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Comment · 8 years ago
Source?
Comment · 9 years ago
Yeah nature got us here, but "here" is a local optimum based on evolutionary selection forces. If you were to design things based on biomimicry rather than first principles, planes would flap their wings, cars would gallop, and computer vision sensors would only perceive visible light. These people are building solutions rather than solving the problem.
Comment · 9 years ago
As a 12-year post-9/11 veteran with 7 years at a Tier 1 SOCOM unit and currently a successful BD guy at a Top 5 SV unicorn, your post is filled with misinformation, generalities, and is frankly offensive. Many of my brothers and sisters from the SOF world have successfully transitioned to the civilian world and are crushing it. Are there dark times - yes. But we either choose to let them define us or choose to rise above and move ahead with our goals.

Your comment about bankruptcies and poor credit is not even worth responding to.

Comment · 9 years ago
Comment · 9 years ago
This constant barrage of FUD from the cybersecurity community is exhausting. The real story here is that a combination of misconfigurations resulted in a system being exposed to remote exploitation. Until we in security move away from producing this noise about the latest clickbaity hack and start professionally addressing underlying hygiene, root causes, and config laziness at scale, we will never drive the conversation forward. But that doesn't get your talk accepted at Black Hat.
Comment · 9 years ago
Yeah super. Let me scale that for my bank, car loan, house loan, credit cards, FB, IG, Twitter, Email, HN, Coursera, EdX, Udacity, Udemy, Concur, forums, Netflix, LinkedIn, Paypal, Slac, Spotify, Hulu, AppleID, Reddit, Amazon, health insurance, college alumni page, Digital Ocean, WSJ, GoDaddy, hotel points, and airline miles sites.
Comment · 9 years ago
>> selector

Found the former SIGINT guy.

Comment · 9 years ago
No. That simply results in a TCAS warning and a couple of irritated pilots.
Comment · 9 years ago
You clearly have no clue how the rest of government contracting works.
Comment · 9 years ago
Yeah we should go back to following the jitney cab news.
Comment · 9 years ago
This is tinfoil hat nonsense. The feed goes out for a couple of seconds due to the vibrations caused by the incoming 10-story booster retropropulsing its way to the deck. It always comes back after the rocket has shutdown.
Comment · 9 years ago
Half a trillion dollars is spent every year in advertising to those poor people to buy things. Trillions of dollars were spent on chasing jihadis around the desert for 16 years. There is enough money floating around currently spent on nonsense to achieve both yours and Musk's goals.

And if you do not see the potential for positive externalities created here on Earth by arguably the most ambitious project mankind has ever endeavored to undertake, your aperture on the world is quite narrow.

Comment · 9 years ago
Explorers will recognize the harshness of the universe as a forcing function for bettering ourselves and our species, not a null terminator to sit on Earth and outsource our futures to AI.
Comment · 9 years ago
I have no LEO experience but I'd imagine increased mobility, decreased chances of rounds exiting the target and hitting an innocent bystander, and cost are the primary reasons.

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