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931.
by rdl 9y ago
YES! (I at least got to leave and spend time with combat units) The people who went crazy the fastest were those without "real jobs" (i.e. where contractors did the work and they were still in the force structure but essentially u
932.
by rdl 9y ago
If the vulnerabilities were real, I'd have no problem with a company using it to promote themselves, trade and talk their book, etc. The issue here is the vulnerabilities are very overhyped (some are fundamental things like "if y
933.
by rdl 9y ago
So, the access required seems to be: 1) MASTERKEY: Reflash UEFI BIOS (local access, or defeat the specific BIOS, such as from AMI) 2) RYZENFALL: defeats a bunch of TPM and other secure boot/etc. stuff. Even in 2018 a lot of this is un
934.
by rdl 9y ago
Or trolling for class action lawsuits. A lot of the language they used seems very legalistic and would invite FTC or private action.
935.
by rdl 9y ago
This is the slickest/weirdest branding for a security vulnerability that I've ever seen. There's basically zero information on the site itself except something like: "if you use AMD devices, don't use them, and AMD
936.
by rdl 9y ago
At some point go whitelist or raise thresholds very high (like, on twitter, only people you follow, or blue checks, show up in your timeline if abuse is detected, as a very rough pass. Could easily do something far better.)
937.
by rdl 9y ago
Rather than censorship, just give readers better filtering tools. This was largely solved on USENET years ago, has been largely solved in email (to a great degree) -- it's just Twitter, FB, etc. which seem to have a hard time solving
938.
by rdl 9y ago
(And we had the "yeah, but by changing two variables at once (vit D and ivermectin) it means we'll never know which helped, but since the ivermectin is one-time and the vit D has other benefits, who cares?" discussion in the
939.
by rdl 9y ago
Killing the demodex both helps with dry eyes apparently, and is supposed to reduce infection on eyelid margin (which I'd had a few times).
940.
by rdl 9y ago
Apparently my memory is bad - it was treated with oral ivermectin, to kill dermodex (which are the mites). The eye doctor, who has a journal article somewhere about this, is Dr. James McMillan, of Medina Eye (in Bellevue, WA). Expensive ($
941.
by rdl 9y ago
I went to an eye doctor due to blurry vision and dry eyes last year; he suggested both Vitamin D and Demodex (which kills mites which live in eyelash follicle roots). I took the blood test for Vitamin D (25-hydroxy) and I was something arou
942.
by rdl 9y ago
If you can find a ham-cram session (where a volunteer organization gets together and does test prep and test on the same day), it's pretty easy to go from zero to tech or zero to general in a single day.
943.
by rdl 9y ago
There are a few problems with pensions -- all basically forms of underfunding: 1) Underfunding due to shrinking business or region -- it's a lot easier to make your pension numbers work if people who retired 20 years ago are a tiny fra
944.
by rdl 9y ago
I had a bunch of bay area tech friends all become meth addicts while I was out of the country (2001-2008?). It was self-reinforcing. I think a few people on the periphery died, and then eventually it stopped, although I'd drifted awa
945.
by rdl 9y ago
https://www.theverge.com/2016/8/4/12369494/descartes-artific... https://www.wsj.com/articles/startups-mine-market-moving-dat... https://www.cnbc.com/id/38722872
946.
by rdl 9y ago
Why not just put a camera or other sensing system outside their one plant? (People already do this using satellite photos of walmart parking lots, etc. to get advance information about holiday sales.)
947.
by rdl 9y ago
Isn't "useless clock guy" also doing space himself, revolutionizing publishing, building the world's best in-home voice AI thing, a reasonably-sized online retailer and marketplace, a healthcare back-end, the world'
948.
by rdl 9y ago
I think it's in the other direction of causality "Puerto Rico was broke, so they passed all these incentives in 2006 and enhanced them in 2017". But it does create a lot of perverse incentives; it's a better deal for me
949.
by rdl 9y ago
The Puerto Rico tax is...weird. It goes up highly progressively on value (I think 40% over 40k), it seems to be different for importer/dealer vs. individual, etc., but the 2015 electric exemption is nice. (But, in exchange via act 20+
950.
by rdl 9y ago
I put in a preorder for the Workhorse W-15 pickup at CES (I'd been following them for a year). $1k fully-refundable, same as Model 3. http://workhorse.com/pickup/ 80 mile electric-only range is great, and it gets
951.
by rdl 9y ago
The registrar is merely the path to edit registry records; most of the ICANN agreements and registry-registrar agreements are structured to minimize exposure of registrants to bad/failed/incompetent/evil registrars. There are
952.
by rdl 9y ago
I hate people abusing ccTLDs for "cute" domain names. It breaks everything about how they are supposed to be assigned/used. The biggest assclownery was .ly, IMO -- an islamofascist rogue state (then; now just a generic faile
953.
by rdl 9y ago
This was an excellent use of data to convince people of something they probably didn't believe before. (I knew harassment was a thing, but not how cleanly it would be split along gender; I'm used to everyone being a target all th
954.
by rdl 9y ago
I hate those chat popups so much. There are better and worse implementations, but mainly the best ones are the least obtrusive, and the absolute best are not having these at all. Even if I did want to contact the company, this is not how
955.
by rdl 9y ago
I’ve been in a bunch of SCIFs but they were all downrange in centcomia and basically were tents or sections of a warehouse with a bored-looking dude with an m4 checking IDs and passes before letting people through a tent flap or plywood doo
956.
by rdl 9y ago
I wouldn't consider Ethereum to be "a little altcoin". While there may be a correction in the market, I don't think it will be "bitcoin vs. everything else"; at this point it would probably be all cryptocurrenc
957.
by rdl 9y ago
MIT has been in decline since the 1980s. I attribute it to hiring professional education people as administrators, rather than MIT alums as administrators and as equal partners in running the institution. The end of the Cold War and decli
958.
by rdl 9y ago
Because all of the problems with unions come from the "closed shop" -- the right to exclude non-members from working freely for companies. No one has a problem with voluntary associations of workers (e.g. ACM or IEEE); the issue
959.
by rdl 9y ago
FWIW, you can't share APFS formatted volumes via AFP at all. AFP is probably not something you should depend on going forward.
960.
by rdl 9y ago
Yes (and contractors, etc.)

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