cynwoody

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by cynwoody 14y ago
Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach. Those who can't teach administrate.
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>One main difference is that public companies are required by law to have independent auditors. Also, companies can go broke. Compared to that sanction, independent auditors are a band-aid.
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Not unlike a hand-crank generator. Turning it without a load connected is easier than with a load. Without a load, no current flows through the generating coil. With a load, current flows and generates a counteracting magnetic field that re
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Surprisingly, the US Bureau of Engraving and Printing caters to the Chinese belief in 8 as a lucky number ... As reported by CNC World, owned by Xinhua: http://www.cncworld.tv/news/v_show/29294_Year_of_snake_lucky...
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If you use an absolute font size and get it right, fine. If not, I won't read your site. I'm too lazy to use ⌘-+. Sorry. (Actually, if your site is really interesting, I might be motivated to write a user script to fix your fonts and othe
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I remember when I discovered BBSes. Must have been sometime in the mid-eighties. I found a number in magazine, probably Byte . And I called it, using a TI Silent 700 terminal, which was an acoustic coupler 300-baud modem married to a therm
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The way pay phones used to work (and probably still work, when you can find one) was you dropped the coins in the slot, and they landed in what is known as the escrow hopper. Once you paid for the first three minutes, the call would go thro
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by cynwoody 14y ago
Back in the seventies, the simplest phone hack was probably what we called the "click-it", but is more formally known as the Black Box. Some curious person had connected a lineman's set to a ringing phone line and noticed that, between the
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That's outstanding, even if the graphical figures still need work.
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> While Mozilla are pumping out stellar designs like this, Google are pushing crap like Native Client and their proprietary, binary-only Foxit Reader solution instead, complete with the hundreds of thousands of LOC of insecure C this en
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In other news, it's being reported[1] that State Farm Insurance, headquartered in Bloomington, IL and employing lots of people in southern Illinois, has acquired several million feet of office space in Dallas. I would say the Illinois legis
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Would anyone buy a used car from this man? http://goo.gl/mmEuI
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>I think the main issue was Popova not disclosing, even in some tiny font somewhere, that there were affiliate links. A visit to her site reveals that she has corrected that defect. Down at the bottom, we now see: Brain Pickings p
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The likely result of that would be that a smart hacker would cross you off his IP list upon discovering you are running a bunch of sshds. After all, if you are devious enough to do that, it's unlikely your real sshd will fall to his script
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How about just a large For Sale with an 800 number? If the property is under an approach to a busy airport. The audience being, of course, all those bored folks in window seats with electronics turned off below 10,000 feet. Design your sign
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Here's what it's like to be 10,000 feet below a 2kt nuke (1957). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlE1BdOAfVc
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That's what struck me about the MIRV test photo the first time I saw it. Of course, the apparent straight lines are really just the far ends of very flat parabolic curves. Unlike meteors, MIRV warheads are designed to make it to the ground
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> what being hit by an icbm looks like Here's what a MIRV attack looks like (with dummy warheads): http://www.osborneink.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/MIRV.pn... With a meteor, the energy is all kinetic. With an ICBM, the kinetic ene
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> with it head-on and that must be what being hit by an icbm looks like I strongly doubt this is anything but a natural phenomenon. Actually, what's most remarkable is the number of video cams which have surfaced having recorded some as
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More videos here, annotated: http://say26.com/meteorite-in-russia-all-videos-in-one-place
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I'd be amused to hear Mathias Rust's assessment of that report. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathias_Rust
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There is abundant prior art on this one. E.g., one casualty of the dot-com bubble was Streamline, an online grocery delivery company. They called their version of the invention Don't Run Out. Fast Company raved about it in this article date
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It got the ⌘-sign on the first try (Place of interest sign: 0x2318, aka the Command Key).
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>Just like the printer post above, it's incredible how many webcams are left completely unsecured. Likewise. I started noticing that SO results to software-related queries were of sufficiently better quality that I started to qualify so
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>Just like the printer post above, it's incredible how many webcams are left completely unsecured. My guess is that making a webcam publicly accessible is more likely to be intentional than doing the same with a printer. Of course, if t
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Worked fine when I just tried it. Question is, what happens to those snappy URLs when more than a few (thousand, million, billion) folks discover it?
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> We've had computers and sensors powerful enough for decades, only Google have all of that maps data, polished again and again by android users using maps (and now Ingress) to make it more reliable. Of what relevance is Google's map da
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> Car companies will go broke when demand plummets. Just because it doesn't have a driver doesn't mean it doesn't need to be manufactured. Car companies will do fine. > Pizza delivery will not be an entrylevel job. Nope. But pizza m
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OK. So she wasn't involved in the instant prosecution. But she nevertheless is employed by the same corrupt organization.
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> if all acts were between consenting parties (obviously, beastiality is inherently non-consentual) Consuming a filet mignon is non-consensual (as it regards the late beast, that is). IOW, it should be at least as legal to fuck a cow as

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