rando444

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by rando444 8y ago
There are a lot of good takeaways from this, and I think this is a great idea and wish there was something similar for my area of work. That said, in this writeup you fail to explain what you were building is. You kind of just start talkin
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by rando444 8y ago
Speaking of environment.. in this case, computing environment should be considered as well. If you're mindlessly switching to websites to browse them, it could be best to just block them on your work computer. If you really want to ca
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by rando444 8y ago
I'm pretty sure all databases have access to the filesystem.
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by rando444 8y ago
Some people choose a phone because they want to use it primarily as a communication device. Website metrics are mostly meaningless in a conversation about people who want a phone, but not a primary internet device.
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by rando444 8y ago
Unfortunately we live in a world where authoritarian governments still exist.
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by rando444 8y ago
It's not an interesting story, and his method of testing was severely flawed. There are tons of people that test these devices against chest straps online, and almost all of these bands give results that are surprisingly accurate.. or
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by rando444 8y ago
The problem with identity in the USA has always been a religious problem more than anything else. All legislation aimed around allowing people to be identified by numbers has been killed due to the whole "mark of the beast" .. &qu
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by rando444 8y ago
> When you look at all the stars in the vicinity of the sun, they move relative to the sun, the sun moves relative to them, but only one in five hundred stars in that frame is moving as slow as ‘Oumuamua. You would expect that most rocks
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by rando444 8y ago
The only difference I can see is that in the case of alcohol, biometric data is the thing you are looking for. In the case of telephones, biometric data is being used to get access to something else.
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by rando444 8y ago
If you read the article, you'll note that he was already arrested and convicted before all of this began. It's his sentencing that is being used to "make an example". Clearly this is done for political reasons to "
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by rando444 8y ago
The person they are swindling can go through their own authorities, and if the authorities in the criminal's country are alerted to his activities, they can go after them as well. Theft and fraud don't take on different meanings j
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by rando444 8y ago
Estonia was planning (and announced) something along these lines .. but the EU basically told them no. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-01/estonia-c...
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by rando444 8y ago
American Kingpin was a really good read. It's the story of Ross Ulbricht, the guy that built the silk road. It reads like fiction, but is a true story, and hits all the right buttons for me (technology, entrepreneurial spirit, underst
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by rando444 8y ago
Long read but very interesting story that I had never heard before.
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by rando444 8y ago
My bank used to do the tokens until some mathematician reverse engineered the algorithm proving it insecure. They've now moved on to certificates on your phone. You go to the bank, prove your identity, they sms you a certificate. When
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by rando444 8y ago
You just turn on auditing features in Windows on your file servers. There are many third party tools that can help you sift through and retain logs, but the basics can all be done with vanilla windows os.
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by rando444 8y ago
It's certainly possible that you did something interesting or clever to build this, but nobody here has any way of knowing anything about what you did. All you did was link to a twitter page. If you want to show off some clever coding,
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by rando444 8y ago
With the amount of tweets you're sending per day, you're going to inevitably end up saying the same things over and over to the same people every day. I don't expect this to be very popular. I mean this has only been running
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by rando444 8y ago
Digg was just a copy of Fark with a better UI.
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by rando444 8y ago
While there is some truth in your argument, you are very clearly only focusing on one-side. The problems that crypto-currencies attempt to solve are more to do with monetary policy. E.g. - you can't have things like quantitative easing
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by rando444 8y ago
You've never had something that you really wanted to do, learn, or get better at that you've never followed through with?
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by rando444 8y ago
Eric Holder neutered the DOJ because he was too afraid to lose cases. The only reason their conviction rate is so high is because they don't bother to prosecute the majority of crimes anymore. These days if you can pay an arbitrary fi
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by rando444 8y ago
I would say that's less about technology and more about location. Particle colliders can go underground around major cities. Telescopes like this are in the middle of nowhere. You need a special type of person that is qualified to ope
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by rando444 8y ago
Correct. At the time that I posted this 100% of the initial 20+ comments were under the impression that this particular indictment was related to Assange.
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by rando444 8y ago
To everyone leaving comments, please read the article. > ... suggesting that prosecutors had inadvertently pasted text from a similar court filing into the wrong document and then filed it. This was a copy-paste error from another fili
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by rando444 8y ago
The app has a feature that allows you to see where you are spending your time on your phone. This could be helpful to get an idea about time wasted at work vs. commuting by train or whatever. I'm not going to say it's super use
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by rando444 8y ago
here is a photo i came across while researching this more: https://news.sky.com/story/great-pyramids-discovery-sheds-li...
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by rando444 8y ago
I always like seeing discoveries about the pyramids, but I don't get the feeling this tells us as much as the article wants the reader to believe. the job of hauling into place the huge blocks of stone used to build the monuments may
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by rando444 8y ago
Just because the interest structure is different doesn't make it any less of a loan. If you don't need the money, and don't even have a visible source of revenue or business plan, throwing away $2k USD + 5% revenue on the cha
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by rando444 8y ago
If you don't mind me asking, can you share the 1TB SSD you chose? I have an 11" that I would be interested in upgrading, but was unaware there were compatible parts like that.

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