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slowburningon Bullshit-sensitivity predicts prosocial behavior

“I must not fear. Fear is the mindkiller. I will face my fear. I will let it pass through me. When it is gone, there will be nothing, only I will remain.”

slowburningon DoD: Turn Off Your Fitbit, Garmin, Apple Watch GPS

You could reformat the drives but what if someone has infected the firmware on the drive?

Check out: https://www.malwaretech.com/2015/04/hard-disk-firmware-hacki...

slowburningon Ask HN: How to overcome fear of flying?

Just do not open your alcohol in front of the flight staff in the USA. There are restrictions on passengers serving alcohol to themselves on flights. Some airlines will serve the alcohol to you that you brought on board, others will give you a less than gentle reminder of the policy.

slowburningon What it takes to stand up to authority

while the fact remains that everyone should derive his or her own opinion on this highly sensationalized study, Philip Zimbardo's response is worth reading http://www.prisonexp.org/response/

slowburningon U.S. Supreme Court to hear civil forfeiture case

In some states it is illegal to defend against civil forfeiture practices using hidden compartments in your vehicle to store 100% legal property (e.g. cash, jewelry, confidential information)

slowburningon Verizon, AT&T and Sprint to Limit Sales of Cellphone Location Data

You can fix your GPS coordinates on certain phones. See this presentation for more information https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1VttfQFTWE

He talks about being able to fix your GPS coordinates to static values. Also being able to fix your list of cell phone towers so you never end up on someone's femtocell. There's also a really cool cell proxy setup for fully anonymous calling via a proxy cellphone

slowburningon American toddlers are eating more sugar than the amount recommended for adults

The point you make is an important distinction. It's really effortless to put down 44oz of soda but very hard to eat the sugar equivalent of ~6lbs of carrots (even if you are juicing them 6lbs is a lot of carrot juice).

http://www.sugarstacks.com/carrots.htm

slowburningon China has turned Xinjiang into a police state like no other

http://read.gov/aesop/011.html The Oak and the Reeds, Aesop 'Better to yield when it is folly to resist, than to resist stubbornly and be destroyed.'

slowburningon The Stuxnet worm may be the most sophisticated software ever written

a very large private company

slowburningon The Stuxnet worm may be the most sophisticated software ever written

I have seen HSMs in a concrete fireproof room, inside another concrete room, inside a regular room, inside a nondescript building. This one required the use of 3 persons (one to authorize entry past the 2 guys with rifles, one to unlock the vault rack with the hsm, another to authenticate to the HSM to perform work).