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by scblock 9y ago
The article isn't _wrong_ wrong, as the core of this security issue is right, but it's also not really right either. Wind Farm SCADA is generally well protected from internet attacks by design, but it is based on a fiber ring ethe
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by scblock 9y ago
Didn't make it past the "click to enter" splash page. Who thought this type of web design was a good idea?
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by scblock 9y ago
Did the title of this article change after it was published here? It says "torpedoed by corporations" now.
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by scblock 9y ago
Professional firms that produce contracts and reports generally have document format guidelines and standard templates. They may also have approved typefaces, up to and including brand-custom typefaces. And while these things could be appli
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by scblock 9y ago
Exactly. It means incompatible changes have to be merged manually later. It causes problems with large reports where, for example, an electrical engineer may be editing one section and a civil engineer another, but only one can have the doc
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by scblock 9y ago
I doubt they ran into trouble because of their planned sales model. Fundamentally this is not a product I would expect to be commercially successful. All these weird trends like Kickstarters for "Connected bikes" and Bluetooth &qu
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by scblock 9y ago
This is far less funny than you make it out to be, and you'd probably be shocked at the state of 'security' in medical devices today.
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by scblock 9y ago
It's small, scaled, and off to the right of the introductory text. It's the primary content of the page, and yet exactly not where anyone would expect to see primary content. My issue isn't load time, it's that the image
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by scblock 9y ago
Not really, the layout of that page is tragically poor.
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by scblock 9y ago
The article goes into that as it discusses the mechancial computus in the clock at the cathedral at Strasbourg, in Alsace, France.
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by scblock 9y ago
If you look at some of the other comments on this thread you'll see people with direct experience showing that you're wrong about it being "visibly verifiable". I hope you rethink your assumptions about others.
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by scblock 9y ago
Yes. It works fine.
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by scblock 10y ago
It already happened with Whatsapp and the Guardian's irresponsible reporting. Organizers and protesters switching to unencrypted messaging or even SMS, because of the perception that Whatsapp was hacked. Someone savvy enough to use end
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by scblock 10y ago
This is a dangerous headline because it implies that Signal was broken, which could lead to people moving to LESS SECURE SERVICES because they think the more secure one is broken. When in reality is the phone and OS. They have similar end r
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by scblock 10y ago
This is not a US focused article, but I want to provide some clarifications specific to the US: While the incremental operating cost of wind and solar plants (and the related staffing levels for a given plant size) are much lower than conve
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by scblock 10y ago
As a gifted student who took gifted and accelerated classes from grade school through high school, including several classes at another school, emphatically no.
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by scblock 10y ago
With appropriate ground corrections 5 cm is pretty easy with the current US satellites. Sub-meter in real time is also fairly easy with the help of WAAS broadcasts and good receivers. But if consumer hardware (like a typical $200 Garmin rec
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by scblock 10y ago
This is not really relevant to the discussion, or even fully accurate. Most people who buy windows licenses (including me) buy one of the base licenses because we generally don't need the other "professional" features on our
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by scblock 10y ago
This comment makes zero sense.
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by scblock 10y ago
I stopped using Evernote a while back. I dumped my paid account when they emailed me enthusiastically offering a "discount" on their price hike that was still a price hike. It hasn't helped that they have failed to improve th
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by scblock 10y ago
Considering that Pebble is stopping product development, cancelling orders, ending warranties, ending support, and essentially completely shutting down I find the positive tone of this post and the Kickstarter update post to be nearly unbel
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by scblock 10y ago
This is a bad idea. I don't know how you managed to convince yourself that it's not.
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by scblock 10y ago
There's no solution here. Red lights, seriously?
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by scblock 10y ago
The solution is better cycling infrastructure, not a paper hat. Paper hats won't magically make bike shares more popular, but they do help perpetuate the myth that a helmet makes you safe. No helmet can protect you from the things an i
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by scblock 10y ago
Mostly I agree, except they're not sacrificing a lot of power compared to competitors, with the exception of not using certain power hungry components (GPU, RAM). Apple is clearly moving, as you have noted, to ALL portable computers pr
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by scblock 10y ago
Excuse me? Unlike the MacBook Air it has a retina display and Thunderbolt 3 ports. Seems like this conclusion was written first, then a narrative was written to fit it. Or the writer of the headline was not the writer of the article, and ju
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by scblock 10y ago
I'm surprised you haven't learned yet that the constitution grants authority to congress to pass laws, which include laws related to safety.
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by scblock 10y ago
We're better off giving up pretending that you can't ride a bike without a helmet, and fix our infrastructure. The feeling of being unsafe on the road is not because you're not wearing a plastic (or paper, in this case) hat.
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by scblock 10y ago
I just can't leave well enough alone, and did a quick and dirty very high level analysis: For a low to middling wind site in the US, with a 7.5 m/s average wind speed represented by a Rayleigh distribution: Using a GE 1.5-77, the
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by scblock 10y ago
Thanks.

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