skolor

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by skolor 10y ago
This (local political action) is something I've found interesting for a while, but never enough to actually get involved. Seeing this made me look up some data for the area around me, since I was curious and the OP didn't have eno
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by skolor 10y ago
Apparently they're looking for volunteers ( http://getinvolved.runforoffice.org/volunteer ). I'm not involved with the project (although seriously considering volunteering), and it looks like they mostly just have s
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by skolor 10y ago
I have no idea about the quality, but I saw this kit getting posted on Twitter this afternoon: http://www.boldport.club/ . It looks a little simpler, but may scratch the itch you're looking for.
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by skolor 11y ago
The important part of the parent comment was "just like everyone else". For people who are employees, not stakeholders, recognition for success is important and the parent clearly felt they were not being recognized relative to th
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by skolor 11y ago
Note what the actual source for that says: > Microsoft Corp., the world's largest software company, provides intelligence agencies with information about bugs in its popular software before it publicly releases a fix, according to t
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by skolor 11y ago
I would imagine it's at least somewhat rare. The indicators for espionage and insider trading are quite similar: most spies are caught because of sudden affluence. Making a ton of money off insider trading is going to set off a lot of
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by skolor 11y ago
Its my understanding that Azure is slightly better for students. Their Dreamspark offering, at least when I looked at it, was better if you got started in the first couple years of school.
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by skolor 11y ago
If it's shared in a corporate environment or anonymously, it shouldn't. I generally expect most of the people I work with the be in a +/- 10% band for my "peers", and +10-50% for my immediate management level, which
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by skolor 11y ago
I haven't read that book, but isn't increased negotiating power for CEOs a more likely explanation than social embarrassment? If I've been chosen as the lead candidate for a CEO, it's a lot easier to justify a large sala
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by skolor 11y ago
We've seen the reverse of this now. Everything I've seen has shown that newer generations are moving more into the cities, back to closer to their employers.
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by skolor 11y ago
I'm pretty put off that I spent 5 minutes digging around on their site and couldn't find one of those claims. All I saw was "Everyone is trying to steal your private datas, but for a large markup we can make you secure."
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by skolor 11y ago
Presumably you would have less wear and tear on the car by driving it less. This entirely accepts the initial purchase of the car as a sunk cost, so the number of hours doesn't really factor in, the rest of the costs are all hourly, un
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by skolor 11y ago
Why wouldn't they just drop their equipment and leave? Cutting cables causes a noticeable outage and requires people to physically visit the point of modification, which ruins the covert potential for such equipment.
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by skolor 11y ago
No public information about a crime doesn't mean no clues.
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by skolor 11y ago
I don't have any good introspection into what this number means, but according to this ( http://www.nationsreportcard.gov/reading_math_2013/#/state-p... ) 18% of 8th graders were found to be "Below basic&q
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by skolor 11y ago
There's quite a bit of research to support this[1]. Basically, regardless of any other factors, increased parental involvement consistently shows better performance. [1] https://www.nea.org/tools/17360.htm
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by skolor 11y ago
I've been making some grumblings, and would really like data to back things up. Would anyone who was recently hired (past year or so) mind sharing information about the process? I'm mostly interested in the length of time from fir
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by skolor 11y ago
I work for a pretty large company, and the more involvement I have with the hiring process the more painful it is to see. We just move so incredibly slowly, with frequent false starts, and we've lost a number of good candidates because
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by skolor 11y ago
Its actually the opposite that annoys me: if I was watching a TV series, the last time I was logged in I watched episodes, and there are still remaining episodes, stop asking me to rate the series. Its a minor but consistent annoyance that
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by skolor 11y ago
At least in vim, you can remap just about anything that you want to. The reason the feature doesn't get included as often is because of exactly this. Even someone who could make use of the feature, and is annoyed by the current keybind
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by skolor 11y ago
Compared to other bug bounties it isn't bad at all. Airline miles are generally valued at around a penny a mile, so $500 for XSS, $2500 for an auth bypass, $10000 for code exec isn't all that bad.
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by skolor 11y ago
After looking through their data a little, I'm curious: who is paying all these bribes[1]? 7% of people who interacted with the police report paying a bribe to them? 11% for education I could believe, but 15% to the judiciary, 17% to &
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by skolor 11y ago
I've always liked this - http://matt.might.net/articles/phd-school-in-pictures/ - as a description of what exactly a PhD is.
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by skolor 11y ago
That's not really the choices available. The options aren't NSA reports bugs/uses them for intelligence collection, its NSA uses bugs for intelligence collection or they don't find bugs at all. Its possible that the righ
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by skolor 11y ago
Don't forget that "they chose freedom" for a population of 2.5 million people[1]. That's less than Chicago or Nevada, today. The original thirteen colonies had a population density slightly lower than Wyoming. The whole
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by skolor 11y ago
Its my understanding that this just adds another reason the Secretary of the Treasury can add someone to the SND list[1]. The ability to this already exists for other reasons, such as "terrorism" and drug trafficking. The executiv
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by skolor 11y ago
That gives you the worst of both worlds, though. You get the major developmental downside of a backdoor - making sure no one in the development pipeline finds and removes it - while still having to do the non-trivial work of actually exploi
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by skolor 11y ago
So, serious question: Why would they backdoor Windows, when apparently they could just buy an exploit for $X00k[1]? Its seems buying an exploit serves all those same factors, at a similar price range, while making it much harder to point a
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by skolor 12y ago
From the article, it sounds like they just looked at old incident reports and said "yup, these two are 'sophisticated,' they could be the NSA/GCHQ." Its a little disturbing that the "sophisticated" attacks
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by skolor 12y ago
I think the generous interpretation is that the US Security companies simply don't get as much collected data in the areas being targeted by the US intel agencies. I don't have any real data to back it up, but I would assume Kaspe

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