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NickHaflinger | 10 years ago | on: How DEA Agents Took Down Mexico's Most Vicious Drug Cartel

'How DEA Agents Took Down Mexico's Most Vicious Drug Cartel', and how it was replaced with a similar organization within a week. Besides the drug money is keeping a number of western economies afloat.

NickHaflinger | 10 years ago | on: Ketamine’s effect bolsters a new theory of mental illness

'Either a green unicorn just raced across the lab, or I accidentally took some LSD.', Dr. Walter Bishop

NickHaflinger | 10 years ago | on: New York State Agrees to Overhaul Solitary Confinement in Prisons

We don't, it's how the correctional personnel get their jollies :o

NickHaflinger | 10 years ago | on: The CIA Secret to Cybersecurity That No One Seems to Get

"How Did We Get Here"?

Microsoft Windows?

"Integrity means assessing whether the software and critical data within your networks and systems are compromised with malicious or unauthorized code or bugs."

How about designing a 'computer' that can't be compromised by clicking on a URL or opening a malicious email attachment.

NickHaflinger | 10 years ago | on: Hasn’t the problem of Windows updates being partially installed been solved?

I don't have such a problem, I have been Microsoft free for years ..

NickHaflinger | 10 years ago | on: Z – quickly cd to 'frecent' directories

'Tracks your most used directories, based on 'frecency'.'

Shouldn't that be frequency ..

https://github.com/rupa/z/blob/master/README

NickHaflinger | 10 years ago | on: He Blew the Whistle at JPMorgan Chase, Then Came the Blowback

"I think it's important to recognize that all this happened on the fringes of JPM"

Disingenuous excusing :)

NickHaflinger | 10 years ago | on: How to stop a DDoS attack

'A botnet consists of many (usually hundreds or thousands) of normal home or work computers [running Microsoft Windows] that have malicious software installed on them.'

NickHaflinger | 10 years ago | on: Why do we still write insecure software?

Because the underlying hardware MMU can't prevent one process from accessing memory that don't belong to it.

NickHaflinger | 10 years ago | on: Why Linux should thank Microsoft and why the future is dark

Why Linux should thank Digital Research, Seattle Computer Products and DR-DOS, would make a more accurate title ..

NickHaflinger | 10 years ago | on: Shellcode detection using CPU emulation and syscall blacklisting

"Bypass control flow guard" :)

https://www.blackhat.com/docs/us-15/materials/us-15-Zhang-By...

NickHaflinger | 10 years ago | on: How to be like Steve Ballmer

'SteveB went on the road to see the top weeklies, industry analysts and business press this week to give our systems strategy. The meetings included demos of Windows 3.1 (pen and multimedia included), Windows NT, OS/2 2.0 including a performance comparison to Windows and a “bad app” that corrupted other applications and crashed the system. It was a very valuable trip and needs to be repeated by other MS executives throughout the next month so we hit all the publications and analysts.'

'The demos of OS/2 were excellent. Crashing the system had the intended effect – to FUD OS/2 2.0. People paid attention to this demo and were often surprised to our favor. Steve positioned it as -- OS/2 is not "bad" but that from a performance and "robustness" standpoint, it is NOT better than Windows'.

http://iowa.gotthefacts.org/011107/PX_0860.pdf

"I have written a PM app that hangs the system (sometimes quite graphically)."

http://iowa.gotthefacts.org/011107/PX_0797.pdf

NickHaflinger | 10 years ago | on: What happens when the Board of Directors begins to panic?

This should have been the sign to get the hell out: "in what startup of five people does the tech team work for five months without ever talking to the CEO?" There's a movie to be gotten out of this 'Milburn' feller.

NickHaflinger | 10 years ago | on: The Rookie and the Zetas: A Drug Cartel's Horse-Racing Empire

The short version: The Zetas were money laundering through a U.S. horse breeding and racing operation.

NickHaflinger | 10 years ago | on: Spooked: What do we learn about science from a controversy in physics?

I can't actually read anything written in the newyorker house style. It's the carefully constructed multi-component sentences, the endless baroque digressions, sorry I just can't take it anymore, for fks sake can't they just get to the point :)

NickHaflinger | 10 years ago | on: Brutal baboon battle erupts for throne at Toronto Zoo after matriarch dies

Take a look at 'David Attenborough .. Life on Earth' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czgc56Vfz4w

NickHaflinger | 10 years ago | on: Brutal baboon battle erupts for throne at Toronto Zoo after matriarch dies

"they closed the exhibit because they didn't want the visitors to see the (potentially unsettling/traumatizing) injuries on the baboons"

Have they tried closing the Zoo and releasing the animals back into the wild. Zoos are a nineteenth century anachronism, designed for when that was the only way people could get a look at such exotic animals. Last time I was in one, the animals looked tired, stressed and listless.

NickHaflinger | 10 years ago | on: Brutal baboon battle erupts for throne at Toronto Zoo after matriarch dies

What's with the anthropomorphizing cutsy naming, they're baboons not kids.

NickHaflinger | 10 years ago | on: Scientists Dispute 2-Degree Model Guiding Climate Talks (via wsj.com)

“It emerged from a political agenda, not a scientific analysis” Yes it is patently obvious there are powerful wealthy backers behind the Global Warming hoax :)

NickHaflinger | 10 years ago | on: WebGL water scene

Runs smooth here on 8GB ram and a generic video card, playing a video on MPV at the same time, Ubuntu 15.10 Wily ...