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by eutropia 9y ago
> Mandiant, the security consulting firm hired by Equifax to investigate the breach, said in a report distributed to Equifax clients on Sept. 19 that it didn't have enough data to identify either the attackers or their country of o
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by eutropia 9y ago
It was introduced in May -- Equifax was breached at least as far back as March. Given that C-level executives made substantially beneficial trades 'without knowledge' of the breach, I wonder how far back this goes. Especially be
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by eutropia 9y ago
Presumably the SEC will take this particular investigation of (possible) insider trading seriously, because the hack makes them look bad.
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by eutropia 9y ago
I'm concerned with the environmental impact of: "...farmers looking to measure soil temperature or moisture could affordably blanket an entire field to determine how to efficiently plant seeds or water. " Littering chips all
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by eutropia 9y ago
I can't believe this. Do you have proof?
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by eutropia 9y ago
Right -- and isn't massively energy inefficient? I think I saw an article crop up here recently that said a processing a single BTC transaction uses something like 5.8 times as much energy as the median US household uses in a day. Why
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by eutropia 9y ago
My favorite response to moon landing conspiracy theories is the counter point that we didn't have the technology to fake the live footage. It was actually easier to go to the Moon than it was to fake it, given the video technology at
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by eutropia 9y ago
If by land you mean 'burn up re-entering their atmosphere' then sure. But of course, then those same ape like creatures will just use the meteor omen as a means to justify beating each other ;)
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by eutropia 9y ago
An excellent point, there's always the possibility of something better: but there's time and energy invested in finding the better too, not to mention risk. Libraries are most certainly not going to result the highest utilization
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by eutropia 9y ago
Libraries have such an enormous impact on people that need them! It's as if you read the article and completely ignored all the points the author made -- musical instruments, tools, and art being loaned out. Makerspaces, computers wi
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by eutropia 9y ago
A fair point, I prefer well trained humans to inaccessible algorithms, but in this case the idea is that the automation includes certain guarantees of data accuracy. Besides it looks like there were some humans here behaving like automatons
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by eutropia 9y ago
What? Who said anything about buying with bitcoins? I mean recording the package tracking event history in a public ledger with the relevant actors signing events using their keys and hashes of 'trusted' info, and comparing that i
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by eutropia 9y ago
Maybe this sort of fraud becomes impossible if we had cryptographic ledger based delivery confirmation systems (keyed to sender, recipient, delivery address). Edit: Because apparently technological solutions aren't to be discussed if t
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by eutropia 9y ago
Or the spectacular (billions and billions) amount of real world objects and services traded for those dollars and euros at the margin, every single day, continually acting as feedback for their value.
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by eutropia 9y ago
Do we seriously spend 1 thousand billion dollars per year personally getting our asses around with cars after it's all said and done? Holy crap. That's more than 5% of GDP.
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by eutropia 9y ago
How does a large, slowly-spinning turbine materially harm aquatic/bird life after the construction?
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by eutropia 9y ago
If I were feeling vindictive I wouldn't want to reward a patent troll by making them multimillionaires. I'd rather sue them out of existence...
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by eutropia 9y ago
Donated, good luck Krita team!
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by eutropia 9y ago
I have never heard of this (Wide Band FM Siren Noise) and I think it's a fantastic idea. Why don't we do this in the US?
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by eutropia 9y ago
It's odd. We have so many government resources dedicated to offensive software weapons. Other comments mentioned Microsoft being more willing to support their OS long term than Redhat.. Why not build the capability within the militar
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by eutropia 9y ago
7/10 would have been more appropriate. ;)
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Many languages allow for assignment and instantiation on the same statement... I deal with this all the time in ruby and my editor simply highlights vars which aren't used later (quickly leading me to figure out if I had a typo) As for
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by eutropia 9y ago
I regularly pirated games before steam because it was convenient and cheap. Now I never pirate games.
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by eutropia 9y ago
Wont this also need gaze-tracking to be successful? In their video they described a manually moved camera. Is this technology compatible with foveal rendering?
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This is exactly the sort of thing I would do if money were no object, so I can't criticize them in any way. This must have been an incredibly fun project to work on.
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I think it would be great for every purchase of mine to round up to the nearest $5 or $10 increment and transfer the difference into savings, or have it be percentage based, etc. Having payments from clients automatically set-aside tax mone
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by eutropia 9y ago
This guy seems to think we've got that much time before all hell breaks loose due to runaway clathrate gun methane buildup and dramatic ocean level rise from both temperature expansion and glacial melt. I don't really like to thi
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previous!? why did you leave such a heavenly place?
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Meanwhile, I'm "just" 5B away from becoming the word's 324th richest person.
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by eutropia 10y ago
starting with not simply not offering a better deal to the first other person who volunteered...

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