Tangurena

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by Tangurena 14y ago
The folks planning 911 used this same technique of using drafts to send messages back and forth. I'm certain that these are now always saved permanently for law enforcement use to comply with CALEA. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communica
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by Tangurena 14y ago
My sister also uses "shell" companies. She is a prominent ex-scientologist and scientology has an established history of using litigation to punish and silence critics and exmembers. So when her car gets rammed, and she gets sued, by being
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by Tangurena 14y ago
It depends on the bank. Some will open accounts for LLCs, some require ID cards for signers and corporate records to show that the person is authorized. It also depends on who is behind the desk, as someone who needs to meet their quotas fo
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by Tangurena 14y ago
Existing iris scanners can be deceived by pictures of other people's irises. I do not doubt that facial recognition will be fooled by people making masks (to fool infrared scanning). http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2012/07/fake_irise
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by Tangurena 14y ago
> The CEO of a company cannot "take back" or "wipe out" your right to purchase stock, aka stock options. The folks who thought they had options at Skype found out that there were secret addenda to the option grant that let them swindl
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by Tangurena 14y ago
It was Win 3.1 that had the AARD code that locked out DR-DOS. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AARD_code
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by Tangurena 14y ago
I deny the charge that it was "going downhill" before all the deletions started. If the "quality" is declining, then it is due to the vast quantities of new questions being asked, and the inability of regular users to find questions that th
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by Tangurena 14y ago
Not if a moderator locked and deleted it - a 10k user can then only view the question and vote to re-open it. Sometimes the moderators act extra viciously by editing each answer before deleting the answers as well. That way the user can't r
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by Tangurena 14y ago
Because when it comes to changing passwords, it would take me about 45 minutes to come up with a new password that met the rules and had a reasonable chance of me remembering it. I took to writing them down as I was trying to come up with s
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by Tangurena 14y ago
This looks exactly like the Dept of Energy password guidlines when I worked there. For item #5, you should be aware that they check for dictionary words of 3 or more letters, both forwards and backwards. I'm not sure what dictionaries they
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by Tangurena 14y ago
Missing from this article are all the scientists who took funding from BP in exchange for silence. Those scientists betrayed science as well. Sample: http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2010/08/17/contract-gag-sil...
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by Tangurena 14y ago
The religious war of "free" versus "open" is what turns a lot of people off. Previously, when posting code I wrote, I'd pick MIT license which would allow users to do what they wanted. Picking GPL would mean that many potential users would
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by Tangurena 14y ago
The mods on the StackOverflow sites seem to be trigger-happy deleting and locking posts. Most of my major upvoted answers are on threads now closed as off-topic - so this tells me that the StackOverflows have changed to be a place that I'm
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by Tangurena 14y ago
> Isn't "post-factum civil litigation" an even better mechanism for enforcement? That hasn't worked out well for Madoff's "investors". > Look companies that are "bad actors" are going to cheat the SEC and the public anyway... An
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by Tangurena 14y ago
Section 201 of HR 3606 says > Not later than 90 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Securities and Exchange Commission shall revise subsection (d)(1) of section 230.144A of title 17, Code of Federal Regulations, to provid
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by Tangurena 14y ago
Bughouse lets you have experts and novices playing without the novices getting totally stomped. Because you can always move a piece, or place a piece that your team-mate captured, you have a lot more options. This also makes it far more fun
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by Tangurena 14y ago
Where I used to play, we mostly played standard chess openings. Bughouse is different enough that one can have expert chess players playing against novices and since it is team-vs-team, the novice doesn't get totally stomped flat. Something
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by Tangurena 14y ago
Having read HR3606, so many existing requirements to comply with Sarbanes-Oxley and SEC regulations are eliminated for "emerging growth organizations" that there will be huge amounts of fraud. Not all "emerging growth organizations" will be
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by Tangurena 14y ago
One of my theories is that "morning people" have a tendency to get promoted in managerial tracks, while most IT workers tend to be "evening people". Thus to the mismanagers, it appears that their staff comes in late all the time - so to the
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by Tangurena 14y ago
> or worse Well, I'm running for election this November, so I suppose I could show them my campaign site.
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by Tangurena 14y ago
My suspicion is that you may want to move away from trivia based questions ( what is the 3rd parameter of the form.print dialog , or how would you move Mt Fuji ) to ones like "describe a situation where you inspired others to meet a commo
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by Tangurena 14y ago
Under the Human Capital approach, learning via books or free/cheap online courses has the same effect as learning at the most expensive school. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_capital Under the Signalling Theory approach, going to
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by Tangurena 14y ago
In 1962, there was the Cuban Missile Crisis: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Missile_Crisis In 1983, the Able Archer got the Soviet hierarchy in a tizzy. They misinterpreted a NATO exercise for an imminent attack. Reagan's announc
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by Tangurena 14y ago
For those who don't get the reference: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIAdHEwiAy8
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by Tangurena 14y ago
I worked at one of the national labs and the books I'd see on shelves were usually ones from when folks were still students. The pristine unread books were either bound copies of the person's dissertation, or books he authored.
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by Tangurena 14y ago
From a managerial viewpoint, if folks had the skills to manage telecommuters, they could manage offshoring and save far more $. I contend that most managers have a hard time managing folks directly in front of them and don't have the skills
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by Tangurena 14y ago
To become a patent attorney, one needs an undergraduate degree in science or engineering, followed by a law degree. Most folks aiming for law degrees pick easy majors for their undergrad degree and are thus automatically excluded from sitti
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by Tangurena 15y ago
Ahh, no. Sales of credits to fund RMT in games like Zynga is where Facebook's largest growth in revenues come from: about 30% of the sale price of the credits goes to Facebook. Games like Zynga's make FB users more "sticky" and spend more t
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by Tangurena 15y ago
We're underestimating the risk because we're using Net Present Value to determine the value of future events. While it can be useful in business to determine profitability of future endeavors, it isn't useful when we are unable to correctly
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by Tangurena 15y ago
I'm going to recommend watching Cool Hand Luke. While many folks love being rebels as they are youngsters, there is a cost to being "cool".

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