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by bink 5y ago
The article says they took spinal taps from the patients and found no evidence of CJD. Presumably that means it can be detected that way, but how? And is it close to 100% reliable?
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by bink 5y ago
The thought of an as-yet-unknown CJD-like prion disease that's slowly developing somewhere is absolutely terrifying. This made me wonder about how tests are run for prion diseases, though. Is it just a matter of placing the spinal flui
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by bink 5y ago
Hacking is a crime in both Israel and the US. If either government wanted to they could pursue charges. Selling exploits is not illegal in either country AFAIK, and is in fact a booming business.
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by bink 5y ago
There was a lot else going on at the same time. There were users creating parody accounts for famous politicians and the site was only intended for testing. I think they would've taken it down regardless of the license issue.
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by bink 5y ago
That makes sense. I was just wondering if these licenses had provisions that would allow bypassing courts where I can imagine this type of violation would be very hard to prove. e.g.: if they were openly using another product with the same
576.
by bink 5y ago
This is exactly what I was getting at. In the case of commercial software so long as the suspected violation occurs at a company with a license agreement that allows these audits then they can be audited at the drop of a hat. I can picture
577.
by bink 5y ago
It's just funny because they're removing it from a source code repo, packaging it up into a zip, and adding it to another source code repo. If they didn't mind including the change history they could've just published th
578.
by bink 5y ago
I understand that these licenses are pretty straight forward legally when it's obvious a company is violating the terms. What I've never understood is how these can be enforced when someone puts effort into obfuscating their usage
579.
by bink 5y ago
Imagine teaching your grandpa how to use Tor.
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by bink 5y ago
And who could blame them? I'm sure recruiters at most companies have a litany of responses they use based on the tone of the candidate. They get paid on how many people they can get into the interviews, accept an offer, and stay X mont
581.
by bink 5y ago
I see where you're going with this but it could also be argued that those magazines impacted far fewer people to a far lesser degree.
582.
by bink 5y ago
I'm not sure if this is still true, but at one point you could even use the all numeric version on their website.
583.
by bink 5y ago
heh, I was with you until you got to "genetic engineering". What opportunities are out there for a teenager to participate in that?
584.
by bink 5y ago
Just a guess, but it could've been a way for them to determine if you were about to paste content into the address bar. I worked for a company that did something similar. It would compare the clipboard to the contents of the input fiel
585.
by bink 5y ago
The transition from ANSI graphics to the ugliness of Windows 3.1 or even Desqview was pretty rough. I spent a ton of time in terminal emulators and BBS programs that I found much more intuitive and "pretty". Their graphical counte
586.
by bink 5y ago
If the platform is controlling what you see or interact with based on opaque algorithms does that really still qualify as free speech?
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by bink 5y ago
I have a carefully curated list of subs on Reddit that are well moderated and informative. There just isn't an easy way to do that with Facebook or Twitter. Both of those platforms will show me "related" content I don't
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by bink 5y ago
Heh, if you were at both Defcon and Pumpcon then I'm sure we know each other. Summercon 95 was the height of Con chaos. But I wasn't trying to say Feds didn't attend Defcon from the beginning, they absolutely did. I was just
589.
by bink 5y ago
As a former Defcon attendee from the 90s, what made Defcon so successful as a business IMHO was that it was run and managed by folks who were only tangentially associated with the wider hacking community. Most of us who considered ourselves
590.
by bink 5y ago
With routing it's even worse than that. If they had no out-of-band method to connect to these routers and they botched the routing config then they had no way to route any traffic to them at all. At least with DNS you can still connect
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by bink 5y ago
With the right access it wouldn't be hard for someone to configure some key routers in such a way that all traffic is blocked and no one can get into them over the network. They'd need to send someone physically to the sites to re
592.
by bink 5y ago
You mean the VOIP phones that could no longer receive incoming calls?
593.
by bink 5y ago
I think there's a legal definition of a whistleblower that would protect them from civil litigation. That usually involves criminal conduct on the part of the company.
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by bink 5y ago
That's what I did when prices started to get nuts earlier this summer. I got offers from Carmax, Carvana, and Vroom. One was >$1k higher than the others for whatever reason and since we didn't need to be paying insurance, taxes
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by bink 5y ago
I'm not placing any bets on whether they'll succeed. But if they have roughly 50k pre-orders at ~$70k/each that's $3.5 billion in revenue. And while I'm sure not everyone who pre-ordered will actually make a purchas
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by bink 5y ago
Yeah, I agree. I'm just a bit disappointed that they said deliveries would start in September and then only delivered a tiny number to employees.
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by bink 5y ago
The only problem I remember was damage to the hydraulic suspension when the truck rolled backwards into a rock. I don't believe they ever explained if that was due to driver error or mechanical failure, but the absence of an explanatio
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by bink 5y ago
As a reservation holder myself I don't really consider "delivering" to employees to be releasing a product. Employees aren't free to discuss flaws or other problems and no doubt get priority for fixes/repairs.
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by bink 5y ago
I thought these viruses had reservoirs in common farm animals and that's why they were so hard to eradicate. Is there reason to believe they've disappeared from those populations as well?
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by bink 5y ago
Vendors have to balance usability and security. That's always been the trade-off between IPSec and TLS. I don't envy people who have to provide support for IPSec solutions.

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