NateyJay

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by NateyJay 10y ago
The ESP8266 uses an Xtensa core, not ARM.
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by NateyJay 10y ago
I believe the points shown are upvotes minus downvotes, but the ratio of upvotes to downvotes probably affects the ranking of a story too.
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by NateyJay 10y ago
Very true! I'm only questioning the case where the blocking is limited to people inside.
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by NateyJay 10y ago
But surely two parties can agree to send deauth frames between each other, for testing, development, etc. What makes this materially different?
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by NateyJay 10y ago
The FCC says don't maliciously interfere with other people's transmissions, yes. But if someone agrees to be sent deauth frames by the hotel, it's not interference anymore, it's the agreed and expected behaviour.
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by NateyJay 10y ago
But if the convention-goers "agree" to receive deauth frames as a condition of entry, it's an expected transmission desired by the recipient, so not interference. Of course, if they block people outside the building, there&#x
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by NateyJay 10y ago
It is if you use it to maliciously interfere with someone else's network.
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by NateyJay 10y ago
I'm glad the FCC is taking this stance, but I'm curious why the hotel can't make "you consent to receive wifi deauth frames" a condition of entry. They let corporations put "you will not sue us" in EULAs,
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by NateyJay 10y ago
I wonder why they didn't just fall back to audible sound. WiFi is okay, but having to manually connect to the button's access point is fiddly, and disconnects you from the real network. Another solution is Electric Imp's Bli
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by NateyJay 10y ago
The link for deciding whether to be nasty or nice when enforcing open source licences is fascinating: https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/ksummit-discuss/... Linus talks about the loss of trust, community,
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by NateyJay 10y ago
It's not clear cut. That stuff in the seam could be finger gunk and dust. The 'discoloration' looks like a natural result of the curved bezel and uneven light.
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by NateyJay 10y ago
That seems super low
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by NateyJay 10y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12939856
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by NateyJay 10y ago
Flammable refrigerants are nothing new, now that we can't use the old ozone-depleting kind. My new fridge uses R-290, AKA propane.
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by NateyJay 10y ago
The article doesn't say why open source is more important for library staff to know about than the thousands of other subjects libraries have books on.
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by NateyJay 10y ago
I realize how much more I have to learn in reading bugfix blog posts like these.
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by NateyJay 10y ago
By just stretching, I also think it's a Mobius strip: http://i.imgur.com/sshZhxs.png The only way to get the arrows to connect right is if three of the square's corners are the same point.
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by NateyJay 10y ago
Interesting cases. Stories of thieves crawling through hidden passages in ancient buildings are always exciting. But the writing in the last couple paragraphs was way too flowery for me.
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by NateyJay 10y ago
Some clauses and phrases are required to have extra attention called to them to be binding, which is why you see some paragraphs bolded, or all capitals.
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by NateyJay 10y ago
Not a law, but a saying I've heard that captures the feeling. "What Intel giveth, Microsoft taketh away."