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Starting as early as next year, NASA will make the International Space Station available to space tourists and other business ventures. Does that include a continental breakfast?
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The article quoted: $22,500 for access to supplies, an additional $11,250 for stuff like water, oxygen, and use of the toilet So, even if you've won the lottery, sooner or later you'll have to take a Heechee ship out.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Microsoft wants more hackers participation in finding flaws in its flagship cloud service, Microsoft Azure. It's expensive. Please send cheque or money-order to...
Yeah, I know. Not that expensive, but it was the only "flaw" I could think of.
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Azure is from Microsoft. How much is that flaw worth?
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010 ----- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010 ----- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Boom. The budget for paying people is now empty. Don't spend it all in one place
TTFN - Kent
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You type, hacker deciphers, your password is doomed. My password is tap-tap-tap tap tap-tap
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One more tap and it would be secure.
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What they mean is that if you used a precision-engineered robot finger to tap with total consistency of force, attack angle, etc, a pair of mics could figure it out.
So just use two different fingers (like most people do already), and/or tap each cahracter harder/softer/quicker/slower/differently in general (like most people do already).
But telling people that wouldn't make it scary, now, would it?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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A new extortion scam campaign is underway that is targeting websites owners and stating that if they do not make a payment, the attacker will ruin their site's reputation and get them blacklisted for spam. I've been damaging CP's reputation for years now
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Golly, it would probably take all of an hour to fix that, by sending copies of the threats to various ISPs, etc.
By the time it's happened a dozen times, that hour would reduce to the time it takes to fill out a form.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Awww, I feel so poorly for them
TTFN - Kent
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It was China Telecom, again. The same ISP accused last year of "hijacking the vital internet backbone of western countries." It doesn't normally? (I'm not good at that geography stuff)
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I'm having trouble figuring out who doesn't understand OSPF -- China Telecom or ZDNet.
Probably both.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Google's big outage also blocked access to the tools Google needed to fix it. It's clouds all the way down
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Looks like a case of putting all your baskets in one egg.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Goohle are worried that a couple of thousand dedicated and motivated developers will build a new and much better phone OS in record time, eh?
I confess that it would be nice to use a phone OS that isn't entirely dedicated to spying on me. My android OS and apps are pretty much crippled because I have to disable so much, to stop google's spying.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Now most people in Alice's position would give up. Not Alice. She has courage which can only be described as awesome. Against all odds, over a noisy telephone line, tapped by the tax authorities and the secret police, Alice will happily attempt, with someone she doesn't trust, whom she cannot hear clearly, and who is probably someone else, to fiddle her tax returns and to organize a coup d'etat, while at the same time minimizing the cost of the phone call.
A coding theorist is someone who doesn't think Alice is crazy.
This's a fairly long read, but is well worth it for the entertainment if you've got 15 or 30 minutes to kill.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Malboard evades several detection products that are intended to continuously verify the user's identity based on personalized keystroke characteristics. So it also hits the backspace key all the time?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: verify the user's identity based on personalized keystroke characteristics When I "invented" that for the COBOL '99 spoof, it was just a joke, honestly!
I didn't expect anyone to pick it up and run with it!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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After Google successfully beat back Triada in 2017, its developers found a new way in. Think of how much time this saves the users from getting infected
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Amen to that. People used to have to download viruses. Now we can just have the phones built with them already installed. Efficiency at its finest. Now all they need is data analytics to figure out which malware I'm going to need next.
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...and at the very same time...
Google is reportedly arguing that cutting Huawei off from Android threatens US security
Ummmm...yeah.
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