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   by sc68cal 13y ago

   Whoops - I'll delete this submission then. Hate when it happens to me
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   Whatever Happened to the $100 Million Mark Zuckerberg Gave to Newark Schools?(motherjones.com)

   2 points by sc68cal 14y ago|0 comments
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   H-­1B visas usher in cheap replacements for US workers(bostonglobe.com)

   7 points by sc68cal 14y ago|0 comments
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   by sc68cal 14y ago

   This slide deck presents a really great bit of work, where they were able to track down a big originator of DNS reflection attacks, to a VPS provider in Scranton, PA.
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   Tracing a DNS Reflection Attack(dns-oarc.net)

   1 points by sc68cal 14y ago|1 comments
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   by sc68cal 14y ago

   You can also use Vagrant+Devstack[1] to get started even quicker. https://github.com/bcwaldon/vagrant_devstack
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   by sc68cal 14y ago

   >What's the hypervisor? OpenStack supports multiple hypervisors. They are implemented as drivers - and are in this part of the OpenStack codebase: https://github.com/openstack/nova/tree/master/nova/virt/ See my slides from a talk I di
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   by sc68cal 14y ago

   > Spamhaus, one of the most prominent groups tracking spammers on the Internet, uses volunteers to identify spammers and has been described as an online vigilante group. The authors of this article have absolutely no idea what they're t
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   by sc68cal 14y ago

   >But what about a scenario in which for 30-50 million Americans file for their taxes by sending a SMS (as it's apparently done in Scandinavian countries)? And all the other taxpayers, they're wondering: "Why the f-ck can't my taxes be t
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    by sc68cal 14y ago

    The main problem I see, is the uncertainty around when the banks will open again so that people could actually exchange their money for Bitcoins. You will also have to contend with limits that they placed on the amount of cash you can withd
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    by sc68cal 14y ago

    Philadelphia City Paper's Isaiah Thompson has been covering it for quite some time. A quick summary: The Nutter administration is asking the city's legislative body to pass its Actual Value Initiative (AVI), which would base property taxes
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    by sc68cal 14y ago

    >The CDC isn't allowed to conduct research into gun violence because they didn't even try to hide the fact that they were horribly biased. So just because the numbers didn't reach the conclusion that you agree with, they are automatical
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    by sc68cal 14y ago

    Because Republicans and the Gun Lobby have systematically shut down any attempt to collect and study any data about guns. Over the past two decades, the NRA has not only been able to stop gun control laws, but even debate on the subject. T
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    by sc68cal 14y ago

    Code Red. http://www.caida.org/research/security/code-red/coderedv2_an...
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    by sc68cal 14y ago

    Anyone who has not seen his TED talk, should take a couple of moments and watch - for me, it finally distilled some of the discomfort I had always felt, growing up in the exurbs of Philadelphia: http://www.ted.com/talks/james_howard_kunstl
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    Too Fast to Fail: Is High-Speed Trading the Next Wall Street Disaster?(motherjones.com)

    4 points by sc68cal 14y ago|0 comments
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    by sc68cal 14y ago

    I'm not surprised - firmware for ethernet controllers have grown quite complex, with the addition of new features that allow the hardware to do more work on behalf of the kernel. Could this be a bug in the code of the EEPROM that handles TC
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    by sc68cal 14y ago

    Try Git-TFS http://github.com/git-tfs/git-tfs Disclosure: I am a contributor to Git-Tfs
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    3-D printing technology could make efforts to curb weapons impossible(salon.com)

    1 points by sc68cal 14y ago|0 comments
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    Government Persecution, From Aaron Swartz to Bradley Manning(thenation.com)

    2 points by sc68cal 14y ago|0 comments
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    by sc68cal 14y ago

    We tried that. Our country has had great difficulty with central banking in the past, and today. Entire books have been written on this topic, if you wish to learn more, I'd start with the history of the First and Second bank of the United
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    by sc68cal 14y ago

    This is exactly how Jane, the AI from the Ender's Game universe operated. Thousands of machines connected to each other over a FTL network. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_(Ender%27s_Game)
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    by sc68cal 14y ago

    While I agree with you about pulling the rug out from users - if the CA is already forging certificates for important domains, then how much security do they really have?
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    by sc68cal 14y ago

    In previous instances (like Comodo), I can recall discussions on the Mozilla mailing lists about the so called "death penalty" of revocation for CAs who have demonstrated serious lapses. I think this situation is even worse. Forgive me for
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    by sc68cal 14y ago

    I posted this yesterday, the only difference is this is the "print" version. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5002806
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    by sc68cal 14y ago

    It's impossible to be an idiot and read MJ. Cheers!
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    by sc68cal 14y ago

    Slight nitpick - David Corn, the DC Bureau Chief broke the 47% video. But yeah, Kevin Drum does great work. > And here's a striking critique of the Freakonomics abortion/crime theory, which I suppose most people here have heard of: I ha
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    America's Real Criminal Element: Lead(motherjones.com)

    34 points by sc68cal 14y ago|4 comments
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    “The Tinkerers”: How corporations kill creativity(salon.com)

    3 points by sc68cal 14y ago|0 comments
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    by sc68cal 14y ago

    I re-read Cryptonomicon over vacation, and I agree with your recommendation. I would also check out Quicksilver - there are significant tie-ins to Cryptonomicon. I've enjoyed it so far.