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by jdc 7y ago
well, that depends on how much of a dent we think the full power of say - even the NSA alone (that's 9-figure/yr of SIGINT) - would put in the problem
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by jdc 7y ago
Your point that self-education often tends toward narrowness is well-taken, but I strongly disagree with the implication that any significant number of autodidacts are overrated in the way that your two examples are.
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by jdc 7y ago
From the CNET article: >> Typically, the lidar unit can spot things from more than 328 feet away. >> In this case, the company said the darkest of dark BMWs would need to be about 72 feet away before the lasers and ambient lig
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by jdc 7y ago
It doesn't have to be black or white. Why don't regulators make a third category of worker between employee and contractor? Such a policy could reflect what people are already doing and give them some protection against abuse.
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by jdc 7y ago
And the Leaf is 4-5 years newer
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by jdc 7y ago
Somebody should tell these "farmers" about sweet potatoes!
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by jdc 7y ago
Would higher precision of measurements help here?
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by jdc 7y ago
For simple shell commands like this, tldr is really handy. https://tldr.sh
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by jdc 7y ago
600KW / (1500W / microwave oven) = 400 microwave ovens See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilowatt_hour#Confusion_of_kil...
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by jdc 7y ago
This is blogspam. Significantly higher quality article: https://sattrackcam.blogspot.com/2019/09/image-from-trump-tw...
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by jdc 7y ago
It seems to me that the Navigator interface is a pretty rich source of info for fingerprinting. For instance, even if I spoof my user-agent in the HTTP request, Navigator gleefully exposes the real one anyway.
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by jdc 7y ago
Of course distribution isn't free, but it can be made very efficient. So it follows that people will shop around.
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by jdc 7y ago
You can use a generic OSS bug bounty market place, eg. Bounty Source. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_bounty
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by jdc 7y ago
If you are trying to avoid funding administration/marketing you can offer bug bounties for Firefox or Servo.
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by jdc 7y ago
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/to-google-tra...
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by jdc 7y ago
Absolutely. So now that we've established the possibility, the question is, why exactly is it infeasible to use our existing means to identify spammers. And what do we have to do make it feasible ?
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by jdc 7y ago
It seems to me the claim is that identifying VOIP subscribers is not feasible.
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by jdc 7y ago
I'm thoroughly skeptical that general acceptance means that JIT compilation doesn't increase the attack surface of the stack.
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by jdc 7y ago
Here's a kind of adversarial test of that hypothesis: 1. Spin up new voip company 2. Issue death threat to US President (or similarly powerful man) 3. Spin down voip company 4. Wait to see if/when someone finds out who you are
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by jdc 7y ago
Ergonomic molecular design & simulation
441.
by jdc 7y ago
even turn-key products/services to measure (by proxy or otherwise) GHG emissions would probably be a tremendous boon to enforcement
442.
by jdc 7y ago
For Android users, there's the NoRoot Firewall app, which works via the VPN interface.
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by jdc 7y ago
A much more honest title would be "'Old age,' as we know it, is made up" (FTA).
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by jdc 7y ago
You wouldn't happened to have a copy I could trouble you for would you?
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by jdc 7y ago
Somewhat tangential: I just clicked the "past" link assuming it would show similar results to the page you linked and man was I ever wrong! It doesn't search for the exact phrase, so many unrelated stories flood the results.
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by jdc 7y ago
The existence of said arrangements may be of some interest to the SEC as well.
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by jdc 7y ago
I don't think he's saying it's malice - just very one-sided self-interest.
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by jdc 7y ago
The original paperclip maximizers
449.
by jdc 7y ago
Honest question: don't pension funds also own a big part of the shareholder pie?
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by jdc 7y ago
Methane tax IMO

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