CamperBob

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by CamperBob 15y ago
Why do no other COPPA-compliant account providers require anyone to fax or mail anything?
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by CamperBob 15y ago
Which other services like Yahoo seem to have no problem with.
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by CamperBob 15y ago
It may feel like the Googles and the Facebooks are self-sustaining juggernauts, but customer happiness and retention is exactly the incentive machinery you are missing. Except we're not their customers.
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by CamperBob 15y ago
Most likely patents. That's why there's no effective US-based competition for eBay, anyway.
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by CamperBob 15y ago
Which is fine except when the location is 20 miles across town.
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by CamperBob 15y ago
Idea: a site designed to build and maintain a trusted local network of people who are at home or work all day, and who will receive packages for you, for a small commission.
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by CamperBob 15y ago
If history repeats itself, then why not study newer, more relevant iterations?
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by CamperBob 15y ago
Seems all the 'drama' came from Zendesk's paid blogger. If you don't want the other team to score with the ball, don't hand them the ball.
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by CamperBob 15y ago
I guess I woke up on the wrong side of the rabbit hole. When I went to bed, Papua New Guinea was about nine thousand miles from Brussels.
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by CamperBob 15y ago
What's the connection between cannibals in New Guinea and European blood/marrow donors?
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by CamperBob 15y ago
Do you have a dog in this particular fight?
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by CamperBob 15y ago
What would you change about the representative form of government? At this point, I'd probably ditch it as unworkable, and replace it with a more meritocratic, less corruptible form. It's a test of how well the government works if the pe
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by CamperBob 15y ago
For many years, computers sucked at math. In many cases the job of a programmer was not to make the computer do complicated math, but to come up with clever ways to get out of doing complicated math. That's not really true anymore, now th
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by CamperBob 15y ago
Tests are performed when inflight connectivity is added to a plane -- and it has resulted in finding interference issues, such as WiFi blanking avionics screens ( http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/wi-fi-interference... ). The degr
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by CamperBob 15y ago
Technically, yes, there is a "radio" in your TI-84. The Z-80 is clocked by a crystal oscillator, which runs at a few MHz. Some of that energy will escape in the form of electromagnetic radiation. Sensitive instruments (including an ordin
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by CamperBob 15y ago
It makes good sense to minimise that risk. Not really. To the extent a risk exists, the only response that would make any sense whatsoever would be to redesign the fueling and/or avionics systems to make them compatible with common consu
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by CamperBob 15y ago
Svankmajer's Alice is indeed a thing of awesomeness. Utterly unforgettable. His other work (primarily shorts) is equally dark, weird, and worthwhile.
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by CamperBob 15y ago
Pretty funny, all right. The moment Digilent announced the Atlys, it was obvious that it was tailor-made for a MIM attack against HDCP. I'm surprised it took somebody this long.
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by CamperBob 15y ago
What Jobs needed to become successful was to drop out, start a company, get kicked out of said company, hit bottom, and wander around in India for awhile. None of that requires a degree. Woz also lacked any sort of degree when he worked fo
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by CamperBob 15y ago
But what's important is the behavior of the airflow at the point where it hits the surface and is forced to both compress and diverge. That's where the majority of the heat is presumably generated, right? Maybe that's where I'm misunderst
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by CamperBob 15y ago
What's the reason for keeping the footage out of the public's hands? Couldn't it be as simple as wanting to preserve some value for the fans who actually buy tickets? In any case, if this footage is so valuable, why can't somebody with a
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by CamperBob 15y ago
If you have heat from friction you expect the heat along the length of the ship. How in the world does that follow? Heat from friction will be generated in proportion to cos(angle) between the airflow and the surface at any given point,
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by CamperBob 15y ago
Is there really a difference between heat generated by friction and heat generated by gas compression, at the end of the day?
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by CamperBob 15y ago
I bought a fairly large (750 KV) VDG kit on eBay a couple of years ago just for the lulz, and I soon came to appreciate how unpredictable and unintuitive electrostatic phenomena can really be. Not only was the charge-transfer mechanism bet
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by CamperBob 15y ago
This sort of decision is exactly why an independent judiciary is needed. Copyright is not in any sense a "fundamental" human right. Freedom from prior restraint arguably is. Politicians will never recognize this fact because the copyright
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by CamperBob 15y ago
There may be ways to overcome the limitations of mesh networking, as outlined by many people here, but you will need to think outside the mesh, so to speak. It is probably best to think of the mesh as the "last mile" component rather than t
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by CamperBob 15y ago
It shouldn't scare you. They'll be using milliwatts of RF, nowhere near enough to heat your lenses.
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by CamperBob 15y ago
I'm not even sure what an "APU" is, frankly. Lots of undefined buzzwords in that article.
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by CamperBob 15y ago
Yeah, just like the generation that dropped acid at Woodstock is now running the DEA.
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by CamperBob 15y ago
The next world war would have made all of those minor skirmishes look like, well, minor skirmishes.

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