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onlycommentingon Secrets of the Medtronic MyCareLink Patient Monitor

>compiled binary blogs

That, or view/edit them with a hex editor.

onlycommentingon We ask supporters to stop taking down the US internet. You proved your point

That's not what it looks like at all...

onlycommentingon Liquid assets: how the business of bottled water went mad

Yup. Potable vs. Palatable drinking water.

onlycommentingon Judge: child porn evidence obtained via FBI’s Tor hack must be suppressed

I agree with everything you've said thus far, however, I'm still curious as to how the Π would go about reconstruction w/out using their already gathered knowledge to get warrants/subpoenas.

They could hope the ∆ was using BT and had their IP logged for downloading copyrighted material. Then maybe request a warrant for their computer that way but that seems like a stretch.

onlycommentingon Ship found in Arctic 168 years after doomed Northwest Passage attempt

Looks like the blog was hacked at some point, and what you are looking at is old SEO spam.

onlycommentingon Citigroup Has ‘Technical Issue’ as Customers Say Accounts Frozen

USAA recently had the same issue; transactions not processing. They, like Costco, switched credit card issuers. So it may very well be a scaling issue like importing millions of customers into the DB.

onlycommentingon Arduino in the size of a AA battery

The most expensive part for that was the serial-to-usb cord I had to buy. Great little tool and taught me a lot.

onlycommentingon Linux Mint downloads (briefly) compromised

There's something interesting to be said here. "They make {{ package }} unusable by hijacking it's name space", well who gave them that name space? I understand the whole first come first serve and all but if we played that way things could get messy real fast.

There was recently an article on HN about the "Web of Hashes" and this article got me thinking about it. Why not give each application an UUID and let that be it's name space? Give the user an option to still use- they're example- xedit while having another xedit installed along side?

I can see how this could also get messy. Just spit balling here.

onlycommentingon The surgeon will Skype you now

The DaVinci is cool, but you get 10 uses out of each arm then you have to toss it... At a few grand a pop it's not cheap. I have two and am working on 'hacking' the usb interface, but they've epoxyed over the chips.

onlycommentingon YouTube removes all_comments feature

I've been using this[1] extension for some time now. It's awesome when there's already a submission for the video.

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/alientube-for-yout...

onlycommentingon NSA Chief Hacker Explains How to Avoid NSA Spying

NMAP. I'm sure you can find a gui-like program for it. Just scan your routers subnet.

onlycommentingon Comcast injects JavaScript into webpages to show copyright notices to customers

I wouldn't say there's no competition per se, but some areas are limited based on who has lines out there. For example, the area I live in at Augusta only offers Wow! as a cable provider; over priced reseller. But, I was fortunate enough to land a decent contract- more channels than Wow! and for 1/4 the price- with Dish. Satellite vs. Cable, but I'm willing to take that trade off for a better price point. Plus there's always NetFlix/Hulu.

onlycommentingon Pacemaker explosions in crematoria

Or, look for landmark scaring.