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5y ago
Next we'll be hearing about all the fake VPN companies they're running. "Sign up for our secure VPN and keep your traffic away from prying eyes! Do you know how many companies are spying on you and selling your data?" I&
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5y ago
"Proposition 47: The Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act" https://www.courts.ca.gov/prop47.htm > First, it reclassified certain theft and drug possession offenses from felonies to misdemeanors. Second, it author
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5y ago
IBM isn't considered a tech company?
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5y ago
So, 2 hours a day. That's 10 hours a week. That's 40 hours a month. That's 480 hours a year, or about the equivalent of 3 entire months working 40 hrs/wk, sitting in traffic, doing nothing productive. Napkin math says yo
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5y ago
I've never had a meter reader enter any house I've lived in, which would be somewhere around 15 different units. All gas/electrical/water meters are on the outside of the house/apartment whether they were smart mete
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5y ago
One day you'll put your finger on a sensor on your phone that pricks you to get a drop of blood and analyze it right there on the spot. Kinda like square does for mobile credit card payments. Maybe that's how you'll unlock it
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> But Thiel doesn’t need a man-made island to avoid paying taxes. He has something just as effective: a Roth individual retirement account. But Thiel doesn’t need a man-made island to avoid paying taxes. He has something just as effectiv
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5y ago
I just went through my phone and there isn't a single Android app I'd actually want to use on my PC. Most of my apps are just hobbled versions of websites anyway, so I just use the fully functional browser with a full sized keyboa
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5y ago
Yes, ONLY if you want to download them from the playstore. As you already noted, on Android you can sideload apps and get them from other places other than the playstore. So you can still get the same app from another source without an acco
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5y ago
You'd call either. Just like if there is other suspected illegal activity, you contact the branch of gov't that handles it and not involve yourself. If you see someone speeding, it's not legal to speed to catch them. You call
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5y ago
> A landowner in the United States owns the air space above their land up to the height that the FAA has classified as Navigable Airspace in that area, generally either 500ft or 1000ft. > the landowner is entitled to destroy the drone
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5y ago
They need to put drones in the constitution.
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5y ago
You will by 2023 when all drones need to have Remote ID transmitters installed, which shows the drone location, bearing and speed as well as the location of the controller. Mine already has it. https://www.engadget.com/faa-f
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5y ago
I have to do the same with my mom and her mac every week or two. The latest was all of the flash deprecation warnings and she uses flash routinely for puzzle games although she's never heard of this "flash" thing. I spend abo
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5y ago
Just click that innocent looking unsubscribe link at the bottom of the email. Case solved!
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5y ago
Does it really surprise anyone that criminals would (re)target a place that paid out quickly and made their "jobs" easier? The aim is to get paid as quickly as possible with the least complexity and move on to the next target, is
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5y ago
About half did. From the article... > After an organization experienced a ransomware attack, the top 5 solutions implemented included security awareness training (48%), security operations (SOC) (48%), endpoint protection (44%), data bac
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5y ago
Chicken or egg? I'm inclined to think that the way the stereotypes were started and then perpetuated to begin with was they reported the persons color in news stories for decades for everyone who basically wasn't white. Couldn&#
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5y ago
Do you think the reaction would be the same if there was never a story written in a paper or wherever the "crime story" appeared? If someone googled your name, there are a lot of websites that show your personal records (current
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5y ago
Yes, the same applies to the current existing functionality of iPhone and Android to remotely wipe your device. How is this different?
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it would be great if phones allowed you to store 2 different passwords. One to unlock the phone as normal, and the other would actually wipe the phone. Sure, officer, my password is "deleteitall"
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I was just about to post that video. It popped up in my feed the other day and was really good! I still have a minidisc player somewhere.
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Your take sounds right. Like if Apple replaces phone screens at an Apple facility, they must also make the screens (and supporting equipment) available to other parties. If they don't replace screens, then they don't have to make
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5y ago
Dr. Bret Weinstein, Dr. Robert Malone (invented mRNA tech) and Steve Kirsch had a most fascinating discussion on youtube that touches on this, but touches on much bigger direct and indirect issues as well. I'd urge people to watch: ht
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5y ago
But what happens to the price of a finite resource when demand rises? That's not an artificial increase...that is the free market valuation. It's not really different than the price of the finite pool of bitcoin. Demand soars
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5y ago
We were on the gold standard (Bretton Woods system) that was established after WWII until Nixon ended it in 1971 when countries started to demand gold as payment from the Federal Reserve Banks instead of US Dollars because they didn't
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In a lot of places, if not most, property taxes are based on the assessed "current market value" of your house and audited annually, which can change a lot from year to year. Property taxes are paid annually, not when the house se
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5y ago
Yeah, different cabal.
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The first 14:30 of that video has no audio and basically B-roll footage. I'm sure a lot of people wont watch the whole thing and miss the actual conference.
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5y ago
Right, like in Oregon they recently decriminalized "personal amounts" of all drugs. Crack, heroin, meth, fentanyl, etc. Whatever you want...it's now just a misdemeanor offense like a parking ticket as long as you're unde
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