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by blincoln 11y ago
IANAP, but I think using "lazy evaluation" as an analogy is missing one of the most interesting aspects of quantum physics: it's not just that the particles (or what have you) are in an indeterminate state. The fact that they
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by blincoln 11y ago
Yeah. My PC at the time had 1/420th of the disk space and 1/250th of the RAM in their web indexer. We've come a long way.
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by blincoln 11y ago
A "drone region lockout" bypass (using spoofed GPS signals) was showcased by a team at Def Con this year. They showed video of their drone taking off inside restricted airspace in Beijing. In other words, if someone wants to delib
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by blincoln 11y ago
Something has definitely changed recently. A friend of mine is in this exact situation as of a few days ago. He's in another state, so I can't examine his PC in person, but I had him walk through all of the conventional "remo
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by blincoln 11y ago
Ice Pirates? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087451/
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by blincoln 11y ago
Filter this response based on my being a pen tester, not a Unix/Linux admin - I'm much better at finding vulnerabilities and shortcomings than I am at coming up with a really good solution to them :). That's also why I can&#x
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by blincoln 11y ago
"The old (other, group, user) * (read, write, execute) unix model is [...] sufficient for the vast majority of uses." It's really not, in an even moderately-complex environment. What I've seen most often is that the &quo
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by blincoln 11y ago
I was thinking along the same lines. Another specific example would be single-shot HDR or true post-shot-adjustable exposure. E.g. if the optimum exposure for a conventional camera is 1/60th of a second, then instead capture 10-20 expo
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by blincoln 11y ago
That's how this video was made - by putting a beam-splitter in-between two Canon 5D Mark II cameras: https://vimeo.com/14821961
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by blincoln 11y ago
I'm actually surprised the police didn't destroy it before someone else did. Something that big, obviously wired up with electronics, sitting on the side of the road with an invitation for people to put it in their car? Call me pa
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by blincoln 11y ago
I completely agree. To make things worse, I'm not even sure that it's practical to use an actuarial approach in a way that will produce remotely valid results. Actuaries based calculations of probability on past occurrences. This
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by blincoln 11y ago
"The dam operated just fine even with the vulnerabilities in its software." IMO the key thing to keep in mind is that twenty years ago, it was very common to have systems that were truly "air-gapped" from everything else
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by blincoln 11y ago
Back when I was a systems engineer, I built a couple of systems that come as close as I'm ever likely to see to zero-maintenance. One of them is a piece of automation that looks for Active Directory accounts that are "inactive&quo
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by blincoln 11y ago
Yes. If you stare at a pure red field on your screen for about 30-60 seconds, then look at a pure green field (or vice-versa), you should see a "super-green" (or "super-red").
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by blincoln 11y ago
"That's the problem with goals. They become the thing you talk about instead of the thing you do." ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1077258/ )
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by blincoln 11y ago
It's 2015, not 1985. Most people are not paying IBM for every CPU cycle (used or not) on a mainframe. Should IT staff try to look "good" on a "CPU utilization" report that belongs in a history book by buying lower-e
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by blincoln 12y ago
"since we know of no way to travel between stars." We don't know of a way to travel between them _quickly enough to be practical for humans_. That's not a problem for machines. They can be patient and take thousands of y
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by blincoln 12y ago
Fred Saberhagen got there decades earlier with his _Berserker_ novels. AFAIK every "alien machines that wipe out intelligent life" story is descended from them. Greg Bear's _The Forge of God_ / _Anvil of Stars_ (which ar
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by blincoln 12y ago
It's exactly the same for me. The article seems to be making a case that people with ADHD should find things to do with their life that don't conflict with their condition. I think "we have the technology" to give people
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by blincoln 12y ago
My experience is that it's a lot less fun in practice than it is in theory. Uncommented spaghetti COBOL code is about as hard to reverse-engineer as an x86 disassembler dump done without debug symbols, IMO.
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by blincoln 12y ago
I was thinking the same thing - I knew that z-series mainframes could run Unix, but I didn't think they always did - but it looks like valarauca is correct (assuming this Wikipedia article is reasonably accurate: http://
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by blincoln 12y ago
Like a lot of people, I find that while the talks are interesting, there are enough other things going on that are even more fun, so the talks definitely take a lower priority. I'd need 10+ instances of myself to have paid full attenti
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by blincoln 12y ago
If CVC3 is anything like CVV and CVV2, it's probably intentionally different than what's on the back of the card. Mag-stripe VISA cards have a three-digit code embedded in the stripe (this is the CVV), and a different three-digit
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by blincoln 12y ago
Stephenson's first novel (<i>The Big U</i>) also makes use of the "Bicameral Mind" theory. It was out of print for a long time, but I thought it was a good read.
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by blincoln 12y ago
I could be wrong, but IMO you and bane are both confusing "holography" with "3D display", and/or "display that involves depth". The author of the article made a similar mistake, and unfortunately a lot of
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by blincoln 12y ago
Things may be completely dark indoors, depending on the type of lighting. For example, fluorescent lights emit three spectral spikes centered on where typical human eyes are most sensitive to red, green, and blue. They emit basically no lig
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by blincoln 13y ago
No. What you are describing is a way of doing things that inherently leads to security vulnerabilities, because it depends on someone else remembering to include something in their code, and people will always forget to do the right thing a