Saturday, October 28, 2017

https://www.nature.com/mp/journal/v20/n1/pdf/mp2014105a.pdf

Business Insider UK: My WiFi router patched a major security problem without me having to do a thing — now I'm a customer for life


My WiFi router patched a major security problem without me having to do a thing — now I'm a customer for life
Business Insider UK

The Insider Picks team writes about stuff we think you'll like. Business Insider has affiliate partnerships, so we get a share of the revenue from your purchase. Earlier this month security researchers discovered KRACK, a major Wi-Fi vulnerability that could compromise any router or Wi-Fi enabled device. Microsoft and Apple responded quickly with patches, but patches that still left routers at risk. Out of the blue I received an e-mail from eero, the startup that makes Wi-Fi routers I installed Read the full story


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Saturday, October 21, 2017

All volunteer military

https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/monographs/2007/RAND_MG265.pdf





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Pentagon investigating troubling questions after deadly Niger ambush - LA Times

Trump's Benghazi

"For months before the ambush, the U.S. military had requested more drones or other surveillance aircraft in Niger"

This is the problem...too overstretched being policeman to the world...

http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-fg-trump-niger-20171019-story.html


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Monday, October 02, 2017

Thread: What's been wrought using the Piece Table?

https://web.archive.org/web/20160308183811/http://1017.songtrellisopml.com/whatsbeenwroughtusingpiecetables


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Nine films to watch in October



Nine films to watch in October

From Netflix, a Flipboard magazine by Oliver Handley

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History's great stock crash? Not 1929 or 2008, but 1987



History's great stock crash? Not 1929 or 2008, but 1987

From Christian Science Monitor on Flipboard

'It was hair-raising, it was a cliff-hanger,' says Henriques of the 1987 incident. 'We almost didn't make it through.' September 29, 2017 —On an…

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Heavy Rotation: Songs Public Radio Can't Stop Playing



Heavy Rotation: Songs Public Radio Can't Stop Playing

From Music, a Flipboard magazine by NPR

Every month, NPR Music asks our friends from public radio stations across the country for the songs they simply can't get enough of — new tracks…

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