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by olefoo 12y ago
Given that humans are slow, expensive and heavy and increasingly a liability in most combat scenarios and the future of manned fighters does not look good since at this point any "new metal" called forth by active hostilities wou
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by olefoo 12y ago
Given that these are people who put significant amounts of money at risk in unregulated and outright illegal businesses; you may be making unwarranted assumptions about their intelligence and operational security.
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by olefoo 12y ago
How about Chicago? [1] There is always the impulse to torture suspects for any law enforcement agency. We need to act as citizens to ensure that torture and the outsourcing of torture are treated as the grand criminal matters that they are.
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by olefoo 12y ago
Not everyone who thinks they are a "natural leader" should be given that sort of power. It can be a recipe for a loudmouthed strongman to drive a group over a cliff. Better to have groups of people who know and trust each other an
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by olefoo 12y ago
Well, it would make sense that if there were widespread cultural biases against women drawing attention to sexist behavior or challenging it; that those would be reflected in media coverage. But it would be rude to suggest that that might b
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by olefoo 12y ago
If someone you worked with were intentionally deceptive about the status of their romantic relationships how long would it take you to find out? Most people keep their work and personal lives somewhat separate for a reason.
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by olefoo 12y ago
This is like complaining about too much biodiversity. Accept that computing is a vast and complex topic, and that there are far too many ways of doing even basic things than you will be able to learn completely. This does mean giving up the
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by olefoo 12y ago
Just because a few very disciplined people can make something clean and functional in a language does not mean it's a strength of the language. PHP is great as a template language, but when it comes to manipulating data it's somew
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by olefoo 12y ago
This is why it's important to prevent fast-track legislation that would allow for congress to pass this on an up and down vote with little or no public scrutiny of the actual text of the treaty. It's a power grab, pure and simple.
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by olefoo 12y ago
My theory: Engineers tend to be biased towards solutions that are the result of actions they can take. Political problems are the opposite of engineering, often the best action you can take is an indirect and uncertain persuasion aimed at g
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by olefoo 12y ago
There is also the question of whether Chrome pays a "strategy tax" to Google. Where the interests of the parent company cause some features to be prioritized and others deemphasized.
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by olefoo 12y ago
I visited in 1996 and while I thought it was an impressive piece of architecture; I got the distinct impression that even then it had already ossified into a monument to itself. Which is really too bad, because the Arcology idea is quite be
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by olefoo 12y ago
As soon as he mentioned cPanel that was my assumption. A lot of the control panels are vulnerable in the default install and difficult to secure adequately. Don't get me started on database control panels, I regard phpmyadmin as malwar
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by olefoo 12y ago
First rule of networked application security is "Don't trust your inputs." It's relatively easy to deceive an app about it's location; easier if it's running in an emulator environment. And that works just as w
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by olefoo 12y ago
This is basically an updated and fabulously expensive version of Brion Gysin's Dream Machine [1] Gysin was an associate of William S. Burroughs and developed it in search of transcendental experiences. The original dream machine was a
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by olefoo 12y ago
It means that they are adapted to a much higher stimulus level and lose interest if they have seen something beforehand. Also that they are a conceited brat who is convinced that they are the center of the universe. Or at least that's
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by olefoo 12y ago
I'm pretty sure that the new agency is being formed specifically to route around some of the issues with how the FBI recruits and manages computer security professionals. Given that it's being put directly under the ODNI it's
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by olefoo 12y ago
Configuration Management - e.g. Puppet, Saltstack, Ansible, Chef; or if you're old school cfengine. They are good at bringing systems to a known state; but not as good for cleaning systems up. If not watched carefully, all of the cruft
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by olefoo 12y ago
Laptops, including Macbooks made since 2010 or so have gyroscopes in them. Originally for the purpose of detecting a fall and parking the drive head before impact.
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by olefoo 12y ago
Generally, if you tell someone that taking on a debt obligation is a condition of doing business with you and make representations to the effect that they will be able to earn enough to meet that obligation based on their projected earnings
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by olefoo 12y ago
Anyone who deals in data professionally is sharply aware that any single figure measure is misleading on it's own. And if they live in the US they will more than likely be aware of the broad swath of government statistics that are made
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by olefoo 12y ago
And Uber may still wind up on the losing end of a lawsuit about pushing drivers to take on vehicles based on false pretenses ( Uber telling the drivers that there would be enough work to justify them financing a vehicle for Uber usage). Ube
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by olefoo 12y ago
> in the US even those who don't use GPS technology are subject to taxes There is no way you don't benefit from the GPS system if you are a US Citizen. It's an infrastructure technology that means your roads are safer, yo
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by olefoo 12y ago
Something to consider; high-interest consumer debt is a public health problem. It travels with and exacerbates substance abuse, compulsive gambling and other social pathologies. If we view it this way our current permissive attitude towards
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by olefoo 12y ago
Or go to your local coffee retailer and aquire a french press and a grinder and start making better coffee. There are about 80 better ways to make coffee than a keurig machine; you just need to figure out the two things keurig does adequate
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by olefoo 12y ago
Thus the greater likelihood of violent revolution, or violent suppression thereof in the United States. Given what happened with Occupy the suppression part is well under way. The head of the NYPD said he needed to be able to deploy a 150 s
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by olefoo 12y ago
On the other hand "making all financial transactions public and instantly accessible" is one of the best arguments I've heard for pushing people towards bitcoin/blockchain style accounting systems. It would do all sorts
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by olefoo 12y ago
And that is a problem, that we should solve.
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by olefoo 12y ago
Except this isn't "bundled with a monolithic browser blob"; it's enabled by supporting WebRTC, and it's compatible with other WebRTC implementations. That we're even discussing this goes to show the tragic decl
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by olefoo 12y ago
So you can't figure out just how much land the county commissioners wife really owns... Literally. And if you should attempt to disambiguate all the trusts and LLCs and special purpose vehicles to figure out who really owns what in you

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