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by kilo_bravo_3 8y ago
>Without compromising the freedom to change operating system. Privacy, freedom, and security advocates seem to have opposing and wholly incompatible goals when it comes to technology. This attack is possible because the NVRAM is overwrit
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by kilo_bravo_3 8y ago
>There is absolutely no way the public can reasonably believe yay or nay on any new thing about healthy living. There is nothing new about healthy living. Eat plants. Drink water. Sleep well. Don't add salt to anything. Avoid sugar.
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by kilo_bravo_3 8y ago
>and now wants to raise your premiums by 400% because you have a "increased likelihood of a pre-existing condition". https://www.healthcare.gov/glossary/pre-existing-condition/ >A health problem, l
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by kilo_bravo_3 8y ago
I was in training brushing up on my embedded programming skills, which thankfully I don't have to use anymore, and the instructor told a story about a bug in a missile that was on the verge of delaying its deployment due to tests faili
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by kilo_bravo_3 8y ago
When selling hardware, unless you are extraordinarily dominant in a very large and highly competitive market (television manufacturing), care only about marketshare (lower-tier smartphone manufacturers), or have another revenue stream (game
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by kilo_bravo_3 8y ago
Caseta is the way to go. I HAD a mix of Elgato, iDevices, Belkin, and Insignia switches and outlets, added ad-hoc based on promotional pricing and free time. It was an unreliable mish-mash with varying levels of compatibility with iOS, Andr
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by kilo_bravo_3 8y ago
I initially thought that an "average american" may have included parents buying shoes for children, in which case 7 would seem less unreasonable, but the link says that children are included in the average. Growing feet, play, spo
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by kilo_bravo_3 8y ago
>Wow, I wish I was an engineer in that era. 25 years at the same company, 3 languages over 13 years. I work for a competitor to General Dynamics in practically the same field (as close as you can get in 2018) as Mr. Ray Livesay. Counting
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by kilo_bravo_3 8y ago
A Corona 1.3 benchmark between the i9-7980XE and the 2990WX saw, in that workload, the 2990WX 28% faster than the i9. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QI9sMfWmCsk&feature=youtu.be... Its power consumption was 19% higher
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by kilo_bravo_3 8y ago
That's impossible. Everyone keeps telling me that Apple is dying. At this rate I imagine Apple could lock the doors of all of its stores and pull the plug on its website, and it would have enough cash to pay its employees for decades.
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by kilo_bravo_3 8y ago
Title: TEARDOWN OF USB FAN REVEALS JOURNALISTS’ LACK OF OPSEC Content: "The real story here is that accomplished journalists would be grateful for a random USB device given to them by a foreign government. There is every indication thi
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by kilo_bravo_3 8y ago
11-12 years ago, Santa Margherita Pinot Grigio used to be $9.99 a bottle. It was a very good wine for cheap and wine hipsters loved it. Then after a string of stellar reviews in different wine media outlets it became hard to find at $20-30+
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by kilo_bravo_3 8y ago
My job takes me to Frankfurt and Brussels once or twice per year for four weeks at a time. Every time I am inundated by queries from the local engineers and developers about how to get work either directly with for my employer or any other
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by kilo_bravo_3 8y ago
>It’s as though Mark Zuckerberg woke up one morning and realized that the oily rags he’d been accumulating in his garage could be refined for an extremely low-grade, low-value crude oil. No one would pay very much for this oil, but there
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by kilo_bravo_3 8y ago
The GAU-8 could not kill T-72s, which entered service during its development cycle. Everyone fawns over it, but the GAU-8 only had moderate penetrating abilities against T-62s, less against the T-64. In order to "kill" a T-62, the
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by kilo_bravo_3 8y ago
Appellation protection is the lamest form of protection. Nothing is special because it comes from a certain lat/long. Despite the fierce objections of sommeliers, "terroir" is cargo-cult pseudoscience. Not being able to call
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by kilo_bravo_3 8y ago
I'm working on a team that is miniaturizing a synthetic aperture radar system. The amplifiers, processing, and data storage used to take up most of the space of a small cargo plane. Then it got down to four half-racks. Now it is the si
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by kilo_bravo_3 8y ago
It is also hypocritical for privacy advocates to purchase products from China. Their purchases directly fund a regime opposed to their moral positions, either through taxes and duties or payments to the many thousands of firms (like COSCO)
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by kilo_bravo_3 8y ago
My former employer, and I, would disagree. At my former employer they started getting massive numbers of returns on a product they sold. We exchanged hundreds of the devices and when the numbers got unbearable we started diagnosing the prob
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by kilo_bravo_3 9y ago
>We'd also need to avoid many of the privacy and security flaws that were rampant in the early internet, and for which we're still paying. How many third (and first!) party trackers would you guess were blocked by my privacy an
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by kilo_bravo_3 9y ago
I don't even know how some US manufacturers stay in business with how abysmal they are at actually conducting business. I work in aerospace product development, and my company has projects where we can source components from anywhere a
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by kilo_bravo_3 9y ago
So, if an attacker is already physically on your network, and they trigger a firmware update on the lightbulb, and they have modified your router's DNS to request a malicious site, AND they have set up a rogue firmware server likely on
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by kilo_bravo_3 9y ago
They are in your phone. 10 years ago it was almost impossible to find a phone with a battery of over 1500 mAh. Today the standard size is 3000 mAh. While the capacity has doubled, the volume of the battery has stayed the same or diminished.