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by blantonl 4y ago
It was a great feeling when we were able to bootstrap a CDROM drive.
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by blantonl 4y ago
You haven't lived until you installed an operating system from 38 floppy disks. Slackware and OS/2 for example My lord those were fun days. Especially fun when you got to OS/2 Disk 21 and it died, or Slackware Xwindows Floppy
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by blantonl 4y ago
It's downright terrifying to think this was written 25 years ago, and now many of the tools that the author describes as being enablers in some of the described activities are readily available to the average person , let alone nation
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by blantonl 4y ago
Impossible? You are kidding, right? The United States has a outstanding history of banning things. Alcohol. Drugs. /s
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by blantonl 4y ago
People also earn a premium to live in a civilization, among people who value education, science, and progress.
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by blantonl 4y ago
By law the EU is going to require that when you make an Amazon Alexa announcement in your household that "dinner is ready" it will have to interoperate with Facebook messaging, Twitter DMs, Instangram messages, LinkedIn, Signal,
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by blantonl 4y ago
I agree here. Android is really fun to tinker with different interesting features, hidden options, all kinds of customization etc. But my iPhone just works.
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by blantonl 4y ago
Since when did Apple have any obligation to provide iMessage to Android users? 10 years ago? Now? I think Tim Cook is spot on here. Get an iPhone for your grandma if she wants the user experience that iMessages provide. Otherwise, you
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by blantonl 4y ago
I think you underestimate how many iPhones are sold per year, and how many phones Apple forecasts to sell for the 14 model which is satellite enabled. We're talking tens of millions Couple that with phones that will roam into satellite
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by blantonl 4y ago
50% of consulting work as a business consultant can be summed up in one phrase: "Shut up and color"
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by blantonl 4y ago
Part of the reason why we study history is to learn from past mistakes.
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by blantonl 4y ago
I wonder how many times this patch has gathered up some passwords? Because I can't tell you how many times I've pasted a pretty critical, strong password into a chat window in hit send - accidentally.
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by blantonl 4y ago
"If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck... "
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by blantonl 4y ago
given the shortage of Pi's available on the market right now, and the fact that you can get Bluetooth adapters for speakers on Amazon for a few bucks, it's probably not applicable anymore for real world usage. But, it's a coo
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by blantonl 4y ago
I think this article is more of a tongue in cheek rant against the culture of BS artists vs measured takedown against extroverts.
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by blantonl 4y ago
How about these surface traits: "Biggest, Greatest, Best, Smartest, Bigly" Sound familiar? :)
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by blantonl 4y ago
Given the amount of money involved in this issue between Twitter and Musk, and the general trend by large organizations and governments to hire PR firms to advance narratives in the court of public opinion, I wonder if this "blog post&
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by blantonl 4y ago
I'll never understand the reasoning for social media platforms to get into the hardware business. SNAP getting into drones and phones - you might as well just light stacks of money on fire, which is what happened here. Whatever happene
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by blantonl 4y ago
This is about of straightforward as a "I screwed up, I own it, I apologize" Everyone makes mistakes. Some of the good work Krebs has done seems to be completely overshadowed by a mistake here. Granted, this is probably in respons
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by blantonl 4y ago
Nowhere mentioned in this article, but wasn't saltpetre given to prisoners to reduce "sexual urges" within prisons? Or is this an old wives tale?
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by blantonl 4y ago
Oil and Gas are huge users of Sat phones - there are huge areas of Oil and Gas infrastructure across the country that reside in areas not served by cell phone service. Also, marine (ships, platforms etc)
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by blantonl 4y ago
In today's sensor rich environment of satellites, aircraft etc, a carrier's location is never a secret to an adversary. Ever.
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by blantonl 4y ago
The Navy has a process to halt all this activity, called going "River City" (slang) - which basically is a standing order by the commanding officer to halt all outgoing communications from a ship unless specifically authorized by
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by blantonl 4y ago
Iridium and Inmarsat have transponders that are much higher power and have much higher RF bandwidth that supports devices at very low speed data rates. It's very conceivable that with an L-band or similar patch antenna some kind of low
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by blantonl 4y ago
business cards for me. In the 80's every professional had one. People were delighted when 10 year old me asked an adult for their business card.
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by blantonl 4y ago
ActiveX was one of the greatest stains on the Web to ever exist.
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by blantonl 4y ago
There is a cap on the biggest culprit, and it's renegotiated and voted on often by elected officials.
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by blantonl 4y ago
See my profile :)
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by blantonl 4y ago
Because it's his idea and he can do it better than them. he's also got luck on his side. While this sounds tongue in cheek, it's probably true. I'd bet 9 time out of 10, this is what literally happens. I know that for m
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by blantonl 4y ago
I wonder if " we discovered suspicious activity on one of our databases " == SQL injection? I've been through this exercise before with one of my businesses, and I disclosed what/where the injection was and what our medi

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