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I've never been caught. Does that make me good at cyberespionage? I think there's more to it than that. You might argue necessary but not sufficient, but I'd even disagree with tha…

Being bad at defense doesn't necessarily imply being bad at offense. Security is hard because you have to win 100% of the time. Being good at cyberespionage means getting a win now…

"Airbus did not anticipate that a pilot would stall a plane and fly it directly into the ocean" Stalling and flying into the ground have been two common failure modes since flying …

Or he's never had a home in the full sense of the word.

That kind of implies that everything we create inherently belongs to the government, "they" let us use it for the period of copyright, and then it's theirs again to sell off. I can…

Do you really believe that DRY in coding precludes redundancy in implementation?

Stephen King wrote a book called On Writing that is part memoir and part guide to writing. It's not intended to be a full writing course, but it's a great intro to the important bi…

A sieve would just be a one-step funnel. If your engagement involves more than one step (sieves in series) then it's a funnel.

I don't think jasonjei was being dismissive of real ADHD. He was just pointing out that it is often over and mis-diagnosed. Many kids are considered misbehaving or diagnosed with a…

The article mentions blocking invites, not messages themselves, so there's not really any content to use as a basis for spam filtering.

Not at all. I wasn't saying the .com namespace was crowded. I was responding to someone who thought it was and who thought the appropriate solution was increasing domain registrati…

It seems like this solution means that if you want to have your own domain, either you must be rich or the website must be profitable. You're basically saying that only the rich sh…

He says it slides but "gets nowhere near 4x". That's clear enough to preclude 5x.

You'd get a very strong puff of air. The air leaving the end of the barrel doesn't have a lot of momentum so it diffuses pretty quickly in the ambient air. You could shape the outl…

This system externalizes the risk of telling the truth. Too many people excoriate journalists who say things they don't want to hear, so too many journalists pander to their audien…

I think you mean the circumference of geostationary orbit is 265000km. Diameter is about 36000km.

There's nothing wrong with ethanol as a fuel per se. It has the potential to be a great sustainable fuel made from farm waste and other sources. Unfortunately, the bulk of it now i…

The USPS thought the fake postage was real after the fake package came out of its properly-stamped wrapper once it was already in the USPS process stream. It's always easier to pas…

There's a difference between not having a smart phone and having a smart phone that actively misleads you.

I didn't realize you couldn't reuse the Legos from the specialized kits. I better go tell my kids who have built all kinds of crazy contraptions over the years. Frankly, I think ha…

That's typically the strategy for blogs. Links in a blog post are known good and don't have nofollow. Links in comments have nofollow to deter comment spam. That works for blogs wh…

In addition, she's part of a larger A/B test being run by the industry. Music producers have a nearly unlimited supply of cookie-cutter musicians who they can produce in different …

We use Fogbugz for all our internal project tracking. The consensus among our engineers is that this downtime is understandable and we'd rather deal with it, even in a mission-impo…

I agree. I think this change is motivated by two things. First, it's a planned obsolescence by the manufacturers finally admitting a small health issue and offering a solution. Sec…

I don't think too many of the authors actually held the position you describe. You describe a situation where authors understood LendInk and didn't like the way it changed lending,…