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by khafra 15y ago
Core Impact includes a module for doing phishing with client-side exploits. Probably more expensive than this, though. Metasploit will let you do similar things, but I don't know if it's packaged up nicely like Core Impact and the current
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by khafra 15y ago
I wonder if any competitive shooters have one. Combine it with a closed, continuous carburetor for oxygenating the blood like in Sjambak[1], and you'd have quite the super-sniper. [1] http://www.gutenberg.org/files/30002/30002-h/30002-h.h
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by khafra 15y ago
It might have--I mean, when Citi sells you fraud protection for your Citi account, that's basically insurance against either you or them being careless with your account info.
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by khafra 15y ago
There is an analogy: Locksporting. Groups like Toool and individuals across the world pick and design locks as a hobby, and have shown flaws in high-security designs like Medeco that were later corrected.
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by khafra 15y ago
I think your first guess is correct. Machine guns are owned by rich enthusiasts, brass knuckles are owned by poor thugs. It's implicitly discriminatory, although any rich switchblade enthusiasts are simply out of luck.
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by khafra 15y ago
Yeah, I pretty much thought that the Ruby for people who want One Right Way to Do Things is Python.
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by khafra 15y ago
I think it's funny that in most of America, someone with a permit can carry a brace of automatic pistols and enough extra magazines to mow through a dozen preschool classes; but brass knuckles and spring-opening knives are still off-limits.
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by khafra 15y ago
> In fact, would-be catastrophes have regularly been pushed aside throughout human history, and so often because of innovation and technological development. We never just continue to do the same old thing. We innovate and avoid the ant
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by khafra 15y ago
If you believe businesses will unfailingly innovate in response to incipient environmental collapse, why not test that belief by challenging them to innovate in response to sub-optimal cash flows first?
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by khafra 15y ago
As the more serious Singularity advocates also get tired of pointing out, a theory is not automatically wrong just because it can be shoehorned into the general outlines of an apocalyptic myth.
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by khafra 15y ago
I would've thought the counterargument is Cuil.
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by khafra 15y ago
I wish I could take cold showers. Here in Florida, the water doesn't get much below 80 degrees unless you add ice.
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by khafra 15y ago
Making predictions grounded in supremely well-tested physics is not egotistical. Making specific predictions about the content of as-yet undiscovered science without any evidence is egotistical. http://lesswrong.com/lw/gq/the_proper_use_
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by khafra 15y ago
Your call to action is too vague regarding the details and intended audience for me to part with my email address. The blog post is slightly more helpful--it lets me know that, as an apartment-dweller with only one electricity utility avail
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by khafra 15y ago
It's been over 40 years since we went to the moon. How close are we to mining asteroids for rare earth metals and meeting our energy needs from non-terrestrial sources? How long do you think we have to get it right?
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by khafra 15y ago
Yeah; I certainly won't be buying the first unit--I'm kinda surprised they're selling a 1MW installation. Most buyers for that would be institutions which would be willing and able to sue if it's a hoax. I'd expect them to sell the 10kw v
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by khafra 15y ago
Questioning your own behavior can lead to positive changes in your behavior. Questioning the behavior of somebody else who chose to buy an SUV can lead to angry ranting and even less safe driving.
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by khafra 15y ago
Work: 20 miles northeast. Girlfriend: 40 miles south. Not rural. I do try to cruise under the speeds where aerodynamic drag outweighs other factors, when I can. I wish the aftermarket for aerodynamic improvements to passenger vehicles were
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by khafra 15y ago
Your rejoinder to #1 is spot-on. Seeing Peter Shor comment on complexity theory or Peter Norvig talk about AI has made Stack Exchange one of my favorite knowledge sources.
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by khafra 15y ago
I have lots of weird one-off gmail contacts that I'm not certain I want to delete, but I am certain I don't want on my phone's address book.
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by khafra 15y ago
I thought it was more that HN doesn't have a sense of humor--it has a sense of propriety. The HN calculation for the worth of a comment does not assign a negative value to humor, but it does assign a near-zero value. Thus, a comment which
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by khafra 15y ago
It's easy to bring it down to a level where the vast majority of media consumers won't break the DRM, but you only need one to do it for each unit of media.
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by khafra 15y ago
The compromised product's competitors would publicize the failure--at least, if the free market worked perfectly.
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by khafra 15y ago
s/homonymous/eponymous Good observation, though--I thought the same when I heard that song for the first time.
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by khafra 15y ago
Interesting. Sounds like when gum is outlawed, engineers build non-gum-resilient systems.
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by khafra 15y ago
>> Want to shoot a war movie? Need access to military assets? Where did Avatar use current military technology?
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by khafra 15y ago
All his comments are homeless-guy rants with some twists--such as, whenever he starts a paragraph with "God says..." the rest is a word list with stochastic length and content; definitely generated by a script.
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by khafra 15y ago
What's the difference in cost between learning to discriminate between good lawyers and bad lawyers, and learning to avoid egregious legal errors on your own?
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by khafra 15y ago
The problem is attribution. Imagine if all an Al-Qaeda hacker had to do to start a major war was to compromise a Chinese computer and use it to attack a sufficiently sensitive US military target.
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by khafra 15y ago
Tampa only has stationary taco busses, except the food truck on MacDill AFB, but Seattle has had the mobile variety for years.

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