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Re:Secrets of the Medtronic MyCareLink Patient Monitor on Sunday December 04, 2016 @08:20PM (#13102765)
>compiled binary blogs

That, or view/edit them with a hex editor.

That's not what it looks like at all...
Re:Liquid assets: how the business of bottled water went mad on Sunday October 09, 2016 @05:10PM (#12673481)
Yup. Potable vs. Palatable drinking water.
I agree with everything you've said thus far, however, I'm still curious as to how the Π would go about reconstruction w/out using their already gathered knowledge to get warrants/subpoenas.

They could hope the ∆ was using BT and had their IP logged for downloading copyrighted material. Then maybe request a warrant for their computer that way but that seems like a stretch.

Looks like the blog was hacked at some point, and what you are looking at is old SEO spam.
USAA recently had the same issue; transactions not processing. They, like Costco, switched credit card issuers. So it may very well be a scaling issue like importing millions of customers into the DB.
Re:Arduino in the size of a AA battery on Wednesday April 20, 2016 @09:03PM (#11538932)
The most expensive part for that was the serial-to-usb cord I had to buy. Great little tool and taught me a lot.
Re:Linux Mint downloads (briefly) compromised on Monday February 22, 2016 @06:08AM (#11150000)
There's something interesting to be said here. "They make {{ package }} unusable by hijacking it's name space", well who gave them that name space? I understand the whole first come first serve and all but if we played that way things could get messy real fast.

There was recently an article on HN about the "Web of Hashes" and this article got me thinking about it. Why not give each application an UUID and let that be it's name space? Give the user an option to still use- they're example- xedit while having another xedit installed along side?

I can see how this could also get messy. Just spit balling here.

Re:The surgeon will Skype you now on Thursday February 11, 2016 @07:28PM (#11084501)
The DaVinci is cool, but you get 10 uses out of each arm then you have to toss it... At a few grand a pop it's not cheap. I have two and am working on 'hacking' the usb interface, but they've epoxyed over the chips.
Re:YouTube removes all_comments feature on Sunday February 07, 2016 @12:06PM (#11053601)
I've been using this[1] extension for some time now. It's awesome when there's already a submission for the video.

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/alientube-for-yout...

Re:NSA Chief Hacker Explains How to Avoid NSA Spying on Sunday January 31, 2016 @07:33AM (#11006202)
NMAP. I'm sure you can find a gui-like program for it. Just scan your routers subnet.
I wouldn't say there's no competition per se, but some areas are limited based on who has lines out there. For example, the area I live in at Augusta only offers Wow! as a cable provider; over priced reseller. But, I was fortunate enough to land a decent contract- more channels than Wow! and for 1/4 the price- with Dish. Satellite vs. Cable, but I'm willing to take that trade off for a better price point. Plus there's always NetFlix/Hulu.
Re:Pacemaker explosions in crematoria on Wednesday November 18, 2015 @07:58AM (#10587404)
Or, look for landmark scaring.