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Keybase Client(tbray.org)
3 points by gvb 12y ago|0 comments
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“DarkHotel” uses bogus crypto certificates to snare Wi-Fi-connected execs(arstechnica.com)
1 points by gvb 12y ago|0 comments
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Agility is about Accuracy(spin.atomicobject.com)
2 points by gvb 12y ago|0 comments
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How You Can Help Reduce CPU Usage in Mesa(itsqueeze.com)
2 points by gvb 12y ago|0 comments
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Smart Meters Kill Wifi, Not People(smartdatacollective.com)
4 points by gvb 12y ago|0 comments
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by gvb 12y ago
To those wondering, like me, it looks like a spinoff nonprofit from/with DIYdrones. http://diydrones.com/profiles/blogs/introducing-the-dronecod...
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by gvb 12y ago
It is extremely likely it is the hypergolic fuel used for the on-orbit manoeuvring rockets. Hypergolic fuel is really nasty stuff. It is likely the same rocket fuel (maybe the same rockets) as used by the space shuttle (OMS). http:/&
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by gvb 12y ago
There is a Macintosh in the background of the picture "JUST KIDS Gates and former C.E.O. Steve Ballmer at Microsoft’s offices in Bellevue, 1985." Not unexpected given the date and the relationship between Apple and Microsoft at th
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by gvb 12y ago
"Course and speed" are necessary, even vital, but not sufficient. Two airline pilots fell asleep while cruising over Hawaii last February, flying past their destination toward open ocean for 18 minutes before waking up and return
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by gvb 12y ago
...and the reverse liability implications: "My spouse had an asthma attack and their car didn't pull over safely, so it is the [car manufacturer]'s fault that they crashed into a tree and died."
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by gvb 12y ago
Oh man, the vulnerabilities of using likely untrustable networked sensors for safety critical operations boggle the mind. While the sensors theoretically could be made trustable, for some level of trust, I would be very wary of trusting at
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by gvb 12y ago
You need to read the claims of the patent - it isn't patenting payments over NFC, it is on ways of recovering on NFC communications failures. That still doesn't seem novel, but that is a different topic to argue than payment over
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by gvb 12y ago
Claim 1, 8, and 15, on which the other claims are based, indicates the patent applies to how the system recovers from NFC failures, not the NFC payment mechanism itself. The other claims cover ways of diddling (mostly hardware) parameters
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Galileo launch failure blamed on frozen Fregat fuel line(spaceflightnow.com)
2 points by gvb 12y ago|0 comments
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by gvb 12y ago
[F]or vast majority of people, consumption power is THE most important indicator of quality of life, NOT healthcare, NOT social welfare system and NOT even democratic political system. The mark-up is the cost of healthcare and other socia
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by gvb 12y ago
Sending a packet that exceeded the 65535 byte maximum packet size (via fragmentation and reassembly). This would cause a reassembly buffer overflow. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ping_of_death
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Life Changing Tech(tbray.org)
3 points by gvb 12y ago|0 comments
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by gvb 12y ago
Máirín Duffy's blog post on the book with the background, two formats, source, licensing, etc. http://blog.linuxgrrl.com/2014/04/16/the-selinux-coloring-bo...
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by gvb 12y ago
Yes but no. All you would have had was a captcha image, you have no way of knowing it was the Silk Road captcha image. If you scan the internet, you will find millions of captcha images. The FBI went the other way: they had the SR logi
860.
by gvb 12y ago
The site was misconfigured WRT serving the captcha image resulting in the image link pointing directly to the SR server rather than being routed through TOR.
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by gvb 12y ago
For #10, "delete" is insufficient. Make sure you use a secure delete. Standard deletes mark the file as "deleted", but leave the data on the file system where it can potentially be recovered by an "undelete" u
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by gvb 12y ago
The 777 was rated for ETOPS 180 minutes initially, increased to 207 minutes, and then to 330 minutes (5 1/2 hours) in 2011. It can use its range. Ref: http://aviationweek.com/awin/faa-extends-777-etops-approval
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by gvb 12y ago
Ref: http://www.anandtech.com/show/5770/lava-xolo-x900-review-the...
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by gvb 12y ago
Normalization is nice for a mental exercise, but I cannot buy a normalized phone with a normalized i7 that fits in my normalized pocket. Engineering is the art of trade-offs and the i7 has traded off size and power to achieve speed. That
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by gvb 12y ago
This is an extension that does copy and paste. Your complaint may be valid, but not for this extension.
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Doodles with Meaning – The Art of Sketchnoting(spin.atomicobject.com)
1 points by gvb 12y ago|0 comments
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Ruby Queue Pop with Timeout(spin.atomicobject.com)
1 points by gvb 12y ago|0 comments
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by gvb 12y ago
Unconditional surrender is what terrorist organizations want, and they will wage war without end until they achieve it. The problem with peace is that it is symmetrical. Everybody has to agree to peace before it will happen. War is asymme
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by gvb 12y ago
I doubt 4-6 hours extra per day (13-14 hour days) is typical. Aside from that quibble, look at it from both sides: The company spends a few hundred dollars a week on meals and gets 5-10x return on that money. Everybody agrees this is a g
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by gvb 12y ago
The closing paragraph: Media attention has focused, not unreasonably, on ISIS’s use of social media to spread pictures of graphic violence, attract new fighters, and incite lone wolves. But it’s important to recognize that these activities

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