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mcs··on Headphones can be hijacked to surreptitiously record audio
This technique was just as valid 8 years ago as it is today. The only difference today is that the realtek chipsets with port reassignment are more prevalent.
mcs··on Extreme side-effects of antidepressants
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2248201/

"Since the consumption of omega-3 fatty acids from fish and other sources has declined in most populations, the incidence of major depression has increased."

mcs··on Pardon Snowden
whistleblower protection?
mcs··on LastPass autofill exploit
Please correct me if I am mistaken, but couldn't this have been implemented into an iframe that when ran could send the passwords to another remote server?

If so, I am a little taken back by LastPass only offering $1,000 to the researcher that found and reported it for fixing. He or she could have taken a different path and resulted in this being used in some complex targeted attack against tech corporations via short-url redirect interstitial pages, or an ad network's javascript, etc. Given the potential damage, I'd say there is a missing zero or two on that reward amount, in my opinion.

mcs··on OpenSSL Security Advisory
ASN.1 parsing in implementations of several different standards have had this class of issue for well over a decade. ip phone and software stack vulnerabilities in, for example in asterisk, specifically for ASN.1 handling have probably been used by our intelligence community for a long time. The safe implementations are probably ran in virtual machine languages.
mcs··on Learning to Live with the Voices in Your Head (2014)
Does the Perphenazine reduce the frequency?
mcs··on Twitter Sees 6% Increase in “Like” Activity After First Week of Hearts
the "love" button wasn't supposed to be "like"
mcs··on Why has the quality of brick buildings declined in the last 100 years?
Cinder blocks were cheaper near foundries, so a lot of plant economy homes are wood propped up and not on slabs. Slabs do not last on the "gumbo" mud, and it floods. Metals weren't cheap enough for siding so asbestos was used. Now there are the synthesized woods.
mcs··on The rise of the zero-day market
another negative use of bitcoin
mcs··on North Korean biochemical expert flees to Finland: source
chilling
mcs··on Decoding the Enigma of Satoshi Nakamoto and the Birth of Bitcoin
The Satoshi fingerprinted mining carefully balanced the hashrate of the cluster, with the goal of historically viewable well-meaning intentions.

http://organofcorti.blogspot.com/2014/08/167-satoshis-hashra...

mcs··on Twilio Video – Real-time WebRTC video infrastructure
Blue Jeans solves this at scale, with higher quality than WebRTC alone, while also supporting video conferencing equipment joining the same meetings.

Transcoding is tough with unique views per client, but audio processing is tougher. :)

mcs··on What Satoshi Didn't Know [video]
Never roll your own crypto, unless you're a cryptographer.

At least he realized that.

mcs··on Results of the 2015 Soylent Eaters Survey
At least someone said it. Yes it does, and multiplied if consumed with carbonated drinks.

Possibly related to a gender gap of continued use?

mcs··on Encryption ban: David Cameron is teetering dangerously close to authoritarianism
Do these people understand that encryption is just software, and you can't prevent software from proliferating just by passing some legislation? It would make all legitimate purposes of end to end encryption illegal, and leave it only for the criminals. Have we not learned anything from the conversation on gun control?
mcs··on Chrome DevTools outside of the browser
In thread-per-connection server applications, the concurrency is exactly the number of threads spun up for the pool of connections. In node, it achieves that concurrency without a thread pool for the connections themselves, and thus you get less resource usage (memory mostly) for the same number of connections as the daemon scales up.

Node's real draw, aside from pretty easy concurrency, is the package ecosystem.

mcs··on The State of Desktop Applications in Node.js
The flat packages you would most likely distribute for the application come in around 30mB for me.
mcs··on 3D-printed sculptures at the same scale as a human sperm
Considering the artist says they were lost by the scientist manning the electron scanning microscope accidentally placing his thumb on the glass, and didn't mention what the scientist team that created the sculptures thought of this (or if they could make more), I'd lean towards hoax story. There are several other glaring inconsistencies in the artist's story.

He just says to trust him that they were there, and that people love to hear stories :)

mcs··on Node.js Advisory Board
http://vertx.io/ aims to be very similar in architecture if I recall correctly.
mcs··on The Satoshi Nakamoto Email Hacker Says He's Negotiating with the Bitcoin Founder
Emails started bouncing to the account around 05:00 GMT last night, it's likely that was one of the only ways the attacker could maintain communication.
mcs··on The Satoshi Nakamoto Email Hacker Says He's Negotiating with the Bitcoin Founder
The identity could remain unverified for eternity if original keys aren't available, and it's possible there was a deliberate destroying of the keys. Satoshi has said that the losing of coins were a donation to everyone else -- and who else would make a donation to the entirety of the Bitcoin ecosystem other than Satoshi?
mcs··on Ask HN: How can I enjoy my job?
Unless your work hours are being explicitly questioned, you perhaps are being a self conscious to the point of being unhappy. There is also a difference between being physically present for 12 hours and being productive. I don't think anybody would for a minute guess you are productive for 12 hours. If you actually are, you are way more valuable to the company than they are paying you and they would be damn fools to fire you. (And you shouldn't even try to be that productive).

Is your work tracked in any fashion, such as Jira?

mcs··on The Strange and Curious Tale of the Last True Hermit
I've had a recurring dream of building a little shack out in the woods and I've constantly wondered if the Ted Kaczynski would have turned so dark with modern access to the internet.
mcs··on Bitcoin August 14 Flash Crash
Milton Friedman is famous for saying the inflation of the dollar is exclusively controlled by the FED, but that isn't 100% true today. There are other branches of government that capture back large amounts of the printed paper from operations that are illegal. So in a sense, the "war on drugs" could be keeping inflation lower than it would be without it. For inflation to be felt the money has to be in circulation. Also, when the US broke away from the gold standard and printed a lot of money for police actions, it took about 10 years for the inflation to become rampant. It is important to realize this was before the crack wave.
mcs··on Bitcoin August 14 Flash Crash
There are extremists that believe Bitcoin is poised to be the new world's reserve currency (which to me means a highly sought after commodity to compare against), as gold once was in the past 200 years to some degree. This party of thought see it as digital gold that is fungible through the internet. It doesn't have enough critical mass of actual economic value hedged on it yet to be that, if ever, so it's going to be a wild ride when any big players decide to put some monies in the slot machine of the market. Small level purchasers aren't moving the market, and if they're in the US they're probably using Coinbase or some other "Bitcoin bank" that does off-chain transactions. The begrudgoned trusted entities that the current world requires to exist for people to get involved aren't moving the price for the most part, and their prices reflect what the other exchanges are saying. Regardless of the potential for transaction exclusion collusion, any large amounts of Bitcoin bought off the chain can cause wild swings on the markets that are averaged for the prices, and for a while if Bitcoin continues to excel, it will remain just as exploitable as any other financial system such stocks w/ press.
mcs··on Satoshi's Hashrate
There most likely was a simple gpu miner that wasn't public knowledge until later, which helped in balancing out the network without needing a horde of machines early on.
mcs··on Wireless Charging, at a Distance, Moves Forward for uBeam
I hope this stays a powering technology and it doesn't attempt to become a data-channel company as well.
mcs··on Wireless Charging, at a Distance, Moves Forward for uBeam
Ultrasound is widely considered safe.
mcs··on Bitcoin: the Stripe perspective
Accountability in the ballots themselves is just as important as accurately tracking the votes.
mcs··on Bitcoin: the Stripe perspective
People don't have to share their name to their public key in the blockchain. So the anonymity is about the same as a social security number, and but confirming the identity is much stronger and doesn't need to reveal private information or their private voter's token keychain. Transparency is giving out tokens to known voters, since there is already registration at least in united states elections. What it does give is a strict list of keys that should correlate with registered population.
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