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by blincoln 8y ago
Look for an LED UV torch/flashlight with a wavelength of 400nm. You could also use a diffraction grating, prism, or spectroscope, but you'll need to make sure the light source going into it actually contains violet light. i.e. if
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by blincoln 8y ago
This is a bit of a nitpick, but most people (especially children) can see at least a bit into UV. With my contacts in, I can see down to about 400-410nm. With them out, I can see to about 390nm, because the plastic in the contacts blocks sh
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by blincoln 8y ago
> On a linear scale the cone responses look like this Regardless of whether or not the article's description of the specific mechanism is correct, it's true that humans perceive violet (~400nm) light in a way that can be simula
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by blincoln 8y ago
I think IDA's lack of significant competition until now is nearly a textbook example of how charging a lot for a tool is no indication that the funds will go toward improving the quality. What's been significantly improved in IDA
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by blincoln 8y ago
Possession of this type of image is a federal crime in the US.[1] When I took a digital forensics course about five years ago, we were told that if we ever discovered any on a system we were investigating, it needed to be reported to the FB
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by blincoln 8y ago
This is my thought as well. Keep the "broadcast a notification to all other devices registered to the user" part to verify that the new one is authorized, but instead of copying the private key to the new device, tell the server t
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by blincoln 8y ago
Anecdotally, I've been told by a lot of former restaurant workers that management generally walks off with most or all of the credit card tips. I generally tip in cash everywhere as a result.
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by blincoln 8y ago
"it would be the most boring place on the whole planet to land." Would it? Wouldn't the ice preserve certain things (e.g. any microorganisms which might have lived there) better than if they were left out in the open?
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by blincoln 8y ago
I understand that there is something that makes the cells stop working over time. blattimwind's reply is the first actual explanation I've ever seen of what that something might be.
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by blincoln 8y ago
<i>Why shouldn't it? Isn't it just hardware too?</i> In a mechanical hard drive, there are moving parts which can wear out due to friction, etc. SSDs are solid-state, so it seems like at least theoretically, it sh
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by blincoln 8y ago
My understanding is that the entire existence of the graviton is still theoretical. Has that changed recently?
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by blincoln 8y ago
Agreed. My first thought was "'Any IDS worth its weight in salt'? That creature doesn't exist, my friend."
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by blincoln 8y ago
It's less whether the gear is modern and more about the layer that it operates at. A network firewall doesn't see the DNS name that an internal system looked up in order to make an outbound connection. It just sees the source&#x2F
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by blincoln 8y ago
I can't tell you for sure that this is truth or fiction, but I've worked in information security for seven years (three as a consultant), and the story is 100% believable. The writing style is also consistent with the way about ha
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by blincoln 8y ago
I think vehicular homicide is a lot less likely than pranks (causing traffic jams, etc.), or people trying to game the system so that they always get to pass through intersections without stopping. However, intentionally causing injury isn&
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by blincoln 8y ago
In the US, we still make it other people's business. It's just that here, those other people work for insurance companies whose goal is to turn a profit (even if they claim otherwise by getting themselves classified as non-profit
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by blincoln 8y ago
Microsoft also: - Forcibly upgraded as many Windows 7 and 8 machines to Windows 10 as possible without really asking permission, so that some manager could make their adoption metrics look better. - Implemented extremely-invasive data colle
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by blincoln 8y ago
I could be wrong, because I'm also a little bemused by the lack of specifics on the site, but it sounds like the Pod stores sort of "quanta of shareable information" (photos, essays, one's phone number, etc.), and makes
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by blincoln 8y ago
Unfortunately, I don't have access to a machine to test with - my statement was based on a lengthy discussion from a few months ago at a previous job - but I'll assume you're correct, and amend my original statement to "
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by blincoln 8y ago
> Xcode works just fine on non-root accounts Are you sure that attaching to a process (for debugging/memory-modification) in general does on modern versions of Mac OS? "In order to guarantee support for debugging on the Mac, yo
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by blincoln 8y ago
Only if one is writing to a process running under a different user ID. Non-privileged users can write to the memory of their own processes. Linux used to be similar (and I think some distributions still are), but is now slightly more restri
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by blincoln 8y ago
TLDR: the military goggles switch much faster, are more transparent in the "open" state, and fail to a safe state if they lose power. Auto-darkening welding helmets just use an LCD panel + polarizing filter in their window, versus
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by blincoln 8y ago
In the mid-90s, a friend of mine described an SGI demo where the player flew a speederbike through a forest. Apparently it was quite impressive for the time. Every time I come across footage of old SGI software, I hope it's in there, b
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by blincoln 8y ago
It's not that someone can set up a MitM device. Wifi with a shared password can be passively captured using a variety of tools and decrypted using WireShark.[1] The "coffee shop" scenario, where a WPA2 Personal password is wr
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by blincoln 8y ago
I've visited London, and your rail systems (both the Underground and the national rail) are amazing. I feel very strongly that if more Americans could see how rail works in and around London with their own eyes, it would make people re
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by blincoln 8y ago
I'm not sure how much heat a typical commercial nuclear reactor designed for power generation produces, but the reactors at Hanford and Savannah River (used for plutonium production, not power[1]) generated heat measured in gigawatts[2
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by blincoln 8y ago
My understanding is that it's because of what the GP cited - there needs to be an alternate way to escape the room in the event of a fire/flood/etc. A friend of a friend drowned because they were asleep in a "bedroom&quo
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by blincoln 8y ago
I don't know about > 100 years ago, but I strongly suspect that the reason snoring is more common now than it was in the early- and mid-20th-century is because it's so much less common now to have one's tonsils taken out.
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by blincoln 8y ago
I think the "the data was supposed to be stored on the phone" thing is a little misleading. I've never owned a Huawei phone, butwhen I looked at my Motorola phone five years ago[1], I found that it was getting Facebook data v
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by blincoln 9y ago
I noticed this as well yesterday when I needed to install a JDK on my work MacBook. I have a slightly biased perspective because I do pen testing, reverse-engineering, and other "hacking" work, but this is going to cause me a lot

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