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by ejr 12y ago
What were some of the challenges of carrying out these tests? And I imagine procuring the machine may have been an issue if the manufacturers knew you were exposing their shortfalls.
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by ejr 12y ago
They would have used their own machine in a controlled setting to ensure it's the machine they're testing, not the temperament of the TSA agents ...the University of Michigan, and Johns Hopkins plans to reveal their own result
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Researchers Easily Slipped Weapons Past TSA’s X-Ray Body Scanners(wired.com)
76 points by ejr 12y ago|41 comments
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by ejr 12y ago
Clay is quite a hardy material and the relatively small size of the bottles may have helped to protect them from ocean currents and debris that have destroyed larger containers http://www.livescience.com/47382-shipwreck-alco
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by ejr 12y ago
It was probably blown up there by "uplifting air currents" according to : http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2728979/Never... We have to keep in mind that, even at that altitude, there are s
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The first OS-agnostic phone(arstechnica.com)
1 points by ejr 12y ago|0 comments
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by ejr 12y ago
Try opening existing files. It's a treasure trove!
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by ejr 12y ago
The best way to know is to look at the code itself. https://github.com/wolfgarbe/symspell/blob/master/symspell.c...
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by ejr 12y ago
Good point. VPN would have been an obvious target. Medical services especially need to share data with healthcare providers to ensure clients get the appropriate treatment and that usually involves secure connections between locations.
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by ejr 12y ago
That says they used a vulnerability in a "Juniper device"; probably a router/firewall appliance. There have been quite a few vulnerabilities[1] in their Junos line[2], but any or all of these ones seems likely[3] [1] http:&#
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by ejr 12y ago
The flaw, as I understand it, was as much a result of their development and patch acceptance process as much as budgetary constraints. There were many complaints before and since of how difficult it is to get bugs patched and especially the
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A curated list of amazingly awesome PHP libraries, resources and shiny things(github.com)
7 points by ejr 12y ago|1 comments
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by ejr 12y ago
There are a large number of medical systems that still require XP as well. Many of those proprietary systems and programs were specifically built for it and changes are both expensive and drastic. Both frowned upon by hospital administratio
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by ejr 12y ago
It's an extremely difficult thing to do from a design and engineering perspective. The majority of office suites available are good, but different and "quirky" enough that the flow isn't seamless. The same goes for desig
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by ejr 12y ago
This is crowdsourced motivation and behavioural change, plus optional electric shock : Willpower isn't enough. Habit change requires accountability. You won't have to make the journey alone - Pavlok helps you find a partner
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by ejr 12y ago
There's some gameplay on YouTube of the 95 version for those who never played it. It's CTF on hovercars https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVeFEBCwXy0
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by ejr 12y ago
They had access to quite interesting cryptography tools as well, such as a cipher disks : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cipher_disk And see : http://slclip.wikispaces.com/Cryptology+during+the+US+war+of
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by ejr 12y ago
While useful for communication, recording via smartphone is still a tricky affair. This was listed on HN recently, and as soon as it becomes available, it may be a more viable option for recording video than a smartphone camera or even a Go
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Hoboglyphs: Secret Transient Symbols and Modern Nomad Codes(weburbanist.com)
3 points by ejr 12y ago|0 comments
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by ejr 12y ago
It's a fascinating problem. It makes me wonder, without zero, what paths mathematics would have taken. There have been civilisations that used math extensively without zero and I hope Ithkuil-fluent mathematicians some day would contin
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by ejr 12y ago
If anyone wants to hear what Ithkuil sounds like : https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c9/Ithkuil_... From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ithkuil
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by ejr 12y ago
There are multiple layers to the onion that is Anonymous. It's conceivable that she's familiar with only a few of those.
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Vacuum airship(en.wikipedia.org)
56 points by ejr 12y ago|59 comments
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NASA Live ATV5 docking(ustream.tv)
3 points by ejr 12y ago|0 comments
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by ejr 12y ago
Good luck! :-) BTW, this is Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/show . Note, there are guidelines, but as far as I can see your site follows them already so I wouldn't worry too much about them. If you add a new feat
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by ejr 12y ago
You still have another chance. I looked at your site and looks like you have an intro video there, but it only shows how to get started with the site, not the background of the site. Why not create a separate page - "about" maybe
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by ejr 12y ago
These ISPs all record their calls for "quality assurance purposes", so the idea that there's no record outside of the customer's own to whatever they promised is ludicrous. If we're not doing so already, I think it&
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by ejr 12y ago
Well, there's PHP Conference http://phpconference.com And also Northeastern http://www.northeastphp.org/ I don't know of it's too late to get tickets yet since these are late October and September
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by ejr 12y ago
I suppose the first step would be to discuss the idea. What do you have in mind? Who do you want to target?
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Repowering California for all purposes with wind, water, and sunlight [pdf](web.stanford.edu)
51 points by ejr 12y ago|39 comments

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