WildUtah

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by WildUtah 10y ago
Phishing and social engineering attacks are close to conventional fraud and should be prosecuted. But nothing that goes over the wire should be interpreted by prosecutors and judges as a criminal act. It's simply far too arbitrary what
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by WildUtah 10y ago
Tokyo's built-up area has population density near 150 (in persons/hectare, the SI unit of population density). It's nearly the same in the central wards and in the outer suburbs. Tokyo achieves that density with almost no one
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by WildUtah 10y ago
"with the stipulation that the buyer must reside out of the country." If we could prevent them from getting a visa to come at all, we could do the same thing and we wouldn't even have to build the building. Just allocate a fe
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by WildUtah 10y ago
I can see the problems in that picture. +street five times too wide +snout houses with huge garages and driveways but few yards and porches +low rise housing with one floor devoted to parking in a high demand area +not nearly enough trees +
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by WildUtah 10y ago
"The world needs a non-US based alternate crawler but no one is offering it." How about a US-based alternative that doesn't enforce UK, Pakistani, EU, and various other censorship lists that foreign countries promulgate?
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by WildUtah 10y ago
Showshoeing is the road bike climb of the winter months. You just have to get them to stop plowing the roads.
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by WildUtah 10y ago
It gets pretty hot in the springtime, though. The low summer temperatures are because the monsoon pours up from the ocean and peters out over El Águila's 4000 m peak (14000 ft) into light rain showers every day in the early afternoon i
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by WildUtah 10y ago
They say that Cortés returned to the Spanish Court to report to the King on his conquest of México. King Carlos V asked him to describe the lay of this new land adjoined to his kingdom. Cortés asked for a piece of paper (still an expensive
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by WildUtah 10y ago
Uncontrolled market hunting is dangerous to birds, but the biggest problem is habitat loss. Louisiana used to produce more food calories in wild birds hunted for human consumption than all the farms that were denuded for commercial growth p
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by WildUtah 10y ago
you're offered $500k a year to work on some cutting edge secret technology, something that improves the relevance of web search results by 50%. The company would be crazy to not have a noncompete. That must explain why there have nev
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by WildUtah 10y ago
"Porque no los dos?" ¿Por qué no los dos?
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by WildUtah 10y ago
"On that train all graphite and glitter Undersea by rail Ninety minutes from New York to Paris" http://genius.com/Donald-fagen-igy-lyrics
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by WildUtah 10y ago
The USA is an extremely expensive place to build infrastructure. [0] Building subways and high speed rail costs about ten times as much as it does in first world countries with the best constructions practices, particularly Spain and Korea.
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by WildUtah 10y ago
Helium can be easily retrieved from the atmosphere by fractional distillation. It leaks up into the atmosphere from the radioactive core of the Earth and forms naturally from solar radiation in the upper atmosphere, keeping atmospheric conc
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by WildUtah 10y ago
Why would you want to keep the financial services jobs? The finance sector ruins whatever country it's located in and corrupts the local politics. The best result for England of a generally deplorable Brexit would be the complete exile
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by WildUtah 10y ago
Public health bureaucrats are trying to eliminate birth control pills and making them available over the counter won't help that goal. That's science.
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by WildUtah 10y ago
1. China isn't and hasn't been third world by definition. It's second world. 2. Lots of E Asian countries with similar workforces developed without stealing IP. The strong arm tactics against foreigners are a way for the Chin
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by WildUtah 10y ago
With design patents, you don't have to specify transitions or curve radii. It's enough to draw that the corners are curved. There is no examination of the content of design patents and lack of specificity is generally not consider
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by WildUtah 10y ago
That's how design patents work in the USA, also. If you can get secret designs from a competitor and patent them first, you can then wait for the product to become popular and sue. And design patents are not considered to require exami
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by WildUtah 10y ago
Patent examiners don't have discretion. The special patent court (CAFC) is filled with patent lawyers that decide cases based on their own personal interest in a more expansive patent system. Except where the Supreme Court reviews thei
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by WildUtah 10y ago
Bizarre. And the most bizarre thing is that it works.
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by WildUtah 10y ago
I'm confused. The article implies that 'westbound' ships are headed the opposite direction of ships headed for New York. But ships traverse the Panama Canal from east to west on the way from Asia to New York. Is there a conve
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by WildUtah 10y ago
Why use a Word document? I put all my security passwords—especially the ones that won't autoflll or that make me change them often—into a Google Docs spreadsheet online. That way I can get to my passwords from anywhere.
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by WildUtah 10y ago
Yes. PCI is a silly substitute for actual security. But the alternative is that many banks and their partners will run with no security because bank executives as a class are firmly opposed to sharing authority with competent IT security pe
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US airlines are doing fine now that fuel is almost free. We'll see what happens when oil prices rise again.
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by WildUtah 10y ago
Option, Escape, Meta, Alt, Control, Shift: ŒMACS
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by WildUtah 10y ago
I used to walk through security barely slowing down and get on my flight without ever showing ID to anyone or checking in anywhere. And all the seats had actual knee room. I miss that feeling of freedom I used to get from air travel.
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by WildUtah 10y ago
Skip the forums. 1. Flightaware 2. Seatguru 3... 4. Comfortable flying (Step 3 is becoming a millionaire that flies business class.)
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by WildUtah 10y ago
Try pricing tickets regularly between Latin America and Asia. My peer groups buys a lot of such tickets and the AeroMexico tickets that fly with a change of planes in MEX and go on to PVG and NRT with no USA transfer cost about US$500 more
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The iPhone 6 Plus is selling huge volumes with a bigger battery and a heavier phone for $100 more.

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