Sometimes a David makes a bigger impression than a Goliath. It's been years since I've worked with Ladar. However, he's a man of great intelligence and principle. It's not unheard of for "the little guy" to take on the…
> We have systemic trillion dollar annual deficits, so tax collection efforts are being ramped up. Funny. In renewable energy circles, the first, and most efficient, optimization is "conservation". Converting the 50…
People begging for money online (see those "please donate cash so I can get breast implants" sorts of things from a few years ago and on various sub-reddits) are probably a more honest way to earn money than the…
Good, entertaining read. I get the impression it was sanitized a great deal, because I was sorely disappointed with the lack of technical meat-n-potatoes. For instance, the author totally glossed over how they recovered…
One summer in college, I sub-rented an apartment from a friend who was away for the summer. It was the first time in my life I had lived alone. I was working grounds crew at a dorm (relatively strenuous/active job). I'd…
Intentional contamination or no, patenting genes and extorting royalties from people propagating self-replicating organisms is very much evil. If farmers want to pay for seed stock of known features and quality, that's…
How many rural villages in China were polluted from a nearby factory producing components of the computer you used to make this post? Every single person posting in this thread is guilty of consuming far more resources…
That's kinda like saying the MPAA ratings systems is ok because my beef is really with large theater chains that refuse to carry non-rated films. Large, entrenched authorities who provide ratings about [insert noun…
I thought it was statistical filtering and crowd-sourced spam tagging (like Google's spam filter). I maintain a mail server for a client and Spam Assassin (edit: and greylisting) works well enough without blacklists…
How disappointing. I thought it was going to be the story of a fed-up email admin breaking down and DoS'ing one of the scourges of the internet. Blacklists are pure evil, and nothing will ever change my opinion of that.…
Time for everyone to order teddy bears, propane bottles, and a copy of the Quran from Amazon whenever they book a plane ticket. Bring back the "spook fodder" concept from the heydays of USENET.
My make-a-wish request would be some standard protocol to translate threaded discussions such as from here and Reddit into an NNTP feed. Back in my early 90s college days, I could rip through an amazing amount of…
Ever since these small devices have been in production, I've always wondered about their potential use in clandestine installations. Obviously things like the Shiva Plug are almost capable of hiding in plain site, so…
I know of at least one sub-division where non-potable water is connected to yard irrigation systems, so the concept is not totally unheard of. Nothing as sensible as the system you outline in Paris, though.
For shits and giggles, I snagged a vinyl rip of Simon and Garfunkle's "Bridge Over Troubled Water" in 24-bit 96KHz FLAC format online, just to see what all the fuss was about. Some guys who do serious vinyl rips spare…
I totally agree with you. I use dirt-cheap VPS servers to tunnel web traffic over SSH socks proxies. Why? For fun. Because I can. To thwart ISP packet inspection and Google profiling my IP. To screw up IP-based ad…
If it is any indicator, current versions of FreeBSD and some Linux distros have "xz" as part of the base system, along with their gzip and bzip2 counterparts, including xzcat/xzless/etc., newsyslog/logrotate compression…
There's a difference between doing something harmful to yourself repeatedly for shits and giggles, and at your own discretion, and voluntarily following something through to its conclusion when somebody else plans the…
Why so dismissive? Religious or feel-good benefits aside from the 100-hour regimen, the guys deserves kudos merely for sticking with the exercise to its conclusion. Even without the discomfort, sitting/standing/whatever…
Rain-X/Fox-X hardly eliminates the need to wipe windshields or clean bathroom mirrors, so my guess is that while it will reduce time between cleanings, it won't rid the need altogether.
My preferred method of setting up many apps on a new PC is using ninite.com's installer, which includes Java as an option. Does anyone know if this path to installing Java bypasses the cruft the article speaks of?
For the first time in my 40-something years on this planet, I utilized passenger rail in the US. I recently took a vacation on a leg of the California Zephyr Amtrak route (which goes from Chicago to San Francisco).…
From these past couple of weeks, I have picked up on the basics of the PACER incident. Is the archive out there anywhere to be found? Maybe at Wikileaks or an onion address? How about the mass of data Aaron got from…
Why would I want to do that? No need to get a vet involved when you know what you're doing. It's not like I used it as a feed additive for growth stimulation (which is a horrible practice, in my opinion).
Tell that to my local feed store. I picked up package of Terramycin (Oxytetracycline) powder at one a few months ago.
Sometimes a David makes a bigger impression than a Goliath. It's been years since I've worked with Ladar. However, he's a man of great intelligence and principle. It's not unheard of for "the little guy" to take on the…
> We have systemic trillion dollar annual deficits, so tax collection efforts are being ramped up. Funny. In renewable energy circles, the first, and most efficient, optimization is "conservation". Converting the 50…
People begging for money online (see those "please donate cash so I can get breast implants" sorts of things from a few years ago and on various sub-reddits) are probably a more honest way to earn money than the…
Good, entertaining read. I get the impression it was sanitized a great deal, because I was sorely disappointed with the lack of technical meat-n-potatoes. For instance, the author totally glossed over how they recovered…
One summer in college, I sub-rented an apartment from a friend who was away for the summer. It was the first time in my life I had lived alone. I was working grounds crew at a dorm (relatively strenuous/active job). I'd…
Intentional contamination or no, patenting genes and extorting royalties from people propagating self-replicating organisms is very much evil. If farmers want to pay for seed stock of known features and quality, that's…
How many rural villages in China were polluted from a nearby factory producing components of the computer you used to make this post? Every single person posting in this thread is guilty of consuming far more resources…
That's kinda like saying the MPAA ratings systems is ok because my beef is really with large theater chains that refuse to carry non-rated films. Large, entrenched authorities who provide ratings about [insert noun…
I thought it was statistical filtering and crowd-sourced spam tagging (like Google's spam filter). I maintain a mail server for a client and Spam Assassin (edit: and greylisting) works well enough without blacklists…
How disappointing. I thought it was going to be the story of a fed-up email admin breaking down and DoS'ing one of the scourges of the internet. Blacklists are pure evil, and nothing will ever change my opinion of that.…
Time for everyone to order teddy bears, propane bottles, and a copy of the Quran from Amazon whenever they book a plane ticket. Bring back the "spook fodder" concept from the heydays of USENET.
My make-a-wish request would be some standard protocol to translate threaded discussions such as from here and Reddit into an NNTP feed. Back in my early 90s college days, I could rip through an amazing amount of…
Ever since these small devices have been in production, I've always wondered about their potential use in clandestine installations. Obviously things like the Shiva Plug are almost capable of hiding in plain site, so…
I know of at least one sub-division where non-potable water is connected to yard irrigation systems, so the concept is not totally unheard of. Nothing as sensible as the system you outline in Paris, though.
For shits and giggles, I snagged a vinyl rip of Simon and Garfunkle's "Bridge Over Troubled Water" in 24-bit 96KHz FLAC format online, just to see what all the fuss was about. Some guys who do serious vinyl rips spare…
I totally agree with you. I use dirt-cheap VPS servers to tunnel web traffic over SSH socks proxies. Why? For fun. Because I can. To thwart ISP packet inspection and Google profiling my IP. To screw up IP-based ad…
If it is any indicator, current versions of FreeBSD and some Linux distros have "xz" as part of the base system, along with their gzip and bzip2 counterparts, including xzcat/xzless/etc., newsyslog/logrotate compression…
There's a difference between doing something harmful to yourself repeatedly for shits and giggles, and at your own discretion, and voluntarily following something through to its conclusion when somebody else plans the…
Why so dismissive? Religious or feel-good benefits aside from the 100-hour regimen, the guys deserves kudos merely for sticking with the exercise to its conclusion. Even without the discomfort, sitting/standing/whatever…
Rain-X/Fox-X hardly eliminates the need to wipe windshields or clean bathroom mirrors, so my guess is that while it will reduce time between cleanings, it won't rid the need altogether.
My preferred method of setting up many apps on a new PC is using ninite.com's installer, which includes Java as an option. Does anyone know if this path to installing Java bypasses the cruft the article speaks of?
For the first time in my 40-something years on this planet, I utilized passenger rail in the US. I recently took a vacation on a leg of the California Zephyr Amtrak route (which goes from Chicago to San Francisco).…
From these past couple of weeks, I have picked up on the basics of the PACER incident. Is the archive out there anywhere to be found? Maybe at Wikileaks or an onion address? How about the mass of data Aaron got from…
Why would I want to do that? No need to get a vet involved when you know what you're doing. It's not like I used it as a feed additive for growth stimulation (which is a horrible practice, in my opinion).
Tell that to my local feed store. I picked up package of Terramycin (Oxytetracycline) powder at one a few months ago.