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by ceequof 11y ago
Not to kick someone while they're down... but a security company screwing up their key rotation is not exactly a good sign.
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by ceequof 11y ago
Wrong thread?
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by ceequof 11y ago
What an odd argument, at complete right angles to what I was talking about. "Traumatic brain injuries are not the only kind of injuries. If it weren't for the fact that they result in death, they wouldn't really even be impor
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by ceequof 11y ago
As much sulfur pollution, that is. (Mostly because ships burn bunker fuel:[1] the residue left over after you refine off the gasoline) 15 ships do not equal the carbon pollution of all the cars in the world. 1: http://en.wiki
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by ceequof 11y ago
In the terminal snippets, latency is specified in "us", which I'm guessing is µs, microseconds. In the table, those latency numbers are specified in "ms". Also microseconds? Couldn't possibly be milliseconds, f
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Did you see the bubble in 3d printing implode?(wolfstreet.com)
7 points by ceequof 11y ago|2 comments
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by ceequof 11y ago
AAA did it in 2011: http://newsroom.aaa.com/2011/07/ev-charging-statio/ "Level 3 charging" here means DC fast charging: 125 amps at 500 volts (depending on the vehicle)
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by ceequof 11y ago
Get off your petastle. Petastle, eh? If only you had access to dictionary dot com.
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by ceequof 11y ago
It was a surveillance aircraft, so it would need line of sight with the ground as well, which might require flying under cloud cover. Also, having a gyroscope component, I'm guessing that it would need to calibrate while stationary, on
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by ceequof 11y ago
MTCR is an informal agreement, not a treaty. Its provisions are actually implemented by laws in the member nations-- in the US, that's the International Traffic In Arms Regulations Act. (ITAR) ITAR Category XV, Section c: Global Po
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by ceequof 11y ago
My crystal ball tells me that the judge would find your argument very amusing, but not substantive.
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by ceequof 11y ago
The SR-71 had an automated celestial navigation system that could get a lock in daylight: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_SR-71_Blackbird#Astro-... (The big disadvantage is that it can't see through clouds,
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by ceequof 11y ago
Incorrect. The relevant agreement is the Missile Technology Control Regime, an informal partnership between 34 countries. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missile_Technology_Control_Regi... Unlocked GPS receivers are class
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by ceequof 11y ago
It's an old metaphor: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walled_garden_(technology)
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by ceequof 11y ago
Who the hell is @fat?
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by ceequof 11y ago
The British Empire also holds a similar tiny island in the Pacific: Pitcairn, population 67, inhabited by the descendants of the Mutiny on the Bounty: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutiny_on_the_Bounty It is mainly nota
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by ceequof 11y ago
KG7KGD here. I just bought a pair of cheap baofeng handheld dual band transceivers and programmed them with all the local repeaters and FRS/GPRS frequencies. Next step is to buy a dual band car radio and some solar panels.
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by ceequof 11y ago
Is there ad blocker that only blocks the annoying ads, not the ones that we deem "OK?" Yes, it's called "AdBlock Plus". Read the article.
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by ceequof 11y ago
you're quoting a speculative paper. Hawking radiation has never been directly observed, but it is generally presumed to exist. I haven't read the story extract, but I assume the plan would be to bleed matter into th
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by ceequof 11y ago
budu3: Note that this is a very non-idiomatic use of "derpy". Many other words would be more suitable.
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by ceequof 11y ago
You are mistaken. http://arxiv.org/abs/0908.1803v1 (See the table on page 15) The lifespan of a 108,000 tonne black hole is ~350 hours. At that mass, its event horizon is .32 attometres across, and the Hawking radiatio
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by ceequof 11y ago
“Most black holes are formed when stars collapse,” Ivy said. “But there’s a theory that some of them were created shortly after the Big Bang. The universe was lumpy. Some of the lumps might have been dense enough t
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by ceequof 11y ago
It seems like my first knee-jerk impression of every Stephenson novel of the last decade has been "ugh, terrible", gradually replaced by a retrospective fondness after finishing it. The first couple pages of Seveneves certainly do
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by ceequof 11y ago
In somewhat related news, the .trust gTLD is HTTPS-only: https://whodoyou.trust/globalassets/documents/trust-technica... (As well as having a bucket of JS restrictions (no eval() can be used, apparently ever) Adam
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by ceequof 11y ago
Ehhh. Marusek makes several rather large conceptual leaps in order to make his plot hang together: notably, both human clones and intelligent machines have no civil rights, at all, to the point that either can be killed at the will of their
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by ceequof 12y ago
Writing stories for a technical audience is tricky. I've been doing it for going on 10 years now, and I'm still not very good at it. A critical rule, however, is to omit detail, (a reader is unlikely to question an explanation the
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by ceequof 12y ago
Use and rather than and : and add meaning, not styling hints. Strong disagree. What actual information does provide over ?
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by ceequof 12y ago
http://public.tableausoftware.com/views/APcompscidata/Dashbo... What a pointless bubble chart. If you graph the number of test takers, then of course the states with the largest population (CA, TX) will have the
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by ceequof 12y ago
CloudFlare is funded by the department of homeland security: http://thenextweb.com/insider/2011/06/07/cloudflare-a-websit...
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by ceequof 12y ago
At some point during every conversation I had with a tech guy who is interested in racing, there would come an awkward moment in which he would ask me not to paint him as an extravagant, sexist cretin. Mr. Schachter told me, “

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