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US Marines testing ball shaped “Bot” for beach landings(defenseone.com)
5 points by rbc 12y ago|1 comments
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by rbc 12y ago
The "Council's Assessor Newsletter" caused some confusion with their wording. The Internet Storm Center provides some analysis of the article: https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Did+PCI+Just+Kill+ECom
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PCI DSS and PA-DSS v3.0 drops SSL in favor of TLS(darasecurity.com)
1 points by rbc 12y ago|1 comments
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by rbc 12y ago
There is also the British R-class submarine from WW1. It was designed to be faster underwater than on the surface: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_R-class_submarine That one made series production, ten being made
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by rbc 12y ago
Actually, the USS Zumwalt (DDG-1000) is a pretty wild ship too, complete with gas turbine electric propulsion and Linux: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/10/the-na...
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by rbc 12y ago
Property rights don't apply to radio spectrum. Once that packet leaves the hardware and enters US radio spectrum, it's regulated by the FCC.
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by rbc 12y ago
This stuff has teeth. If you get identified by the FCC, they send you a cease and desist order. If you ignore that, they follow it up with a fine, $10,000 being common in some radio services. Marriott had to pay $600,000.
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Beware Stricter Drone Laws(nextgov.com)
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Drone operator says he accidentally crashed device on White House grounds(washingtonpost.com)
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GHOST Glibc Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Affects All Linux Systems(threatpost.com)
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Housing affordability is Blue America's greatest failing(news.yahoo.com)
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What the Us Airlines Can Teach Us About the Debate Over Net Neutrality(nextgov.com)
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Laser Weapon Demonstration Aboard USS Ponce(youtube.com)
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Uber Said to Investigate New York Manager Who Tracked Journalist(bloomberg.com)
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U.S. Navy Deploys First Laser Weapon in Persian Gulf(gcaptain.com)
61 points by rbc 12y ago|64 comments
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by rbc 12y ago
Looks like great material for a movie ;)
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Is Marissa Mayer a Vulcan-esque Data Queen?(bloombergview.com)
3 points by rbc 12y ago|0 comments
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by rbc 12y ago
Consider the array of new tube combo guitar amps carried by Guitar Center right now: http://www.guitarcenter.com/Tube-Combo-Guitar-Amplifiers-Com...
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Schools in England Are Teaching 5-Year-Olds Coding(bloomberg.com)
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Obama Comes Out Swinging Against Internet ‘Fast Lanes’(nextgov.com)
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Adobe spies on reading habits - Title is author emphasis(theregister.co.uk)
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by rbc 12y ago
Therein lies the problem. Waiting for exploits to be developed, before releasing fixes is reactive. More proactive code auditing could reduce the number of zero-day vulnerabilities.
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by rbc 12y ago
I think that home depot knew, or should have known the value of protecting their customers data. They should have also had some idea or their exposure to the threats that are out there. I think it's pretty basic. Any IT system has a co
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by rbc 12y ago
I think that Home Depot could have done more to prevent this. From the NYT article, it sounds like Home Depot managers failed to act on the advice of their own cybersecurity team. This is no different than when Kenneth Lay failed to act on
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by rbc 12y ago
It does sound like a Home Depot's management may have failed to practice due care in protecting their customers credit card data. That will be perceived as a failure of corporate governance and expose the company to charges of negligen
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Boeing-SpaceX Team Split Space Taxi Award(bloomberg.com)
244 points by rbc 12y ago|115 comments
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Pipes and Filters(blog.petersobot.com)
223 points by rbc 12y ago|47 comments
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by rbc 12y ago
True, but how many modern file system solutions provide snapshots for all users. Fossil and Venti will do that for you.
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Venti: a new approach to archival storage (2002)(plan9.bell-labs.com)
27 points by rbc 12y ago|17 comments
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by rbc 12y ago
I'm not surprised at all. The article focuses on leadership brain drain, but I think it's more basic then that. Really complicated systems are getting built and deployed every day. After a while, the folks who built the system don

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