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by uxp 12y ago
I'll be happy to provide my name in the against column. I used to subscribe to an ADSL service starting about a decade ago through a local ISP, but I was required to lease the copper connection through Qwest which was acquired by Centu
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by uxp 12y ago
It was a presentation at Blackhat 2014. The videos are released sometime afterwards. https://www.blackhat.com/us-14/speakers/Billy-Rios.html
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by uxp 12y ago
I also went with an HP MicroServer, but only just heard about their somewhat recent policy change of requiring a valid warranty or paid service plan to obtain firmware and software updates. http://www.zdnet.com/hp-to-begin-c
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by uxp 12y ago
> if you didn't have that regulation, you'd have medication with a much lower quality Kind of like supplements? http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/05/science/herbal-supplements...
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by uxp 12y ago
> Perhaps they need to focus more on operating within the constraints of the market rather than fighting against them. It's also amusing to look at the number of Chrome Extensions that do the same exact thing as this app that exist
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by uxp 12y ago
Evidence is only circumstantial if you can frequently prove that the evidence cannot stand alone. Sounds like common sense, but many facts throughout history have been debunked after new ways of looking at them challenged the common view. Y
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by uxp 12y ago
For DOCSIS modems, they are only updatable and configurable via the ISP. When you connect and power on your cable modem, it requests a configuration file from someplace upstream. That config file contains the firmware version that is compat
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by uxp 12y ago
This again? They were storing location history as to more easily pinpoint the user's location without having to maintain a constant connection with a GPS satellite. They weren't storing it and sending it off to the NSA, your local
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by uxp 12y ago
Alliance Health. Salt Lake City, UT. (No Remote) http://alliancehealth.com/careers At Alliance Health, we strive to make the lives of people with chronic diseases better by bringing them together with innovative social netw
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by uxp 12y ago
My company just moved from a GChat-centric XMPP system to an all-in HipChat system. We don't have Google Apps because we have our own Exchange server, so not everyone gets a sane email address that can also be used as their GChat handl
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by uxp 13y ago
This launch, if it had been scrubbed, had another launch window tomorrow, just a few minutes shy of 24 hours (3:02PM EST).
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by uxp 13y ago
It has nothing to do with jQuery, or anything else. (function() {})(); is a pretty standard Javascript pattern to execute an anonymous function immediately at evaluation. Because javascript has lexical scoping at the function, your use of &
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by uxp 13y ago
The only thing I've learned in the years that I've been writing Javascript is that the dollar symbol variable is as contentious as the West Bank. Obviously there has to be globals somewhere or else a library ceases to be a library
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by uxp 13y ago
The very first programming book I bought was "PHP6 and MySQL5" by Larry Ullman. I bought that one specifically because I had another job (career, really) and I knew it was going to take a while before I really got into programming
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by uxp 13y ago
> There have been cases similar to this (but less dramatic) where the homeowners fired on the un-marked, un-announced police squad, and were (rightly!) vindicated under their states' respective castle or self-defense laws. There hav
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by uxp 13y ago
Heh, mostly off topic: I just bought the book "Anonymizing Health Data"[0]. No significance to the article, just amused at the timing. Looks like this is going to be a problem domain moving forward with my career. [0] http:/
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by uxp 13y ago
Campaign finance reform has always been a partisan wedge, insofar as the party that loses the most seats in a given election cycle is the one touting how much it's needed, but shuts up the next cycle when they gain the most seats. Thus
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by uxp 13y ago
I was a watchmaker before I started hacking on code and realized it had a better future. Yes, one of those guys with a loupe and tweezers, and even an itty bitty lathe assembling small parts in the back corner of some old shop. Watches grea
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by uxp 13y ago
I'm a trained watchmaker from WOSTEP, so you can trust that I know a thing or two about watches. I picked up a Pebble because of "hot new tech", and honestly couldn't find a use for it immediately. Only when I decided my
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by uxp 13y ago
Radley Balko’s book, which is cited in the article, "Rise of the Warrior Cop"[0] actually makes a very good argument that the 3rd Amendment which prohibits the quartering of soldiers during peacetime was referencing this exact sit
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by uxp 13y ago
Also, Ebay is just around the corner. Buying merchandise, especially high end or expensive merchandise, has always been a simple way to "drain" a stolen card, even if you end up selling it for less than retail price on the third m
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by uxp 13y ago
The portion that appears to be unique to iOS (maybe it's not), is the default cache policy for 301 redirects. Its in the HTTP spec: > This response is cacheable unless indicated otherwise. - http://www.w3.org/Proto
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by uxp 13y ago
> I don't deal with patent-trolls. None. Then I'm sure you don't buy any products that contain Samsung NAND NVRAM, nor do you purchase anything with Qualcomm chips, as a significant portion of their revenue comes from aggr
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by uxp 13y ago
Gmail is a worse offender of the IMAP protocol than Apple Mail.app has ever been.
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I think I repeat this every time Apple releases a new Macbook model, but here it is anyways. I was a Swiss trained watchmaker before I switched careers and became a software developer. Back in the 40s through 60s, both the Swiss and America
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by uxp 13y ago
I think you might be correct. Apple used to distribute the Lion Recovery app, which basically copied the InstallESD.dmg to a USB stick, but it no longer works with Mountain Lion. Running this command, however, uses a hidden executable insid
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by uxp 13y ago
healthcare.gov itself was a Ruby Jekyll static site. It was on GitHub[0] for a while, but mysteriously disappeared. Here[1] is a clone of it, and what seems to be the currently agreed upon canonical version. My state appears to be using J
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by uxp 13y ago
> First, you can use C# really well without depending on any Microsoft tech. As someone who is coming from a very FOSS world and trying to learn C#, I have to counter that no, C# does not have a really good open source ecosystem. Mono wo
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by uxp 13y ago
> There was a warrant, but he wanted to charge $3.5k for the effort. I don't know how I feel about that. How would you feel if the police/FBI came to you with a warrant that requested all video footage from outside your home so
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by uxp 13y ago
The FBI Complaint, for one. ... I know that, on May 24, 2013, a Silk Road user sent him a private message warning him that "some sort of external IP address" was "leaking" from the site, and listed the IP addre

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