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amckenna
13y ago
I drink protein shakes in the morning about once or twice a week (usually the morning after a workout). Soylent appeals to me because it seem like a more "complete" protein shake. I haven't purchased other meal replacement dr
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Most of the things we all eat comes from dubious origins. The average meal comes from several different continents and from animals and plants grown under a wide range of conditions. If you buy all of your ingredients in their least process
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13y ago
I typically don't eat breakfast because I either don't have time, have run out of eggs/cereal/milk, or don't feel like eating one of the three typical breakfast foods. If I could supplement/substitute breakfast
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13y ago
You can hope it doesn't catch on at your work, or that it doesn't enable your co-workers to be anti-social, but to wish for its failure as a product seems overboard and selfish. There are millions of people that work with very lim
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13y ago
With a steady supply line and a better understanding of demand after initial launch the supply line can be smoothed out and cheaper methods of transportation can be employed. Right now they are paying to speed up the process and make up for
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13y ago
If the Executive branch is being investigated by the Legislative branch then the security of the documents should be assured by the Legislative or better yet Judicial branch. The process sounds broken.
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13y ago
> "an illegal search of computers (provided to the Senate staff by the C.I.A.) that contained drafts of the internal review." Sounds like the Senate review committee needs to work on their opsec and move the files to a safer
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> The C.I.A. has referred the matter to the Justice Department to investigate possible wrongdoing, a move that Ms. Feinstein called “a potential effort to intimidate this staff.” What could the Justice Department do in the event that t
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13y ago
This looks very similar to a Python library called Blackmamba I have been using on Linux for async requests. If you need support down to Python 2.6 and similar functionality it's worth checking out: http://rootfoo.org/b
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13y ago
This is almost exactly from the plot of the movie Antiviral. It's a dystopian movie where people's insatiable love of celebrities have lead them to eat meat produced from their genetic material and infect themselves with the same
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13y ago
The advantage of their integrated LCD and Arduino is that it would only use 2 pins instead of the 6-7 that would be occupied by the shield you linked. This would allow you to connect other shields and have more room for add-ons. I agree tha
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13y ago
While I agree that the websites response and the response of many organizations is overly harsh and draconian in situations like these, if the teen in the story did use SQLi to exfiltrate 500 records then he crossed the line. He should have
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13y ago
Access is free if viewed from a federal courthouse terminal. While it's not necessarily convenient it is worth mentioning that a free option exists. http://www.pacer.gov/documents/epa_feesched.pdf
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13y ago
It's worth checking out the NYT piece on the rise of Twitter and the role Dorsey played. His rise to fame was a tumultuous one and while he is no doubt a talented individual he is credited with more than he actually created. It will be
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13y ago
Another solution would be for these services to use something with a greater work factor than MD5. When a typical user can brute force MD5s at a rate of 8.5 billion per second with AMD HD7970 graphics card then it's time to use a diffe
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13y ago
It seems that people took that comment negatively but I read it as a complement. She is a good writer, presents herself well, and could also be a marketer or spokesperson. If someone is better at x than y, it doesn't mean they are bad
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13y ago
Yes I read the article. Do you have anything original to add or context for why you chose this quote?
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13y ago
You're correct about the need of the data lines for power negotiation. The LockedUSB kickstarter is creating a USB condom but with power management: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1137339450/lockedusb-ada
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13y ago
Tunneling traffic over DNS is breaking up files (data) into chunks (packets) and exfiltrating off of a network through DNS. Don't get me wrong, it's nice to see a simple example like yours, but projects like http://co
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14y ago
as noted above: "We will implement the IPA later this year, and it will apply to all patents issued to our engineers, both past and present." [1] emphasis on past [1] http://engineering.twitter.com/2012/04/introducing-innovator...
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14y ago
aww don't spoil the fun
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14y ago
yeah it would be great to see a low cost version of the products offered by pwnie express such as http://pwnieexpress.com/products/pwnplug-wireless
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14y ago
$83,490 but the price rises dramatically if they filled all of the expansion slots. http://www.ctistore.com/catalog/cat/prod,574258.html?gclid=C... http://www.cdw.com/shop/products/Cisco-Nexus-7000-Series-32-...
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14y ago
I know python support is planned, but will it be integrated alpha/beta or will we have to wait until after the 1.0 release?
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From a massive steel combination safe they removed a bottle containing one gram of synthesized psilocybin, the psychoactive agent animating the 200-member fungus family commonly known as “magic mushrooms.” The Johns Hopkins team has iden
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14y ago
Yes it does. Adding encryption, even if it can be broken through sheer computational power, still increases the price tag associated with spying, therefore increasing the barrier to spying.
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14y ago
Not to be pedantic but Triple DES could be broken relatively easily by the government, which is why it was replaced with AES. I completely agree with what you are saying in the post, I just wanted to bring up that Triple DES is considered i
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14y ago
I did read the case, and I do understand that the circumstances are different. The piece I wanted to draw attention to is that there are criterion for what constitutes a threat. The examples you have provided in both of your posts include o
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14y ago
You state: "You may post as many replies on this thread that "threat" doesn't mean what we think it means but the law, common sense, and understanding of English, proves you wrong." however... From United States v. Kelner (1975) - "...
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This. The press release simply stated the maximum penalty for the charges. A "threat" would have been a statement by the prosecutor saying what they intended to press for. Example - if someone were to state "I have a gun that could shoot yo
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