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by cconover 5y ago
If you treat it like real mail it ends up exactly the way the OP describes: a few high-value messages at risk of being lost in a deluge of low-value, often unsolicited, noise. My real mail is so full of stuff I don’t want and don’t care abo
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by cconover 5y ago
The question, though, wasn’t whether ATF agents might interpret the regulations one way or another, but what the regulations are. Millions of people purchase legal and freely available components for their legal firearm with a serial number
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by cconover 5y ago
The only part that is actually considered a firearm under federal regulations is the lower receiver, so it is the only item that is controlled and requires paperwork. Everything else (with the exception of prohibited or specifically regulat
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by cconover 6y ago
> She had gone straight to the lethal option and had no other recourse. Not true. I presume that PSNI, like any law enforcement agency in the U.S., operates with some form of a use of force continuum that ranges from officer presence to
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by cconover 6y ago
> Wait if the county police become your police if there's no other police department, then why does any city spend their taxes on their own police? Policy-wise the motivations for retaining a city police department can be difference
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by cconover 6y ago
Not for reform reasons, but Camden, NJ did exactly that in 2012: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2193971/Camden-poli... The county police became the de facto police department for Camden, which is a model
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by cconover 7y ago
Interestingly, I implemented every mitigation listed in the article: kill the web server process, remove and add an empty directory at `~/.zoomus` to prevent it being re-added, remove Firefox's content type action for Zoom, and di
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Why Let’s Encrypt is a bad idea(medium.com)
4 points by cconover 7y ago|1 comments
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Firefox EU Elections Toolkit helps you to prevent pre-vote online manipulation(blog.mozilla.org)
1 points by cconover 7y ago|0 comments
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by cconover 9y ago
This is part of the reason why they institute fatigue standards, to try to keep people from being over tired and still working, which led to people being hurt.
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by cconover 9y ago
Agreed, and a more succinct way of saying what I was getting at. Attempts to quantify inherently subjective attempts aren't very productive in their own right. What matters far more is having a substantive conversation about risk, and
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by cconover 9y ago
This is an area where I think the Coast Guard does a decent job. We have a program called Team Coordination Training[0] which, while monotonous and annoying to those who have to take it every year, aims to instruct students on the importanc
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by cconover 9y ago
Spot on. In the Coast Guard we have a similar operational risk assessment model called General Assessment of Risk (GAR)[0], which uses six categories and a score of 1-10 in each to get a cumulative score, which corresponds to either Green (
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by cconover 9y ago
Yes, AIS is utilized by all ships, and even though military vessels are permitted to not broadcast in the clear their AIS data, they can still receive other ships' AIS broadcasts. That being said, you still need competent mariners on t
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by cconover 9y ago
If they're not actively engaged in a naval exercise or actual warfighting requiring them to maneuver outside the Navigation Rules[0], they are subject to the rules the same as any other vessel - and even then, that's a pretty hard
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by cconover 10y ago
Black Mirror
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by cconover 10y ago
Me too.
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by cconover 10y ago
I think one thing here is clear: don't use image sliders.
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by cconover 13y ago
Here's the backstory: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/11/canoni...