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by pdkl95 8y ago
The most obvious use is insurance companies looking for excuses to deny claims.
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> how long until the Butlerian Jihad? It already started for some people. I personally know people that have made fighting against technocracy their long-term goal. Technology has been such a destructive force in their lives and is a con
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by pdkl95 8y ago
That "waste" is fuel in a breeder reactor (or other advanced reactor designs). Current (ancient) reactor designs only recover a very small amount of the usable energy (something like ~3% of the U235, if I remember correctly?). W
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Hidden Structures of the Mandelbrot and Julia Sets(youtube.com)
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Thanks, I will have to fix that, probably by trapping any non-printing, non-whitespace code, not just [\n\r]. I can't think of any situation I would not want to confirm past of text containing control codes, so it should be an easy f
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by pdkl95 8y ago
> a terminal will default to interpreting what you pasted the same as entering a sequence of commands Another reason why urxvt[1] is the best terminal emulator: the "confirm-paste"[2] extension. Any time the terminal receives a
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by pdkl95 8y ago
> spontaneously ignite Yes, gasoline will burn easily can auto-ignite in common household conditions. I've had the "fun" of running for the garden hose after a roommate made a similar mistake with paper towels soaked wit
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> If your hydrogen is under pressure, then simple containment failure can be the “spark” required. If the pressure is high enough[1], you don't even need to ignite the hydrogen; pressurized gas storage experiencing catastrophic fa
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by pdkl95 9y ago
> Use non-standard ports While I completely agree and encourage people to use all of your suggestions, this single step - not being on port 22 - has easily provided the most benefit. When sshd listened on port 22, I regularly saw attac
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by pdkl95 9y ago
LIGO's comments[1] about the 6 gravitational wave detections they are currently confirming (and related publications): [1] https://www.ligo.org/detections.php After following the major science experiments over the last
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by pdkl95 9y ago
> Javascript has been a part of the web for over twenty years. Almost everyone else already runs it, and has already accepted that risk. A lot of people without a CS background believing industry exaggerations and lies about security for
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by pdkl95 9y ago
> People miss the old, quirky, simple web of their childhood No, we understand that answering the question "Is this Javascript I received from a unknown remote party safe to run and free of any malicious side effects?" is unde
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by pdkl95 9y ago
There is a strong connection with rainbow tables. A common misconception is that rainbow tables are a complete set of hash values. What they actually are a method of saving storage space at the cost of making searches slower. The idea is to
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by pdkl95 9y ago
> Advertising in the nytimes over some other paper or advertising on fox over cnn are all examples of targeted advertising. "Targeted" advertising generally refers to the tracking-based targeting of individual people. Re-defin
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by pdkl95 9y ago
> they should treat it like a serious business and not a nonprofit. A non-profit organization can be as "serious" as any for-profit business. The only difference is the non-profit might, for example, be required by their charte
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by pdkl95 9y ago
> you think you can archive it and copy and re-distribute it for eternity Did you read my post? I specifically said you couldn't. >> You do not have the right to make new copies. Copy rights are separate from your property rig
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by pdkl95 9y ago
> If it's mine I can publish and monetize it. Yes , you can[1][2] monetize (resell) your copy . You do not have the right to make new copies. This ability is granted explicitly[3] in 17 U.S. Code § 109 (a): >> [...] the ow
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by pdkl95 9y ago
Your property is the copy on your computer(s) and the right to control who can make more copies. Once you choose to make a copy and transmit it to someone else (perhaps as a response to a HTTP GET request), that copy becomes their pro
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Gorogoa: The Design of a Cosmic Acrostic(youtube.com)
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“Rogue AI's” of the Present Day(youtube.com)
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by pdkl95 9y ago
> this is not why I got into tech, I don't want to read 68 pages of yuk One of the goals of this law and similar efforts is to make it clear that you need to consider the social, ethical, and legal ramifications of the things you c
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by pdkl95 9y ago
> markets We regularly hear people concerned about the hypothetical existential threat of a paperclip maximizer AI being invented in the future, yet this concern reliably ignores the AI overlords we already have : paperclip^Wprofit ma
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by pdkl95 9y ago
> not quite painful enough NAT was (and is) destructive and painful that some of us gave up writing network software in the late-90s/early-00s. I personally abandoned several network-focused projects in the early 2000s. The curren
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by pdkl95 9y ago
According to Reuters[1], "Facebook said the latest change does not have tax implications." If they are still paying taxes through Ireland for the profit they make off those 1.5b users, they seem to be choosing to EU jurisdiction (
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by pdkl95 9y ago
> Facebook Ireland Limited in Dublin is believed to have been created largely for tax minimization reasons. From a Reuters article[1] on the same topic: "Facebook said the latest change does not have tax implications." Is FB re
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by pdkl95 9y ago
I assume simple BFS and DFS traversal behavior shows up brightly in access logs, making detection more likely. Does it help to use Random First Search[1]? Or is it better to attempt emulating human actors (requires much more develop effort)
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by pdkl95 9y ago
Good . That's generally the only way the general public can counteract the abusive behavior of entrenched and powerful organizations. A common tactic used by large businesses is to stay silent and ignore public outrage, because the
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by pdkl95 9y ago
> With the push towards running all your apps in the browser for "sandboxing", the risk this poses keeps going up. Sandboxing cannot be relied upon a primary security feature; at best it's only an additional roadblock that
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by pdkl95 9y ago
Aka "Normalization of Deviance"[1]. Fix the minor problems now , or they become the new normal, eventually accumulating until a huge deviance from "normal" behavior isn't even noticed. The stories[2] about airlin
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Southwest Airlines Flt#1380 17 April 2018 Update(youtube.com)
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