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trotsky
14y ago
the word you meant to use is speculate, not invest. and no, you shouldn't. there is a set of people who hold piles of bitcoins obtained when mining activity was minuscule or because they run pools, exchanges or such. The bitcoin spot price
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I don't know if that was the right thing to do, but I did it. Maybe I'm a sucker. I think spending time doubting yourself for performing one of the most basic acts of human kindness is way over thinking things. It only reduces the likely
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When you think about it it's almost a logical certainty that he'd take the fall. Any company collectively able to understand that the actual failure was inadequate safeguards would have been able to see it coming and presumably would have p
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14y ago
http://www.privoxy.org/ - the same thing that the all in one tor installers use
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14y ago
While you're totally correct - and these plug computer type systems do get used for penetration tests at least, it's important to realize that Eben et al. don't make the hardware or cause it to happen - the project is to about making a priv
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14y ago
One of the real problems in this whole situation has been defining NPE's. Law scholars seem to be unable to come to anything close to a consensus on how to define one (legally) without causing a lot of collateral damage. So now congress wan
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14y ago
We seem to want everyone to be one dimensional, but nobody on earth is.In the 90's Gates was synonymous with evil in the tech collective consciousness, yet now he relentlessly works to improve the lives of millions. In the last decade jobs
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14y ago
I think saying "has to" is far too charitable. In the US you can't be compelled to actively assist an investigation. Hector is now nothing more than a professional snitch - he has voluntarily spent more time actively working to put kids in
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14y ago
That shipped sailed 15 years ago, time to move on.
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14y ago
The more you read actual journalism about the conflict the more you'd wonder exactly how the rebels have broadly deployed encrypted frequency hopping radios, high end western .50 cal sniper rifles with spotting equipment, shoulder fired em
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14y ago
The primary purpose is to reduce the impact of password reuse or the user interactively disclosing their password to an attacker. Primarily leaked password hashes and phishing attacks, but it also combats sslstrip style mitm attacks and key
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14y ago
I think you must be on a testing channel - it's still a hard to find flag that defaults to off on stable, and it wasn't more than a few months ago that it sat broken for weeks and finally got yanked for a time. also - 3rd party mailers and
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14y ago
Once you've downloaded and installed a native application and plan to grant it access to your google account you've decided you trust the application. If you install a malicious app and give it credentials it can fuck you about 50 different
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14y ago
I think that's great then and am super excited to hear how it turns out. The kickstarter-eque up front market validation strategies fascinate me - under the right set of circumstances I could see it becoming almost a revolutionary step in c
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14y ago
I don't get it - warby parker seems to already be killing it, brand and mindshare wise. I could easily see them following a path similar to any number of fashion brands - closely held and reliably growing and profitable for decades. But now
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As an early google two step user, i've often wished those application specific passwords would bind to the first property that they're used for. From what I understand their current layered service architectures for some products makes this
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14y ago
So remember this: at its core, App.net is an ad-free, subscription-based platform, a backbone, a dialtone. [1] I had to go back and find that to make sure I wasn't misremembering. If the free tier includes a cap on the number of people yo
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14y ago
You know that when folks like game companies sell preorders they're not actually taking and spending your money, right? Usually it's a token amount like $5 that just serves to make the customer invested in the product to make them much more
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14y ago
Measuring YouTube Quality of Experience for Users in Residential ISPs* Deep Medhi dmedhi@umkc.edu University of Missouri–Kansas City February 2013 *Joint work with Parikshit Juluri (UMKC), Louis Plissonneau (Orange Labs, France), and Yon
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netflix is ~25% of primetime volume youtube is ~12% of primetime volume netflix has an ARPU of $8/mo youtube is probably lucky to have an ARPU of $0.25 netflix pays for transit from multiple t1's with dozens of pops google traffic is 99% se
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14y ago
If you're looking for a shortcut, next time just google the first half a dozen or so bytes of the encoded payload. These compromises come from automated or one click intrusion tools, and they often use the same or similar code for years. So
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14y ago
Sometimes when you're down everything looks like a huge mountain to climb. I'm all for relinuxing! The itunes is just a tree of mp3's now, so it'll be super easy to import into whatever. Best way to take control of your phone (no mater the
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It didn't at all. It carefully explained why the two activities produced entirely different chemical reactions in the brain. If you're too invested in your process to even consider that a test of one thing may not translate into the perform
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14y ago
anything unsolicited = scam anything for ED = good chance its counterfeit google for pharmacy review sites, pick ones that include reviews from users and the site owner. if there aren't any bad reviews trash it. Usually a few will get most
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Thanks for correcting me - I was working off second hand memory
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You're just lumping two different things together. Everyone has performance anxiety at times - whether rare, mild, common, or occasionally overwhelming it's something everyone deals with. Something like public speaking to a room of stranger
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Sorry that you feel I was obtuse - it's a quirk and my editor side doesn't always step up. Poor communication aside, I was attempting to make a finer point than you read to it. Stress is an extremely broad term medically, and used broader s
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One thing you're testing for is how well their brain works with an excess of adrenaline floating around in their body. All of the best interviewers I've known take great pains to make the interviewer feel comfortable and chatty - after all,
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I totally agree with you in principle. But you're being too generous with your density advantage as compared to hotswap. I can't tell if your pods are 4U or 5U, but your motherboard vendor sells a 4U front & back chasis that has 36 3.5"
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This episode started with Tesla claiming fabrication and a breech of journalistic ethics but ended with Tesla misquoting the times and highlighting imprecise record keeping. If anything happened, the journalist was vindicated.
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