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by epoxyhockey 12y ago
To be honest I was a little disappointed when I saw this talk. Agreed. The technical sophistication of the described spear-fishing attack was certainly low, using 10-year-old software and requiring the victim to enable macros, when promp
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by epoxyhockey 12y ago
In 1992, 19.1% of Harvard’s admissions offers went to Asian applicants, compared to 25.2% who were admitted to the California Institute of Technology, a school that doesn’t use racial preferences. In 2013 Harvard made 18% of its offers to
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by epoxyhockey 12y ago
Yes, that is the point of a motorized sit stand desk. You stand when you feel like it and adjust it down when you want to sit, and so on.
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by epoxyhockey 12y ago
$500-$600 is actually cheap! I haven't been able to find a motorized sit stand desk for less than $1200.
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by epoxyhockey 12y ago
For those that don't get the reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmeta
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by epoxyhockey 12y ago
Thanks for the insight. Rather than excitement, I am actually most disappointed in Apple caving into the PRISM scheme because I hold them to a bit higher standard than other companies when it comes to privacy.. kind of like being told that
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by epoxyhockey 12y ago
Do any down-voters care to offer a comment? Is it that one contests that Apple is a PRISM participant?
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by epoxyhockey 12y ago
Apple is a PRISM participant, as of Oct 2012 (one year after Steve Jobs died). I highly doubt any iMessage is more secure than a plain text SMS sent via any cell carrier's network. Apple probably offers a sexy interface for the Feds
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by epoxyhockey 12y ago
Yell-caps in SQL are gross. I write all my sql in lowercase. This may not be the right battle to be fighting. SQL reserved words have been written in all caps for a Very Long Time - it is a standard. From my personal experience, when I
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by epoxyhockey 12y ago
many condominium deeds restrict rentals of units in order effort to limit association fees Many condominium bylaws restrict the number of units that can be rented (somewhere between 30% - 50% rentals) mostly due to conventional/FHA l
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by epoxyhockey 12y ago
If a Starbucks barista wants to pursue continuing education for free , why would you ever argue against that? Especially when 70% of employees wish to do so? Even if they only pick up a single additional piece of knowledge from the ASU p
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by epoxyhockey 12y ago
Focus on the part about having a more educated population. Educated persons tend to vote for candidates aligned with their best interests, spend money more wisely, and commit less crime. More educated peers and neighbors will make your
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by epoxyhockey 12y ago
Comcast has large gray boxes installed on some telephone pole lines that are wifi access points (with an ssid of xfinitywifi ). They are installed in many cities across the country (including in NJ) and can be found on this map: http:&#x
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by epoxyhockey 13y ago
Yahoo isn't the only large company to instruct its employees to avoid mongodb due to it being AGPL. In my opinion, the only people using mongodb in a commercial setting are those who are paying 10gen for a commercial license or those
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by epoxyhockey 13y ago
I think it is very naive (bordering on denial) to think the the NSA doesn't record the contents of every phone call it can get its hands on, not just meta-data.
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by epoxyhockey 13y ago
I would argue that Wall Streeters go out of their way to ruin peoples' lives, not just careers, in the name of greed.
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by epoxyhockey 13y ago
employees low enough level to be riding the shuttles Yes, SF's banking-class and politicians are loving this. The middle-class is distracted fighting their middle-class peers.
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by epoxyhockey 13y ago
Many large engineering organizations have internal document collections that detail past research and lessons learned. Google may be the most visible engineering organization, but many quiet financial and defense-oriented organizations hav
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by epoxyhockey 13y ago
Using ssh as a transport has been my solution and it has been working very well. The sample command to do this is listed under the Troubleshooting section of this page: http://troy.jdmz.net/rsync/index.html
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by epoxyhockey 13y ago
It seems like every organization practices some sort of hazing or 'bootcamp' techniques for new people. It's a way of testing people out to see how they react and it also seems to be human nature to do so. No, it is not nor
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by epoxyhockey 13y ago
For the Bay Area, the charts on this page are interesting: http://sfwater.org/index.aspx?page=69 Particularly this chart on rainfall at Hetch Hetchy (where SF's water comes from): https://infrastructure.sfwa
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by epoxyhockey 13y ago
Not entirely unrelated to the discussion, it's the usual time of year where I get furious about the large financial penalty that I pay the government for being single and without child. For single folks, getting a house and deducting
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by epoxyhockey 13y ago
Urban planning 101 teaches one that bigger roads do not decrease traffic, they actually increase traffic.
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by epoxyhockey 13y ago
I was mainly referring to DoD workers. NASA is a bit of an exception since many aspects of what they work on is public info. The point I was trying to make is that I imagine that these brilliant engineers wouldn't be focusing their eff
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by epoxyhockey 13y ago
Make you wonder if our industry's mind share being wasted on web apps and consumer gadgets because of the profit incentive associated? Engineers that work in defense/nasa/etc generally aren't on twitter, linkedin or fa
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by epoxyhockey 13y ago
I agree with most of everything you described about power in DC. I do think you're showing a bit of staleness in experience when it comes to life in downtown DC. D.C., the city, also dies after working hours and on weekends. There&#x
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by epoxyhockey 13y ago
It is named on the map view (non-satellite) for the 3 highest zoom levels. I also doubted dmayle's allegation, but did find the label after a minute of searching. I agree with the suggestion that the label should show up on lower zoo
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by epoxyhockey 13y ago
This sounds like fun. Perhaps Gen. Alexander could be invited to MC the event.
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by epoxyhockey 13y ago
Others have also mentioned that many times the PreCheck line is closed, forcing background-checked passengers to go through normal security lines anyway.
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by epoxyhockey 13y ago
20 extra individual cars on the roads Those double decker buses hold about 80 people. Assuming a handful of people would carpool, we're still looking at 60+ more cars on the road, per bus.

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