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by ttctciyf 12y ago
(Disclaimer: didn't read the article, just a response to the comment above.) I agree that db field definitions are not "business decisions", but "edge cases" can be. I think the trick here, as a programmer, is to re
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by ttctciyf 12y ago
I think the document referred to in the article [1] is from 1967, and refers to events "a number of years ago" maybe placing the operation in the late 50's / early 60's - remember, the US was stunned by the Soviet a
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by ttctciyf 12y ago
Looks like the declassified document the linked article is based on: http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB479/docs/EBB-Moon... Links to other (I think) recent releases by National Security Archive
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CIA covert operation helped America win the race to the moon(commdiginews.com)
77 points by ttctciyf 12y ago|10 comments
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by ttctciyf 12y ago
This has happened to other magnetic toys in the past. See http://www.howtospotapsychopath.com/2012/08/28/on-little-shi... and http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5548a3.h
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by ttctciyf 12y ago
Not wanting to detract from linking to an interesting technique, I should say, but NoScript seems to block it just fine.
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by ttctciyf 12y ago
BIRDSONG and BIRDSTRIKE as twitter-related tech doesn't sound so computer assigned to me. Maybe they have an AI project not on the list :)
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by ttctciyf 12y ago
The section title: “Google is not really a search company. It’s a machine-learning company.” might be better, but ... meh, title fussiness. Anyway, it's an ad company!
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by ttctciyf 12y ago
Yeah, it's just dumb. Indeed, a search for "Some Guy" on the US version of google will also return somePage. To circumvent this legal provision, as a UK net user, you only have to go to http://google.com/ncr
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by ttctciyf 12y ago
If you mean: when Some Guy complains that publisher.com/somePage turns up in search results for Some Guy , publisher.com should put Disallow: /somePage in their robots.txt, then I don't share your POV, because google can s
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by ttctciyf 12y ago
"intensively discussed" would for the most part indicate that the item is of some interest or importance to the people discussing. I think it would only indicate hype if it were also true that most of the discussion was disingenuo
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by ttctciyf 12y ago
I suppose it makes sense to get rigorous and logical about hostnames from an admin point of view, but I do miss the romance and personal expression of naming machines after.. well, scifi entities, fairy-tale dwarves, whatever. One of the ma
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by ttctciyf 12y ago
The article gives 1/1000 the width of a human hair for 7 nanometers, but I think it's more like 1/10,000 isn't it? (taking about 70 micrometers for the hair's width, see [1]) Also a bit puzzled by "III-V materi
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by ttctciyf 12y ago
They seem to have missed the bit where the NSA intercept delivery of network hardware and implant monitoring tools ( http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/may/12/glenn-greenwald... )
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by ttctciyf 12y ago
There's a bunch of articles and info related to procedural content at http://pcg.wikidot.com which might be of interest to people reading the linked book. I haven't read enough of either to comment on their overlap or
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by ttctciyf 12y ago
Brogue[1] is an acclaimed roguelike that follows in the tradition of substantial procedural content for that genre, and exists on IOS[2], at least. You might find others at: [3] [1] https://sites.google.com/site/brogueg
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by ttctciyf 12y ago
In terms of a personal newsfeed app, I've found Zite on IOS to be ok. Its main USP is that you can train it to provide a feed matching your interests, by liking/disliking articles, as well as selecting (or banning) sources and top
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by ttctciyf 12y ago
Not wanting to stir up any ill-founded outrage, or anything (honest!) but there's an interesting tangent on this, as well as a nice bit of descriptive phraseology, in the recent Pando piece on the fake Cuban twitter project: http:&#x2
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by ttctciyf 12y ago
Not really directly supportive of Byerley's point, but this recent Cornell study on gas well leak potential might be of interest: http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/2014/06/four-10-wells-fo... > sha
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by ttctciyf 12y ago
I'd rather not wait 20 minutes if that wait is occasioned by the chefs performing a visual entertainment instead of cooking my food, would be a more pertinent analogy :)
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by ttctciyf 12y ago
Right, but if the delay in obtaining the luggage is deliberate, so that the poor travelers can absorb more glorious brand identity, then it's a crappy way to treat them, isn't it?
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by ttctciyf 12y ago
I think what might (or at least should) tip them over the edge here is that they added on fees for these imaginary law firms to their customers' bills. NAL, but sounds like plain, old fashioned fraud to me. Edit: I see I'm not the
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by ttctciyf 12y ago
So they freely admit that they lied to customers and charged them for fees to law firms in fact did not exist, but were invented by themselves... I fail to see how this doesn't immediately lead to prosecution for fraud. Maybe I don&#x2
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by ttctciyf 12y ago
I suspect you're right in that it's never given you all the results. I'm pretty sure that it's given me many more than 300 or so results in the past, though, whereas that figure seems to be google's idea of the ma
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by ttctciyf 12y ago
So, I was skeptical that only 19k webpages would contain the actual word mars (as per the +mars query), and curious why "verbatim" search wasn't included for comparison. So I tried verbatim search for mars, to find the estima
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How an FBI informant helped orchestrate the hack of an FBI contractor(motherboard.vice.com)
3 points by ttctciyf 12y ago|0 comments
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by ttctciyf 12y ago
Well, looking at the other stories on the site, I'm guessing this is coming from the same camp as RT, Zero Hedge, et. al. As far as I'm aware, while many may disagree with the implied narrative slung across the historical data poi
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by ttctciyf 12y ago
... and which offers illusory salvation (a safer, democratic Iraq, reduced terrorist threat) from spurious ills (WMD, Al Qaeda support by Saddam) delivered by a charismatic leader with access to a divine hotline (Blair, too!) and engages yo
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by ttctciyf 12y ago
... The Iraq war ...
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by ttctciyf 12y ago
I wouldn't agree that > The Investigations are quite opposed to the project of the tractatus quite so straightforwardly; both are to some extent interested in describing the limits of what can be said objectively, and in constructin

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