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by SpikedCola 11y ago
"In the Interests of Safety: The absurd rules that blight our lives and how we can change them" - Tracey Brown & Michael Hanlon http://www.amazon.com/In-Interests-Safety-absurd-blight/dp/0...
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by SpikedCola 11y ago
Found a useful script on SuperUser that removes KBs as well as hides them in the future. Just need to change the list slightly FOR %%X IN (3075249 3080149 3068708 2976978 3021917 3035583 2952664) DO ... http://superuser.
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by SpikedCola 11y ago
Have you ever used their product(s)? Given the way they used to slow PCs down to a halt, I didn't/wouldn't trust them to do a halfway-decent job.
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by SpikedCola 11y ago
Here in Ontario, a lot of stations I've seen offer "up to 10% ethanol" in regular (87 octane) gasoline, "up to 5% ethanol" in mid-grade, and "0% ethanol" in premium.
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by SpikedCola 12y ago
I grew up in Southern Ontario (born in 1990) so I can only speak to my experience in that province. In my experience, the problem is sheer distance between subscribers. You're too far away for DSL, and there are no cable lines. This le
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by SpikedCola 12y ago
It appears to have been renamed to "Why didn't you back me up?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9163309
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by SpikedCola 12y ago
Wikipedia calls this a "vacancy chain" > In a vacancy chain, a new resource unit that arrives into a population is taken by the first individual in line, who then leaves his/her old unit behind, this old unit is taken by a
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by SpikedCola 12y ago
While there are lots of apps to find nearby gas stations, I wish there was more information available on which stations have diesel. I literally have to street-view every gas station, or make lots of phone calls, in order to find a diesel
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by SpikedCola 12y ago
You only need to undergo FCC testing if the module you use is not already certified. You can buy "FCC-approved" modules that are "ready to sell". I ran into something similar with BT4.0 modules - had to convince the clie
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by SpikedCola 12y ago
Reminds me of the Read-Modify-Write procedure on a lot of PIC devices. Our teacher taught us to randomly place NOP instructions until it worked; we all thought he was crazy until we realized what he was working around. (The actual solutio
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by SpikedCola 12y ago
Yes - for me, I find it also applies to physical tasks. I find it helps get into things that require a lot of exertion, like a long bicycle ride or moving hundreds of heavy objects from one place to another. Instead of feeling "dead&qu
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by SpikedCola 12y ago
All the time. I find it helps me get started on problems I might otherwise have found too overwhelming or complex, and also helps me find solutions when I get stuck. Especially things like reverse engineering - sometimes I get lost in all t
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by SpikedCola 12y ago
In terms of being used for authentication, CRA and other online services usually require SIN + DOB + Postal Code, and then they mail you a 4-digit PIN to the address they have on file. Hilariously enough, if you call them, you can change th
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by SpikedCola 13y ago
I have friends that work at the UPS distribution center in Toronto, and this happens more often than you'd think. Usually with consumer electronics but also with new video games, etc. Shipments are often accidentally "damaged&quot
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by SpikedCola 13y ago
... Or you can just make an API call and find out for yourself: Available: https://edit.yahoo.com/reg_json?AccountID=mister_popular@&Pa... Unavailable: https://edit.yahoo.com/reg_json?AccountID=test@&amp
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by SpikedCola 13y ago
tl;dr "By holding down the single button, while powering the device, the Chromecast boots into USB boot mode. USB boot mode looks for a signed image at 0×1000 on the USB drive. When found, the image is passed to the internal crypto har
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by SpikedCola 13y ago
Are you sure you need a dev account? I haven't tried it (yet), but the page claims: "No jailbreak OR developer account required :)"
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by SpikedCola 13y ago
"The employers are very fussy. They are really only interested in a perfect match to their needs. They don't want the cost to develop talent internally." Exactly this. I ran into the exact same problem when I graduated from E
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by SpikedCola 13y ago
If only "hacking" was as easy as finding passwords within JavaScript. Got bored after level 6 or so, meh.
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by SpikedCola 13y ago
Subscription required :( EDIT A similar article appears to be almost the same, and is free on a number of news websites: http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/agreements...
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by SpikedCola 13y ago
As a farmer, I would replace "be too big a challenge" with "hurt their bottom line". It is surprisingly easy to find quality food if you're willing to pay a little more. It's just hard to undersell a "5lb
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by SpikedCola 13y ago
Chrome 27.0.1453.116 (for me) says: "Warning: Suspected phishing site! The website at blog.fin1te.net contains elements from sites which have been reported as “phishing” sites. Phishing sites trick users into disclosing personal or fin
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by SpikedCola 13y ago
If you search Google for "cache:[interesting url]", it will take you directly to their cache for the page, if it exists
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by SpikedCola 13y ago
Not down, but 403'd. Cached version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:aroundt...
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by SpikedCola 13y ago
I'm quite interested in this, as I have some old smartcard readers around from the days of Nagra/Nagra2. Care to share any more details?
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by SpikedCola 13y ago
Do real .ds_store files have this inside? https://github.com/emre/macster/blob/master/macster/__main__...
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by SpikedCola 13y ago
Is anyone even surprised by the actions of the U.S. Government anymore?
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by SpikedCola 13y ago
Man, those 90° traces are uuuu-gly! Still pretty darn cool though.
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by SpikedCola 13y ago
They're (almost) half that on eBay[0]. 0. http://www.ebay.com/itm/271196427487
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by SpikedCola 13y ago
A lot of large corporations are like this. It seems that the larger an organization gets, the worse their API docs get. For example, look at the QuickBooks API by Intuit, or FedEx's Web Services API.

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