Tag : C
2011-03-02
Next time you make a big life decision, wait until you must urinate.
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2010-10-03
Those charts showing cannot be broken without eons of calculations always fall apart when somebody says, "done!"
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2016-07-08
The "Hillary Defense" precedent has now been established and should protect both incompetent and malicious intelligence leaks from this day forward.
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[4,363 page views]
2016-07-06
Regarding the leaks of classified information by Hillary Clinton, it's a pretty cut and dried application of existing US Code to see that she broke the law.
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2007-03-26
How do the modern operating system stack up against public vulnerability scans?
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[154,133 page views]
2016-09-08
It's been 25 years since PGP was released and the software has quite the history being at odds with the US government.
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2013-12-15
A few nutcases are not representative of the majority ownership.
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2007-12-16
Today's drivers incorrectly assume they don't need to alter their behavior in bad weather thinking their vehicle's will take care of traction.
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2007-10-23
The only thing more vulnerable to getting infected and used by everyone is your Mom.
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2008-05-23
The pendulum of society always swings towards extremes at the cost of the actual goal.
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2014-07-22
It's interesting to actually apply arguments against BitCoin to accepted money and see how it plays out.
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2014-06-22
I suppose if the Soldiers are on a "soft shoe profile" that doesn't count as boots.
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2013-12-06
When in doubt about leaving a miner running ... leave it running.
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[2,185 page views]
2011-02-24
It's hard to take a country seriously when their President is this stupid.
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2016-07-03
It's almost as if these engineers have never watched a cyborg apocalypse movie.
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[3,331 page views]
2008-05-16
This is how USAF will distribute it's weekly safety messages to airmen.
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2005-09-22
The only way to not get logged these days ... is to not use your computer.
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2016-05-05
Let's put to rest some of the silliness with herbology and naturopathy.
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[1,986 page views]
2008-06-23
It's amazing how dismal the perspective is on our government leadership.
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[3,937 page views]
2010-08-02
When your "always on" phone is spying on you ... game over man!
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[2,254 page views]
2009-03-21
George Carlin - "shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker, and tits."
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[3,681 page views]
2016-05-27
But maybe ... they can be healed with acoustic waves and colloidal silver? bwa-hahahahaha
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2021-11-05
Just when one begins to think the Army can't do it wrong again ... we do it wrong again.
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2013-02-05
The first rules of assassination is you DON'T TALK ABOUT ASSASSINATION!
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[3,366 page views]
2007-01-12
Congress does not seem to understand the authority it holds from the Constitution. The ability to end any presence of American forces overseas rests entirely in their hands.
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2006-04-12
The X-37 is certainly one of the most mysterious government space craft around.
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[2,749 page views]
2016-04-08
When competing vendors with different solutions can demonstrate a cooperative success across such a vast distance, over varying road laws, with live congestion, that is a sign of major progress and an elimination of human jobs.
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2014-05-07
As long as a special line is included in the code that always preserves MY life, I'm okay with whatever solution. Right?
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2011-04-15
A lot of pop-stars actually can't sing worth a shit - but technology makes them sound good enough.
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2013-10-26
Thanks D-Link for the remote administration feature - I really wanted to make sure the random IT support guy from India could access my stuff.
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2009-04-25
As if we needed any more reasons to understand that bacon is the most divine food on planet Earth?
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[4,997 page views]
2008-02-21
That's one way to find unwitting participants for your cause ...
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2007-01-14
There's always a more powerful wizard out there with stronger spells.
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2012-08-29
When we stop pushing ourselves to be smarter, we quickly retrograde.
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2013-08-01
In the wake of the Edward Snowden leaks against the NSA, it was interesting to be an audience member at both BlackHat and DEFCON in 2013.
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2013-08-14
Always use a VPN ... thought that wouldn't help from the cellular service point of view.
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[2,636 page views]
2008-03-05
All the requisite technologies for the robotic enslavement of humanity exist. It's just going to be that one asshole that puts them all together that ends us.
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2013-01-30
"I don't know my job" is not acceptable anywhere else in the military, why does cyber accept that in it's leadership ranks?
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2013-09-23
At least the technique doesn't require a bunch of severed thumbs.
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2009-12-17
Genome mapping offers amazing future possibilities in medicine.
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2011-12-14
Everything is an advertising/marketing/intelligence sensor - including your cell phone.
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2011-05-19
Your government tax dollars are keeping you safe - from zombies.
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2009-10-14
... the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed ...
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2011-11-07
Although it's the typical Spy vs Spy exchange, other nations use their collected information for corporate, economic profit.
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2008-09-03
For the conspiracy theorists out there, the United States did NOT get the first oil contracts out of Iraq.
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2008-02-05
Fighting a peer nation-state adversary is NOT the same as the COIN fight of the past two decades.
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2011-05-26
It always seems fine when WE do it to others, until they do it back to us, right?
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2011-11-21
Are there really people that still believe US adversaries aren't taking advantage of the US?
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2014-12-31
But they haven't admitted to the anal probing of all the abductees yet.
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2008-01-28
This doesn't bode well for the future stability of the American power grid.
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2014-12-12
Was there value to releasing the report publicly - especially if core information is still not available publicly anyway?
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2016-05-11
You just can't make this stuff up ... but supporters don't think any of it is a problem.
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2006-10-20
Oh the mischief I could get into with a cloak of invisibility.
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2008-04-28
It's amazing how long DoD preferred to hire criminals rather than use personnel within their ranks.
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2024-09-14
D-Star is already in a pain in the ass. The ICOM menus don't make it any easier.
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[2,268 page views]
2008-05-17
A great number of factors contribute to prices at the pump - from real supply and demand to flat out greed.
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2007-05-04
As long as it's not discovered publicly and revenue isn't lost, they don't care.
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2010-03-26
This notion seems to sway back and forth depending on generational leadership.
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2006-07-21
It's amazing that we can even make conjectures about things so far away with any modicum of certainty.
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2009-01-24
Yes - the telecommunications providers are completely ripping you off. Surprised?
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2015-09-02
When China steals your data ... and your solution is to then give your data to them willingly to protect ... you might work for the US government.
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2013-09-22
Participating in CTFs is fun. It's important to remember the solutions are typically right in front of you if you use the right tools to look.
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2008-02-07
Breeding the next batch of super-humans will require manipulating their cultural growth as well.
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2013-01-15
There's a lot more to converting a Jeep Wrangler from gas to diesel than just buying a motor and dropping it in. But the benefits of a Cummins 4BT, like 30mpg and 300ft-lbs of torque, can be worth the time, money and effort if you do it right.
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2012-08-09
Unlike Europe's "lawn dart Mars program", America can put spacecraft on target.
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2007-12-06
Politicians and their plotting are why we can't have nice things.
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2013-10-08
But if installed into babies, they'd make great R/C crawling toys.
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2010-10-28
If government employees could wear wizard robes, it would be the DARPA dress code.
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2009-02-09
In the course of doing anti-money laundering (AML) work with named entity lists and other person matching activities for the finance industry, I discovered most companies are quite terrible at the task.
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2012-08-17
Now your computer can have a digital "Enron Shredding Party", too.
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2009-04-10
Hopefully the Brown's Gas crowd spewing their oil conspiracy mantra will slowly disappear off the Internet.
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2012-03-29
Only the super rich really get a chance to do this kind of stuff.
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2019-05-24
As if the Internet wasn't already untrustworthy, it's becoming too easy to fabricate everything.
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2007-03-22
The VA continues to give veterans a second chance to die for their country.
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2019-12-21
Without a "Battle Damage Assessment," you'll have no idea if its working.
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2015-09-02
Science is always turning up novel ways to make our computers better.
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2011-01-05
For 18 minutes in 2010, a BGP anomaly resulted in nearly 15% of the Internet's traffic being routed through China. What really happened?
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2012-07-18
If he were named Vin Gasoline, he wouldn't be nearly as bad ass.
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2008-11-29
Everything you do leaves a trace, whether in meatspace or cyberspace.
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2011-12-02
Sometimes migrating VMs between environments can have unintended side-effects that are difficult to "unconfigure".
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2016-12-16
The manner in which the transition team posed their inquiry at the Department of Energy should concern any Federal employee regarding the future.
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2008-12-16
Viewing the "sandal thrower" as success is not obvious - until you consider this never would have happened under the prior regime.
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2008-05-23
I've some weird experiences with a Ouija Board before so I decided to get together with some friends to conduct experiments on it.
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2016-12-21
"Homeopathic" - you keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means.
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2012-01-13
I wonder if there ought to be a separate doomsday clock unrelated to nuclear weapons so more appropriate "timekeepers" can be tied to it.
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2015-11-06
Soon, you can carry the equivalent of a Ghostbusters Proton Pack in your pocket.
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2008-03-05
When it comes to hacker vs security ... given time, the hacker always wins.
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2016-04-11
Yo Mama is so fat, she's thrown off the Earth's rotational balance.
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2006-05-18
Earth's poles can't seem to consistently decide what polarity they identify with.
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2006-08-11
Just when you think you can depend on 9.807 m/s² ... the Earth flips you a middle finger.
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2024-01-28
Running your own EchoLink node on a Raspberry Pi with SvxLink allows you to take beyond line-of-sight connectivity on the go.
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2011-01-31
Americans don't realize how easy they have it in political change compared to everyone else in the world.
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2008-12-09
High torque electric motors provide maximum power without regard for vehicle orientation while powering them from a generator that operates at maximum efficiency greatly extends the vehicles range.
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2015-12-25
How much energy do Americans burn for holiday light displays? Several metric ass-tons.
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2018-04-17
Tired of social media sites harvesting your personal information and contact circles?
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2006-11-02
Sometimes I wonder what really motivates scientists to make studies that almost seem obvious.
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2016-04-27
The Pentagon Wars was not so much a comedy as it was both "sad documentary" and "sad prophecy."
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2011-06-11
In what first seems like a Wiley Coyote design turns out to be clever engineering resulting in a wind powered car that could outrun the wind.
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2019-06-30
Democrat Senator Bob Menendez demonstrates he (and comrades) know zero about firearms.
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2012-07-31
Everyone knows a woman's armor class is inverse to the surface area of exposed skin.
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2015-01-05
So basically, wear gloves, sunglasses, a hat ... and never go outside.
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2008-03-12
Many people forget how legacy hardware technologies can be used to completely bypass software controls.
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2011-12-05
All these interconnected things literally NEVER get security updates.
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2005-11-21
This camera's ability to capture simultaneous depths of field is incredible.
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2015-02-13
Just need a magnetic stripe programmer and an anonymous server for the pumps to beacon out to ...
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2010-06-24
Everyone thinks they're the big dog until the real big dog bites them - even if it's a little dog in a big doghouse.
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2015-02-01
Do you want unhackable robot overlords? Because this is how you get unhackable robot overlords.
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2016-02-03
I hope there is some mad-scientist, maniacal laughter when they activate the device.
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2014-01-09
Now that CPU and GPU home mining is not cost effective, how does one get involved with BitCoins?
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2005-11-29
This is either the end of déjà vu’s place in the paranormal world or it's seeded information by the Architect to protect us from understanding the Matrix.
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2010-04-27
If you want to invest, skip the markets, just invest in the banks.
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2011-11-01
It was interesting they had to teach the cars to be more aggressive.
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2019-06-01
Who thought it was a good idea to train an AI to efficiently engage in combat killing people? Apparently researchers.
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2012-04-09
Orrrrr ... it's an excuse to play video games at work under the guise of "work."
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[2,021 page views]
2011-06-06
... because password cracking is such a gateway drug to hacking.
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[2,272 page views]
2011-11-09
Astrophotography using the physics of the universe for your lens ... nice.
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[1,882 page views]
2010-08-15
Why are people only supporting freedom when those freedoms are exactly like them?
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2017-04-15
A hand throttle can be a "poor mans cruise control" or a vital off-roading tool.
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[8,090 page views]
2008-01-20
When built under scientific principles, sure, they can be real.
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2008-03-25
You NEVER forget getting shot at ... there is no excusing stolen valor for personal gain.
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2006-08-17
I think a superhero origin movie consisting of eating hot dogs will not be a Hollywood blockbuster.
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2009-08-06
Considering Bill Clinton's history with North Korea, this particular one just defies logic.
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2012-04-17
Considering they have all the seized counterfeit money, this should have been easier.
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2010-12-23
Considering military applicants come from all socio-economic backgrounds and source from all over the United States, the ASVAB tests offer an interesting perspective on the "ability" of the average American.
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2008-01-24
It's amazing how we can do a thing for hundreds of years, know that it works, but have no idea why.
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2018-03-16
Obviously the public WiFi point should be yours ... get rid of the other pesky users to speed up your connection.
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2014-01-15
The days of mining Bitcoins at home are gone, but several alternate digital currencies like Litecoin, Peercoin, and Feathercoin are still within reach.
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2013-10-17
IRCd-Hybrid does not have SSL enabled and requires some workarounds to secure its connections. This tutorial will get an IRCd-Hybrid server running, linked to other servers, and secured with SSL.
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2013-12-25
On our trip to Morocco in 2007 we met Salah Idim Bouri at Julio's Riad Dar Pangal Kasbah. He taught us the Moroccan way to make mint tea.
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2008-05-01
There are a number of "life skills" out there that are just handy to know ... lock picking is one of them.
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2008-03-20
If the aliens are smart, they'll hide themselves from our detectors.
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2008-01-29
Other than being a Local Realist, Einstein was a pretty smart guy.
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2009-04-15
When the AI trains itself to use this feature for more power ... we're doomed.
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2010-11-05
A milliamp of electricity across the parietal lobe can dramatically improve human mathematical abilities.
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[4,228 page views]
2006-11-10
Robots will inevitably choose to eat people now - thanks Japan.
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2013-08-16
Hyperloop sounds crazy ... maybe it is. Cool if it works though!
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2021-02-03
I've always hated OOP and feel comforted that now so does everyone else.
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[4,301 page views]
2011-05-12
FUD (Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt) is a leading tenant in allowing Wall Street's practice of false "Market Making" to perpetually screw with the economy.
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[8,319 page views]
2017-01-27
Your Amazon Echo is always connected and allegedly always listening ... what network traffic is it generating?
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[12,183 page views]
2008-07-17
Do the ends justify the means if it endangers everyone going forward?
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[3,961 page views]
2016-01-13
What would I do with a billion dollars? Two chicks at the same time.
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[4,699 page views]
2006-07-16
With gas prices through the roof, I conducted an investigation of the facts behind how driving style affects fuel economy by using a laptop and the OBDII interface to the engine's computer (ECU). I also address engine modifications and alternative fuels.
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2006-03-20
If you do insist on wasting your money on useless efficiency modifications, I will sell you a rock and some duct tape for $50 plus shipping and handling.
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2011-11-05
More than merely cut 'n paste, this tool ensures light direction, shadows, reflections, etc. are all accounted for.
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[4,349 page views]
2008-02-26
That's neat science ... but when will they mounted to a shark's forehead?
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[3,089 page views]
2011-08-01
I think we always secretly knew ... and appropriately judged our peers.
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[2,315 page views]
2006-11-01
The elite definitely look down upon national service as an occupation that is beneath them.
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[41,348 page views]
2018-11-23
Basically - it took a long time for somebody to figure out how to turn a "lifter" sideways.
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[2,674 page views]
2013-02-09
And they would've gotten away with it, too, if it weren't for those meddling kids.
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[1,398 page views]
2014-06-22
That whole Federal Records Act of 1950 was apparently more of a suggestion than a law.
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[1,807 page views]
2012-02-22
The guy was smart - but maybe only now will people really understand.
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[1,854 page views]
2010-02-24
Somebody is always watching, even when they're not supposed to.
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[2,464 page views]
2012-04-27
Why are manufacturers of "smart" home electronics making them openly visible on the Internet?
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[3,767 page views]
2010-12-03
One day the LHC will kill us all at the hands of a mad scientist - but not today.
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2009-06-18
There are a lot of people that have never even seen this part of our night sky.
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[2,833 page views]
2014-04-24
Your real limitation is being found by another Highlander and getting decapitated.
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[1,649 page views]
2015-12-02
Local Realism is the quantum physics equivalent of flat-Earth science. You can really root out the physics n00bs based on these beliefs.
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2020-08-02
I found a lot of forums saying "do it" but no pictures of the process.
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[6,613 page views]
2011-05-12
Seriously, it's as if these engineers have never watched Terminator.
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[2,834 page views]
2012-09-05
People put a lot of trust into AI without really understanding how miscreants can corrupt it.
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[1,798 page views]
2013-04-06
It's almost like the movies ... where the thieves have a hacker that can reroute all the traffic to facilitate their getaway.
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2015-10-02
Our mission is to travel the solar system, find new life, and kill it!
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[2,892 page views]
2016-03-25
Not even our Artificial Intelligence can play well with others.
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[2,733 page views]
2011-10-06
Her: What're you thinking abo ... holy shit that's depraved.
Him: I was just sitting here!
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2009-12-16
It's all fun and games until you find out you were a test tube baby ... and adopted.
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2020-08-16
It was a pain in the ass ... but once I had the solution, it was easy.
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[7,544 page views]
2008-06-29
Despite a general poor turnout of American voters and terrible electronic security, compared to other countries, US voters have it pretty good.
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[4,029 page views]
2010-05-12
Hackers are ever so clever in skirting past security mechanisms.
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2011-03-23
Can you really claim losses in excess of your actual LIFETIME earning?
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2009-09-01
"When you have an international financier of terror moving in next door, it’s very unnerving."
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2007-04-28
Unfortunately there's not much we can do about avoiding cosmic death rays.
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2014-09-17
Damn scientists are always removing the mystery from the world.
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2007-10-25
Although reducing wind resistance by 93% can be tempting, the increased likelihood of dying in a traffic accident is not worth the fuel savings.
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2006-03-24
There's always a fine line between whether a performance was the man or the machine.
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[2,664 page views]
2016-07-15
In the history of mankind ... nobody else has done what NASA has done.
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[2,346 page views]
2007-03-13
Only idiots look at the sun with their naked eyes - NASA uses super expensive space goggles.
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2008-01-18
To be the first pilot tagged for getting struck by lightning on purpose in flight ... was probably a brown pants kind of experience.
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2016-04-05
In response to being challenged - “What do you think people did before modern medicine?” I responded, “Died young.”
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[3,783 page views]
2012-09-18
"Reason" being melting Jupiter into raw energy for power and destroying everything in the vehicle's path as it warps space-time around itself.
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[2,236 page views]
2008-10-31
Basically a "pics or it didn't happen" kind of science scenario.
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[3,424 page views]
2010-03-26
There's an inevitable trust paradox when it comes to working with nuclear weapons.
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[2,274 page views]
2007-10-26
Botnets are lovely pieces of software for studying program survivability.
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[4,475 page views]
2008-05-22
Earth did not receive an invitation to the interstellar party in Altair.
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[5,784 page views]
2008-03-21
Perhaps America’s apparent distaste for our President should be appropriately redirected to the Congress complicit with the President’s actions?
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2008-04-28
Kim Jong-Il and Bashar al-Assad walk into a bar ... nothing funny happens, it's shady as shit.
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2014-09-23
Of course the disbelievers will continue to disbelieve and probably claim nVidia's ability to do this proves an ability to fake the photo.
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2011-10-04
As much as I despise the finance industry, these protesters really just strike me as deluded idiots thinking this would change anything.
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[2,255 page views]
2008-06-25
It's always amused me how some people can have issues with "swearing" and yet substitute alternate words in their stead, using them with exactly the same implied intent as if that is okay.
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[6,424 page views]
2014-07-20
Laying Soldiers off in the midst of combat just screams of the lunacy in Catch-22.
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[1,798 page views]
2007-07-06
Those pesky consumers are trying to use science to not get screwed ...
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[6,080 page views]
2004-08-30
I felt like vulnerability scanning various common operating systems and hardware I had lying around to see what the likelihood was of getting script p0wn'd.
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[19,406 page views]
2006-03-31
You never know who is actually reading your content. On OmniNerd, the content posted by the site's users actually attracted a posting by terrorist sympathizers.
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[12,363 page views]
2005-12-23
A pinch of fairy farts, a dash of pixie poop ... *poof* ... humans!
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[3,413 page views]
2016-06-03
You take the blue pill - the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill - you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes.
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[2,382 page views]
2008-01-14
Everyone wants privacy until it protects pedophiles and terrorists.
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[3,210 page views]
2015-08-17
Let's all blame the sun for our weather like it affects night and day or something.
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[2,100 page views]
2011-12-05
Let's just lay that all out there and see what everyone thinks.
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[1,659 page views]
2007-10-01
Star Trek's bridge always referenced their impulse engines ... NASA made them a reality.
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[4,205 page views]
2014-10-02
The ability of manufacturing a firearm entirely at home is becoming more realistic with affordable 3D printers and CNC mills.
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[3,054 page views]
2014-09-16
Scientists continue to advance the march towards real light sabers.
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[3,123 page views]
2006-05-30
Sometimes it takes video games and porn to push the technological envelope forward.
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[5,144 page views]
2024-06-22
The SeeStar S50 is a fun and cheap little robot telescope but it has an absolutely horrendous user interface which makes simple things difficult.
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[6,102 page views]
2011-02-05
Sing it as if you are looking into the eyes of a row of 86-year-old WWII vets wearing their Purple Hearts, Silver Stars and Medals of Honor.
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[3,452 page views]
2008-05-22
"We come in peace" will be replaced by "Where the white Earth girls at?"
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[4,428 page views]
2013-09-12
When the financial wizards really get their act together, it'll be a one time windfall for one and disaster for everyone else.
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[1,987 page views]
2015-08-17
Science says I don't like broccoli so I'll just subsist on bacon instead.
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[3,369 page views]
2005-09-19
"Light" based processors are certainly a unique approach to speeding up CPUs.
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[4,834 page views]
1997-04-27
Back in the day, you could get a huge performance boost from manually tweaking the RAM refresh rate.
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[3,558 page views]
2015-01-21
I guess Mulder just had to wait a few more years and the government would simply open source his quest ...
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[3,465 page views]
2010-08-07
Your data is never private ... when there's a dollar to be made, corporations will make that dollar.
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[3,284 page views]
2009-08-12
Perhaps you should think of your "purchases" as short term leases.
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[2,335 page views]
2008-07-31
Imagine a camera that can take a picture of something that it cannot directly see.
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[5,003 page views]
2015-08-20
Physicists have already demonstrated separate applications of quantum entanglement that make one wonder if we could use them like a "reverse time capsule" to receive messages and technology from the future.
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[3,574 page views]
2011-10-20
If the physics behind Quantum Locking don't make your head explode, simply watching the demonstration will.
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[3,981 page views]
2005-11-21
A rootkit is the apex of modern malware, eclipsing both viruses and worms, yet their function are the least publicly understood.
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[56,771 page views]
2010-02-27
There will never be security when a culture of insecurity exists.
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[2,265 page views]
2016-07-28
It's not the heat, it's the humidity ... no ... it's the fucking heat.
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[2,470 page views]
2013-05-19
Sometimes its incredible how many facets of life are potentially touched by excessive gun control advocacy.
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[4,141 page views]
2008-12-19
Sometimes I wonder whether following dogma too literally is really the intent a creator would desire.
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[6,356 page views]
2010-03-10
I received a phishing e-mail one day and decided to take a look into just how those attacks do their deed. With a few simple tools, its possible to derive a lot of information using only static analysis against malware.
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[18,798 page views]
2007-11-07
Oh - the joy of levitation AND invisibility. I like these researchers.
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[3,321 page views]
2018-10-08
I've been happy with Thule products for two decades ... until these.
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[4,711 page views]
2006-04-24
If I can run faster than slow light, am I moving at relativistic speed?
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[3,667 page views]
2011-05-20
The robot overlords are developing a way to talk without us knowing their plans.
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[2,035 page views]
2016-05-26
If the robot actually costs LESS than the human ... does it make sense?
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[3,378 page views]
2008-04-07
As long as you have a molecular compressor handy in your garage, of course.
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[3,363 page views]
2009-12-20
It almost doesn't make sense to even have manned vehicles anymore.
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[2,167 page views]
2007-07-05
Rubber Ducks are in fact highly sensitive instruments of science.
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[7,633 page views]
2016-07-07
I hope Snowden is enjoying all his data privacy where he fled to.
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[2,715 page views]
2013-08-21
I really enjoy watching the big kingpins that profit off everyone else suffer.
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[1,739 page views]
2008-02-03
The art of military deception is timeless and practiced by all - though its best when it works in your favor.
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[4,673 page views]
2006-07-20
There's apparently a whole market for making regular movies "wholesome" ... and it's illegal.
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[4,149 page views]
2008-02-21
Always make sure nobody else can have a Space Force before you start your own.
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[3,623 page views]
2009-05-14
In 20 years, kids will be making fun of each other at school over who is synthetic and who is natural.
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[2,984 page views]
2009-05-25
The DPRK took advantage of the world's attention being turned elsewhere ...
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[2,792 page views]
2010-03-23
The ones who suck at literally everything, aren't faring so well at protecting their data.
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[2,360 page views]
2011-01-06
A lot of admins really baby their equipment ... I hold my gear a tougher standard and make it earn some downtime.
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[4,269 page views]
2011-06-02
Despite the eradication of the disease, stockpiles still exist and the anti-vaxxers aren't helping the cause.
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[2,425 page views]
2016-04-07
Considering how much the public wants gun violence suppressed, crippling law enforcement's ability to infiltrate criminal plans seems misguided.
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[2,040 page views]
2015-01-13
Why else would we have an Internet if we couldn't do dirty things?
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[1,706 page views]
2007-12-07
Ten years from now, what other obvious security vulnerability will we smack our foreheads over?
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[3,328 page views]
2015-02-04
The scandals certainly didn't help diesel's image, but the efficiency gains and reduction in oil dependency are the same.
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[2,494 page views]
2016-05-20
The bandwagon effect is amplified by 24/7 connectivity on mobile devices that reinforce personal beliefs via the social network built of your own cohort.
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[1,808 page views]
2005-11-10
Using other people's failures to your advantage is the mantra of Computer Science.
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[3,972 page views]
2009-02-19
Leave it to humanity to take the pristine void of space and fill it with shit.
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[3,435 page views]
2010-06-06
One hundred years ago, humans were on the cusp of commercial flight. Now, we stand on that same edge of commercial spaceflight.
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[3,192 page views]
2015-12-22
Reusable rockets are a complete game changer for the future of manned space programs.
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[2,606 page views]
2010-12-10
SpaceX is really moving forward on the front of commercial space operations!
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[3,213 page views]
2019-06-30
Self driving cars should make things safer by taking unreliable human drivers out of the mix - unless we mess with them.
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[2,138 page views]
2011-03-25
Centralized trust is great until the trusted party screws it all up.
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[2,164 page views]
2015-11-10
Why is there no requirement for the low earner to provide receipts or some affirmation showing the money was directly attributed towards the child?
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[4,633 page views]
2005-11-26
Westerners have it pretty easy when it comes to prison ... but it still sucks. Is it supposed to though?
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[3,461 page views]
2010-09-02
Generally, I'm not a fan of believing things because other people say so ... but he puts a lot more thought into things than the typical person.
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[2,771 page views]
2015-12-02
"If you ever drop your keys into a river of molten lava, let'em go...because man, they're gone!" ~Jack Handey
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[3,381 page views]
2020-03-13
After two decades, the SETI@home project is finally turning off.
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[2,412 page views]
2008-01-15
Hopefully we'll get a new water toy out of his continued innovation.
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[3,473 page views]
2015-08-14
The impact of supercomputer analysis on the most mundane things impacts the engineering and design of everything in our daily lives.
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[2,399 page views]
2011-02-24
Interestingly, this was written over half a decade ago and now it's quite normal for people to speak to Siri, Cortana, and Alexa. How quickly social norms with technology change!
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[3,789 page views]
2019-08-16
If there was ever a chance for life on the moon, well, Tardigrades would be it.
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[2,321 page views]
2006-11-03
Taxing video game "gold farmers" could become a revenue stream for the IRS.
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[15,182 page views]
2015-12-24
Just don't "Big Bang" the black hole ... that's how we got into this mess last time.
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[3,471 page views]
2007-04-30
It doesn't take a strong RF signal anymore to enable a TEMPEST attack.
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[9,871 page views]
2010-02-16
Widespread facial recognition is going to burn a lot of assets.
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[2,094 page views]
2006-11-20
When constituents actually have a fear of being drafted, politicians should be less likely to send their voting base into combat.
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[10,345 page views]
2008-01-08
I have a feeling some poor kid somewhere was last to pick a PhD advisor and ended up having to study cow farts professionally.
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[2,776 page views]
2009-09-30
Somehow I'm not sure painting your house with Thermite is a good idea ... unless you needed to destroy evidence quickly.
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[2,404 page views]
2010-07-19
Exposés are always good media events but do they always do good?
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[2,244 page views]
2008-01-12
Your economic future is regularly torn apart by the idiots running Wall Street.
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[5,639 page views]
2016-04-20
To avoid accusations from the tin-foil hat crowd - you have to keep your feeds running no matter what.
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[1,860 page views]
2008-01-18
Perhaps criminals have already given up their rights to privacy ... but this could just be a gateway to universal monitoring.
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[2,782 page views]
2015-10-16
It's always aliens. Any other explanation is just a conspiracy man!
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[2,303 page views]
2007-06-27
It would seem the UK has taken a more logical approach to the matter than the US.
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[6,858 page views]
2010-05-30
You THINK when an ambulance shows up that it's packed with professionals to save your life ... but depending on what volunteer crew you have, could be a bunch of stoned kids.
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[2,197 page views]
2008-01-14
The venerable Hubble continues to add new and amazing contributions to astronomy.
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[3,652 page views]
2012-06-05
I suppose that's the prerogative of an original classification source.
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[3,287 page views]
2006-11-01
Imagine getting to fully automate your global hacking endeavors!
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[22,106 page views]
2011-12-13
Two trains leave Chicago and New York City heading towards each other ...
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[2,051 page views]
2011-07-25
So many fields can be self-taught these days, does higher education actually provide an adequate ROI anymore?
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[1,954 page views]
2008-03-11
Keeping with the times, the Vatican makes sure to put the kibosh on modern activities.
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[5,624 page views]
2011-10-12
It's oh so awkward when you first learn about your vulnerabilities from public Internet stories.
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[1,847 page views]
2015-09-24
Perhaps the standards are actually to strict - highly efficient vehicles certainly help reduce our oil dependency.
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[2,412 page views]
2016-04-28
Water is always sneaking up on us to present new and elaborate ways of drowning.
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[1,886 page views]
2011-02-17
I used to lose on Jeopardy to the Nintendo ... now all of humanity loses.
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[2,129 page views]
2013-01-11
Do you want snarky robots, Lana? Because that's how you get snarky robots.
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[2,084 page views]
2009-01-30
You can be surrounded by beautiful women as a fat ugly guy ... if you're rich.
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[3,278 page views]
2006-06-27
Is the contemporary view regarding "who" is in the military much different than the view in years past?
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[6,006 page views]
2005-05-01
An explanation of why China normalized it's foreign policy relations with the United States in 1972 can be found using the Balance of Threat and Hegemonic Stability theories.
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[23,311 page views]
2008-03-06
Is it really even worth trying to put authentication processes into software?
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[3,342 page views]
2006-05-12
People's impressions of electric cars is they're heavy, ugly, and slow. Until the X1.
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[3,557 page views]
2013-09-12
North Korea is that kid who agrees not to take your lunch money in exchange for not hitting you and then hits you again for more lunch money.
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