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by ipsin 9y ago
You just need to find the "everyone@yourcompany.com" list and use that for an exciting "Please take me off your list" mega-thread.
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by ipsin 9y ago
Now we just need a scare story about how two similar-looking men could get a single passport using an "averaged digital composition". [To bypass a no-fly list, for example]
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by ipsin 9y ago
CDs are still big in Japan. https://qz.com/711490/why-japan-has-more-music-stores-than-t...
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by ipsin 9y ago
I think that's the idea behind http://www.cybathlon.ethz.ch/the-disciplines/powered-exoskel... It's really heartening to see what's becoming possible for those with disabilities, but as other commenters
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by ipsin 10y ago
It seems pretty clear that you don't like qualitative sociology, but do you have a problem with the rigor of quantitative sociology, as it is currently practiced?
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by ipsin 10y ago
Tech recruiters at cold-call end of the Talent Acquisition Funnel aren't offering you a comfortable job, though. They're searching on LinkedIn and offering you to throw at a company with Similarly Aligned Keywords to see if you st
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by ipsin 10y ago
The bug doesn't make it clear; was this issue reported to Microsoft? I wasn't sure if I missed a sign of notification, or if vendors are automatically cc'd/whitelisted on restricted bugs for their products.
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by ipsin 10y ago
If unseen swelling is a problem, couldn't you fix it with a simple sensor, like a fragile paper tape conductor that goes around the battery? It swells, the circuit goes dead, and that's the signal for the charger to stop charging.
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by ipsin 10y ago
Accounts I've read of this, no you do not get to drive, at all. They will take it into a back room, do things you won't get to see, and you may get it back when they're done with you, or they may keep it (example: [1]). If yo
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by ipsin 10y ago
If all that counts is the safety of your citizens, why would anyone ever be allowed to enter a country, unless they were there to perform a life-saving operation or a similar good?
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by ipsin 10y ago
Are visitors being turned away because they can't provide passwords for social media accounts? Using a local password safe (KeePass2, etc.) should be a great excuse, but I'm not sure what happens next. It bothers me that the US i
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by ipsin 10y ago
One thing that I'd treat as a "tell" for how invasive Samsung's tracking is: how hard is it to disable the Smart TV functionality? For example, can you disable the wireless interface, or will it keep asking you to connec
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by ipsin 10y ago
Because of the stated intent. This article recaps the times when our current president referred to it thus: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/201...
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by ipsin 10y ago
Since you pitch the USDS to tech people, please let us know: how free do you feel to speak your mind on political matters, or to effect those positive outcomes? Personally I've judged the quality of incoming political appointees, and I
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by ipsin 10y ago
What legal process -- or specifically, what court case(s) -- are you referring to? My understanding was that the owners had beat pimping charges [1] using a CDA defense, and I didn't know what else they still have to contend with. [1]
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by ipsin 10y ago
In Case of Emergency Break Glass There really needs to be a procedure for violating procedure, so that when higher-ups say "do this immediately", those same higher-ups can own the consequences of violating procedure, and so that t
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by ipsin 10y ago
I would love to see an explicit recommendation of "no disabling paste" in the NIST standard... so that I can contact companies that do so and drive me nuts. The article implies that disabling paste would run afoul of the NIST st
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by ipsin 10y ago
I had a bad reaction because I thought it was related to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MEST_(Scientology)
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by ipsin 10y ago
I have to readjust my own mental model of what it means to be an American. It's not the end of the world, but shit, what happens to the Supreme Court will have implications for the next few decades.
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by ipsin 10y ago
I'm no fan of ITT Tech, but when the author says "ITT was never an accredited school", that's not true, right? My understanding is that it was accredited by the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools (A
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by ipsin 10y ago
In case anyone else is curious, you can't actually play any games unless you have the Facebook Apps Platform enabled, and you can't play any games unless you share public profile info. What I can't figure out is who these gam
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by ipsin 10y ago
I don't even know what "irrational" means in this context. If I enjoy using the keyboard and think it improves my performance, even if I am mistaken, how is that irrational? Happiness is not a measure of efficiency.
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by ipsin 10y ago
you can't lie to the FBI if you are not formally interrogated by them This doesn't seem right at all. Whether they're recording the interview or not, you can say something that's false and material, and even if it doe
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by ipsin 10y ago
I was so confused by the chronology, particularly with respect to smuggling diamonds in a toothpaste tube[1], which I'd read about previously. What I can't figure out is if that evidence was actually retained and entered as eviden
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by ipsin 10y ago
I went with the "long list" approach -- it was just a single page.
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by ipsin 10y ago
I used the same approach last time I was interviewing -- keeping a wiki of "everything I knew or sort-of-knew about computer science" and then trying to fill in the gaps. At a glance, a few things I would throw in are: * UTF-8 (a
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by ipsin 10y ago
Yikes, given the sorts of uses this would be put to, it seems like the definition of a "high-value target". I would be terrified of running a site like this unless I had a lot of experience with resisting DoS and state-sponsored a
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by ipsin 10y ago
"than again", I'm going to blame Emacs...
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by ipsin 10y ago
Seconded. The headline calls it a "novel technique" and then the article goes on to explain how no part of it is actually novel.
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by ipsin 10y ago
If you're so concerned about having your webcam subverted, it seems like the first step would be to insist on a hardware LED that can't be subverted in firmware. If nothing else, it would serve as a canary, indicating that your m

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