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Re:UN doc: military drones may have autonomously ‘hunted down’ and att...
on Sunday May 30, 2021 @07:58AM (#27332610)
Beyond visual range engagements require powerful radar that cannot fit in the missile itself. The missile can only navigate the last leg of it's journey without relying on external information.
Re:UN doc: military drones may have autonomously ‘hunted down’ and att...
on Sunday May 30, 2021 @07:55AM (#27332598)
Fire and forget means it requires no more input/information from whatever fired it. The benefit is that the platform that launched it is free to do other things.
Re:American Solitude: Notes Toward a History of Isolation
on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @05:35PM (#27296416)
>but you aren't cut off from the incessant social media and all
It is your decision to pay attention to the "news" and social media
Re:Show HN: Find Subreddits for Your Niche
on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @04:33PM (#27295732)
Lmao
Re:Google now lets you password-protect the page that shows all your s...
on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @03:20PM (#27281228)
They still collect and save all of that information. It's just not displayed to you ;)
Re:Charlie Bit My Finger video to be taken off YouTube after selling f...
on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @03:19PM (#27281215)
Imagine you got into Bitcoin in 2010 and bought a few hundred dollars worth. Now that is worth more money than you could even dream about. The real question is why not buy an nft for the lulz?
Re:Magic Wormhole: Get things from one computer to another, safely
on Monday May 24, 2021 @04:48PM (#27269514)
How many of these webrtc peer to peer file sharing sites are we going to have? I swear there are hundreds at this point. None of them offer anything different than each other. Sure, it's a great project for a frontend dev to throw together on a weekend. But that's about it
Re:Wuhan lab staff sought hospital care before Covid-19 outbreak discl...
on Monday May 24, 2021 @09:33AM (#27264143)
Ah yes the same WHO that refuses to even say the word Hong Kong.
Re:China on Mars: Zhurong rover returns first pictures
on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @02:26PM (#27212458)
Go read the book manufacturing consent.
Re:DarkSide ransomware gang quits after servers, Bitcoin stash seized
on Friday May 14, 2021 @03:13PM (#27158515)
Yes. I doubt any other organization has the capabilities to break Tor anonymity. They don't want to reveal their hand so you will only see their tools used in extreme circumstances. At most we will get some official parallel construction nonsense.
Re:DarkSide ransomware gang quits after servers, Bitcoin stash seized
on Friday May 14, 2021 @03:08PM (#27158458)
It's about time the NSA uses it's surveillance capabilities to stop a ransomware attack.
Re:Ask HN: How do you increase your listening speed without losing com...
on Monday May 10, 2021 @06:09PM (#27111492)
I find I miss out on important ideas when listening at high speeds. Some podcasts I listen to more than once. I guess it depends on the content really
Re:Why Am I Still Embarrassed About Things That Happened 10 Years Ago?
on Monday May 10, 2021 @04:57PM (#27110814)
Your mind replays previous experiences so that you can learn from them. Shortly after a traumatic experience, you may not understand what you did wrong, but after growing as a human, you may be able to understand it years later. Replaying experiences is more valuable than immediately attempting to internalize lessons.
Re:Ask HN: LinkedIn Pyramid Scheme?
on Monday May 10, 2021 @04:51PM (#27110778)
Stop wasting your time. It's obviously a scam. Don't try to antiscam.
Re:Tracking One Year of Malicious Tor Exit Relay Activities (Part II)
on Monday May 10, 2021 @03:17PM (#27109684)
I agree with this. They just wait to find a small breadcrumb trail and then use that construct a case. The identifying the suspect is done through hidden means.
Re:80% of the 22M comments on net neutrality rollback were fake
on Thursday May 06, 2021 @05:13PM (#27069114)
Yes but the government doesn't prosecute itself (see the director of the NSA lying to congress while under oath) and corporations are only ever hit with tiny fines they can pretty much ignore.
Re:Burning Man: The Ascent of D H Lawrence
on Thursday May 06, 2021 @05:11PM (#27069090)
I love when I'm halfway through the first paragraph and a giant popup covers my screen. I have to wait for it to load in (because they had to make it a nice transition). Then I have to figure out how to close it.
I have no idea what the popup said but I completely forgot what I reading. That's enough of that website.
Re:DIY Boat Monitoring System
on Thursday May 06, 2021 @04:24PM (#27068637)
I interpreted it the same way but instead of being disturbed I searched for boat cleaning jobs and wondered how much the CIA and other intelligence agencies invest in bugging mega yachts.
Re:Ask HN: New APIs to Build on Top Of?
on Thursday May 06, 2021 @03:56PM (#27068353)
z lib might be a good option too
Re:Ask HN: New APIs to Build on Top Of?
on Thursday May 06, 2021 @03:52PM (#27068311)
What are your plans to do with it?
Create a reseller website?
Re:Ask HN: How do you generally build a product?
on Thursday May 06, 2021 @09:29AM (#27062900)
I agree. Acquiring users is harder than building the product. I have done this many times.
Re:Scammer Used Fake Court Order to Take over Dark Web Drug Market Dir...
on Thursday May 06, 2021 @09:25AM (#27062855)
How do you defend yourself against something like this?
Re:Show HN: CS Weapons – Counter-Strike weapon data comparison app
on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @04:48PM (#27055610)
The only useful thing is the recoil pattern, which this site doesn't even have.
Re:Tracking “Dark Ships” with New Satellite Technology
on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @10:22AM (#27037895)
This reminds me of the post about SAR satellites being able to peer inside buildings. Setting up a corner reflector would cause a giant bright spot to appear on the radar return. If all the ships did this, it would be much more difficult to track them.
Re:Google's push to bring employees back to offices, some say they'll ...
on Friday April 30, 2021 @04:10PM (#26998662)
I don't understand how cannot code would even hold a job for more than a month.
Re:Google's push to bring employees back to offices, some say they'll ...
on Friday April 30, 2021 @01:02PM (#26996096)
Cannot write code is very different from cannot write code on a whiteboard to solve a difficult problem in a limited amount of time in a stressful setting where you constantly have to keep talking and explaining what you are doing and cannot pause to think.
Re:The United States needs to learn how to learn
on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @10:23PM (#26976765)
Yeah by drilling oil wells and directing all the profits to the government. hahaa
Re:Ask HN: Why do you use Dark Mode on your computer?
on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @09:42AM (#26969244)
Because my coworkers set the monitor brightness insanely high and white mode hurts my eyes
Re:Tell HN: HN Replies Data Security Incident
on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @09:40AM (#26969222)
>For a period of several days earlier this year, a .git directory on the VPS hosting this site was exposed to the internet by a configuration mistake, providing enough information to allow an attacker to access the site's database.
Storing credentials in git. Ahh a classic!
Re:Rare chunks of Earth's mantle found exposed in Maryland
on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @09:07AM (#26968873)
Just type a random email in the box. This is basic debugging knowledge.