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I'm not aware of anything really in-depth. There is one paper I like about operational issues in general: https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/lisa07/tech/full_papers/... . It lists…

Similar to what Steve Yegge said in his unintentionally published platforms rant: - monitoring and QA are the same thing. You'd never think so until you try doing a big SOA. But wh…

1. If I'm going to be spending 2000+ plus hours a year in a single physical location it needs to have some privacy and comfort, at an absolute minimum. 2. I'm not willing to be scr…

yeah, this machine seems to be able to do it: http://www.ebay.ca/itm/GoldXpert-SDD-Portable-Countertop-XRF...

Yeah this looks viable. This would make the best fake bar. I don't think the metal even need to be alloyed, you can just pour in one first, then the other.

At least one of the metals in the alloy would need to be higher density than gold. There are a few but I don't think any of them are easy to get: http://www.wolframalpha.com/share/…

Gold density is 19.30 g/cm3, Tungsten is 19.25. Given two gold bars, one adulterated with Tungsten, and one not, either the weight will differ or the volume will differ. So, given …

My guess is that they are using human operators, and they probably have a retrieval squad on standby in case they lose contact. The regulatory issues I couldn't begin to guess. The…

I really liked all of them, but episode 2 was probably my favourite of season 1. It is over the top compared to other parts of the series, but not compared to other experimental fa…

It isn't all that crazy, it has already been done to printers: http://www.pcworld.com/article/229647/counterfeit_money_on_c... https://www.eff.org/issues/printers

You won't know in advance who is going to rob you, in this case it was the FBI but for this attack it could be anyone, even a reasonably organized group of 13 year olds could proba…

Not at all.

Up to now I had never considered the need for protection against a mid-keystroke attack. Ideally it would have to involve no unusual hardware or software, or you might as well just…

I've been considering running all my mobile data through a VPN for better security, and saving all of it so I can analyze anything after the fact. Anyone doing anything like this?

On letting the user switch between register and login at any time, there is one small thing that tumblr does that I like. If you go to tumblr.com it displays the registration page …

A lot of companies are giant faceless MBAocracies, and all their front line staff are designed to be minimum cost minimum fuss drones, which selects for checked out losers. The pur…

Cameras are cheap, networking is cheap and processing is cheap. The government is just the first mover, but there are many other parties that have the ability to build this kind of…

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For an example of this, ask yourself: What is the world population? The longer it has been since you checked, the further off the number will be. https://www.google.com/search?q=wo…

"/exit" There is also a way to force your ssh client to disconnect: http://askubuntu.com/questions/29942/how-can-i-break-out-of-... Edit, although now I can't seem to reconnect.

Is 90% efficiency really feasible for electrical -> mechanical -> electrical?

Here are the last few words of the 1934 Securities Analysis: More satisfactory results are to be obtained, in our opinion, by confining the positive conclusions of the analyst to t…

That makes sense to me, interview problems are highly synthetic and most people will probably need to prep specifically for the common tech interview process. If you don't have acc…

Seems like the Kindle link on that page is to a different version, this looks to me like the correct Kindle version: http://www.amazon.com/Meditations-New-Translation-Modern-Lib...…

Gigabyte makes a mini system with i7-4770R, which is 4 core, Iris pro 5200 graphics, similar size to the mac mini: http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4888#... I…