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…
What does the code actually deliver in the HTTP request, and what path does the request travel? Is the exploit that the request is made outside of the TOR proxy (thus revealing the true origin IP) or that it gathers…
I believe the state law is that in any county where the population is under 400,000 residents, prostitution is legal, which rules out the main large cities in Nevada. I live in neighboring Utah, so I learn some…
> 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…
Point taken. But it still seems he had a direct relationship (the license). My point still stands. If I, having no relation whatsoever with Monsanto, buy random soybeans as feed, then plant them, then spray them with…
Many folks are stating this was a clear-cut case of violation of contract law: the guy at one time signed something with Monsanto stating his exclusive source of RR soybeans would be Monsanto. However, if I buy 160…
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…
> We were building roads and services before taxes. That's all I need: Paying to use Verizon Interstate Highway in order to traverse my state. Infrastructure is one of the few things that taxes are pretty good for,…
Well, whatever works for them. I've been using gmail since my '04 invite, but a few weeks ago I migrated to mail.com for web mail and bing for search. Google lured me in with the sparse simplicity of their search and…
One of the first couple of episodes of Cosmos (maybe the first?) has a similar thing to convey the scale of time in our existence in the universe. Pretty cool.
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…
Have a Coke and a smile?
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.
This is my thought on the modern flush toilette: http://makeameme.org/media/created/skeptical-third-world-kid... I lived in what was essentially a rural cabin for 5 years. We had no indoor plumbing and stored water for…
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…
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…
What does the code actually deliver in the HTTP request, and what path does the request travel? Is the exploit that the request is made outside of the TOR proxy (thus revealing the true origin IP) or that it gathers…
I believe the state law is that in any county where the population is under 400,000 residents, prostitution is legal, which rules out the main large cities in Nevada. I live in neighboring Utah, so I learn some…
> 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…
Point taken. But it still seems he had a direct relationship (the license). My point still stands. If I, having no relation whatsoever with Monsanto, buy random soybeans as feed, then plant them, then spray them with…
Many folks are stating this was a clear-cut case of violation of contract law: the guy at one time signed something with Monsanto stating his exclusive source of RR soybeans would be Monsanto. However, if I buy 160…
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…
> We were building roads and services before taxes. That's all I need: Paying to use Verizon Interstate Highway in order to traverse my state. Infrastructure is one of the few things that taxes are pretty good for,…
Well, whatever works for them. I've been using gmail since my '04 invite, but a few weeks ago I migrated to mail.com for web mail and bing for search. Google lured me in with the sparse simplicity of their search and…
One of the first couple of episodes of Cosmos (maybe the first?) has a similar thing to convey the scale of time in our existence in the universe. Pretty cool.
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…
Have a Coke and a smile?
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.
This is my thought on the modern flush toilette: http://makeameme.org/media/created/skeptical-third-world-kid... I lived in what was essentially a rural cabin for 5 years. We had no indoor plumbing and stored water for…
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…