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Why is rat poison being used as part of growing marijuana? It doesn’t strike me as an essential pesticide to defend marijuana with?

I’ve never heard of rodents being associated with marijuana destruction. Is marijuana one of those odd crops that attracts a different category of pests? Like flower bulbs and deer?

Oh yeah, the "burglars know when you're not at home" scenario... I feel like maybe there's something else, but this one's definitely a standard IoT security checklist item.

What will the freegans do if we outlaw trash picking? Not to mention, I've found some awesome working computer parts (1000W ATX power units, with cool looking internal cables, fuck yeah!) and completely reasonable, non-branded, desktop chassis on the side of the road.

Surprising as it is that a blood test for drug use gleaned from one's bio-waste is slightly rotten, maybe it's the vice laws that should be thrown some shade. Fourth amendment, sure, but I think it's worth noting that it's still the burden of the individual to render their discarded waste non-incriminating.

What this means for genetic privacy, finger prints and other powerful personal identifiers (the what-you-are authentication factors), I simply don't have a good answer for.

Oh, that’s not the only issue at all.

It also completely eradicates your data allocation on a capped/throttled mobile connection, since high quality video is capable of sucking down 25GB in as little as 2 hours. The worst case scenario being that 25GB is the standard capacity of an HD blu-ray disk. Maybe at lower NTSC quality, some video ads only eat up the amount a DVD consumes, clocking in at ~2GB per one hour.

Put another way, if you completely buffer the same 30 second full motion video ad, 240 times, that advertisement has completely abused the data cap for your mobile plan.

In a hypothetical world where child pornography stalkers and kick murder cyberbullying are NOT the knee jerk concern du jour, regarding the privacy of minors, what are the other worries one might have with a situation where little kids are running around snapping pictures with an unsecured web cam tied to real world identities?

The only other thing I can think of is the long con of snooping on periphery data to guess at a second factor security questionaire interview...

  1. What’s your first pet’s name?
  2. What street did you grow up on?
  3. What was your grandmother’s maiden name?

Are there any other weird invasive problems a product like this could evoke?

I’d be quick to guess that in those cases, the missing axis of symmetry falls beyond the field of view. That is to say, it might not be trivial to align the focus of the vibration such that the center of each axis falls on the plate, and demonstrates a pattern depicting the perfect midpoint of the figure.

Not all of TV sucks, and FX isn’t terrible. But given the commercials, TV feels like willful brainwashing in practice.

Consider the idea of paying for cable, and still watching commercials. It’s sort of like paying for the internet connection and still paying for the content. No thanks.

Yeah, and there are reasons for that. Focus groups kill creativity with group-think, and TV reeks of it. Standards and practices and other varieties of self censorship mean TV shall fight forever with one hand tied behind its back.

The internet is frequently better than TV, because merit is free to boil to the surface without being stifled. It’s not that the internet is free of bland tripe. But merely that it’s costly to force bland tripe to the front, and when the state-sponsored tripe gets upstaged by something better, it’s harder to bury the higher quality content.

The problem with the internet is the firehose of The Long Tail ultimately does bury absolutlely everything (good and bad), so once again, over time everything is obscured by default, leading to micro-generation gaps (maybe spanning as little as two years) and reasonably large subcultures that never see the light of day.

On some level though, the movie industry has proven that profits don’t matter, since we see that for the last decade, profitable movies are mostly unwatchable garbage.

So, even if TV manages to be profitable, it can surely deserve the same sideshow status as movies. The only thing the internet paradoxically lacks right now (despite massive unicorn companies with nigh unlimited resources) is the unrestrained budget movies enjoy. And this is because the most captivating things on the internet are authentic in real time, and cannot be “budgeted” in a traditional sense.

Bleh. It’s the right time, because everyone’s thinking it.

To be fair, you look at those CPU utilization graphs, and the optimization bonus for this sacrifice of security is notable. The benefits are real, for these computation strategies. The reality is that yet again, we must sacrifice convenience in the name of security. This is why we can’t have nice things.

Ultimately, though, your pining for dignified silence and stoicism as the one true lowest common denominator is to be unrequited. Civilization among the civilized is not always a good thing. We all know that somewhere deep within the unknown recesses of some massive social planning department, circuits are being designed to lock us in, and make us pay for stepping out of line. Keep that fact in the front of your mind. Not as a goof. Not as a pacifier or placebo.

It’s all bullshit. It’s a valid gripe. It bears repeating.

If I’m understanding the fundamentals of the science behind this article, basically researchers are messing around with the state of the orbitals [0] of the electron clouds of individual atoms and molecules in very cold condensates that are otherwise stable, provoking interesting states that defy the usual macroscopic interactions commonly observed in the 4 classic phases of matter?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_orbital

Is that about right?

The exploit methods that the researchers uncovered have not been provided to the world at large. You can bet that test kits are in the hands of large companies right now, to aid security patch development. If those test kits, intended for white hat purposes get leaked in any way, for any reason, it's out in the wild. That's not supposed to happen, and there's no way for the layman to know the status of a zero day in the wild, until explicitly reported as discovered.

Any company or project providing a patch, has a way of testing the validity of the patch. Those test kits can be weaponized, but not without a degree of skill. Anyone who tests software knows this.

tl;dr In practical terms, no manner of direct evidence via physical tests or experimentation are believed to be possible. Theory suggests that valence electron shells point ambiguously toward metal, but metal nonetheless, and not halogen. Even computational experiments are still prohibitively expensive, given that there’s no expectation to be able to apply this science in any useful context.

No one has invested effort in packaging up an easy-to-use developer kit for distribution yet.

The hole is there, and publicly known as of today, but nothing a high school script kiddie can trivially leverage for good grades. Yet.

No one is giving out payloads and telling people they can try this at home, and watch it go. Nothing is known to be in a pastebin or git repo at the moment. This doesn’t mean the black market isn’t crafting kits for sale at a high price right now for big game hunting though.

None.

Propagating the salient point of the article allows the useful information to be communicated, without loading needless megabytes of adtech UI in your browser.

You should still read the article, and not blindly trust internet randos, but as participant in an aggregator, this kind of behavior is sometimes helpful, as long as things don’t get spammy.

5. Create an atmosphere of fog in the DMCA dispute system, slowing down operations and reducing the effectiveness of automation efforts

tl;dr By re-applying lessons learned in mapping biological functions to genetic origins in c. elegans, one idea is to use computational biology, and inventory all human cell types, to accurately trace and debug human physiology at a molecular level. Through a culture of open creativity, other ideas are also welcome.

Hmm

Yes perfect

It didn’t get interesting to me, until I was quickly corrected by more than one person. Is the phonetic pronunciation... what is the pronunciation for Å in English?

Oh, this is about the history of calligraphy, typography, alphabets and character sets surrounding the (swedish) letter (which resembles an) “A” with a ring (non)diacritic, and not about the ångström as a unit of measurement.

EDIT: People are vehement about the status of this particular character, and that doesn’t change the fact that I expected an article about a unit of measurement.

  (yes, I understand that disagreement is 
   afoot, but it has nothing to do with 
   what I originally came here for)

  some IT/automation company that would charge you 
  exorbitant rates just because this is industrial 
  automation

This is shenanigans. This is the kind of game Enron [0] played, gouging prices for irrational reasons, until eventually outside intervention dismantled their operation, to discover actual costs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Star_(business)

Hey now! The reality that confines a singular, isolated perception can still incidentally offend its sole sentient entity without motive.

You’re being selfishly stoic, and that’s somewhat repugnant, even for a solipsist.

Possibly ad-hoc way finding, and reference points when lost, to help detect if you're going in circles, or if a change of direction is necessary.

If there are N number of confusing junctions, it would require the same number of markings as a unique mnemonic device to register the steps to escape the confusing area, and jog one's memory of how directions were negotiated the last time.

The following passage:

  To distinguish between neurons and glia, Herculano-
  Houzel injected the vials with a chemical dye that 
  would make all nuclei fluoresce blue under ultraviolet 
  light, and then with another dye to make the nuclei of 
  neurons glow red. 

You mean that part? It’s about differentiating support infrastructure from the actual cellular operators responsible for cognitive brain function.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroglia

  VS.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuron

You wanna see what happens when your kind takes things too far???

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drifting_(motorsport)

  > CTRL+F

  Japan was the birthplace of drifting.

(hey, hacker news, fuck your downvotes)

Not green is disconnected from any access point. The radio is still active, and listens for SSID broadcast, and advertises a MAC address, for possible connection handshakes from access points that are listening and active, but do not advertise presence and require users to request by name.

Not green AND CROSSED OUT means the radio is actually turned off, and is supposedly neither listening nor broadcasting, if state of the settings applet is somehow more trustworthy than the state of the control center’s slide-out drawer widget.

Note that other non-apple handsets might just be doing whatever, unpredictably.

No, what’s really going on is the franchise vs. mom & pop version of corporate espionage.

Normal people with no skin in the game, beyond what’s for lunch, don’t behave this way.

There’s a small-ish subculture of afficionados and foodies, but I’ve never met anyone that obsesses over dinner to that degree. Usually it’s a byproduct of a phase they breifly went through, when they were on a kick about something.

The rare exception being the occassional young romantic couple, obsessing over the courtship rituals of wooing their hot date. This is less about the food than the date, and again, it’s yet another small-ish subculture, since 90% of everyone is undateable. [0,1]

[0] http://www.pkmeco.com/seinfeld/wink.htm

[1] https://youtu.be/C-a64OwOYqU

This translates to:

        (A)    (B)
  1. elbow,   ass; 
  2.   ass, elbow;
  3.   ass,   ass;
  4. elbow, elbow;
  5.   ass,   ass;
  6.   ass, elbow;
  7.   ass, elbow;

That’s a spicy meatball!

You think I care about what you think.

VPN services still put us on the run, so to speak. As an optional, externalized behavior, those who choose to employ VPN tunneling will enjoy an additional layer that buys them some time, for some of their activity.

But if one were trying to suggest that “it’s time to put mesh networks in play as this newer model, to assert greater control” then I’d like to see a technology that solves certain problems, instead of the same technology as ever, with all it’s existing, known problems, except now distributed and peer-oriented.

I want to see the real problems solved, before I give everything away to peers. Otherwise unsophisticated peers can cause problems for me, just like an ISP. The difference being, most peers will be unprepared to exploit each other for a short amount of time, but then, as utilization saturates, and expertise grows, we’re back to square one.