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The new CEO will not tolerate new unethical behaviour. Hopefully he will also slowly eradicate the existing unethical behaviour.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Faster-Obsession-Science-Fastest-Cy... is an interesting read related to this. (Cycling obviously, but the genetics behind VO2max apply across different ty…

I think there's some obfuscation in the tests:- As you say, the first few test numbers correspond just to simple divisor checks:- Prime 3 paired with check number 6 (binary 110). S…

> Also, I'm having a bit of a hard time understanding the attack. He forces them to connect to his own AP and forwards all traffic to the destination so that the client is unaware …

> The client is forcibly disconnected from the WiFi network and reconnects to the attackers network instead. The client is tricked into moving to what it thinks is the same WiFI ne…

Except the attack doesn't get you access to their wireless network. It allows you to redirect someone from their wireless network to your own (spoofed) wireless network and then yo…

Both were influenced by _We_ by Yevgeny Zamyatin.

Um, yes, that's exactly what this article is about.

It also hosted a Eastern European military camp in the MacGyver movie _The Lost Treasure Of Atlantis_ Lots more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battersea_Power_Station_in_pop...

Depends, for a first time buying couple it's a 10% deposit (plus £45k for stamp duty) and then a combined salary of £225k (assuming 4x multiplier on combined income). Sure ~£110k/y…

The UK's roads have a numbering scheme: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Britain_road_numbering_s...

> I will replace my iPhone 5 with one of these. I probably will too (currently on an iPhone 5) given that my current strategy is to replace my phone every 2 years by buying a refur…

Domestic flights within the UK don't require passports (although the airlines may require some form of ID to be presented in order to get boarding passes).

"marginal improvement" was the key phrase

http://web.mit.edu/~emin/www.old/writings/coinGame.html

> Personally though, I love the taste and enjoy the experience of "waking up" with a cup of coffee over the course of the first 20 minutes of the day. Yep, which is why I switched …

> I'll drink my 3-4 cups of black filtered coffee a day with a good conscience. Sounds similar to what I used to drink. I now drink similar amounts of decaf black coffee a day and …

https://twitter.com/c8ters/status/699701086656077825

> We also have to port our own servers to another service, and fast. Once you've done that you should look at what other services you rely significantly upon and see about mitigati…

And, within 24 hours or so someone will submit the Van Eck Phreaking Wikipedia page link as a standalone submission on HN.

ITYM: A STRANGE GAME. THE ONLY WINNING MOVE IS NOT TO PLAY.

Sure, but if the payload in this example is a Linux binary then it won't do anything to an OSX/BSD/Windows machine. If the payload is an interpreted script, or something that's com…

AIUI (from distant days working at BT) the thing they were looking for was the EMR of the CRT flyback transformer. But it could only be detected if the television was towards the f…

They're paid to visit lots of pubs during one particular match. Walk in, look at screen(s), walk out. You wouldn't get to see much of the game at all as most of the time you will b…