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NickHaflinger

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    Comment #10798269

    'How DEA Agents Took Down Mexico's Most Vicious Drug Cartel', and how it was replaced with a similar organization within a week. Besides the drug money is keeping a number of weste…

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    Comment #10769018

    'Either a green unicorn just raced across the lab, or I accidentally took some LSD.', Dr. Walter Bishop

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    Comment #10768979

    We don't, it's how the correctional personnel get their jollies :o

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    Comment #10768934

    "How Did We Get Here"? Microsoft Windows? "Integrity means assessing whether the software and critical data within your networks and systems are compromised with malicious or unaut…

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    Comment #10723360

    I don't have such a problem, I have been Microsoft free for years ..

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    Comment #10723351

    'Tracks your most used directories, based on 'frecency'.' Shouldn't that be frequency .. https://github.com/rupa/z/blob/master/README

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    Comment #10715656

    "I think it's important to recognize that all this happened on the fringes of JPM" Disingenuous excusing :)

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    Comment #10700550

    'A botnet consists of many (usually hundreds or thousands) of normal home or work computers [running Microsoft Windows] that have malicious software installed on them.'

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    Comment #10683859

    Because the underlying hardware MMU can't prevent one process from accessing memory that don't belong to it.

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    Comment #10683708

    Why Linux should thank Digital Research, Seattle Computer Products and DR-DOS, would make a more accurate title ..

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    How 'computers' are depicted in the media

    See 'Fringe' Season 1 episode 12 from 7.18s The computer techie is having problems recovering data as 'the harddrive platters must be fused' besides, she says 'I know some pretty a…

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    Comment #10683492

    "Bypass control flow guard" :) https://www.blackhat.com/docs/us-15/materials/us-15-Zhang-By...

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    Comment #10674046

    'SteveB went on the road to see the top weeklies, industry analysts and business press this week to give our systems strategy. The meetings included demos of Windows 3.1 (pen and m…

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    Comment #10668239

    This should have been the sign to get the hell out: "in what startup of five people does the tech team work for five months without ever talking to the CEO?" There's a movie to be …

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    Comment #10668130

    The short version: The Zetas were money laundering through a U.S. horse breeding and racing operation.

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    Comment #10653084

    I can't actually read anything written in the newyorker house style. It's the carefully constructed multi-component sentences, the endless baroque digressions, sorry I just can't t…

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    Comment #10652910

    Take a look at 'David Attenborough .. Life on Earth' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czgc56Vfz4w

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    Comment #10652861

    "they closed the exhibit because they didn't want the visitors to see the (potentially unsettling/traumatizing) injuries on the baboons" Have they tried closing the Zoo and releasi…

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    Comment #10652766

    What's with the anthropomorphizing cutsy naming, they're baboons not kids.

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    Comment #10647975

    “It emerged from a political agenda, not a scientific analysis” Yes it is patently obvious there are powerful wealthy backers behind the Global Warming hoax :)

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    Comment #10645373

    Runs smooth here on 8GB ram and a generic video card, playing a video on MPV at the same time, Ubuntu 15.10 Wily ...

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    Comment #10643849

    This web page is not available: ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED http://www.darktable.org/

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    Comment #10629321

    'The scheme targets point-of-sale systems but relies on malware that goes deep into the machine, to the “kernel level,” where antivirus software often does not look' Jesus H. 'tap …

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    Comment #10627665

    'dissociative identity disorder' a bogus diagnosis thought up by the cult of psychiatry.