MrMorden

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by MrMorden 7y ago
If it's a good thing to ban retail from opening on Sunday, it's also a good thing to do the same to restaurants, transit, and everything excepting emergency services. The UK only restricts retail over 280 m^2, and only in England
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by MrMorden 7y ago
The US needs to just file the serial numbers off of Australia's relevant law. https://www.accc.gov.au/publications/advertising-selling/adv...
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Unless DEA hasn't bothered to update their website, they still require prescriptions for scheduled drugs to be on paper or via fax. If they actually cared about security (which they don't; nobody in the US government does with the
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by MrMorden 7y ago
The timesheets have to be digitally signed, printed out, and faxed. Because sanity is totally optional.
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TPP instantly lost the bulk of the intellectual property chapter and a good amount of ISDS-related commitments when the US withdrew. Is there anything in the CPTPP signed version that's worse than the version the US wanted?
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by MrMorden 7y ago
The US withdrawing from TPP directly resulted in a vastly-improved treaty. The problem is that the US didn't sign up to the new version.
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Non-zero amount of work, negative benefit. Even wholly illegitimate states, such as Kazakhstan's, investigate legitimate crimes from time to time, and such an attempt would zero out any chance that government would otherwise have of ex
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A company is MITMing their own hardware and intercepting their own traffic. A government or ISP isn't.
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Fastmail.
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by MrMorden 7y ago
When is Google going to require monthly security patch delivery?
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Docker pulls three layers at a time, not all of them.
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That's not from _The Water Knife_; it's in an earlier Bacigalupi short story, "The Tamarisk Hunter".
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Whatever country's airspace you're in and whatever country the plane is registered in. (Probably an oversimplification, but IANAL and I definitely ANYL.)
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by MrMorden 7y ago
Of course Rust is international. Windows is international; Linux is international; VMS might possibly not be international. You'd think DoD would be buying Talos systems as fast as Raptor could spit them out, given all the talk about w
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by MrMorden 7y ago
No; local is just character names. Ship classes are visible on D-scan (except cloaked or combat recon) or combat probes.
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by MrMorden 7y ago
Docker on FreeBSD works just like on MacOS; you'd use Docker Machine to run the containers on a Linux VM. containerd is intended to be multiplatform from the start, so hopefully the FreeBSD support will come.
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by MrMorden 7y ago
Upvoting for the cat picture.
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by MrMorden 7y ago
The last Apple laptop with a keyboard of similar quality to current ThinkPads was the G4 AlBook (2003).
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by MrMorden 7y ago
The city council needs to be replaced with people who aren't quite as crooked. Fortunately, the FBI is actively working on this problem. One down, seven to go.
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It would be difficult to measure racial discrimination without the law defining race. And since the US federal and state governments stacked the deck against non-whites for more than a century, we can't just declare that we're col
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An extra chip on a bare board would stand out quite a bit.
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Compliance is a tool. It's used to enable security iff the C-suite want to use it that way; otherwise, it's just another meaningless metric.
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Compliance with NIST SP 800-53 is mandatory per statute and DHS policy. That system has an identified ISSO, ISSM, ISSPM, DAO, and AO who are responsible for authority to operate being given. If the paperwork is in place, a government employ
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by MrMorden 7y ago
Given that the contractor violated the data handling rules in their contract, the only possible remedy is revocation of their facility security clearance, followed immediately by revocation of the personnel security clearances of everyone w
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Just because you're paranoid, it doesn't mean they're not out to get you.
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The problem with the Passport was that it didn't have the Google store. 95% of developers couldn't be bothered to submit their applications to Amazon.
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In the US governments are only interested in photo enforcement when it's profitable. When laws permit cameras but prevent them from being a revenue source, the cameras go away every time.
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Any private company with sufficiently large compounds has its own fire department(s). To pick a few random examples, Boeing, FedEx, Lockheed Martin, ExxonMobil, Electric Boat, Pratt & Whitney all have at least one.
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by MrMorden 7y ago
It's not so much ads being annoying as ads completely blocking the content. A lot of sites are completely unusable on a phone; a malicious ad redirects the browser to a scam almost immediately. That's how looking at a link from th
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Healthy Holly is packing her bags for a long vacation at FCI Danbury.

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