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by s_q_b 10y ago
SPOILERS: Regarding the uncanny valley effect, the reality illusion isn't broken for me since it so much more realistic than any popular media depiction of infosec/hacking. A lot of the details are correct: leading spaces to omi
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It wasn't a misquote. It was intentionally exposing the absurdity of the your argument. The idea that anyone working on technology that could be used for surveillance is morally culpable is flat wrong. People have died because of fer
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This case is a brilliant reminder to anyone working in fiber optics that your work negatively affects the safety of millions of people in such countries at once. But seriously, deep packet inspection is evil now? It's an extremely us
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View source for the page shows an ASCII art comment... YOU ARE NOT ALONE
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IP Address Shown During Mr. Robot Premier Reveals Fsociety Website(192.251.68.254)
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Societal change, or "needed reforms" are accomplished regularly without indiscriminate use of force. See e.g. India, South Africa, the Civil Rights movement... This isn't even mentioning the regular and continuous reforms tha
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This depends highly on context. The Jones intrusion/trespassing test and the Katz reasonable expectation of privacy test are generally used to determine whether police observations from the curtilage (the area surrounding the house) co
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It's the old,"A farmer has three chickens that won't lay eggs. So he calls a vetrinarian, and he can't help. So he calls a biologist, and she can't help. So finally he calls a physicist. The physicist takes copious
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It is a far bigger waste of my time to fly across the country to scribble answers on a piece of plastic while someone stares over my shoulder.
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One reason for overdose is that dealers increase the potency of their product by cutting it with Fentanyl, and other synthetic opioids. These opiates, while easy to produce in a lab, are active in very small amounts (at the microgram level.
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I'm not really sure. In a modern environment, never have I been asked to solve a business problem with: No internet access, No configured editor, With massive time pressure, In a room full of strangers, In my chicken scratch with a fat
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Weev's conviction was overturned based on venue, if I recall.
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These days anyone with a few free hours and a month can become a "certified Scrum master." Scrum and Agile are mostly cargo cult imitations of the real methods these days.
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It's a good reason to avoid serious casinos. With the gambling law contagion spreading through the Northeast, it's fairly easy to find newly opened casinos.
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Pith is often a useful tool to expose absurdity.
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Yes, this is correct. The blinded player methods call your heavy hitters to both hot and average tables, so the player doesn't actually know whether their odds of success are heightened.
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I'm aware of it from school. Essentially it's a variant on the MIT team running tally system for blackjack. In the original, players are called over to "hot" tables, based upon a running tally kept by other team members
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They will toss you out on your ass for any systemic card counting that actually works, especially the newer blinded player methods.
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This is akin to ruling that there's no reasonable expectation of privacy in a home because windows aren't fully secure against burglars.
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The first advantage is that it dries up funding for any potential competitors. The second is that businesses face a sudden jump in their need for capital as they shift focus to their global operations.
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None of which matters a whit if Britain does not invoke Article 50.
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Once granted political asylum in the United States, it's virtually impossible to revoke. As much as pessimism is warranted, there are significant substantive differences between Russia and the United States.
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That's the problem with defecting to a country without the rule of law. You're always a bargaining chip. As soon as there is a sufficiently high value trade on the table, Putin will put him on a plane to the United States, without
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by s_q_b 10y ago
Oh, yes. My apologies, I didn't see this before. The risk analysis is here: http://www.oecd-nea.org/ndd/reports/2010/nea6862-comparing-r... In it, the probabilistic risk of a major nuclear accidents are
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by s_q_b 10y ago
Cultural criticism is not racist, and that word has been used for far too long to shut down far too reasonable discourse. Bedouin culture is primitive, in the sense that it resembles the state of earlier societies in history. It has norms t
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Ha, okay. Let's watch.
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You have to understand the broader demensions of interaction between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, going back at least to the Anglo-Irish war, and perhaps back to the plantation of Ulster. Ireland is quite literally the firs
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With every area save England flatly stating that they would rather leave Britain than leave the EU, I think the consequences of this move are highly exaggerated. First, there is a real possibility that Britiain will not exit the EU at all.
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"Able to find a job" sounds very easy from our vantage point. For the majority of people, it most assuredly is not. And that is the root of the problem.
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Actually, if you have the data, estimating failure rates of reactors is fairly straightforward. Just use a Poisson distribution, the same as calculating MTBFs for other rare events. It's the same way one calculates the probability of b

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