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by oasisbob 15y ago
Insulin is secreted every time you eat. It's not a bad thing, it's a very fundamental part of regulating your blood sugar. (Ask someone with type I diabetes -- it's a royal pain to control blood sugar manually.) It's released whether you're
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by oasisbob 15y ago
Lipogenesis is legitimate, but it's not the primary pathway for carb metabolism if you have a healthy diet. Glycogen is the primary way that blood sugar levels are regulated, and your body greatly prefers glycogenesis to lipogenesis. If you
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by oasisbob 15y ago
So those calories don't even get a chance to be used in their original form before they're stored as fat. Sure they do! Don't forget about glycogen.
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by oasisbob 15y ago
(UA employee here) Urban Airship also supports C2DM as a push transport for Android. The Android library can operate in a hybrid mode where C2DM will be used if it's available, and will fall back to Helium otherwise.
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by oasisbob 15y ago
Most US ATMs can detain cards. This can be done in response to a request from the issuing bank, or if the card is left in the slot after the transaction as a safeguard. I'd suspect that they want to keep the opportunity to seize the card un
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by oasisbob 15y ago
It's not comforting that they didn't take this seriously enough to pass it by an editor before making the disclosure. SPAM is a trademark of Hormel. A synonym for junk email is 'spam'. Whoever wrote this doesn't even recognize the differenc
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by oasisbob 15y ago
That's a good summary. To put it another way, this is really just a box that does programmed temperature cycling. This is a critical part of PCR, but there's nothing too terribly high-tech here. PCR is a relatively simple process. PCR is fr
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by oasisbob 15y ago
Unix time: Measured as the number of seconds since epoch (the beginning of 1970 in UTC). Unix time is not affected by time zones or daylight saving. I don't think this is strictly correct. This implies that someone could start an atomic
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by oasisbob 15y ago
I don't know what to make of this exchange, but I found it fascinating. (Starts at 12:15) Audience member: "I think it's important that Apple be perceived as different, 'cuz if Apple says we're just like everybody else, but better that do
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by oasisbob 15y ago
The FDIC doesn't have a fraction of the money needed to insure a fraction of the money... Sure it does. The FDIC makes an annual assessment on financial institutions ranging from 2.5 to 45 basis points to keep the insurance fund solvent.
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by oasisbob 15y ago
Johnny (& others) have been doing this type of thing for years. The classic collection is here: http://johnny.ihackstuff.com/ghdb/
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by oasisbob 15y ago
PCI isn't law, it's the product of an industry group, and is arguably more about the protection of the networks and issuers than consumers. There is even less guidance and specific regulation pertaining to the encryption and security of ban
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by oasisbob 15y ago
IIRC, OpenBSD has some similar issues with PF rules, and perhaps other configuration files as well. I can't remember if it refuses to parse the file or ignores the last line, but it's not a fun thing to bump against.
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by oasisbob 15y ago
Ahhh, you're entirely right, I misremembered. Fees aren't required at all under Reg D (not Reg DD, damn alphabet soup). The FI does have a responsibility to monitor excess transactions and prevent non-occasional violations by either convert
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by oasisbob 15y ago
I know of one major core financial provider that doesn't encrypt their home banking passwords either. It's probably more common than we think.
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by oasisbob 15y ago
Would BankSimple not work with that model? Debit cards are going to be a lot less profitable due to the Durbin amendment. There's still some money to be made if you can scale up, but it won't be nearly as lucrative. Interchange fees curre
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by oasisbob 15y ago
Recent legislation prohibits more than 6 electronic transfers from the savings to checking accounts in a month. IIRC, this is regulation DD, and is quite a traditional rule. On the books, banks account for savings and checking funds separ
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by oasisbob 15y ago
Delays in fund transfers are due to ACH network rules and processes, not float. Some institutions only process ACH files once or twice a day.
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by oasisbob 15y ago
Former steam valve monitoring engineer here. Out of curiosity, how did you go from nuclear engineer to being a lawyer? Or was the transition the other way around? Genuinely curious.
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by oasisbob 15y ago
Canal Street Coffee: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2625129
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by oasisbob 15y ago
2. At no time where the bank's existing systems compromised technically. This isn't really true. Banks don't view their systems as servers -- rather a "system" is the technical bits, plus the controls and overall policies. If a bank allow
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by oasisbob 15y ago
Some background: unlike PCI, which has very large specs for how to protect cardholder data, banks have very little mandated requirements for protecting online banking. Really the only guidance they've received is the document "Authenticatio
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Not since 2010. The Justice Department reached a settlement with Visa and Mastercard overturning this provision: http://www.nrf.com/modules.php?name=Newsletter&op=viewli...
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by oasisbob 15y ago
A nice free alternative to Hidden: http://preyproject.com/
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One core financial system I'm familiar with obscured the home banking passwords by storing them in EBCDIC. It's trivial to recover them as long as you know the encoding. It had similar restrictions, including length. The same system does in
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by oasisbob 15y ago
Another technique that I found handy when replacing a Macbook keyboard assembly: I used a piece of foam roughly the same size as the notebook, and stuck the screws in their representative places after they were removed. That model in partic
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by oasisbob 15y ago
He states "I have changed some details to protect the innocent." While I haven't tested any of the examples myself, I'd assume they're subtly munged.
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slashdot.org has been doing it for years as 'proof' though, so, congrats? Regardless, Slashdot isn't doing it now: ;; ANSWER SECTION: slashdot.org. 1704 IN A 216.34.181.45
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by oasisbob 15y ago
Need an example of how the data.gov team did some great work? Compare a search for "interchange fees" on the http://www.gpoaccess.gov/fr site, with federalregister.gov. Not only does it return the most relevant result in the #1 spot, but

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