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by dubya 10y ago
To answer my own question, and to fish for better answers, http://iotscanner.bullguard.com/#/ gives an answer. Not sure how definitive though.
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by dubya 10y ago
Is there a relatively easy way to see what devices in your house are visible to the Internet?
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by dubya 10y ago
Explosives require someone somewhat near the target. Making a significant proportion of self-driving cars malfunction could be done from anywhere, in theory. Even if it didn't kill many people, it would hurt the economy for a while.
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by dubya 10y ago
Amazon does the same thing on my iMac. I can't watch 1080p video on it, only lower resolution. I assumes it was just Amazon and Apple fighting, since I can't watch HTML video in Safari either.
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by dubya 10y ago
The default now is that no one uses Metafont, so it doesn't really matter what it outputs. AFAIK, (almost) no one outputs dvi files, or uses whatever the old font choosing mechanism was, either. The Computer Modern fonts are still pr
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by dubya 10y ago
Metafont produces bitmap fonts, but the description is in vectors. You have to remember that generating bitmaps from outlines takes a decent amount of computing power, especially pre-1990, and caching the bitmaps is a reasonable default.
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by dubya 10y ago
Apple Maps had completely missed a reworking of a major intersection in Kalamazoo, MI, which was fairly confusing. On the other hand, Google Maps drains my battery like mad unless I force it to quit, so I don't even open it anymore.
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by dubya 10y ago
I've had an MFP refuse to scan because they needed a new color cartridge.
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by dubya 10y ago
I'm from the southern US. Driving in the UK during a visit was a revelation. The best part was that drivers actually keep left except to pass. It makes driving so much nicer. That and using signals properly. I didn't try drivi
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by dubya 10y ago
Specifically regarding calculators, the idea is that knowing how to calculate aids in understanding later math that depends on calculation. Phone numbers don't lead to other interesting ideas, that I can think of. Didn't dialing
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by dubya 10y ago
I agree that it's not science, but exorcism could still be therapy. If someone has a condition that has the same symptoms described for demonic possession, an exorcism might just cure it. Though antidepressants might also work. After
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by dubya 10y ago
Services are still there. Command-shift-L Googles the selection, though I don't know how standard this is.
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by dubya 10y ago
Grants are not judged by government bureaucrats, but by committees of peer researchers. (At least for NSF grants; not sure about NIH or others).
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by dubya 11y ago
It's not even by state. Nashville, TN has inspections and emissions test, while Knoxville, TN has no requirements.
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by dubya 11y ago
I thought much of the point of fashion was that older people disapprove. You're ruining it for them.
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by dubya 11y ago
To be fair, if I've just lost a finger, it will take me considerably longer than 60 seconds to disable the phone.
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by dubya 11y ago
Giving away all of your money is not necessarily good for everyone else. For example, giving billions to promote "teaching the controversy", or iPad literacy or Morris dancing in schools would alter the curriculum in ways that so
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by dubya 11y ago
Regarding Dropbox reacting to changes anywhere in the filesystem: I found that turning off everything under "Import" in preferences seemed to stop it. After that it was perfectly fine on an old 2008 Macbook with spinning disk har
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by dubya 11y ago
There's a nice one in Cambridge, UK. Most of the machines are on and ready for use.
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by dubya 11y ago
4096:2304 is still 16:9.
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by dubya 11y ago
The Mighty Mouse is the old one, which they still sell for $49! I like the idea of the ball better than a scroll wheel, but they clog after a week and are never the same again.
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by dubya 11y ago
The ability to roam onto a different network? Yes, T-mobile doesn't cover everywhere, but has roaming agreements to fill the gaps in coverage. There's a caveat that data roaming is pretty restricted. My wife visited Bozeman, MT
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by dubya 11y ago
What bugs me about this is that the people who would have benefit from these policies, such as my ancestors, are long dead and gone. The people who oppressed them are also dead. At least in the US, Brown v. Board of Education was 1954,
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by dubya 11y ago
This looks like the "colAR Mix" app for the iphone, which has been out for at least a year I think. Nifty technology, but my kids didn't find it very engaging.
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by dubya 11y ago
Chalk is more economical for sure. In elementary schools, I believe teachers are now required to provide their own markers, so parents are asked to bring in a pack of Expo markers as additional supplies. I prefer chalkboards when I teach b
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by dubya 11y ago
Protestants, at least, have the idea of the "priesthood of all believers", meaning roughly that each person can have authority in doctrinal matters. So you should listen to your priest, but you don't have to accept that he&#
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by dubya 11y ago
The standard keyboard preferences have this option under "modifier keys..." Is this missing some functionality I haven't noticed?
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by dubya 11y ago
I tried, but that smiling Republican refuses to budge and is creeping me out.
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by dubya 11y ago
Rental cars have their own weird tax structure. Lots of areas tax rental cars and hotels because out-of-towners bear the burden. Rental cars in the UK were startlingly cheap when I was there, like 1/3 the price I would expect in the
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by dubya 11y ago
For the really egregious cases, students can, and do, go to the department head or the dean. This usually this results in some sort of review.

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