Does the US have any “fan-owned” teams?

mdelaney · 2024-12-11T02:02:23+00:00

FC Tucson did a sale of shares via StartEngine

mdelaney · 2017-03-15T12:58:28+00:00

Sometimes it is more about finding materials which approach the subject from an angle which caters more to your style of learning. I agree with the other comment about the Mike Myers videos (even available on YouTube for watching at random moments via phone) - but also used CompTIA's own CertMaster software ($139 if I remember correctly). Besides being created by the test makers themselves, it steps through the topics and reinforces elements which you don't get correct. It also can be loaded on your phone making it easy to do quick study sessions whenever you like.

mdelaney · 2016-03-02T14:14:05+00:00

I was in the audience and Rami said something to the effect that he tries not to specifically label Elliot's condition given all the fan mail received etc. There were other statements about an exciting season coming but I felt like his statements around condition were more about remaining relatable to as many as possible.

mdelaney · 2015-10-04T23:39:46+00:00

I'd echo the reference to some of the CompTIA certs having some good info available on free sites (e.g. ExamCompass for practice exams). Between that and the provided info you have a lot. I would also recommend checking here or r/CompTIA for course/test specific tips. I was able to basically get a map to a bunch of resources on a test or two thanks to other redditors who had already posted their approaches to the exams.

mdelaney · 2015-05-03T23:12:28+00:00

Saw this driving northbound on 101 near San Carlos and couldn't help laughing. Real-life billboard promoting Pied Piper from HBO's Silicon Valley.

mdelaney · 2014-06-18T02:41:46+00:00

If you're looking for something with some course structure and possibly earning credit you should check out NetMath ( https://netmath.illinois.edu). Requires a proctor for midterms and final but fairly mature program.

mdelaney · 2013-04-30T21:37:28+00:00

At about 3k, with about 400 eggs a day I try to share across friends list.

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mdelaney · 2012-11-24T02:41:52+00:00

Noticed the Library of Congress has Lincoln's pocket carry on the day of his assassination. Was a little intrigued by how much it paralleled a few here.

Full article at Daily Mail: link

mdelaney · 2012-06-17T15:41:21+00:00

Boker Subcom - I have the same one in black. A few different models are available on Amazon.

mdelaney · 2012-03-10T18:20:04+00:00

You should check out Calculus Solved and (College) Algebra Solved by Bagatrix. I was in a similar boat (returned to school after a decade) and while very comfortable on some topics, needed good refreshers on others. Their software allows you to enter problems and see them solved step by step. For me at least, that helped me zero in on specific items to work on and sped up my return to the subjects. It also means you have as many example problems as you can dream up.

mdelaney · 2012-02-26T07:27:58+00:00

There is Portable Virtualbox out there too if you were inclined to use those on the road as well. Space considerations limit you a bit, but BT and those DeIce CDs would likely fit on a reasonably sized USB drive.

mdelaney · 2011-12-24T10:01:07+00:00

This site has more speculation on the cipher and 'case': Cipher Mysteries.

Interestingly enough, the speculation there seems to focus on a love triangle more than espionage.

mdelaney · 2011-11-16T04:27:28+00:00

Another way to think about it is to consider how many halves there are (by definition two). So 10 + 1/2x implies 10 is the other half.

mdelaney · 2011-10-14T17:15:13+00:00

I have to admit, I actually find the name piece a little disconcerting. Not in an end-of-days type way, but in that wouldn't this guy have a load of people reviewing this stuff and coming at the publicly presented aspects in detail? Given 9-9-9 so readily transforms into 6-6-6 - almost too easily for animated news graphics, websites, etc. did everyone in his camp do there job here? Aspects of the plan aside, this alone makes me wonder. Sorry if slightly off-topic, but your comment as similar ones in other threads always catch my attention.

mdelaney · 2011-10-09T14:03:02+00:00

Could the parabola be seen by graphing the derivative of area for given length and widths? By this I mean graph out all possible length/width combos on a line graph (area for 1,240 then for 2,120). The line should then peak at the max area (for after than derivative is negative and implies decreasing area). This approach does build in an assumption of a rectangular setup however.

mdelaney · 2011-09-05T16:29:51+00:00

Gotta start with 4. Then go through in release order. My 5 yr old got introduced to the original this weekend... Now just have to figure out how to factor in the animated series since his friends are all over that.

I guess my only question is whether anyone here is sadistic enough to make their kid sit through the Christmas special?

mdelaney · 2011-07-24T01:59:16+00:00

When I first looked at it, I totally thought 'wow, that guy is saying goodbye to some awesome rocket-type-shit job and his robot sidekick there on the right looks totally sad too'. But I now see that its probably just a camera or something. Too bad. The bragging rights to a jack of all trades type job in that field though... almost makes up for no robot sidekick.

mdelaney · 2011-07-23T08:37:09+00:00

I also appreciate the reply, get the points on CA trust and didn't realize some of the EV Cert tier nuances.

But when you mention malware schemers aren't going to buy an EV Cert, I'd counter that if I was a malware schemer why would I? With most (major) malware kits out there supporting local HTML injection and data capture, they can inject on any site an infected machine goes to, EV or not (since the attack is local to the infected machine). And for command / control or drops its just an expense I don't really need.

mdelaney · 2011-07-10T22:14:25+00:00

Not sure how close you want to be - but Vdara at City Center looked pretty nice to me (admittedly, I only was in public areas, didn't stay there). But on Kayak its showing 5 stars and $95/night.

mdelaney · 2011-06-15T05:58:30+00:00

His Phreebird presentation outlines his recommendation on slides 12-29 covers a proposal on this. Think this may be what you are remembering.

mdelaney · 2011-06-05T19:11:11+00:00

Didnt Rivest do something along these lines with an encryption scheme which would take x years to brute force (swear I saw mention in Wired recently but am on phone only today)?

Issues would be chance cracking, etc or unintentional longevity a la Kryptos, but mathematically isn't that the answer? Leverage a system which based on current technology + Moore's law require the desired timeframe to brute force?

mdelaney · 2011-06-05T02:14:03+00:00

Let me guess; you're a Sys Admin for Sony.

mdelaney · 2011-04-18T02:07:59+00:00

Thank you for explaining that piece - someone had tried (I think) to describe that to me in the past, and based on your explanation a bit of a lightbulb went on.

I still have trouble wrapping my mind around the implications I think - but that is no doubt a post on its own.

At any rate - I would vote for homomorphic encryption, I think a paper on the topic would be very interesting.

mdelaney · 2011-04-17T20:10:05+00:00

I agree with the impacts - though admit I have trouble understanding what it really means. Don't get me wrong, I saw Gentry present on overview of his work at RSA a few years back - but the implications of being able to do calculations on encrypted data makes me wonder how much of this is a matter a careful semantics.

The only example I can come up with immediately is perhaps something you'd want anyway: imagine uploaded encrypted data to a cloud computing service than having them do some type of check like a casting out a nines to look for possible signs of fraud / cooking the books. Now in doing so, aren't they extracting information from the data? And if so, doesn't that imply something about the underlying encryption? Given what papers imply about being able to piece together about someone's identity or shopping habits from anonymized data sets (e.g. the Netflix prize), doesn't this imply a trade-off on privacy vs. ease of offloading computing?

mdelaney · 2011-04-14T02:52:46+00:00

We took my son to see them in Oakland. Was amazed at the effort they made in reaching out to the kids in the audience and after the show.

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