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by blincoln 9y ago
This is actually not difficult to address. Modify the account creation process so that the first step is to enter an email address. If the account does not already exist, an account activation link/code is sent. If it does, a password
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by blincoln 9y ago
Can you elaborate on this? I'm not a member of Anonymous, but I've read the graphic novel version of _V For Vendetta_ as well as seen the film, and I didn't get that impression at all.
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by blincoln 10y ago
Imagine if surveillance satellites inherently included the ability to not only view secret airfields and missile silos, but also to sabotage the vehicles/weapons/equipment. That's a whole different world of potential for misu
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by blincoln 10y ago
As a pen tester who frequently finds passwords and other sensitive data in shell history files[1], I fully support this effort to make my job even easier :). [1] Either inline in mysql-type commands, or when users accidentally paste/ty
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by blincoln 10y ago
I agree. I'm not one to use the "disruptive" term frequently, but that's what's going on here, IMO - traders are using disruptive technology. As with mp3s, the answer (again, IMO) is not to try to prevent their use,
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by blincoln 10y ago
Did you try Biofinity toric lenses? That's what I've been using for several years after I started having that exact problem.
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by blincoln 10y ago
Is there a good teardown you know of online of a modern transponder-based system? I did some quick digging and came up empty. The reason I'm curious is that every time I've looked inside a consumer-grade electronic lock, all of th
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by blincoln 10y ago
Lexis-Nexis is probably the equivalent for individuals.
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by blincoln 10y ago
Counterpoint: my German great-grandparents and their relatives were interred by the US during WWII. They lost most of their possessions, just like the Japanese prisoners.
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by blincoln 10y ago
I spot-checked the stats you linked to, and 100% of the "acts of terrorism" in which 100 or more people were killed were committed by paramilitary groups like ISIS and the Taliban, and took place outside the US. Those are horrific
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by blincoln 10y ago
Possibly dumb question, but I know my niece is going to ask me about this, and I'd like to be able to give her a solid response: does this mean that most distances within our universe are illusory? If not, why not? To expand on that th
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by blincoln 10y ago
Would they "learn far more"? I am not a xenogeologist or astrophysicist, but landing a probe on a rogue planet seems like a shortcut to visiting another star system.
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by blincoln 10y ago
Or Alastair Reynolds' Conjoiners, for a less dystopian vision of a collective mind.
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by blincoln 10y ago
Alastair Reynolds' _Revelation Space_ series. Greg Bear's _Blood Music_ has similar themes, but it's a different spin on them.
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by blincoln 10y ago
"like cures like" is a dangerous oversimplification. Vaccines and immunotherapy work by giving the body small amounts of the actual thing that is harmful (usually dead, in the case of vaccines). It's easy to see why this is
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by blincoln 10y ago
The actual product page that foenix linked to ( http://www.primalucelab.com/astronomy/d5500a-cooled-camera.h... ) mentions that there is an anti-dew system for at least some of the internal bits.
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by blincoln 10y ago
I would be concerned about this as well. I've not done a lot of astrophotography, but when I have, I've had to make my framing/focusing adjustments, then wait anywhere from 10 to 60 seconds for the vibrations that motion in
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by blincoln 10y ago
> Already possible. Even Mythbusters sets up "life size" RC cars for some of their crash-related myths. It's already possible, but it takes a lot of work, and (AFAIK), you don't end up with a vehicle that can be progr
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by blincoln 10y ago
I can't provide a citation, but a few months ago I spoke with a retired EE who had specialized in large-scale/high-power systems[1], and he believed that tube electronics would better resist an EMP. i.e. if that belief is incorrec
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by blincoln 10y ago
For aspiring pen testers who read this article, there's an important catch: if the rules of the challenge (or other Inversoft policies, like any bug bounty programmes they may have) didn't specifically allow targeting their other
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by blincoln 10y ago
Additionally, most(?) of the code wheels had multiple discs stacked together. i.e. it wouldn't be a two-dimensional lookup table, but three- or four-. IMO it would be more likely for someone to write a simple software utility to emulat
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by blincoln 11y ago
> In summary, we're looking for ANCIENT Type III civilizations. Yes. This is because of the low probability that intelligent life develops somewhere else at even close to the same time as it did on Earth. Our best understanding is t
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by blincoln 11y ago
> This is a myth. If it's a myth, how would you describe what Microsoft did to Netscape with Internet Explorer?
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by blincoln 11y ago
As the authors note in the full paper, even a sample rate of 200 Hz only results in capturing audio information for frequencies up to 100 Hz. If one applies a 100 Hz filter to some samples of human speech (even low-pitched male voices, as t
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by blincoln 11y ago
Probably a dumb question, but I skimmed through the full paper and didn't find an obvious answer: does this actually result in an effect that could (theoretically) be scaled up to make an air conditioner-style device that pumps colder-
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by blincoln 11y ago
The natural human cornea is opaque to shorter-wavelength UV, but there's no reason it couldn't be replaced with something transparent to UV-A at least. This is supposedly an unintended side-effect of some cornea replacement surger
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by blincoln 11y ago
FWIW, my original motivation was the Air Force general who said something to the effect of "maybe these people can't run 5 miles with a pack on their back, but if they can hack SCADA systems, we need them." I figured I wasn&#
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by blincoln 11y ago
When I was 30-32, I got up at about 04:30 - 05:00 every day. For the first few years, I ran 9km every other day, but I switched to using an elliptical trainer for 30 minutes every morning (including weekends) after I started getting shin sp
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by blincoln 11y ago
> nobody has yet proposed a reason that so much of the universe would be so oddly invisible to us. IANAP, but it seems pretty consistent with the brane element of M-theory to me. If you have a bunch of 3-dimensional branes sitting next t
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by blincoln 11y ago
<tinfoilhat> What if the NIST curves were backdoored not by the NSA as a whole, but a rogue individual within the NSA, with the goal of making that backdoor available to a foreign power and/or the highest bidder? It seems unlikel

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