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Using email is one of my favorite ways of breaking into an organization!

Usually, I will send out 10 emails to different employees. Out of those 10 people, 5 will click the link that I included. Of the 5 people, two or three will tell me their real work username and password. Pretty scary, isn't it?

Why are they so interested? Why would they give me their passwords? The email that I send does not look like a scam from a rich prince in an African nation. Instead, it looks like a professional email from a company conducting a survey on behalf of the employee’s organization.

Who wouldn’t be interested in filling out a survey about Salary Satisfaction?

Once they click on the link, they are taken to a login page. It is then than an average of 25% of the people emailed submit their passwords.

This is where the fun begins!

If the company is using Microsoft Exchange (email server), I can use their credentials to synchronize a copy of their email onto my computer.

Once it is synchronized, I can create a client-side rule that runs a program every time a certain email is received.

This rule will synchronize over Exchange across all the computers that use that persons account.

Once they receive the special email, my program runs on the victim’s computer.

Another option in which i can use to Hack a computer through email is to send a user a malicious Word document. However, that usually requires building up a context where it would make sense for that attachment to be opened.

Recently, I received a very interesting attachment. It was an obvious attempt to break into my computer using a malicious Word document.

It came at a time where I was needing a more effective payload to send to my potential victims.

I was so grateful to the hacker for introducing me to a new technique that I replied with a thank you note.

The Word document contained an embedded object that appeared to be a another document. But in reality, it was a VB Script that would launch a malicious payload. Fascinating!

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gold has $7 Trillion and I fail to see how gold is a better store of value, I fail to see why would anyone buy gold bullion for example, is just a piece of metal.
A couple of packets barely making it, when the weather happens to be conducive, isn’t a basis for a reliable system.
I went with Acer’s xr382cqk

Enough screen real estate that you don’t feel pressured to add another monitor, high enough DPI to look good, low enough to not need scaling, connects to USB C MBP with one wire for video, charging, and a USB 3.0 hub.

IMO the perfect monitor.
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Who provides liquidity for bitcoin still? With all that growth, everyone would only want to hold.
Chinese bike share graveyard a monument to industry's 'arrogance'
The Pecking Order: What Is It and How to Avoid Problems in Your Flock
Sounds like a classic form of selection bias to me. Most high tech companies are in the US.
'Money' occupies a position of special privilege:

1) Your tax office requires your taxes to be paid with local currency

2) Because of this, you are obliged to routinely measure your economic activity relative to the yardstick of your local currency

Bitcoin doesn't have the same special place. My beefs with quantitative easing are:

1 - Whoever spends the money first is treated by the economic system as having done something useful for their money; when they have not.

2 - it distorts the yardstick we measure everything with. Eg, someone born in the 60s probably hasn't really adjusted their gut-feel for how much $1,000,000 is really worth these days. This just seems like confusing people for no reasons, and hence a bad idea.

Bitcoin ain't doing neither of these things. It is fine by me. Wealth creation even, if it doesn't bust spectacularly.
I'd be curious to see how the proportion of students hired into Google or FB from Howard compares to a normal school (not Stanford or MIT) with a CS program. Out of 30 students in the senior class, only 1 or 2 were hired on full time, which comes to be about 3-6%.

I'm more concerned about whether the other 95% of students are finding technology-related jobs at all. If not, that would be a bigger problem in my opinion.
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They won’t even blame Trump. They’ll say his hearts in the right place, the political establishment are stitching him up and this was going to happen anyway.
I use a gaming mouse, it is very quick and precise. I can move 1 pixel if I need or move to the other side of the huge screen with a single movement.
Pokémon GO caused hundreds of deaths, increased crashes
I use a 3840x1600 monitor, not quite there resolution size, but in exchange you don’t need to use DPI scaling
I think it would be wrong to characterise that as the consensus, though. My understanding is that historians haven't come to a conclusive assessment, but that the majority view is that it did cut the war short and save lives (net).
So does the UK, Ireland, Canada, South Africa, Australia, NZ, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Iceland, Denmark, and every other Western, white-dominant tech host country.
What did you decide to use to set up the shared vpn endpoint to route the traffic?
For SMBs and smaller dev shops kicking off their forays into container development, not to mention customer deployments, the simplified cost models make it more management friendly and more understandable to non-IT actors.

Whether it is absolutely cheaper than GCE or whatever, and if master management is a requirement, is a separate comparison based on the solution. Cutting out the management node costs removes a barrier to entry and creates a more streamlined product.

Oh, it also makes their Kubernetes services usable within the free credits they give out on Azure via their MSDN subscriptions... so suddenly millions of devs can use AKS for demos and temp-hosting "for free", which is huge in creating mindshare in the Enterprise...
People who have surplus wealth usually have a mix of assets - stocks, bonds, commodoties, cash, property, and sometimes more exotic assets like art, collectible cars, cryptocurrencies, whatever. Everyone has their own preferences and risk appetite and as such a different mix of assets.

Cash (at least major currencies) is one asset class that is relatively safe but tends to depreciate due to inflation, especially due to recent monetary expansion by central banks. Cash can also be easily seized, and this is a cause of concern for some.

Contrasted with other asset classes that have yield, having all your net worth in cash would not be something you want to do.
The FAQ is probably outdated. The roadmap in the article includes the switch too proof of stake. Proof of stake generally does not include block rewards, so it will stop completely.
RANT: As a researcher in quantum optics and spectroscopy, holy shit am I tired of reading through these comment threads where it's clear that nobody understands the topic, yet people still make assertive nicely-sounding statements that are bound to get up-voted by other people who also don't understand the topic. ~ugh~
Radio tubes, specifically the Triode (basic amplification tube, a lot like a transistor only not solid state and much higher voltage). Invented in 1904.
Awesome. Did you guys host gave servers? Or perhaps co-op members? For some reason I remember a lot of game servers with "Speakeasy" in the name – I think this would have been Q2/Q3A/CS1.6 days
Integration with other services is the key. This could help offload some of
the heavy lifting publishers have to deal with around infrastructure.
Thank you! I've fished around a bit without success.
Yeah and with the 16-4's you can get like 686 or something. DOCSIS 3.0 is pretty great still.
One can also download the TLA+ book and the TLA+ hyperbook from Leslie Lamport' TLA home page

https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/tla/tla.html

Both are very useful resources and for those interested in learning I would recommend going through both together letting the book fill in the detail where the hyperbook leaves you wanting more information. The hyperbook concetrates on PlusCal, which is a higher level interface to the TLA language, while the TLA book is all in the TLA language itself. I find,in practice,that the TLA language is what I am more comfortable writing specifications in. I find it clearer and as essentially standard mathematical notation its one less thing to learn. I believe Leslie encourages engineers to use PlusCal as being more user friendly.

Once one has worked though the specification course in the hyperbook, one should be able to apply TLA to real problems in any event driven system. (Sequential problems can also be modeled though). The primary hurdle in getting to applications will probably be coming to the understanding that modeling work happens at a much higher level of abstraction than programming, and that ones insticts as programmers, to get into detail, are not correct.

The benefits are two fold. Modeling a system before it's built forces one to abstract, clarify and simplify ones approach. The second benefit is that the model checker will find all the corner cases and complexity that one missed in the design. If one does a good translation from the model to code from there, then to a first approximation the code is bug free. As a bonus, later, when one goes back to code that has a spec, the spec is a nice summary of what has been coded (becase you forgot) and one can modify, and verify the spec before one updates the code.
You're implying that "culture" so defined doesn't actually affect the work process. But what if it does? What if exclusive, unfair selection of employees actually induces them to work harder or more efficiently?

I don't believe this[1], and if it were true, it wouldn't make the situation much better. But the alternate hypothesis is that all of these companies are leaving money on the table. These companies like to play on the idea that people should enjoy their jobs, which is obviously ridiculous because it's work, but if you can fool people into believing it, you can get them to work overtime and you profit. If letting your employees be casually racist means you get 15% more work out of them at the cost of 15% of your hiring pool it's a win because you save on labor costs. A necessary presupposition of the exercise is that the employees can be swayed by appeals to tribal psychology -- support the team (company) -- which is also the basis of racism. It sounds stupid when I say "letting your employees be casually racist" but if I substitute "only hire League of Legends players" it's obvious what's going on. It just so happens that the culture associated with many forms of entertainment techies enjoy is toxic to minorities and tends to be less black/Latino and more white/Asian than America as a whole. And all these things are tied together in the patchwork of culture. The utility of this sort of cultural Tom Sawyering extends beyond tech; it's crucial to the armed forces, for example, but appealing to minorities had more upsides for the financial backers in that case, and the military has more control over the culture it instills in soldiers, whereas Google et al ride the wave of contemporary US nerd affectations.

[1] - okay, why not? There may be some culturally homogenous workplaces but it's not the norm in my experience. The lack of black people at tech companies probably is also related to the fact that they're in cities with fewer black people and depend heavily on referrals for hiring. But referrals depend on friendships which goes back to that culture of entertainment for nerds I was talking about.
There were terminal systems with integrated multiplexing. The one that survives into the modern age is the Bloomberg terminal, I suppose.

The great advantage of the Internet is that it doesn't have integrated billing. This allowed marginal price to be driven to zero and the user to consume as much as they want without worry.
I couldn't tell from the article - how do they define 'market cap'? Nr of currently mined coins * current value? Because if so, how does that make sense - nobody knows how many coins are 'lost'. Is there anyone watching e.g. how many coins haven't moved wallet since, say, 2013? Like, satoshi's coins - does it make sense to include those in any metric?

(maybe they're using an entirely different definition in which case the above is moot)
Well, gold owes it's continued existence to the continued holding of the laws of physics.

Practically, I suspect Bitcoin relies on the reach bitcoin mining networks. If, eg, China's bureaucrats go mad and split China off from the main internet for a decade, what happens to bitcoin? I've been led to believe the serious mining pools are Chinese. Gold doesn't care about that sort of thing at all, it just keeps existing.

There are arguments for both. Storing metal is a cost.
Very good explanation of capsule networks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPN8d0E3900
I hope you realize that Git is a decentralized version control system regardless of where you choose to host the repo.
So the 60 early contributors now get 12.5% of all network fees, forever? (if they "stake")?
By definition, any model is basically bound to be discriminatory. Taking data, extracting common key features, and discarding the rest is essentially generalisation.

But the model is amoral. It's (morally) neither good nor bad for utilising certain features.

If it turned out that race was the most accurate attribute for a particular situation, it would be nonsensical ignore it.

The current trend of trying to paper over biases, while generally born of noble sentiment, probably only perpetuates the problem. Because it's usually done far down stream, and doesn't necessitate change at the source. Functionally, it's like a cover up by a large corporation
Companies will expect some kind of support if they pay
People who understand that past performance is no guarantee of future results? If you entered and made a good return, you might want to save it in something considered safer. Also, you might want to use the money for something else.
Unfortunately it seems like the Trump administration doesn't even bother responding nowadays.
It depends also what kind of goods they're importing. I'm far from an economic expert but importing processed goods probably creates stronger economic, social and political ties than importing raw goods.
One of those things is not like the others ;-)
lol yes it is, I mean't 2000 - no idea why I wrote 10,000
> replaced with a better one.

I'm curious how you define "better"? If you go by wealth equality, Bitcoin is worse than USD because Satoshi Nakamoto, the inventor of Bitcoin, owns more than 1/21 of all ever available Bitcoin. Several other early adopters claim to own a few hundred thousand Bitcoin.
Thanks. This is helpful. I'm thinking about doing a programming blog.
Agreed -- I find that a single large high-res display works better for my purposes. 32" at 4K is exactly right for three side-by-side 1280xY windows, which means that browsers will display full desktop-sized sites. Text isn't too small with the 32", so no scaling required. Divvy makes window management much faster, with little mouse interaction required.

I have two 27" 2560x1440 displays at work, but I find it counterproductive to look side-to-side constantly to see what's on the other screen.
I think that there's an implicit assumption that there's a massive injustice, and that those things are most defined by race/gender and not, for example, parental income. In my limited personal experience of social justice measures you just give ethnic minority private school girls yet another leg up whilst working class white men get absolutely no chance (competing against all the rich white men, then placed at a disadvantage against everyone else).

I definitely accept the second statement, I think almost everyone does. Damore had it in his memo. Noone is against behind the curtain auditions kind of measures, but far more people than would be willing to admit it publically are very much against quotas, or positive discrimination, or whatever the current PC term is for giving someone a job on the basis of their skin colour/gender and a perceived social injustice.
Is it hard for an individual to get a non negligible revenue on platforms like patreon?
TL; DR: The SCP Foundation is a crowd-authored series of horror-themed short stories. Every story is a report by the titular agency about an unexplained paranormal phenomenon and the Special Containment Procedures taken to keep it under control.
IQ strongly predicts academic success. Whatever other forms of intelligence it might be missing, are either unknown or don't correlate with academic success so strongly. Google is concerned with academic success and so IQ is also bound to be a strong predictor of hireability by Google. Maybe Kenyans are better at running but so what?
Get Divvy and never waste your time moving and resizing windows.
> How it's better than email list?

1. Organizers can update events instead of sending a new message

2. Organizers get to see a list of people who claim they're going

3. The message thread and images associated with events are much easier to deal with instead of throwing everything into one big slush pile that is an email list.

4. It makes much more sense to create events way ahead of time (think a year out).

5. It's easier for participants to see which events their friends are going to.

Ultimately, email just isn't very good for a number of use cases and events is one of them. These are also some of the same reasons why people started using wikis or sharepoint instead of email.
I know the US Government oversaw the Google IPO and the stocks weren't printed out of thin air.

In the Ether ICO, a big whale friend of Vitalik could have sent his Bitcoin in during the ICO sale, got Ether for it, then Vitalik sent him his Bitcoin back. Poof, Ether printed out of thin air - there is no way to prove this did not happen.

That is the problem with these ICOs vs. using Proof of Work to fairly distribute the currency.
IQ of 100 is defined as the mean IQ, and as such it is always moving. The trend is that the mean IQ is rising. But that trend has been delayed in some countries.

All the factors I mentioned have an impact in IQ. Two more concrete examples:

- Nutrition-wise, it is not only about hunger. The addition of iodine in food such as tablet salt, has improved Western IQ by about 15 points. In contrast, iodine deficiency is a problem present in Africa.

- Leaded fuel for example had a negative impact on the brain and has been found to affect IQ negatively. Only recently Africa has been transitioning out of leaded fuel.

Now, if you are going to be taking a random sample that is representative of a population, everyone within that population has the same probability of being sampled, so the "random kids" you mentioned could perfectly be sampled, and if they're significant in their population that might be reflected in the sample as well.
I'm not convinced that most people are going to care. 3D was cool, but putting glasses on was too much friction. Putting an entire headset on is, I think, a bridge too far.
In case anyone's wondering: $1,000,000 in 1960 would be more than $8,000,000 today. (things feeling 8x "more expensive" to these old timers)

https://www.dollartimes.com/inflation/inflation.php?amount=1...
Yes, number of coins in circulation * price is how the cryptoscene defines it. There're studies that calculate the amount of lost coins around 4million
That situation in the UK is simply due to under-funding.

The article points out that the current US situation uses economic status as a reason for keeping people in jail, more so than actual risk to the public. Resulting in huge over-use and (as pointed out) going to jail even briefly increases re-offending risk.
Worth every penny

Yes and no. Plenty of "good enough" Spanish/Portuguese Iberico ham is definitely worth it. The super high end stuff costing ~€100/kg that this article seems to largely be about I probably wouldn't consider "worth every penny" and I'd probably rather have twice as much ham costing 'only' €50/kg given a choice.
Nope. It still can be an atom. Only if it's a pair (i.e. a cons with two cells, not just one) it prints the next.
> So why are you upset when I say that I don't find pure FP to be appealing or convenient for concurrent/interactive/distributed programs?

I'm not sure "upset" is the right word but what I object to is your repeated mischaracterisations and misunderstandings of Haskell, especially of how it is used by industry programmers.
It's very telling that you consider the denotational semantics to be the important thing here.
huh? btc was premined by Satoshi and early contributors too.
while nobody can confirm which of the early wallets are his, the value of the premined btc coins is likely higher than the Ethereum premine.

this is the nature of all the PoW coins. The early contributors take the most risk and the most reward (if the coin succeeds).
> I fail to see why would anyone buy gold bullion for example

To make electronics out of it. The comparison of Bitcoin with gold falls short because gold is useful even outside of being a commodity or payment method.
imho the biggest difference is: gold is currently the preferred reserve by the world governments, which hold 30k tons, including the government with the largest military in the world. There is a chance that those in power will put a bit of effort to keep it more or less stable.
Agreed. It wasn't my comment -- just a summary of the article. I almost wrote a parenthetical in my original reply to the effect that I doubted the ubiquitousness of the first quote.

That said, I do think that the prior experience is a real issue. Rather than "winning programming competitions"or "hacking full projects in your garage", I do think it's safe to say that the vast majority of the folks who are competitive applicants to AppAmaGooFaceSoft started programming and were exposed directly or indirectly to CS ideas before they entered college. This may have been as simple as making a website for a school club (although frankly it was probably quite a bit more than that), but even actions as small as making a website open the door to a new world -- it is the beginning of the process of exploring new ideas and new problem spaces.
10% is not large, fruit prices in UK supermarkets seem to have risen by at least that this year.

Incidentally, anyone know of a project monitoring food price changes in UK for the major supermarkets?
> Their social lives were narrow, focused heavily on home life and the kids. That’s what Facebook is replacing, and it’s a huge improvement.

Is it really tho? I'm not even conservative, I just think that there's certainly something to be said about a social life focused on the kids and home life, instead of replacing that with hollow attention seeking on Facebook.

What it's being replaced with? People who post pictures of their children, which to many is often the whole extent of the interaction with their kids; Just another prop to collect likes on FB.

I admit that's just my anecdotal personal experience from a really bad case, I still think it's a very relevant angle to this as many people do use Facebook as a form of escapism from reality.
It amazes me that there is seemingly complete void of ethical consideration here.

I can come up with handful of completely malevolent uses for facial recognition in no time flat. Automated weapons, increased surveillance, targeted marketing.

The only good use I can come up with is spotting terrorist. But they are already the one group of people who seem to have the luxury of occasionally using masks.

Involvement in this stuff could very well yield more problems with your personal conscience than what Mikhail Kalashnikov has ever had. "Someone will do it anyhow" Yes. But you can drive up the price and availability of malevolence by personally avoiding it.
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