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by wybiral 9y ago
Does this extrapolate into the modern realms of appetic or videogametic?
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by wybiral 9y ago
Thanks. That sounds more plausible. I'd suspected it had more to do with Iran/Russia but Bush Jr probably did come into office with some agenda. I still don't understand why everyone keeps bringing this up as evidence that ou
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by wybiral 9y ago
Admittedly, I'm only 30 so I was an angsty teen who blindly opposed it and everything the Bush administration did. I've only recently been starting to rebuild some faith in government (what a time to do so). > US disregarded th
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by wybiral 9y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15943176
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by wybiral 9y ago
There are a number of conspiracy theories floating around regarding the reasoning behind the war in Iraq and the role that US, UK, and Iran all played.
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by wybiral 9y ago
I doubt WannaCry or the Shadow Brokers leaks were meant to actually make money. They seem more like they were executed to make NSA look worse than it already does. Most of the recent sensationalized leaks have seemed to fit that bill. But y
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by wybiral 9y ago
> North Korea has acted especially badly, largely unchecked, for more than a decade, which is false and a political swipe at the prior President. How is that false? PS: The US government isn't the only group pointing the finger in t
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by wybiral 9y ago
There have been defectors.
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by wybiral 9y ago
It's not as if they don't have computers [1]. Besides, the WannaCry attack was mostly facilitated by exploits that were leaked by Shadow Brokers [2] [3]. The skills required to slap those exploits onto a basic ransomware tool were
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U.S. blames North Korea for 'WannaCry' cyber attack(reuters.com)
99 points by wybiral 9y ago|109 comments
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by wybiral 9y ago
The point is that they make a browser. I don't want anyone installing random stuff for a TV show into the program I use to access the internet without my consent. Another example: https://blog.mozilla.org/press-uk/
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by wybiral 9y ago
Unfortunately ignorant people have been known to conduct exercises in futility.
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by wybiral 9y ago
Crypto is the tech behind the blockchain. And the blockchain is the tech behind these cryptocurrencies. How did "crypto" start to mean "cryptocurrency" to people? When this cryptocurrency stuff crashes I hope there isn&#
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by wybiral 9y ago
I prefer to use SQL directly as well. But some points to be made in favor of ORMs (some of them, anyway): * Multiple backend support to handle different SQL engines. * Minimized risk of accidental injection. * Migrations.
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by wybiral 9y ago
The response headers are kept in a SQLite db that you can perform regex queries on. It's surprisingly easy to find particular devices based on the headers. And, yes, it's just making basic HTTP requests on port 80 so it's ove
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by wybiral 9y ago
> If it's true then this is fantastic work. Should really be the responsibility of the government. Imagine the public backlash there would be if people knew that the government was scanning and hacking devices for the purpose of nat
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by wybiral 9y ago
I do regular scans myself and the number of these vulnerable DVR devices, printers, and routers you find exposed out there is mind-boggling! Run just a single instance something like this [1] (which isn't even well optimized) and withi
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by wybiral 9y ago
The thing is that the largest consumers of these devices aren't within the US. Many of them are from Chinese companies and are being sold throughout Southeast Asia and South America.
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by wybiral 9y ago
I'm convinced that it can get smaller but this is what I've got so far.
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A tiny ELF (114 byte Linux program for Christmas)(github.com)
6 points by wybiral 9y ago|1 comments
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by wybiral 9y ago
> Do we even have a right not to be harmed? If we do, how is justice served -- can we serve it ourselves, or delegate it to others if we wish? ...And then the young anarchists assemble a small group for mutual protection and justice. And
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by wybiral 9y ago
Not to get too philosophical, but the problem with anarchism is rooted in our evolution and in natural selection itself. Our strength and security comes from our ability to assemble and organize. Then there's also some game theory invo
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by wybiral 9y ago
This may seem off topic but what do we do when bots catch up to our state of the art for keeping them out? Do we milk the concept of captchas until they turn into some kind of Turing test? Can we even automate a Turing test in a way that ma
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Show HN: Intro to x86 Assembly Language [video](youtube.com)
7 points by wybiral 9y ago|0 comments
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by wybiral 9y ago
Back when FB didn't exist... Friends didn't just talk about that kind of stuff either. That's like the typical smalltalk you make with people you don't really know, not conversations you have with friends. To me FB just
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by wybiral 9y ago
Fair enough. We all have different definitions of the words "friend" and "keep in touch". I have some friends who live too far away to visit that I do set some time aside to have an occasional video chat with.
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by wybiral 9y ago
Catching up feels more important and seems to have more substance that way. The little snippets people share on FB probably are also less personal, imo. It's stuff they're announcing to everyone instead of sharing with you or a sm
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by wybiral 9y ago
I enjoy running into people or meeting up with them periodically to keep in touch with anyone who isn't a close friend. That way they can tell me everything they've been going through in person. To me that's more fun than get
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by wybiral 9y ago
The real trick to them is that they don't just use non-determination of states, but they can use interference. Grover's algorithm is a good example [1]. Check our this implementation [2]. There's a gate named F7 that will fli
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by wybiral 9y ago
Modern JS isn't that bad. Some of the tooling and frameworks are though.

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