Pick-A-Hill2019

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by Pick-A-Hill2019 5y ago
Re ham radios on vacation - The Geek in me says it's because any new (to you/me) areas have different propagation properties. That and the 'fun' of trying to run portable equipment by tweaking it is like moths to a candl
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by Pick-A-Hill2019 5y ago
I have no wish to start a flame-war here but I would politely disagree with your point of view. Even non-techie users are taught not to reuse credentials. Sure, they still do buuuttt...as an Admin for a 300+ client CMS system ... to not kno
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by Pick-A-Hill2019 5y ago
Holy mac-shit-snacks! "..got access to the dashboard as a Super Admin in less than 1 minute. The password of this guy was the same as his username." AND credential reuse. Ouch. Ding, Ding, Ding! I think we have a winner for the
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by Pick-A-Hill2019 5y ago
How do you propose HN's anti-spam filters and Mod(s) check submissions? While I take your implied point about inclusiveness how many different languages do you expect the spam filters and Mods to be fluent in? One? Two? More? That open
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by Pick-A-Hill2019 5y ago
Free for 14 days /s Why not try re-submitting your post/project as "Archive your website for 14 days - free of charge.” Also, only 10x sites and each site is limited to 10x pages that would probably disappear the moment the
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by Pick-A-Hill2019 5y ago
Compete on Quality, not on price. Competing on price is a race to the bottom, competing on quality is a race to the top.
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by Pick-A-Hill2019 5y ago
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by Pick-A-Hill2019 5y ago
The Set-Up Fees are eye-watering. The monthly fee I can understand (but also feel there is a bit of mark-up on it to nudge customers towards IPv6). I guess since it's their service, they have an absolute right to charge what they like
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by Pick-A-Hill2019 5y ago
"We get the governement we deserve" How often have politicians of all countries said and promised to enact or revoke certain policies during their election campaign and then developed amnesia, stalled until outrage dies down or si
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by Pick-A-Hill2019 5y ago
Gosh, I played a few of these games as a kid. That lead to the thought - Huh, the things I played with as a kid are now museum exhibits. SMH and mutters something about lawns. Never been to the place but looks like one of those cool places
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by Pick-A-Hill2019 5y ago
As far as I can understand it (and here the authors clearly state that a lot of this is hypothetically possible, darn near impossible in reality to pull off <<Note: Not Impossible to do>> So - in a theoretical situation you are
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by Pick-A-Hill2019 5y ago
You are absolutely right. If I ran un-encrypted file sharing or torrented something that matched a hash somewhere in some system, yes, absolutely my connection would be shut-off. While I could debate the rights and wrongs of that I take the
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by Pick-A-Hill2019 5y ago
That is a very valid point and I'm sorry you are seeing downvotes on your comment (so have an upvote from me). The "My Server, My Rules" point of view is absolutely 100% valid ( and also why I commented about asymmetrical ftt
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by Pick-A-Hill2019 5y ago
Hardware (Originator) timestamped for ordering on the receivers end at the encrypted package unwrap point plus the SMS solution of "delete/discard any unsent/undeliverable messages after x days?" Does that solve both iss
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by Pick-A-Hill2019 5y ago
Ahh Hell No! I mean - Who gets to define 'misleading and/or confusing'? Google? A court case? If they (Google) want to impose restrictions such as "Do not distribute content that deceives, misleads, or confuses users&quo
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by Pick-A-Hill2019 5y ago
Arm-Chair Quaterbacker response - "In particular, Telegram encrypts acknowledgement messages, i.e. messages that encode that a previous message was indeed received, but the way it handles the re-sending of unacknowledged messages leaks
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by Pick-A-Hill2019 5y ago
One of the other things to consider* is that the details of person X that is looking to buy item Y are a snaphot at the time that information was brought/sold. When person X buys item Y from company Z, company Z is unlikely to broadcas
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Thousands of galaxies classified in a blink of an eye(icrar.org)
1 points by Pick-A-Hill2019 5y ago|0 comments
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The USCG Wants Your Ideas on How to Keep Survivors Afloat(maritime-executive.com)
1 points by Pick-A-Hill2019 5y ago|0 comments
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by Pick-A-Hill2019 5y ago
Link to research paper "Approximate Bayesian Computation of radiocarbon and paleoenvironmental record shows population resilience on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) " https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-24252-
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Resilience, not collapse: What the Easter Island myth gets wrong(eurekalert.org)
1 points by Pick-A-Hill2019 5y ago|1 comments
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Accused Pirate Asks Court to Freeze Assets of ‘Copyright Troll’ Malibu Media(torrentfreak.com)
2 points by Pick-A-Hill2019 5y ago|0 comments
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by Pick-A-Hill2019 5y ago
Wow - that is just sad to see from Mozilla (sighs, where did all the good guys go?) Excerpt from their KB Navigator.sendBeacon() .... It’s intended to be used for sending analytics data to a web server, and avoids some of the problems with
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by Pick-A-Hill2019 5y ago
"They said they contacted the Australian Federal Police (AFP) in case the phone or the person who sold it was of interest to them" Seems enough reason to me to not want your name plastered all over the internet.
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by Pick-A-Hill2019 5y ago
I'm curious about the product you sell. Do you make it clear to your customers that you are selling a product that uses a cheap knock-off board? I would hope the answer to that is 'yes' so I'm curious about what their re
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Location of U.S. Navy Ship Spoofed to Crimea(rntfnd.org)
3 points by Pick-A-Hill2019 5y ago|0 comments
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by Pick-A-Hill2019 5y ago
Alternate link for those hitting NPR's Cookie Wall https://text.npr.org/1012317032 (for some reason the usual trick of substituting the www with text didn't work and kept on redirecting to their cookie pop-up)
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by Pick-A-Hill2019 5y ago
I use the name of the company that offers the 'free' wi-fi - eg nothanks@mcdonalds.com or chairman@walmart.com etc. That way they get the bounce back on their own mail servers and they also rarely refuse to accept it as a valid ad
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by Pick-A-Hill2019 5y ago
I took a look at that link (Robbins v. Lower Merion School District) and - Wow, remotely activating students webcams in their own bedrooms is ... just ... SMH. I hope I am wrong but as far as I can tell, no-one went to jail for it?? Dayamn!
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by Pick-A-Hill2019 5y ago
56784 (calls) / 40 (days) = ~1422, round down to 1400 for 'easy math' 1400 / 24 (hours per day) = ~58 per hour (round up to 60) 60 / 60 (seconds) = 1 per minute so nope, he was hammering at it 24/7 (unless my m

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