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by sspencer 7y ago
> It may also be expected that the symptoms of the patients infected via facal-oral or conjunctival route will be lighter than those infected intranasally. That seems like the hypothesis they suggest. Interesting implications.
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by sspencer 7y ago
It completely makes my day that the solver is on HN.
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by sspencer 7y ago
William Gibson had something like this in one of his later books. Spook Country maybe? As I recall it was simply called the Ugly Shirt.
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by sspencer 8y ago
I just ran through this - works flawlessly. One peculiarity that might help someone else in my shoes: I was connecting to my VPN node through Terminal (with Solarized Dark) on OS X and generating the QR code with the suggested command but t
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by sspencer 8y ago
Someone skin this to mimic 'Dark City'! Complete with signs to Shell Beach...
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by sspencer 8y ago
Somewhere (possibly Reddit?) I learned about the unlabeled mute button for gas station TV ads. For certain pumps there are two rows of five or six unlabeled white buttons on the left and right of the screen - pressing the second button from
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by sspencer 8y ago
> John Gaughan, an American manufacturer of equipment for magicians based in Los Angeles, spent $120,000 building his own version of Kempelen's machine over a five-year period from 1984.[62] The machine uses the original chessboard
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by sspencer 8y ago
I bought an iPhone SE when it came out. It's the perfect phone in my opinion. I am fully prepared to use it until it falls apart and it's so well built I think it may take a while. Nothing they released after it makes sense to me.
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by sspencer 8y ago
Wow! Anyone else reminded of the gargoyle rig from Snow Crash? I went from "probably vaporware" to "I should look into buying one of these" just from looking through this teardown.
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by sspencer 8y ago
This is very cool but unfortunately it looks a bit rough in Solarized Dark since some of the output defaults to black text. Suggestion: configurable text colors. You already have a config file. I may try to hack it together myself later - i
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by sspencer 8y ago
I would love to see the terms for that emergency 5 million in cash. Probably eye-watering interest rates.
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by sspencer 8y ago
> Hell, even major freelance marketplaces try to track your every billed second by taking screenshots of your desktop or webcam "just to make sure you're working". Well that's some dystopian nightmare stuff I had no
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by sspencer 12y ago
For a good perspective on this see Ken Burns' documentary series about the creation of the national parks. It will open your eyes to the constant battle the parks face from commercial enterprises, and explains why the parks are such a
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Kaspersky Lab Discovers 'Gauss'(kaspersky.com)
104 points by sspencer 14y ago|24 comments
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by sspencer 14y ago
Looks like plenty of opportunities for more installation pieces like this: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/28/us/28piano.html
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by sspencer 15y ago
I had a very similar experience. I heard about Loopt on here when they first launched. It seemed really interesting and I wanted to sign up but it was only for Boost Mobile at the time, which neither I nor any of my friends used. I just shr
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by sspencer 15y ago
She's never explicitly named; the only thing that gives her away is a single phrase: "chiseled spam" I love literary Easter eggs like that.
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by sspencer 15y ago
Anyone tried a Turing test on Siri yet? She'd fail the first time she tried to call someone or do a web search, but if you could head her off before she can try to do anything but answer it might be quite convincing.
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by sspencer 15y ago
Long live the first Knight of the Lambda Calculus!
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Siri lets anyone use a locked iPhone 4S(cbsnews.com)
32 points by sspencer 15y ago|28 comments
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by sspencer 15y ago
For one who works with HFT systems, an extremely refreshing clarification. Though I do get a chuckle out of the extremely bombastic stories ("MAN OBSOLETE? COMPUTERS TAKING OVER!!!"), it's nice to see the record set straight. Sadly this w
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by sspencer 15y ago
Seconded, this is truly awful. Navigating the map instantly becomes a chore.
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by sspencer 15y ago
Anecdotal rebuttal: The soldiers I've met and interacted with are among the most varied group of people I can imagine that all do the same basic job. They show more inherent variance than any other profession I've ever seen. I concur comp
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by sspencer 15y ago
I saw a wonderful talk at HOPE 6 concerning Project Gutenberg, and can only assume it was Michael Hart speaking. It made me donate on the spot. As a staunch supporter of paper books I don't often read eBooks, but I can completely understan
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by sspencer 15y ago
Serious question: After this rash of hacks, is there a cert issuer people still trust? And if so, why?
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by sspencer 15y ago
Cryptography for which the attacker has no key is a much greater impediment to remote PIP injection than it is to a local eavesdropper. This is because the attacker needs to know both the cryptographic key and the counter or nonce. In the
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by sspencer 15y ago
What do you suppose is the street value of the keys to 4 CAs?
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by sspencer 15y ago
Unless you are making a point I can't understand, I think you mean "posterity" instead of "prosperity."
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by sspencer 15y ago
I'm not at all advocating Cisco's behavior (it's very unethical and likely criminal as well) but I think suggesting someone murder a Cisco exec over this is, um, a tad harsh.
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by sspencer 15y ago
Got it in 1. MBTA is 8 billion dollars in debt. They are the MA poster child for "too big too fail."

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