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by flashman 11y ago
200 miles isn't all that far for a ham radio signal. I'm not trying to diminish the achievement at all, however. People interested in RTL-SDR (software defined radio on a USB TV dongle, basically) might like to know that ISS trans
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by flashman 11y ago
I'm not sure who makes me more cranky: Apple for apparently sitting on the fix, or Stefan Esser for flinging the vulnerability into the breeze for anyone to catch. Esser has his reasons - "Short reminder: Europeans are not allowed
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by flashman 11y ago
I found it interesting that reusable printing plates are called stereotypes or clichés, both of which then made their way into general usage.
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by flashman 11y ago
OP here. There were five of us and we all knew it was happening because it was a prototype for a client we were pitching. But we collected data from several hundred unique MAC addresses from the surrounding office spaces, including their wi
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by flashman 11y ago
We mostly followed http://mw2013.museumsandtheweb.com/paper/3817/ which relies on https://github.com/IMAmuseum/visitorflow . I don't remember a great deal about it as it was a prototype t
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by flashman 11y ago
I would like to see them cover Bluetooth and 802.11-based tracking. Most people I've talked to are unaware that their wifi device periodically sends out probe requests containing its unique MAC address (some more frequently than others
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by flashman 11y ago
As a data analyst this is really cool. As a user, it's terrifying to see how easily I can be tracked and quantified.
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by flashman 11y ago
Statmuse.com has a really nice implementation of this in their natural-language sport statistics engine. You can see an image here http://i.imgur.com/ukganMx.png ...or if you're in the beta, here: https://ww
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by flashman 11y ago
How likely is a startup to trade points for office space? As in, a different class of VC which backs the company not with cash but with a location.
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by flashman 11y ago
> people of poor character, but having the money, would make up any excuse to avoid paying Which is something to remember when you're a freelancer wondering whether someone will pay an invoice.
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by flashman 11y ago
> I can't think of any advantages a racist bank would have, can you? Banks can, which is why redlining was a thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redlining
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by flashman 11y ago
This sounds a lot like Samy Kamkar's USBdriveby tool: http://samy.pl/usbdriveby/ USBdriveby is a device you stylishly wear around your neck which can quickly and covertly install a backdoor and override DNS setti
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by flashman 11y ago
Well the robots probably wouldn't rape or pillage...
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by flashman 11y ago
That link is 'Sounds of Earth', there's also 'Greetings to the Universe': https://soundcloud.com/nasa/sets/golden-record-greetings-to-...
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by flashman 11y ago
> Assuming random distribution, there's probably thousand fold amount of off plane planets. For a star like ours with a single Earth-size planet at 1AU, the odds of observing a transit are 0.47%. There is a page devoted to this ques
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by flashman 11y ago
> When the conversation turns to Uber for "x," you can tell there we're out of ideas, that people are basically just trying to iterate and get lucky. I suppose some of them will be lucky. This is true - but then where do y
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by flashman 11y ago
An uptime counter would get people more invested in this.
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by flashman 11y ago
Doesn't spoofing the IP portion of UDP require a compliant network provider? I thought most upstream links would look at a spoofed packet and say, "Hey... no." Not that this makes it impossible, just more difficult.
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by flashman 11y ago
Site is down, here's an Internet Archive mirror: http://web.archive.org/web/20150520140301/http://williamdick...
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by flashman 11y ago
They clearly weren't harmless, human experimentation can always be argued to save lives (regardless of its morality), and such offences should be under strict liability (which applies whether or not the act was malicious etc).
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by flashman 11y ago
Posted three minutes ago: > All systems reporting at 100% That message comes up every day at this time. Is it spurious, or is the problem resolved?
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by flashman 11y ago
A classic of the genre: http://orteil.dashnet.org/cookieclicker/ And a place to find more: https://www.reddit.com/r/incremental_games
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by flashman 11y ago
More than anything else, I'm glad something on the scale of Pinboard can exist. Just a man providing a service he built lovingly, to a base of happy customers. > I am a terrible businessman. Only from a certain point of view.
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by flashman 11y ago
It's ironic regardless of whether Destin's aware. If he is aware, it borders on hypocrisy.
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by flashman 11y ago
How would this system approach, say, child pornography? If it is truly decentralised, then there is no way to keep such content off the network. But there must be a way for users/nodes to avoid hosting or encountering such content, o
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by flashman 11y ago
That link also illustrates how utterly hateful some parts of the Reddit community is. Being a Reddit admin must be really frustrating.
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by flashman 11y ago
> They really shot the communities in the foot by not giving them any notice or support. Reddit's major liability (and yet, one of its strengths) is the devolvement of responsibility to moderators. Without their volunteer work, the
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by flashman 11y ago
Differentiation between popularity and novelty? What a succinct explanation. Incidentally Twitter originally used popularity, but switched to novelty[1] because Justin Bieber regularly dominated the trending tweets list. [1] http:/&#x2
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by flashman 11y ago
This is very interesting but does raise the question of how to adequately define patterns. One would have to have a working understanding of the type of events that need alerts, and how they look on a sensor, as well as what type of false a
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by flashman 11y ago
There was a discussion about HOW it works, but not WHY they chose that method: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11279992/math-behind-goog... My guess is they wanted time to deviate less at the start of the smear

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