ibmthrowaway218

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by ibmthrowaway218 9y ago
The new CEO will not tolerate new unethical behaviour. Hopefully he will also slowly eradicate the existing unethical behaviour.
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by ibmthrowaway218 9y ago
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Faster-Obsession-Science-Fastest-Cy... is an interesting read related to this. (Cycling obviously, but the genetics behind VO2max apply across different types of physical activity.)
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by ibmthrowaway218 9y ago
I think there's some obfuscation in the tests:- As you say, the first few test numbers correspond just to simple divisor checks:- Prime 3 paired with check number 6 (binary 110). So 1 << (n % 3) will only ever be 'safe'
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by ibmthrowaway218 9y ago
> Also, I'm having a bit of a hard time understanding the attack. He forces them to connect to his own AP and forwards all traffic to the destination so that the client is unaware it has been redirected. He then forces the client to
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by ibmthrowaway218 9y ago
> The client is forcibly disconnected from the WiFi network and reconnects to the attackers network instead. The client is tricked into moving to what it thinks is the same WiFI network running on a different channel, but is actually the
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by ibmthrowaway218 9y ago
Except the attack doesn't get you access to their wireless network. It allows you to redirect someone from their wireless network to your own (spoofed) wireless network and then you can snoop the traffic.
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by ibmthrowaway218 10y ago
Both were influenced by _We_ by Yevgeny Zamyatin.
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by ibmthrowaway218 10y ago
Um, yes, that's exactly what this article is about.
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by ibmthrowaway218 10y ago
It also hosted a Eastern European military camp in the MacGyver movie _The Lost Treasure Of Atlantis_ Lots more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battersea_Power_Station_in_pop...
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by ibmthrowaway218 10y ago
Depends, for a first time buying couple it's a 10% deposit (plus £45k for stamp duty) and then a combined salary of £225k (assuming 4x multiplier on combined income). Sure ~£110k/year is firmly in the top quartile of dev salaries,
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by ibmthrowaway218 10y ago
The UK's roads have a numbering scheme: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Britain_road_numbering_s...
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by ibmthrowaway218 11y ago
> I will replace my iPhone 5 with one of these. I probably will too (currently on an iPhone 5) given that my current strategy is to replace my phone every 2 years by buying a refurbished model with 12 month warranty for ~£150 from eBay.
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by ibmthrowaway218 11y ago
Domestic flights within the UK don't require passports (although the airlines may require some form of ID to be presented in order to get boarding passes).
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by ibmthrowaway218 11y ago
"marginal improvement" was the key phrase
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by ibmthrowaway218 11y ago
http://web.mit.edu/~emin/www.old/writings/coinGame.html
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by ibmthrowaway218 11y ago
> Personally though, I love the taste and enjoy the experience of "waking up" with a cup of coffee over the course of the first 20 minutes of the day. Yep, which is why I switched to decaf. Still the same taste (there are ok de
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by ibmthrowaway218 11y ago
> I'll drink my 3-4 cups of black filtered coffee a day with a good conscience. Sounds similar to what I used to drink. I now drink similar amounts of decaf black coffee a day and sleep a whole lot better. This is partly why I quit
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by ibmthrowaway218 11y ago
https://twitter.com/c8ters/status/699701086656077825
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by ibmthrowaway218 11y ago
> We also have to port our own servers to another service, and fast. Once you've done that you should look at what other services you rely significantly upon and see about mitigating the risk there by having an alternative ready to
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by ibmthrowaway218 11y ago
And, within 24 hours or so someone will submit the Van Eck Phreaking Wikipedia page link as a standalone submission on HN.
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by ibmthrowaway218 11y ago
ITYM: A STRANGE GAME. THE ONLY WINNING MOVE IS NOT TO PLAY.
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by ibmthrowaway218 11y ago
Sure, but if the payload in this example is a Linux binary then it won't do anything to an OSX/BSD/Windows machine. If the payload is an interpreted script, or something that's compiled (if it can find a compiler, etc) t
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by ibmthrowaway218 11y ago
AIUI (from distant days working at BT) the thing they were looking for was the EMR of the CRT flyback transformer. But it could only be detected if the television was towards the front of the house (not behind too many internal walls) and o
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by ibmthrowaway218 11y ago
They're paid to visit lots of pubs during one particular match. Walk in, look at screen(s), walk out. You wouldn't get to see much of the game at all as most of the time you will be traveling between pubs.
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by ibmthrowaway218 11y ago
The number isn't in the broadcast signal, it's overlaid by the decoding box. It's going to be a number tied to the unique viewing card number (which is tied uniquely to a subscriber).
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by ibmthrowaway218 12y ago
So: don't write before the first check, write before subsequent checks.
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by ibmthrowaway218 12y ago
Or:- "That's a great question! I think the best way to answer it is..." (This answer continues for two hours without actually answering the question posed.)
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by ibmthrowaway218 12y ago
IBM certainly do (I work part time for them in a dev role).
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by ibmthrowaway218 12y ago
http://www.investopedia.com/articles/economics/08/gas-prices... The cost of the raw crude oil is only part (but a significant part) of the pump price. It's more 'fun' in the UK where fuel duty
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by ibmthrowaway218 12y ago
In population wide studies the health benefits of regular cycling vastly outweigh (no pun intended) the increase in accidents/fatalities.

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