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by MertsA 8y ago
Tiny correction: Should be 10 bits not 32 bits.
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by MertsA 8y ago
No, they actually use 802.1x to authenticate the connection. 802.1x doesn't actually protect or authenticate any of the data though, it just ensures that there's a valid supplicant somewhere on the other end of a port before it fo
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by MertsA 8y ago
I really wish QUIC, WebRTC, etc would have standardized on SCTP over UDP for IPv4 and raw SCTP for IPv6. We don't need to reinvent the wheel, and we had (still have?) a bonafide opportunity to get out in front of the situation with IPv
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by MertsA 8y ago
Same here. Everyone was fleeing from BTC like rats from a ship. Luckily I managed to sell everything I had when it was close to $1000 and buy all the BTC I could when the price dropped to two hundred something.
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by MertsA 8y ago
>The coins could have been moved around for other reasons than to sell them. In general yes, but for those coins in particular no. All of the coins were swept into the trustee's wallet. At that point the trustee could not do anythin
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by MertsA 8y ago
In many ways you're already most of the way there. By and large the biggest issues with switching to Linux for the average user is the plethora of random applications that only support Windows or Mac. Most of that software is stuff tha
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by MertsA 8y ago
Ehhh... I like cryptocurrencies as much as the next guy but this feels like an attempt to shoehorn something into cryptocurrency "because blockchain". As far as I can see, ordering of messages is not protected at all without using
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by MertsA 8y ago
>the driver has literally under six seconds (according to Tesla) to avert a fatal accident. This is what gets me the most. Right after a tragedy Tesla is always quick to put out a victim blaming PR piece claiming that it's all the d
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by MertsA 8y ago
The line does get blurry at times. In the past I've been told to remove someone's account right away because they are being terminated and then afterwards been told "nevermind, we're firing them next week. Undo everythin
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by MertsA 8y ago
Yes but you have way less waste to dispose of. In America, the Uranium and Plutonium that makes up the vast majority of spent nuclear fuel is not separated out from the fission products, we just get rid of it all. IIRC reprocessing is actua
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by MertsA 8y ago
This is what I dislike about current US policy on nuclear waste, there are no plans to store nuclear waste in a form suitable for reprocessing later on. If nuclear waste is vitrified or buried way underground I fear that digging it up, crus
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by MertsA 8y ago
Let's be realistic here, in terms of surveillance and privacy we already have a national ID system for everyone who is an American citizen. People already use SSNs for an ID, your credit card transactions, bank records, and phone calls
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by MertsA 8y ago
>There are now breathalyzers that are near enough as accurate as blood tests But in the general case this is quite simply not possible. It might be very accurate in the controlled case of a subject who hasn't consumed anything in th
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by MertsA 8y ago
The Uranium tetrafluoride itself is basically insoluble in water. But the fuel isn't really the issue, Uranium is a toxic heavy metal but in terms of irradiating the environment outside of a reactor it's not very radioactive at al
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by MertsA 8y ago
>changing the heart beat rythm to indicate what the expected remaining battery life is. Wow, now that is an interesting user interface.
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by MertsA 8y ago
It's not powering the whole neighborhood that's the problem. With downed lines it very well might not put any significant load on the inverter yet still have a significant amount of downed distribution lines live. Normally the fir
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by MertsA 8y ago
I don't know why people downvoted this, it's entirely correct. Although I guess the larger concern than the radiation would be the heavy metal poisoning but in any case it's still fine, just treat it like you would any other
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by MertsA 8y ago
>Or perhaps it's just 500M according to their own made up definition of "collect"? This sounds like it's much closer to the truth. "It's not a collection until it comes up as a result in a search" would
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by MertsA 8y ago
Those IP addresses are just being assigned to their own networking equipment. Cox using the CGNAT network for that would be just as wrong as you using it. There's absolutely nothing wrong with Cox using private address space internally
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by MertsA 8y ago
That's vastly understating the amount of Uranium and Thorium we can access. Without a breeder reactor it might only be tens of thousands but with a breeder reactor the amount of material we could use goes up by several orders of magnit
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by MertsA 8y ago
To simplify the other more detailed response, It's just Uranium at that point. Even highly enriched Uranium isn't that radioactive by itself, it's once you start operating the reactor that it starts generating highly radioact
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by MertsA 9y ago
He requested an EV certificate for his legal business name. He didn't cheat anything here and both Comodo and GoDaddy concluded that he met all of the requirements to receive an EV certificate. When multiple different companies all con
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by MertsA 9y ago
And when you're dying on the sidewalk in front of the hospital, do you expect them to just let you die there and leave it to the county to dispose of the body? Like it or not it's unreasonable and inhumane to let capitalism condem
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by MertsA 9y ago
And the worst part about it is that it's incredibly hard to replace the keyboard on the MBP. For most other laptops it's just a screw or two, a few plastic clips, and a ribbon cable to replace it. They're also super cheap for
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by MertsA 9y ago
That's an understatement. Helium cooled below 2K loses literally all viscosity and will flow through porcelain like it's a sponge. Not only that, because there's literally zero viscosity, convection makes superfluid helium a
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by MertsA 9y ago
It definitely is with a tapered cable. The only question is if it could be done practically and if it would actually be worth the hassle. The self support length is for a cylinder of the material, with a cone there isn't a limit to the
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by MertsA 9y ago
Oddly enough yes Helium has a smaller atomic radius because the additional proton and electron complete that first electron shell and get pulled closer to the nucleus.
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by MertsA 9y ago
Yes, that was something that was mentioned before by Volvo. Uber disabled the AEB that came with the vehicle and according to Volvo it likely would have detected the pedestrian.
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by MertsA 9y ago
I already corrected that, but the point still stands that their press release is intentionally misleading and Tesla knows very well that detecting hand presence on the wheel has problems. Read the press release in full and tell me that it i
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by MertsA 9y ago
Yeah, the DC-X was neat and all but that's suborbital on a stubby cone shaped rocket. That's essentially what New Shepard accomplished and not really comparable to actually recovering the first stage on a real orbital launch. As f

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