walter_bishop

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by walter_bishop 10y ago
"Note that evolutionary psychology, which theorizes that human behavior is genetic and controlled by largely genetic forces, is highly controversial in of itself" If 'human behaviour' hasn't evolved along with homo
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by walter_bishop 10y ago
"The activist siphoned more than a million documents as they traveled across the internet through Tor" What was the name of this activist and why should we believe anything in that article.
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by walter_bishop 10y ago
Doesn't anyone feel insulted that the hacker is depicted as a drug addicted dysfunctional social outcast with an invisible friend.
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by walter_bishop 10y ago
I wonder, is it wise running NSA scripts on my computer, but then again, most probably the NSA has already backdoored it.
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by walter_bishop 10y ago
What's it cost to run Healthcare.gov on AWS, how many people-hours were spent in designing, configuring and deploying the website as compared to a non-cloud solution?
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by walter_bishop 10y ago
"Ernst Mach had a mystical experience", It's interesting to put that quote in context: "I have always felt it as a stroke of good fortune that early in life, at about the age of fifteen, I lighted, in my fathers library,
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by walter_bishop 10y ago
"Exposed: White Helmets stage rescue videos" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rOL7fYyRQo
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by walter_bishop 10y ago
"Microsoft & Linux & Patents & Tweets" https://meshedinsights.com/2016/11/22/microsoft-linux-patent...
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by walter_bishop 10y ago
"HDDCryptor not only targets resources in network shares such as drives, folders, files, printers, and serial ports via Server Message Block (SMB), but also locks the drive. Such a damaging routine makes this particular ransomware a ve
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by walter_bishop 10y ago
"Initially only Windows users are being attacked, but infected macOS and Linux computers can be attacked and abused in the future:" illogical Captain :) "In the past web browsers in have been very secure by default .. the lik
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by walter_bishop 10y ago
The problem isn't the Internet, where the problem lies is with the devices connected at either end.
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by walter_bishop 10y ago
"You don’t have to be a benighted creationist, nor even a believer in divine providence, to argue that Darwin’s astonishing theory doesn’t fully explain why nature is so marvelously, endlessly inventive." I used watch those Dawkin
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by walter_bishop 10y ago
Yahoo finance says they're doing well. If this is a sign of decline then most companies would be happy getting such results. https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/AAPL?ltr=1
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by walter_bishop 10y ago
Given the nature of shortwave propagation, I would suspect the delivered service will be less than promised. According to this document it utilizes a form of peer-to-peer cell networking over shortwave. I would suspect that with the increas
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by walter_bishop 10y ago
I'm not knowledgeable enough to say, but there are problems with these kind of batteries overheating, especially on recharging. Pumping electricity through a material produces heat. If it has nowhere to go then you end up with a fire a
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by walter_bishop 10y ago
'Dendrites and Pits: Untangling the Complex Behavior of Lithium Metal Anodes through Operando Video Microscopy' http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acscentsci.6b00260
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by walter_bishop 10y ago
My understanding is that the problem is trying to speed up the charging cycle and the battery not being able to dump the excessive temperature. For normal use I assume the phone is able to cope.
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by walter_bishop 10y ago
"ADHD and Other Sins of Our Children" http://simonsobo.com/adhd-and-other-sins-of-our-children
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by walter_bishop 10y ago
They would first have to define what exactly they mean by 'mental illness' and children getting diagnosed with ADHD has more to do with the pharmaceutical industry selling more drugs than any valid evidence that ADHD actually exis
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Jump Over ASLR: Attacking Branch Predictors to Bypass ASLR [pdf](cs.ucr.edu)
3 points by walter_bishop 10y ago|0 comments
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by walter_bishop 10y ago
Do these bugs still work on non x86 hardware? http://kernsec.org/wiki/index.php/Kernel_Self_Protection_Pro...
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by walter_bishop 10y ago
"The distributed network was originally designed to nudge the US ahead of the Soviets, allowing scientists’ and government leaders’ computers to communicate even in the event of a nuclear attack. " https://aeon.co/
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by walter_bishop 10y ago
Down voting should be disabled as it's too open to abuse.
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by walter_bishop 10y ago
I wonder what was wrong in this post? "Being exposed to djbdns I was never tempted at all to try c-ares. Not sure what I missed. It must have some other redeeming qualities besides this one. :) Learning to master nc and tcpclient befor
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by walter_bishop 10y ago
Is cloud computing another name for a render farm that's available for rent.
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by walter_bishop 10y ago
https://priceonomics.com/the-massacre-at-monkey-hill/ "Taking a cue from German zookeepers, the London Zoological Society designed an outdoor enclosure called Monkey Hill in 1924" I'm confused, why would
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by walter_bishop 10y ago
How about putting a hardware switch on the device such that you can't write to the non-volatile memory when the switch is in the off state. For day-to-day use the switch can be left in the off state. For software updates, set the switc
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by walter_bishop 10y ago
"the journalist was found dead in his apartment, having ended his eight-year downfall with two .38-caliber bullets to the head." How did he manage to remain conscious enough to pull the trigger again a second time?
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by walter_bishop 10y ago
> Instead of fixing a particular use-after-free, how about making use-after-free impossible? Yes .. Does this vulnerability work only on a particular architecture?
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by walter_bishop 10y ago
So the NSA didn't demand access to Qwest computers and then didn't prosecute Nacchio when he refused. http://www.businessinsider.com/the-story-of-joseph-nacchio-a...

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