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by bobdvb 12y ago
They are polymer but it doesn't say which polymer, if they are PLA then they are biodegradable and safe to burn but I think that making them from PLA might not make them so robust? They are probably made from some petrolium-based plast
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by bobdvb 12y ago
There is sometimes nothing more permanent than something needed temporarily.
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by bobdvb 12y ago
Gravity Light sell their products, I bought one for my in-laws: http://gravitylight.org/
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by bobdvb 12y ago
I used to work in the business of supplying satellite links like this in Europe and the Middle East, so not the same as the USA. It is a good alternative if you have no practical alternative such as a landline but I would only call it a bas
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by bobdvb 12y ago
http://developer.mbed.org/cookbook/OBDII-Can-Bus
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by bobdvb 12y ago
Some of the comments on the article claim that this is different because it allows write access. But some quick research tells me that some vehicles do allow write via CAN/ODB-II and others don't. It hasn't been explained why
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by bobdvb 12y ago
I worked for a Korean company for mover 7 years and a few times a year found myself in Gangnam. I was out with a colleague and his sister, she said "oh, everyone (meaning female) has had a little work done." Given, as you suggest,
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General Dynamics Twitter and Facebook Hacked(ok-labs.com)
1 points by bobdvb 12y ago|0 comments
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by bobdvb 12y ago
I love that article.
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by bobdvb 12y ago
Old news, but it is also worth pointing to Greg's Cable Map: http://www.cablemap.info
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by bobdvb 12y ago
"A spokesman for CenturyLink, the company that provides data services to the area, said technicians had to inspect the line "mile-by-mile" to find the fault, which they eventually located in a riverbed." Huh? What happen
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by bobdvb 12y ago
I was an original sponsor of Soylent and I really thought it would be interesting. However, as a European customer I was totally neglected and eventually I cancelled my order (after corresponding with the founder about my disappointment). I
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by bobdvb 12y ago
"pretty good feedback" could be interpreted as: 'the amount of hassle it causes us is (normally) less than the amount of revenue we get'
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by bobdvb 12y ago
I used to be a lecturer, I was told one of my students was one of the biggest pirate operators in London.
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by bobdvb 12y ago
If you are after something rare, exceptionally hand crafted and historical then think about a knife set made in Sheffield, England. Sheffield was the cutler to the world at one point but mass production has destroyed most of that business n
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by bobdvb 12y ago
I worked with a guy, in about 2000(?), who wanted to play with Atmel microcontrollers, he broke his leg badly and was out of commission for a while. He didn't have any programming tools, just the manual and a library of components. He
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by bobdvb 12y ago
Interestingly the rhetoric around oil has currently been around jobs because of the fall in oil prices making the North Sea / Brent oil unsustainable. Interestingly when I checked the price of Brent is about the same as it was about 6
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by bobdvb 12y ago
Given that it is less than $5 compared to $20 there is a world of difference in price.
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by bobdvb 12y ago
My brother convinced me to move to Dreamhost a couple of years ago after giving up my Bytemark dedicated host (Atom). I haven't had cause to regret and he's been with them much longer. The unlimited hosting tariff is really good.
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by bobdvb 12y ago
The front of the TBM that was extracted is sitting along side the M20 motorway near the Eurotunnel site. It used to have a "for sale" sign on it.
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by bobdvb 12y ago
Well, I am in Europe so our telco business is very different but when I moved last time I didn't want to leave my number behind (knowing I was going somewhere I couldn't port it) so I ported the number to a VoIP provider and my ne
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by bobdvb 12y ago
I’ve only been in the STB business for seven years now but I’ve worked with people who are much more experienced than me. The death of the set-top box is predicted annually and I am afraid you have joined that long pantheon of people who ha
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by bobdvb 12y ago
For many years I ran my own mail server, for a while I ran it on my home broadband using a miniserver then I moved it to dedicated hosting (incidentally on Bytemark who are fantastic). I expanded to support my fathers company, my brothers&#
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by bobdvb 12y ago
I've had two Thinkpad's and bought my mother one as well, all running Linux, so easy, solid and reliable.
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by bobdvb 13y ago
I saw a presentation about "opportunistic radio SLAM" which uses naturally occurring radio signals: TV transmitters, mobile phone masts and even analogue music radio to passively provide relative location data. The demonstration w
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by bobdvb 13y ago
I've skirted around alcoholism in my past, but once I recognised why I was drinking and asked myself why I was drinking I realised I could drink but as long as I didn't 'need' it.
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Geoblocking Tor users
1 points by bobdvb 13y ago|0 comments
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by bobdvb 13y ago
10 years ago I was working at a European telco, they needed a way to monitor traffic flow on customer connections but the tools that existed didn't work for half the population. So, given that I had paid my way through college programm
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by bobdvb 13y ago
Yep, pretty soon she'll find another reason to say something nasty about the UK, just to distract the people. Argentina's version of Bread and Circuses.
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by bobdvb 13y ago
I used to work at a major European telecoms company... Unlike everyone else I am not talking programming mistakes, these are generally physical fumbles: One day I was doing a change control, I was scheduled to change some settings on the mo

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