reporting them, and what happened. The ap
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by adricnet 12y ago
> I'm just surprised there isn't a competitive $199 console out there. Well, there's the Ouya, which is a nice little platform. You can get one an second controller and most of the games available for that price point :) S
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by adricnet 12y ago
A Sane Approach to Database Design by Mark Johansen http://www.electrictactics.com/book/sanedb.html The book is really accessible and helpful. SaneDB helped me survive a development project when I was new to many thing
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by adricnet 12y ago
Switch nl to your language code for best results. I used en. Thanks for the direct link!
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by adricnet 12y ago
Well, the problem there is a lack of available $QUALITY courseware content as there are tools to do this sort of thing (Moodle, XO Server) and free content (moodle.net, Khan Academy, scorm modules) available in small quantities for some top
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by adricnet 12y ago
The callback in the hints didn't work for me in the game, but the other suggestions here are working and quite eye opening ... That this works is really scary if not fully surprising: data:text/javascript;base64,YWxlcnQoMTMzNyk= T
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by adricnet 12y ago
Would you mind linking to the competing service you mention, or perhaps a review of it? I've been advocating for Hipchat but haven't seen Slack yet.
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by adricnet 12y ago
link to the EFW http://efw.livejournal.com/
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by adricnet 12y ago
Snort is a rule based IDS/IPS and BroIDS is a policy based IDS. In their default configurations rule based IDS reacts (alerts, blocks) based on the rules loaded where policy based systems like BroIDS interpret the traffic they see and
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by adricnet 12y ago
I'll buy a copy or two and never finish it ;) Good luck!
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by adricnet 13y ago
It's provocative phrasing, in no small smart because I agree with your upset. And it is deliberate to motivate you (and I) to seek change. OLPC's efforts to link up with US school systems and do work here were hampered by the same
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by adricnet 13y ago
Uh.. if you are not trolling you are badly mis-informed. XO-1 was, "standard PC" x86, in part to get cheaper available components. They didn't switch to ARM until after the price per processor came down enough to make it viab
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by adricnet 13y ago
Hey CJB! Thanks for wading into this olpcnews FUD inspired mess ;) Glad to see you, even to rehash old arguments. Cheers, adric
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by adricnet 13y ago
I agree. CJB commented elsewhere in this thread ( cjbprime) and he knows better than I do what went on back then. I think that creating educational content is an incredibly important thing, and that it should be freely distributable to all
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by adricnet 13y ago
A quick search shows the expected results: there have been studies, most pronounced the project ineffective (or a failure), and there is controversy and politics involved in it all: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=OLPC+study Real
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by adricnet 13y ago
Before we descend to argument by contradiction ... what language or culture are you interested in seeing (evidence of) content for? For Spanish, Science and Math there are: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/es-ES/sugar&#x
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by adricnet 13y ago
You may be mistaking the details and results for the plan and the movement. http://one.laptop.org/community OLPC (org and community) works on the scale of deployments. Villages and sometimes entire countries are organized a
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by adricnet 13y ago
To stonogo's point, the security systems for XO actually model that threat, and do a fair bit to reduce the risk. Foremost protection against theft is that the laptops are brightly colored and made of shiny plastic, like toys. In a suc
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by adricnet 13y ago
"but then they didn't cram a ton of books in each OLPC!" Why do you say that? The content packs used in the deployments are customized to local language and culture. Translating and sourcing the included materials was and con
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by adricnet 13y ago
Logistics and support remain a huge resource intensive problem for any organization. To summarize a lot of arguments had internally in the project at that time: it was better to outsource as much of that as possible to keep the organization
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by adricnet 13y ago
Thanks for the reminder link. As well, I had forgotten about olpcnews entirely until this popped up.
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by adricnet 13y ago
Wow, so much hostility in this thread. Why is there so much negativity about OLPC and XO? It's been hard to find out from outside what's going on at the various OLPC orgs and companies in recent year, but they are doing quite a bi
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by adricnet 13y ago
Actually the entire point of professional education and training, then certification for roles such as those you cite is that they must have an understanding of their tools and the principles behind their use. They are also intended to keep
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by adricnet 13y ago
I'm not making an argument about that but there were two or three SCOTUS stories on the frontpage of HN today. Taking my downvotes and moving on, I am.
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by adricnet 13y ago
So, the court agrees with many others that the FCC needs to re-label cable companies as communication common carriers before regulating them as common carriers. I guess that's good? Is it a difficult thing technically or only political
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by adricnet 13y ago
I somehow misread this as Scalia (Supreme Court Justice) and thought this was about one of the recent announcements from SCOTUS...

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