TheCapn

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by TheCapn 10y ago
Do you ever find yourself interacting with a carpenter and asking him why he doesn't build additions to his house, or his friend's homes in his free time? What about an accountant? Ever quiz them or deride them for not going out o
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by TheCapn 10y ago
Personally? PC gets locked in a box with some sort of venting. Keyboard / Mouse are plugged in by IT and no one unauthorized has physical access to the PC itself. If they're serious enough about finding 0 days and exploits to th
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by TheCapn 10y ago
Friend of my girlfriend used to own a Chinese restaurant in Canada and said that he had to have alternative recipes for the locals because they didn't like the traditional flavors. It's a shame though, I've had his food cooke
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by TheCapn 10y ago
I know I come to Hacker News specifically to hear software junkies make bad analogies about health. I also go to my local paper's opinion column for the best tech news.
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First guess is a grain dryer
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My biggest gripe is when I explicitly search for a product instead of using their URL and the first ad is the same as the first result. If I go to Google and type in "TeamViewer" the first ad is for TeamViewer, the first result is
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by TheCapn 11y ago
Agreed! I've never been an iOS user but I certainly believe that they still drive a lot of the market demand. Google/Android will be releasing some 'small' phones to compete which I've waited years for. I went from
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by TheCapn 11y ago
Anecdotal but, I think for someone who truly enjoys driving and looks for the little things there's enough to notice. I drove a '99 VW until it got wrecked. I picked up a '99 Acura afterwards and immediately could feel the di
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by TheCapn 11y ago
I guess I could plug a silly little script I wrote for GreaseMonkey which runs on facebook.com. I hated looking at the "Trending" and "Recommended Pages" sidebar so I axed them out in favor of random imgur images of your
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by TheCapn 11y ago
I'm the same as you. When they started wanting (virtually) total control of my phone I axed the app and made a bookmark on my browser. It works amazingly well, arguably better than the app for my needs since I'm mostly a consumer,
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by TheCapn 11y ago
I imagine we'll see more of it as time goes on. Management without a technical background depend on the expertise of their workers to get things right. They can only manage work so far but if there's bugs they can't understan
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by TheCapn 11y ago
Anecdotal story: This summer I was out at a Dam spillway installing some of my systems and got talking with the operator out there. He was commenting about the engineering of the facility and how impressive it was for the age it was built (
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by TheCapn 11y ago
Any good sources you'd use to get off the ground running with file format reverse engineering? I have a couple small projects on the backburner at work that require me to reverse engineer file formats. I've been able to decode a f
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by TheCapn 11y ago
Yeah, on multiple occasions I use Google to find the website of a piece of software only for the top ad result to be a link to the website I wanted anyway.
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Build them out as dummy media boxes and sell them for a markup. I've had people knocking my door down after they saw my Kodi setup but I simply pointed them to the how-to guides and told them to learn for themselves. I'm sure ther
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by TheCapn 11y ago
Generally speaking I haven't seen a whole lot of stress about the situation from the VW owner clubs I'm part of. The common mentality is that VW had to cheat the rules by a 3rd party in order to deliver the quality of vehicles the
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by TheCapn 11y ago
Did anyone ever believe PC gaming was dieing besides those who wrote hype headlines? CounterStrike/Starcraft have been dominant eSports for over a decade and that was when PC gaming was "strong". They gave headway to the MO
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by TheCapn 11y ago
Curling is typically different in that regard I think. Every team I've known personally to go to national or world tournaments were lifelong friends. They grew as a team and there were no "trades" to suit a roster.
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Article briefly addresses that. They talk about how air gapping is easy to breach with a compromised flash drive. But speaking from experience in the controls industry its the people who write the cheques. I don't work in systems like
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by TheCapn 11y ago
Well, seeing how one is titled the "Chief Engineer" I wouldn't be too surprised that he represents an entire department (or many) and is the last stop before board of directors.
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In the same vein is why I advocate for "Software Engineering" being brought into the realm of other engineers and having the status protected so people who call themselves engineers are held to the ethics and governing regulations
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Not necessarily. I'm not in the SEO or advertising game but intuition tells me that having the same person see an ad twice is less valuable than 2 people seeing the ad. Additionally, as a result "fake" accounts are likely to
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by TheCapn 11y ago
These topics bring the tin foil wearers out in droves. No, the government isn't cracking down on the intelligence of youth, it requires it to progress and grow. I don't recall any black SUVs outside my door when I built an alarm c
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by TheCapn 11y ago
I'm at a loss for what you're trying to say here. So you don't watch TV? Like, in any of the possible ways that a TV could be utilized? No Cable, No DVD/BluRay, No YouTube/Netflix hookup, no XBMC/Kodi/Plex
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Realistically the correct course of action is to call the non-emergency dispatch or call 911 and immediately inform them that this is not an emergency and to inform them the situation. "An officer has turned on his lights and siren on
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I'd agree. Last time I argued against the droves of "health" stories being posted and the half-baked opinions people rabble about within them I was told it was "relevant" because health affects all hackers. I respec
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Yep. The law isn't necessarily "logical" as one judge can interpret situations or deem "justice" differently from the next.
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by TheCapn 11y ago
I think you've got it right here and I hope this gets seen. US Border Patrol denied my entry to the US once because a coworker and I were coming over to oversee the installation of a number of electrical devices our company built/
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by TheCapn 11y ago
Apologies from straying from the topic at hand but "Fizzbuzzed"? That's a verb now? And its meaning is nothing to do with typical hiring process that FizzBuzz is popular for?
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I was going to reply indicating that criminal law has no Statute of Limitations but that seems to be a Canadian thing. In the US it has to be considered a "Heinous crime". I'm certain under modern light of what hacking has be

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