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by nasredin 9y ago
The "human" element in all of these computer-says-we-are-under-attack close calls is always a hopeless optimist with nerves of steel!
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by nasredin 9y ago
And have a great weekend guys! Adventured
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by nasredin 9y ago
There's also the dud rate that's a contributing factor here. --- IIRC from a recent article regarding potential DPRK artillery salvo on Seoul the civilian casualties are in the tens of thousands. South Korea kind of like Israel ha
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by nasredin 9y ago
That's because our system has checks and balances and a heirarchy. Kim Jong-un likely has direct phone access to the cammanders in the field, and through secured lines. That's the first thing you do, and that doesn't take a
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by nasredin 9y ago
Ukraine couldn't have used the threat of nukes WRT Crimea. It happened too fast (IIRC Russians used old school messengers to avoid Western SIGINT), and at least the majority of the population supported or did not actively oppose them (
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by nasredin 9y ago
General Brown: So they started doing psy-research because they thought we were doing psy-research, when in fact we weren't doing psy-research? Brigadier General Dean Hopgood: Yes sir. But now that they are doing psy-research, we&#x27
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by nasredin 9y ago
In case of goods from China brand name and model can be useless because a lot of products are just the same thing but just with a different fly-by-night Chinese firm logo on top. Image search could be useful if you want to find all the list
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by nasredin 9y ago
Finally my dream of getting my cough legally prescribed meds cough dropped by a drone straight into my hands or mouth may come true!
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by nasredin 9y ago
Apple cables are too thin and grossly overpriced. Family probably went through at least half a dozen. Never had a plain USB cable disintegrate on me IIRC.
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by nasredin 9y ago
In casino games the "luck" stays the same. One or two percentages (or more) lower than 50%.
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by nasredin 9y ago
The "vig" comes from "vygrysh" which is "winnings" in Russian (IIRC).
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by nasredin 9y ago
And when the dealer messes up the count you can have one hell of an exit! Very loudly: "Aha! You should have shuffled the cards! Messed up the count didn't you!" Sunglasses on and just walk away.
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by nasredin 9y ago
Probably more polite than when organized crime was involved in Las Vegas casinos. There's card-counting software called Casino Verites (IIRC).
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by nasredin 9y ago
This is the FIRST time when a "Emacs is a nice OS, all it's missing is a decent text editor" joke would be appropriate. If 20 years ago you would have told me we gonna have Vim inside a text editor inside a web browser I wo
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by nasredin 9y ago
TFA would have been more convincing if the author used consistent capitalization of products. Also his table lacks whether the keyboard is mechanical and the type of switch used. This subject needs more research.
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by nasredin 9y ago
Sorry for off-topic. What reasonably-priced DAC would you recommend? In the market for one currently.
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by nasredin 9y ago
Used in modern anti-tank rounds. The DSAT in the name of these rounds stands for Discarding Sabot Anti Tank
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by nasredin 9y ago
At one of the five MEGABANKS or their subsidiaries?
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by nasredin 9y ago
What's the worst case scenario Mr. Cynic? This is not Equifax-big so apart from the outrage by all the nerds nothing will happen and we will all be here next year outraged at some new privacy-raping revelation.
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by nasredin 9y ago
If you go that route, please set up hosts-based adblocking as a FU to the advertising industry.
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by nasredin 9y ago
So literally - and I use the word literally correctly - any of the thousands of shady, useless, scammy apps can get my name and current coordinates? The ONLY thing this advertising-surveillance industrial complex is missing is a sample of m
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by nasredin 9y ago
Twitter's UI is an example of this. It seems it was not designed with any purpose or philosophy in mind. It is not good for reading text. Not good for reading conversations. Not good for looking at images. I do admit that they got the
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by nasredin 9y ago
Do me a favor and check up on it once in a while. If it becomes self-aware, we may have a problem. I've seen this movie before somewhere...
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by nasredin 9y ago
Careful! If you combine the two evils you may crash this site! I.E.... Ask HN: Who do you bank with and who is your ISP and what do you think ab#€£¥NO CARRIER
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by nasredin 9y ago
No. You'd always be one step behind. Reacting rather than acting. I recommend Firefox NoScript RequestPolicy And if you want: Ublock Origin Umatrix
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by nasredin 9y ago
Only the latest version include this feature. If you use Windows 7 you have to go third-party. The older iOS also doesn't have it.
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by nasredin 9y ago
For Windows there's also: RedshiftGUI. Small, portable, sometimes a bit buggy but absolutely irreplaceable. There's also a .NET based one, but it's so slow it feels like you are starting Photoshop, so it's crap IMHO.
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by nasredin 9y ago
A bit OT. Please don't use .XYZ TLD. It consists of abc.xyz (Google) and the rest is exclusively used by SEO spam/regular spam/malware/scams. I block the entire TLD.
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by nasredin 9y ago
I wrote on this before. Somebody is going to be on top. Would you rather have US, Russia or China be the superpower?
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by nasredin 9y ago
You are right. It's not so black and white. One fact you can't argue with is Russian government is telling their people US is the enemy. Follow @JuliaDavisNews . She posts gists of Russian state-controlled TV. If it's not US,

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