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Re:Headphones can be hijacked to surreptitiously record audio on Tuesday November 22, 2016 @05:23PM (#13018219)
This technique was just as valid 8 years ago as it is today. The only difference today is that the realtek chipsets with port reassignment are more prevalent.
Re:Extreme side-effects of antidepressants on Wednesday October 19, 2016 @08:53AM (#12743277)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2248201/

"Since the consumption of omega-3 fatty acids from fish and other sources has declined in most populations, the incidence of major depression has increased."

Re:Pardon Snowden on Wednesday September 14, 2016 @10:44AM (#12497363)
whistleblower protection?
Re:LastPass autofill exploit on Wednesday July 27, 2016 @06:13AM (#12171659)
Please correct me if I am mistaken, but couldn't this have been implemented into an iframe that when ran could send the passwords to another remote server?

If so, I am a little taken back by LastPass only offering $1,000 to the researcher that found and reported it for fixing. He or she could have taken a different path and resulted in this being used in some complex targeted attack against tech corporations via short-url redirect interstitial pages, or an ad network's javascript, etc. Given the potential damage, I'd say there is a missing zero or two on that reward amount, in my opinion.

Re:OpenSSL Security Advisory on Tuesday May 03, 2016 @10:31AM (#11621004)
ASN.1 parsing in implementations of several different standards have had this class of issue for well over a decade. ip phone and software stack vulnerabilities in, for example in asterisk, specifically for ASN.1 handling have probably been used by our intelligence community for a long time. The safe implementations are probably ran in virtual machine languages.
Re:Learning to Live with the Voices in Your Head (2014) on Saturday April 23, 2016 @02:25PM (#11556699)
Does the Perphenazine reduce the frequency?
the "love" button wasn't supposed to be "like"
Cinder blocks were cheaper near foundries, so a lot of plant economy homes are wood propped up and not on slabs. Slabs do not last on the "gumbo" mud, and it floods. Metals weren't cheap enough for siding so asbestos was used. Now there are the synthesized woods.
Re:The rise of the zero-day market on Tuesday October 20, 2015 @11:23PM (#10423492)
another negative use of bitcoin
Re:North Korean biochemical expert flees to Finland: source on Thursday July 02, 2015 @04:55PM (#9821567)
chilling
The Satoshi fingerprinted mining carefully balanced the hashrate of the cluster, with the goal of historically viewable well-meaning intentions.

http://organofcorti.blogspot.com/2014/08/167-satoshis-hashra...

Re:Twilio Video – Real-time WebRTC video infrastructure on Wednesday April 15, 2015 @01:55AM (#9379120)
Blue Jeans solves this at scale, with higher quality than WebRTC alone, while also supporting video conferencing equipment joining the same meetings.

Transcoding is tough with unique views per client, but audio processing is tougher. :)

Re:What Satoshi Didn't Know [video] on Sunday March 15, 2015 @05:44PM (#9208293)
Never roll your own crypto, unless you're a cryptographer.

At least he realized that.

Re:Results of the 2015 Soylent Eaters Survey on Thursday February 26, 2015 @02:13PM (#9114627)
At least someone said it. Yes it does, and multiplied if consumed with carbonated drinks.

Possibly related to a gender gap of continued use?

Do these people understand that encryption is just software, and you can't prevent software from proliferating just by passing some legislation? It would make all legitimate purposes of end to end encryption illegal, and leave it only for the criminals. Have we not learned anything from the conversation on gun control?
Re:Chrome DevTools outside of the browser on Sunday December 28, 2014 @09:05PM (#8808274)
In thread-per-connection server applications, the concurrency is exactly the number of threads spun up for the pool of connections. In node, it achieves that concurrency without a thread pool for the connections themselves, and thus you get less resource usage (memory mostly) for the same number of connections as the daemon scales up.

Node's real draw, aside from pretty easy concurrency, is the package ecosystem.

Re:The State of Desktop Applications in Node.js on Wednesday December 10, 2014 @11:34AM (#8730000)
The flat packages you would most likely distribute for the application come in around 30mB for me.
Re:3D-printed sculptures at the same scale as a human sperm on Saturday November 15, 2014 @09:03PM (#8613257)
Considering the artist says they were lost by the scientist manning the electron scanning microscope accidentally placing his thumb on the glass, and didn't mention what the scientist team that created the sculptures thought of this (or if they could make more), I'd lean towards hoax story. There are several other glaring inconsistencies in the artist's story.

He just says to trust him that they were there, and that people love to hear stories :)

Re:Node.js Advisory Board on Thursday October 23, 2014 @06:06PM (#8501014)
http://vertx.io/ aims to be very similar in architecture if I recall correctly.
Emails started bouncing to the account around 05:00 GMT last night, it's likely that was one of the only ways the attacker could maintain communication.
The identity could remain unverified for eternity if original keys aren't available, and it's possible there was a deliberate destroying of the keys. Satoshi has said that the losing of coins were a donation to everyone else -- and who else would make a donation to the entirety of the Bitcoin ecosystem other than Satoshi?
Re:Ask HN: How can I enjoy my job? on Monday August 25, 2014 @11:47PM (#8225641)
Unless your work hours are being explicitly questioned, you perhaps are being a self conscious to the point of being unhappy. There is also a difference between being physically present for 12 hours and being productive. I don't think anybody would for a minute guess you are productive for 12 hours. If you actually are, you are way more valuable to the company than they are paying you and they would be damn fools to fire you. (And you shouldn't even try to be that productive).

Is your work tracked in any fashion, such as Jira?

Re:The Strange and Curious Tale of the Last True Hermit on Thursday August 21, 2014 @05:52PM (#8209839)
I've had a recurring dream of building a little shack out in the woods and I've constantly wondered if the Ted Kaczynski would have turned so dark with modern access to the internet.
Re:Bitcoin August 14 Flash Crash on Thursday August 14, 2014 @01:44PM (#8178638)
Milton Friedman is famous for saying the inflation of the dollar is exclusively controlled by the FED, but that isn't 100% true today. There are other branches of government that capture back large amounts of the printed paper from operations that are illegal. So in a sense, the "war on drugs" could be keeping inflation lower than it would be without it. For inflation to be felt the money has to be in circulation. Also, when the US broke away from the gold standard and printed a lot of money for police actions, it took about 10 years for the inflation to become rampant. It is important to realize this was before the crack wave.
Re:Bitcoin August 14 Flash Crash on Thursday August 14, 2014 @01:00PM (#8178404)
There are extremists that believe Bitcoin is poised to be the new world's reserve currency (which to me means a highly sought after commodity to compare against), as gold once was in the past 200 years to some degree. This party of thought see it as digital gold that is fungible through the internet. It doesn't have enough critical mass of actual economic value hedged on it yet to be that, if ever, so it's going to be a wild ride when any big players decide to put some monies in the slot machine of the market. Small level purchasers aren't moving the market, and if they're in the US they're probably using Coinbase or some other "Bitcoin bank" that does off-chain transactions. The begrudgoned trusted entities that the current world requires to exist for people to get involved aren't moving the price for the most part, and their prices reflect what the other exchanges are saying. Regardless of the potential for transaction exclusion collusion, any large amounts of Bitcoin bought off the chain can cause wild swings on the markets that are averaged for the prices, and for a while if Bitcoin continues to excel, it will remain just as exploitable as any other financial system such stocks w/ press.
Re:Satoshi's Hashrate on Wednesday August 13, 2014 @05:55PM (#8175204)
There most likely was a simple gpu miner that wasn't public knowledge until later, which helped in balancing out the network without needing a horde of machines early on.

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