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by dmckeon 10y ago
Anyone who has not yet seen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiocracy might do well to spend 90 minutes watching it, and contemplating the state of their nation.
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by dmckeon 10y ago
The defense.gov story has much more detail than the phys.org version I was working from. http://phys.org/news/2016-06-hack-pentagon-reveals-flaws.htm... defense.gov: Starting this month, DoD is embarking on three foll
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by dmckeon 10y ago
Perhaps .mil and .gov will quickly scan the rest of their systems for the same set of vulnerabilities, but I fear it is more likely that they will spend months in the RFP and contract process, and get around to scanning systems for the sa
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by dmckeon 10y ago
Alternately, http://kb.mozillazine.org/Command_line_arguments -P "<profile name>" Starts with a given profile name (profile name is case sensitive). -no-remote Enables running multip
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by dmckeon 10y ago
I believe that was never true for vehicle occupants in the typical ranges of height, weight, and age. Failure to use seat-belts with earlier generations of airbags tended to lead to unbelted occupants "submarining" under the openi
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by dmckeon 10y ago
For local cheap gas, gasbuddy.com is effective. For long road trips, finding cheap gas and most of the other things often wanted - good WiFi, decent coffee, a reasonably clean restroom, food of adequate quality and speed - and all at a sin
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by dmckeon 10y ago
It would be nice if Google's streetview/mapping could be used like lint(1) to produce reports about conflicting or potentially confusing road signage and markings, so transport agencies could tune their presentation. This would al
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by dmckeon 10y ago
I would put the emphasis on "private" rather than on "property" - if a house I rent contains a person and their papers or effects, they enjoy 4A protection even though I do not own the house, the person, or their papers
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by dmckeon 10y ago
How long before this tech ("Sniff-o-Vision"?) is utilized to gather unconscious feedback in focus groups - or political rallies?
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by dmckeon 10y ago
This is a space that will need better public understanding and education before any long-term useful result emerges. > A January 2016 poll of a thousand American adults conducted by STAT and Harvard’s Chan School of Public Health found
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by dmckeon 10y ago
Consider 3 groups: elected officials, their staffers, and lobbyists. Strict term limits would remove office-holders and any expertise accumulated in whatever term they served, while the other two groups would tend to conserve accumulated ex
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by dmckeon 10y ago
Grain crops can be burned in the field by attackers, as well as stolen. The WP article seems to overlook the possibility of slavery in early cultures, which would put social choices about crops into a vastly different dynamic.
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by dmckeon 11y ago
See also the Armored Combat League, http://www.aclknights.com and Battle of the Nations, http://botn.info/en/ for armored combat sports. BTW, the SCA is having its 50-year anniversary next week.
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by dmckeon 11y ago
Publishing moderation policy details would be like crowd-sourcing cryptography software development - creating a fractally increased attack surface with a less profitable business model. Social media companies operate in a market economy.
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by dmckeon 11y ago
If the details of moderation rules were public, companies would be facing additional labor costs dealing with posters pushing hard on the edges of those rules. At some level, users can choose from a variety of forums with different moderat
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by dmckeon 11y ago
The C&D letter is here: http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/files/letter-10-12-15.pdf and seems to specify the combination of 1) Kentucky 2) clothing and 3) UK's color scheme [blue & white]. This feels lik
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by dmckeon 11y ago
https://drafthouse.com/ > We have zero tolerance for talking or cell phone use of any kind during movies, and we aren't afraid to kick anyone rude enough to start texting their friends during a show right out of the
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by dmckeon 11y ago
What I find amazing is the size of the crowd that turned out mere hours after the leaks were publicized. http://icelandmag.visir.is/article/many-22000-gathered-deman... Imagine the political scandal required in the USA
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by dmckeon 11y ago
La majestueuse égalité des lois, qui interdit au riche comme au pauvre de coucher sous les ponts, de mendier dans les rues et de voler du pain. In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in t
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by dmckeon 11y ago
"One person presents the photo while another holds the horse," Indeed. One wonders if the person holding the horse and the person presenting the face photos could see if the photo was of an angry or other face.
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by dmckeon 11y ago
Alternately, before starting Firefox: echo 'user_pref("media.gmp-gmpopenh264.autoupdatemedia.gmp-gmpopenh264.enabled", false);' >> user.js Preferences set in the user.js file are applied after those in pre
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by dmckeon 11y ago
Here is a contemporaneous control effort: We prohibit under anathema that murderous art of crossbowmen and archers, which is hateful to God, to be employed against Christians and Catholics from now on. Canon 29, 2nd Lateran Council, held
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“What are you doing in my f?#g house?” –a behind-the-lens look at body cameras(arstechnica.com)
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by dmckeon 11y ago
PFOA was only one of more than 60,000 synthetic chemicals that companies produced and released into the world without regulatory oversight. ... Under the 1976 Toxic Substances Control Act, the E.P.A. can test chemicals only when it has bee
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by dmckeon 11y ago
Various frequencies have been tried: http://wdmc.org/1997/MilkingFrequency.pdf but technology has also advanced to the point where each cow can choose its own frequency: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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by dmckeon 11y ago
Judging by the ingredients and the cooking directions, both the peafowl pie and the claret recipes read more like overdone status signaling by the "spice barons" than anything like tasteful fine dining. This is the culinary equi
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by dmckeon 11y ago
Perhaps the Lunik space vehicle: https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intellig...
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by dmckeon 11y ago
And it sometime appears that almost every icon system is its own special snowflake, unique more for its creator's convenience, with more creativity than reusability. The result is more like having dozens or hundreds of different diale
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People Paid $600 a Month to Live in This Truck in San Francisco(fortune.com)
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by dmckeon 11y ago
The original long title has been truncated here - it was: Who Knows What About Me? A Survey of Behind the Scenes Personal Data Sharing to Third Parties by Mobile Apps From the survey summary: [researchers] tested 110 popular, fre

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