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by eksith 13y ago
Maybe that will work for privacy which we can also work with here, but doesn't solve the anonymity problem. This reminds me... Anonymous remailers have been around for quite a while. The idea being, you get your mail through a forwardi
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Arthur Ganson's Machines(arthurganson.com)
25 points by eksith 13y ago|2 comments
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by eksith 13y ago
Seems to be that the previous submission of the link included a backslash and this one didn't. The HN software may not take that into account.
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by eksith 13y ago
Problem is that many of the things the modern world has to offer fall conveniently between the short pauses of sanity we have to enjoy them in that 40 hours of work a week. And excluding work, we also need time for life as well. Things like
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The body worn “IMSI catcher” for all your covert phone snooping needs(arstechnica.com)
2 points by eksith 13y ago|0 comments
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by eksith 13y ago
Presumably, you'll need to take it out of the pouch to make a call. At which point, it will upload all it has gathered via nearby open wifi access point or, with the cooperation of your carrier, through the data link. If the carrier ha
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by eksith 13y ago
Absurdities exist just so we can observe the absurdity. This is more a historical curiosity at this point, but I'm glad that it does exist. Just so I can be curious about it.
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by eksith 13y ago
Oh yes, it's definitely on the paranoid side. I would argue that an old fashioned feature phone with the battery removed is a much cheaper alternative, but the point of these items, I believe, is more symbolic than functional. I mean,
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by eksith 13y ago
Store and forward any audio it picks up. Why stick to GPS when your location can be triangulated by cross referencing the sounds around you? E.G. A fire engine/ambulance, school bus with loud children or garbage truck passing by at a p
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by eksith 13y ago
There's one potential issue with this in that all electronic devices these days can store data. It may not be able to transmit while in the pouch, but there's no reason it could store and forward when you next come into rage of a
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by eksith 13y ago
The battery itself may have a transmitter built in if someone else got a hold of it.
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by eksith 13y ago
Not directly, no. But anecdotally, and on rare occasion, I've heard of legal teams jumping to conclusions etc... and really coming down hard on people who disclose to former employers. At this point, the option with the fewest risks to
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LCARS Standards Development Board(lcarsdeveloper.com)
1 points by eksith 13y ago|0 comments
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by eksith 13y ago
Resign, if you can. This seems to me an organization with a toxic ecosystem that's neither healthy for you or your co-workers. It's ridiculous that the strategy team isn't aware of these shenanigans and that tells me, the str
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by eksith 13y ago
I'm not too familiar with UK law, however, the ethical thing to do would be to reveal the vulnerability. It would be helpful to know how you managed to come across the vulnerability. Did you scan your own code and see the oversight? If
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The Rule of Three(codinghorror.com)
1 points by eksith 13y ago|0 comments
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by eksith 13y ago
Before people get too carried away, the reason why he's in trouble isn't that he was teaching people to beat the lie detector. This bit is very important: It's because he was teaching it with knowledge that the techniques wou
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by eksith 13y ago
Even a really, really good SysAdmin can't work around what's currently possible with network technology. You really can't serve beyond your network saturation point no matter how much "tweaking" you do. That's
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by eksith 13y ago
That can be both good and bad. Good because you get a ride very quickly. It's bad because you have no idea... * Who your driver is * How long h/she's been driving * If there's a camera in the taxi (for your own p
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by eksith 13y ago
The situation is pretty much identical in Sri Lanka. If you don't know the right people or don't grease the right wheels, whatever proposal you have is pretty much DOA. Spend cash. Make friends. Then, carry on with your business.
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by eksith 13y ago
A sobering factoid : Cook County itself has had 92 known exonerations since 1989 – far more than any other county in the country — and, as we saw in 2001, it has a special affinity for false confessions. Nearly 40 percent of Cook
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by eksith 13y ago
Am I the only one who feels that it's ridiculous PG even had to make this post? I mean the original story was such a bag of hot air and insinuation. It's objectively better for entrepreneurs to communicate as clearly as possible.
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Salesforce confirms 200 more job cuts(cbc.ca)
1 points by eksith 13y ago|0 comments
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by eksith 13y ago
The content may keep coming up because the individual user pages do show the non-obscured content linking back to the parent question. Observe, please... I made this search : https://www.google.com/search?q=python+vs+php+quo
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by eksith 13y ago
Not according to Matt Cutts : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHtnfOgp65Q "Cloaking is essentially serving different content to users than Googlebot". I'm a user who cannot view Quora content that Googlebot h
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by eksith 13y ago
Obscuring content to non-bot users is still cloaking, I believe. Google's goal is to mimic a human user clicking through links and if the experience the bot gets is markedly different than others, that's a problem.
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by eksith 13y ago
"There is a lot of high-grade corporate software being written in Java for the browser..." The problem is the less than stellar sandboxing which allows non-high-grade software of dubious origin and function to run arbitrary code v
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by eksith 13y ago
I thought I didn't have enough coffee! I had a double take at that too: H(1), He(2), Li(2), Be(4). Didn't even notice the other errors until you pointed them out.
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by eksith 13y ago
I second this. I've really underestimated how big an impact first impressions can leave, especially when dealing with completely unfamiliar tools. My first intro to Vim could be called "haphazard" at best because I was presse
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Anti-patent-troll ads launch on radio and print in 15 states(arstechnica.com)
5 points by eksith 13y ago|0 comments

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