ericgearhart

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by ericgearhart 14y ago
As someone who has worked on the "other side of the aisle" (I worked at a healthcare startup as a production support and network engineer) I'd say absolutely, you should try to learn as much as you can about secure coding practices. Trying
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by ericgearhart 15y ago
I believe you mean "White Hat Hacker"... I think everyone gets the gist of what you mean but just wanted to clarify in case someone's thinking you're a racist hating on "Whitie" or something :)
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by ericgearhart 15y ago
SOPA is but a battle in a war. The "war" is the corruption in the US Congress. Go check out what Larry Lessig is doing nowadays... he's trying to fight the war, not the battle. His comments on why he's "MIA" in the SOPA battle (despite bein
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by ericgearhart 15y ago
What's the information security posture on these things like? What I mean is, what was considered "secure" in 1977 (DES based encryption was state of the art back then, right?) would be considered laughable today... I wonder what precaution
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by ericgearhart 15y ago
Your grandfather was absolutely right... this post reminded me of something too in fact. Every single time I go into a doctor's office or a waiting room I look for a Smithsonian Magazine, because of how well it's written and the random cros
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by ericgearhart 15y ago
I think the "creepy" factor of the images is probably due to the "uncanny valley"... Pixar fought this effect when they were first rendering humans "The uncanny valley is a hypothesis in the field of robotics and 3D computer animation, whic
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by ericgearhart 15y ago
Well put sir. I "grew up" on Slashdot as well (started reading circa 1998 as I recall) and although it's definitely declined, there was a "golden age" of Slashdot when the comments were far more interesting than the articles, which made the