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by sandworm 12y ago
We already have one. Look at the NSA's budget. Look at the money being shoveled into Microsoft/Google/Apple. All the people in position to fix things are positively flush with cash. And off in the corner, a few non-paid de
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by sandworm 12y ago
Wasn't Anthem was attacked by super-chinese state-sponsored ninja hackers? That;s what bloomberg was saying. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-02-05/signs-of-c...
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by sandworm 12y ago
"Sophisticated attack" = Norton Antivirus didn't stop it. "Chinese" = we saw an Asian IP address. "state-sponsored hackers" = This is war! "Sophisticated attack by Chinese state-sponsored hackers&quot
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by sandworm 12y ago
A DRM exception for farmers? Why them and not the rest of us? Farmers are the classic American go-to for everything politics. Be it guns, corn in Coke, pollution standards, healthcare, immigration ... everyone is ready to pity the poor fa
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by sandworm 12y ago
Is it safe to assume that some meteor impact in the distant past must have had a taller wave, something measured in kilometres?
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by sandworm 12y ago
This was discussed in my geology course at UBC. The prof was adamant that this was not a "true" tsunami, that it was a product of specific geology/geometry rather than a true sea-born wave triggered by geological-scale event
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by sandworm 12y ago
Does anyone really find it surprising that close instruction by people of similar age, who actually know math, made a difference? I remember my math teachers. I remember them talking down to us. I remember teaching myself how to handle q
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by sandworm 12y ago
Almost. They exist to promote their part of the industry. They don't exist to support football generally and take many steps to put down possibly competitive leagues, such as using tricks to forbid players from moving to other league
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by sandworm 12y ago
General descriptions are fine, but saying that a particular person (ie "you" or "the public") is allowed to do something in relation to another (the NFL) boarders on specific advice. There is a difference between explai
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by sandworm 12y ago
Be careful when taking legal advice from websites. Ethical rules would probably bar an attorney from writing such an article. (Advice to potentially out of jurisdiction and/or unknown clients, online advice is a tricky thing for bar
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by sandworm 12y ago
The con is not on us. He is not conning the public. He is not trying to get a science foundation grant. The targets are aging millionaires who lack science education. The US (Florida) is full of people who made millions on the rise real
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by sandworm 12y ago
It's not about winning wars or even predicting crime. It's about having the knowledge to control events to your advantage. Intelligence agencies are tasked with questions like "If Russia invades the rest of Ukraine, how will
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by sandworm 12y ago
Public defenders don't do much research. Remember that the vast majority of criminal cases will not see trial, or often even a courtroom.
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by sandworm 12y ago
Perhaps, if you are the 1% of lawyers who are associates at big law firms doing appellate-level research. They basically the same job as law students do in LRW class, pulling hundreds of quasi-relevant caselaw from a massive database. Tha
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by sandworm 12y ago
This sort of device is only applicable for very specific areas of "law". It may work for generalized law questions, retrieval of known legal principals, or even for electronic discovery (data mining) but once you get beyond law s
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by sandworm 12y ago
After looking at the documents, they seem to be harvesting http get requests. The initial get is sent to the hosting service, which then directs the user to wherever they are keeping a copy of the wanted file. That location changes regula
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by sandworm 12y ago
Does anyone here really believe this is limited to Canada? I think it safe to say that the NSA/GCHQ/MIB have similar/identical programs of their own.
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by sandworm 12y ago
"According to the Secret Service, an unnamed employee of the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA) claimed responsibility for crashing a remote-controlled quadrocopter into a tree on the grounds of the White House." "
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WH Drone Pilot: Drunken Employee of US Intel. Agency(arstechnica.com)
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by sandworm 12y ago
Update from Facebook: "Current State: Fix Pushed Facebook and Instagram experienced a major outage tonight from 22:10 until 23:10 PST. Our engineers identified the cause of the outage and recovered the site quickly. You should now see
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by sandworm 12y ago
I mean, like, WOW. If they have done this we all must give them props for ambition. Forget Sony. Nobody outside of hollywood bigwigs were impacted by that. But Facebook? The US government is going to go nuts. I hope lizardsquad are driv
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by sandworm 12y ago
As someone who owns a bow (old bowtech patriot) and has spent countless hours in the woods with bows, this guy is a gymnast, not an ancient archer. (1) Archery has never been about speed. You don't need to be a hunter to appreciate th
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by sandworm 12y ago
I'm no stickler for grammar, but if you are running a website for a service claiming to pride itself on luxury and detail, then... "You never need to share the car strangers and we can pick you up and drop you off at your front do
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by sandworm 12y ago
When I lived in new england for a while someone asked me how it compared to the west coast. "The buildings smell of mud." For someone used to wood covered in drywall and paint, interior bricks smell like the material from which
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by sandworm 12y ago
There are dangers in sealing home so tightly to control energy use. Blocking the escape of hot/cold air saves on the bills but can lead to condensation problems when the mechanical systems fail or are not designed perfectly. Even some
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by sandworm 12y ago
I'm still angry about about a 96 Jeep I bought new. A little untruth by the sales guy about a minor feature, that was important to me, has turned me off all jeep products ever since. Nearly twenty years later I cannot look at any jee
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by sandworm 12y ago
Hopefully this prize won't, like its namesake, require a lifetime of argument to claim. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Harrison
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by sandworm 12y ago
Stealth is not about not being seen. Once upon a time stealth was meant to evade detection to avoid being shot down. Today, stealth is about not being seen in order to provide deniability. You only need to hide completely if you expect to
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by sandworm 12y ago
China-STYLE? Take a look at who admins the UK firewall. http://www.dailydot.com/business/david-cameron-porn-firewall...
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by sandworm 12y ago
It's radar. So it is emitting radio waves, with a tiny tiny percent of them bouncing back to the detector. So it can be detected and/or jammed. Assuming these devices work on a very narrow frequency range, it shouldn't be t

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