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by dm2 12y ago
That's what this article says: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/17/us-ukraine-crash-a... What is a "Pro-Russian militant"? At what point are they considered part of the Russian armed
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by dm2 12y ago
Does anyone have any idea what types of terrorist controlled surface-to-air missiles would be able to take out this aircraft? Would any of these systems have prevented it? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_Grumman_G
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by dm2 12y ago
This article isn't very clear to me but I think it's suggesting that people use something like "googlemail-snoopy2" as a password rather than just snoopy2. Any hacker or security researcher would say that a alphanumeric
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by dm2 12y ago
I think this comment broke something on HN... http://imgur.com/Li2VRe8 I've never seen a comment in the list of articles before. (I didn't flag it for deletion, just so that an admin could take a look at it the bu
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by dm2 12y ago
You could create a recording and just loop it. Just an experiment.
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by dm2 12y ago
I wonder if it's possible to put a retention department person into an infinite loop by answering their questions a certain way.
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by dm2 12y ago
Ohhh, very nice, it looks like that data does exist publicly. I'm imagining a more consolidated view with filtering / sorting, I might work on building that in the next week or two if I have some free time and see if it's use
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by dm2 12y ago
Yep, that's certainly a start. It doesn't really show the difference in success between companies like Reddit, Stripe, Loopt, and TextPayMe.
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by dm2 12y ago
It wouldn't be too difficult to pay someone a minimal amount to maintain a very detailed spreadsheet of every company that passes through YCombinator and record every stat they can find (and attempt to track how that changes over time)
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by dm2 12y ago
The Monarch Butterfly uses it when the sun isn't available: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monarch_butterfly#Migratory_The... Apparently it "sees" the magnetic fields, but it also relies on the sun. I do
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by dm2 12y ago
It sounds like a relatively gradual process, animals might be able to adapt quickly, they've done it before.
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by dm2 12y ago
"Still, there is no evidence that a weakened magnetic field would result in a doomsday for Earth."... "Researchers think power grids and communication systems would be most at risk." Somebody give it to me strait, do I n
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by dm2 12y ago
It's generally best to leave features out, then only add them when it's determined to be necessary. If they had that from the start and later decided to remove it, people would go insane.
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by dm2 12y ago
"Am I being Punked?" Haha.
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by dm2 12y ago
There are crazy and evil people in the world who are determined to harm society and other innocent people, and part of the FBI's job is to help prevent this. The acceptable cost is debatable. If the FBI investigates 500,000 people and
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by dm2 12y ago
Everything you said is very true from what I've seen. I would suggest against a PhD in CS right now unless you know exactly where you want to work and that they require that kind of degree, or if you want to be a teacher then a PhD is
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by dm2 12y ago
I would argue that we are not qualified to make that assumption but the FBI agents in question are. There could have easily been a small fact or incident in the past with the author of the article that raised a red-flag for the agents. Ther
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by dm2 12y ago
There is such thing as being over-qualified for many jobs. Just because you have the degree doesn't mean you are skilled enough to warrant the type of pay someone with a PhD would demand. Social skills or management skills could be lac
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by dm2 12y ago
More transparency and punishment for abuse of power would go a long way. Law enforcement releasing details about investigation statistics would do much more good for the country than keeping it secret in effort to prevent criminals from lea
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by dm2 12y ago
When the FBI investigates someone from a tip that isn't very obviously a serious threat they do not treat the person being investigated like a criminal, that's half of what I wrote above. Many times if they want an extended chat t
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by dm2 12y ago
I'm sure the FBI understands the concept of prioritizing leads when/if they get overloaded. There are generally field offices in most major cities so I doubt they had to travel across the country or anything.
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by dm2 12y ago
No, reports from a security guard is the kind of instance I am referring to. If the security guard had said "an older man wanted to take pictures of this art-work which happens to be a common natural-gas storage tank, he didn't ap
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by dm2 12y ago
Reworded that sentence, thanks, I didn't know that was a possible issue, was a little ticked off after typing a long thoughtful response only to see it instantly down-voted before anyone could have possibly had a chance to read it.
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by dm2 12y ago
We don't know what the security guard told the FBI. I'd be willing to bet that if a security guard bothers to report a 72 year old with a high-quality camera for taking pictures of obvious artwork to the FBI that the guard exagger
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by dm2 12y ago
The "hide known file extensions" default option should have been around less than a month before someone realize, "this is very insecure". The fact that it's been around for over a decade is just lame.
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by dm2 12y ago
I have nothing at stake in these launches but every one of them makes me nervous, I almost can't watch them. At any moment, boom. The launch video was beautiful though, the water vaporizing and forming a could around the rocket is awes
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by dm2 12y ago
Hahaha, in the right setting (on The IT Crowd for instance) that would be hilarious. "What is your IP address?" "Twelve." The fact that they were being serious and the that it has very little to do with HN made me flag
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by dm2 12y ago
About 30 tabs total, 3 profiles, 2 separate gmails, a few google documents, a couple of privacy extensions, lastpass, a few youtube videos paused. On a busy day I'll have twice that many tabs open, maybe more. Chrome does a lot of cach
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by dm2 12y ago
Wikipedia says it was released at the end of 2011. Their target market for that application might have extraordinarily low-end computers (non-tech people who haven't bothered upgrading). It looks like they still support Windows 98 user
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by dm2 12y ago
"Well, unless AOL messes up my email inbox again:" I thought that was a joke at first, but apparently they are owned by AOL. Are techcrunch employees required to use AOL Desktop? It looks the same as it did in 1998 http:/&#x

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