MertsA

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by MertsA 10y ago
AFAIK, they make this very clear if you ever try to use the mobile content that you're giving them access to all of your data. I think there's a sufficient amount of big scary warnings and from the way SpiderOak is designed it mak
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by MertsA 10y ago
What are your objections to Chrome? Chromium seems like a reasonable project and everything that's not in Chromium seems to be pretty well Google specific and probably shouldn't be in Chromium IMHO.
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by MertsA 10y ago
You don't want sparks near the terminals of a bad battery, it can cause a small explosion that showers you in battery acid. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead%E2%80%93acid_battery#Risk...
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by MertsA 10y ago
The order in which you connect the terminals has nothing to do with preventing electrical damage. The reason why you're supposed to connect jumper cables in a particular order is for safety. When you connect just the positive, it doesn
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by MertsA 10y ago
There's the same amount of sparks but now instead of the sparks being on a grounded part of the engine away from the battery the sparking occurs right at the terminals. The problem with bad batteries is that it might not just be dead,
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by MertsA 10y ago
More importantly there's just one base charge for the apartment complex instead of each unit getting a separate base charge.
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by MertsA 10y ago
As an added bonus the heat coming out of the hot water heater might be inside the home where it has to be removed via AC meaning that not only is that heat being wasted instead of providing hot water, it's also increasing your AC usage
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by MertsA 10y ago
The solution is don't do VoIP on WiFi. You mentioned the 3 ethernet VoIP phones, do those have issues? Also, unless you're running third party firmware on your Asus router, you're going to start dropping VoIP packets whenever
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by MertsA 10y ago
>Current in an electric motor goes from 0-100% ~10k times per second (PWM) That's just the voltage across the terminals. The reason why this works is precisely because current doesn't go from 0-100% with the voltage. PWM is rel
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by MertsA 10y ago
So I can see the rationale for Barring CNN, or more specifically, Jim Acosta from attending Press briefings after his disruption back in January but as for barring the rest, is this really as corrupt as it sounds? Only allow in press who ar
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by MertsA 10y ago
The board isn't the interesting bit, the board just shows that Otto was using Waymo's design. This also isn't what they're suing over, this was just the tip off they needed to figure out that the ex-employee stole data o
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by MertsA 10y ago
>Btw that's 1 very sharp eyed engineer, whoever that is... It sounds like this was entirely accidental on the supplier's part.
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by MertsA 10y ago
>Presumably if Uber wins, it'd have a solid case against the supplier. Can they really claim that the supplier damaged them by leaking trade secrets if the trade secrets aren't theirs?
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by MertsA 10y ago
>And anything like that can be broken Yes, of course it can be broken, it only takes 2^256 attempts in order to do so.
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by MertsA 10y ago
But that's really not the case here. Making secure computing elements like TPMs or HSMs, or Apple's Secure Enclave or the plethora of other devices out there is a solved problem. You can decap it and try to get that data out of it
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by MertsA 10y ago
>Hence why the shuttle pilots trained extremely rigorously. But even this was kind of a manufactured necessity. Landing was deliberately not done with computer control. Buran was able to autoland back in the 80s and everything else on th
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by MertsA 10y ago
Yeah but a toll doesn't accurately reflect the amount of damage done to a road. A light econobox will do just about no damage to a road whereas a huge F350 with a curb weight of over 3 tons is going to do a great deal more damage even
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by MertsA 10y ago
Even without refreshing the cells they actually last quite a lot longer than you would expect. This is an old research paper on the topic but unfortunately, it looks like all of the images and videos are broken which is a shame because it g
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by MertsA 10y ago
>The person is required to unlock the door and let the police in because the police have a warrant. Is this true? The person is required to not do anything to hinder police but is the subject of a warrant ordered to assist them with the
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by MertsA 10y ago
So if I put a dial interface on my computer I can't be compelled to give up my "combination"?
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by MertsA 10y ago
The other eight unanimously agreed with him, they disagreed that the particular case was analogous to a combination, the other justices were of the opinion that it was really a "key".
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by MertsA 10y ago
>until a human queries the database and reads from the collected interceptions. Didn't it go further than this? Just searching the data for some signal wasn't a "search" because a machine did it, it was only a "s
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by MertsA 10y ago
>Alice pretends that Bob exists, but actually he does not, but police cannot prove that. What then? Well it's pretty obvious what happens then. The police claim Alice is lying and hold her in contempt indefinitely. The man from the
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by MertsA 10y ago
One thing that's kind of selfish but could be seen as a con is that the xfinity wifi takes up some of the spectrum. That's kind of a cop out though, it's not your spectrum in the first place, even in your own property. What&#
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by MertsA 10y ago
>It can be brought down even faster with hyperbaric oxygen therapy. What's the limit on that? The link you posted says 2.5 atm of pure oxygen but how does that not cause oxygen toxicity?
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by MertsA 10y ago
Jesus, I thought this was satire before I watched the video.
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by MertsA 10y ago
This exploit isn't in PID 1 and neither are all of the other things people claim are in PID1. PID1 in systemd doesn't contain much more than it needs to, it handles parsing unit files which could arguably be split out but that sti
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by MertsA 10y ago
>The performance overhead of the script-heavy init system that preceded it is in fact one of the core design points of systemd. No this really isn't a primary design goal in systemd at all. In fact, Lennart Poettering even lists tha
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by MertsA 10y ago
To add to this, Apple also doesn't bother to make it clear to users that there are limitations to backing up their photos using iCloud. You can get pictures out of Photo Stream whenever but that's only the last 1000 photos or 30 d
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by MertsA 10y ago
To be fair, that doesn't necessarily mean that the US is statistically racist, whatever that means. Societal racism in the past, immigration, etc can lead to a situation where a particular race will still be behind generations later in

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