anonymous_iam

And watch out for those sand worms!

The conspiracy theorists who think we never went to the moon are mostly unaware of the retroreflectors we left behind: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Laser_Ranging_experiment

BladeRF is pretty cool. It doesn't have quite the frequency range of HackRF, but it's full duplex, and uses 12-bit ADC/DAC (vs. HackRF's 8-bit ones). Also it uses USB 3 so the bandwidth is not limited to 20MHz. (I think it's around 40MHz.)

Anyone know the story behind why baudline hasn't been updated in seven years? The site has promised a beta version with some highly desirable features for a LONG time, but nothing. Also, since it's closed source, there's nothing we can do but hope and wait (unless someone were to start an open source equivalent project).

The estimate for my house dropped by 25% in one month when the market was still rising. I'm assuming that the cause was the house next door which was in poor condition and was sold for about 20% below market value. The buyer put $100k into the house and is now selling it above market value ($200k more). It will be interesting to see what the zestimate for my house will be when the other house sells again. (It will probably sell within a month.)

Is it just a coincidence that Musk's main competitor in the space business is called "The Boeing Company"? I don't think so.

The article makes no mention of single event upsets (SEUs). These occur randomly when cosmic rays can cause a bit flip anywhere in the chip. ECC is a good way to mitigate SEU effects.

I think the author never read Frank Herbert's book, but only saw the movie. Most people who hate the movie have never read the book.

I always hate to see "losses" claimed on money not collected. The copyright lobby plays the same game. There were no "losses", there was money owed that was not collected.

This seems like the sort of crime that the CFAA was intended for. He was a trusted insider for 14 years, and then this. Also, he obviously wasn't very competent if he didn't consider that the MAC address of the laptop would be logged and traceable to him.

Not as elegant as Barnaby Jack, but just as effective.

Could you please provide an example?

This is not a new thing. Decades ago when Verizon contracted with Microsoft to "upgrade" their web portal, it was no longer usable from any browser other than IE. I had been using it from Netscape on various SPARC machines and from my mobile device (PalmOS). The web page html source had no exotic platform specific language elements. It was obviously a "business decision". I wrote the VP at Verizon a letter pointing out that they had just abandoned 5% of their user base. I also switched to AT&T.

Yes! I love running remotely managed scripts on my local machine as root! What could be safer?

I still don't understand this. If a blob of C code passes a large structure by value, doesn't it go on the stack? Why would the compiler be required to pass such an object only via the registers?

I wonder if they tried this: https://blog.packagecloud.io/eng/2017/02/21/set-environment-...

I hope Jason recovers in time for DefCon.

The article got the Doomsayer and Reno battlecrys wrong.

It was a bongo drum not a conga drum.

Generally the RTC in a computer is not as accurate as a typical wall clock or wristwatch. Although the RTC usually uses the same type of crystal as a watch, the circuit is not usually calibrated (tuned) as part of the production and test process. I have seen drift rates of up to 5-10 minutes per month on systems that aren't using NTP.

I suppose that you have now learned to not trust the United States Postal Service with your $10,000 package. FedEx or UPS do cost a little more, but in this case I think you would agree that it would have been worth it.

Which data was rescued? Was it the original raw data, or the "corrected" data?

Invest it in something other than a YC startup.

Sharing your password most likely violates the TOS and could subject you to felony prosecution under the CFAA.

I did a similar comparison last year, but mine was for an embedded system with no FPP (MSP430). I was able to shave more than half of the average execution time compared to the (highly optimized TI) math library function. The only drawback to my method was that it would fail for input values greater than 255. Fortunately my application was guaranteed to never supply an input value greater than 240.

When I began reading the article, I was hoping it would detail their deceptive bandwidth management policies. I had the service for about 3 years (recently terminated) and found that speeds would slowly degrade over months. In the end my 200mbps service was giving me about 50mbps. The cable-modem link diagnostics indicated good signal levels and nearly non-existent error rates so obviously it had nothing to do with the cable plant.

Just once I would like to see an objective article from The Post. Something such as the number of campaign promises kept by each of the last three presidents. Bezos pulled out all of the stops and ran hit piece after hit piece on Trump all through his campaign. In my view The Post has lost all credibility when it comes to political reporting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SBInet

I wish Even had chosen a different name for his project. Elm is (was) a popular text-based e-mail client for Unix/Linux systems. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elm_(email_client) I still sometimes use it while shelled into a remote system.

Most people who are uncertain are probably uninformed. Anyone who spends the time to do historical research on the candidates will have more than enough information to make a decision.