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by cynwoody 13y ago
Where is it alleged that Google is doing that? Did you find a picture of your wiener on Google Images? What search terms did you use? Or did you take a quick snap and drop it on the camera icon in the Google Image Search box? I've not
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by cynwoody 13y ago
Assuming the sender is not also on Gmail, how does Gmail manage to show her ads?
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by cynwoody 13y ago
In general, you just have to trust your email correspondents not to show your mail to parties that should not see it. If, for you, such parties include Google's servers, then don't send mail to Gmail users. And make sure your non-
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by cynwoody 13y ago
Of course not. And they are doubtless doing something like that, because human analysts could not possibly keep up. The idea is to build a huge haystack, then go searching for needles in it, using as much automation as possible. And, like a
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by cynwoody 13y ago
I thought they got rid of the + operator a couple of years ago, recommending instead that you surround the formerly plussed word with quotes or use the Verbatim option under Search Tools. However, I just tried a search for "anagram +py
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by cynwoody 13y ago
Looking at Google's Search Operators page,† I see an OR, but no AND. I thought AND'ing was the default. † https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/136861?hl=en
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by cynwoody 13y ago
That, and they also have the Verbatim option under Search Tools, but using it seems to conflict with other Tools, such as date filtering, and also applies to the whole query, not just one or two terms.
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by cynwoody 13y ago
In my experience, as a rule, site search engines generally suck. And the exceptions to the rule often turn out to be farming the search out to Google one way or another.[1][2] I often simply ignore site search boxes in favor of using the &q
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by cynwoody 13y ago
One notable case in point was the suicide of Dr Bruce Ivins, senior biodefense researcher at the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) in Fort Detrick, Maryland. By 2008, Ivins had found himself on
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by cynwoody 13y ago
> ohio was just the first sucker that had to spend last minute budget to not lose it next year. Spend it† or lose it was my first thought, too. †And then decide what, if anything, to use it for.
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by cynwoody 13y ago
Not the latest ones. The trend now is to give a drone a flight plan, not to fly it. For instance, the X-47B is designed to perform such delicate maneuvers as taking off from and landing on aircraft carriers and performing in-flight refueli
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by cynwoody 13y ago
Google thanks MIT for granting permission to use this URL for the purposes of testing web connectivity. That's from Google's help page† on using their public DNS servers, at 8.8.8.8 / 8.8.4.4. † https://developers
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by cynwoody 13y ago
The last time I did a wire, it was to send a 6-figure amount to Washington Mutual (RIP) to pay off a mortgage. I logged into WAMU's web site to find out the amount and procedure, printed off the reply, and took it to the bank. The nice
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by cynwoody 13y ago
That's called one-point safety. One detonation point, that is. It relies on the fact that, to achieve nuclear yield, the plutonium core must be compressed symmetrically. That requires that all the shaped charges placed around the core
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by cynwoody 13y ago
I doubt it would have triggered a war. This was before the ICBM era was in full swing. The DEW line† would not have detected the expected armada of Soviet bombers coming over the pole. There would have been one missing B-52, known to be car
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by cynwoody 13y ago
FWIW, according to Daniel Ellsberg†, the switch in question was the pilot's arm/safe switch. I would think that switch would be more like the lawnmower switch and less like the other three switches, which were presumably operated
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by cynwoody 13y ago
Have we ever had an Empty Quiver? Or come close? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_military_nuclear_...
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by cynwoody 13y ago
Agreed. But the default should be to mask (or not echo at all). The option to unmask should be easily available in the UI, but it would be foolhardy to make it the default.
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by cynwoody 13y ago
I absolutely agree that there should be a "show typing" override. Ideally, it should be built into the entry widget as a clickable or touchable area. There should also be a key chord to toggle masking. There are lots of times when
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by cynwoody 13y ago
I agree, a lot of the time your code would be too long and involved or too confidential to post. So, what you need to do is boil your problem down to an essential few lines sufficient to make the bug happen or illustrate what you are trying
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by cynwoody 13y ago
I don't use Twitter the way it's supposed to be used. However, I've found its search function useful for tracking breaking news. E.g., you can get to see the perp's mug shot an hour before the world does. Or pull up his
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by cynwoody 13y ago
There was a special subway line, Metro 2†, which ran from the Kremlin to Khodynka Airfield, Moscow's downtown airport, next to GRU HQ. In the event of an imminent threat, the Soviet leadership would have hopped onto Metro 2, been trans
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by cynwoody 13y ago
> Living by $4.50 a day for a week with a seven figure bank account In Ron's case, you're probably off a couple or three of those bank figgers.
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by cynwoody 13y ago
There is little difference between the two, as it relates to kicking the bucket†. However, using "pass on" may imply passing on to some sort of afterlife, as opposed to simply departing the world. The phrase "pass on"
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by cynwoody 13y ago
Actually, the block in question is 192.168.0.0/16. But, yes, in my experience, the router is almost always at 192.168.0.1. So, your observation about fingerprinting usefulness is correct. However, if a rogue script can exploit an XSS v
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by cynwoody 13y ago
The whole point of end-to-end encryption is to defeat such hooks.
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by cynwoody 13y ago
On the one hand, fewer sysadmins means fewer chances for a Snowden to turn up among them. On the other hand, it means, should a Snowden turn up among the residual personnel needed to implement the automation, he/she can do even more da
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by cynwoody 13y ago
It's perfectly valid English. "Who're" is a contraction of "who are"†. However, for some reason, unlike more common contractions, it is much more common in spoken English than in written. † http://dic
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by cynwoody 13y ago
>Not to mention this was a fucking manufactured crime. Absolutely. Dixon was obviously entrapped. That is to say, the feds threw a bunch of shills at him, who said basically, "teach me how to beat the machine so I can do something
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by cynwoody 13y ago
From reading the article, the crucial point is that Dixon's clients told him they were going to use his training to do illegal stuff. Up to that point, Dixon's teachings were protected by the First Amendment. He should have told

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