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by jerrya 13y ago
The original design, years in the making, was based on batteries that would never catch fire. They have moved from never catch fire, in a period of a few months, to batteries they hope will not catch fire, with features to enable survivabil
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by jerrya 13y ago
Placing the batteries in a steel cased compartment with a vent to the exterior of the plane to limit future, perhaps inevitable explosions and fires is an example of 1) __ An inspired engineering fix 2) __ A kluge 3) __ A fe
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Sexual Harassment in the Tech Industry(marieclaire.com)
38 points by jerrya 13y ago|29 comments
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by jerrya 13y ago
Mash it up with Crunchbase (?) and see if there is any meaningful correlation between stack and funding rounds, stack and IPO, stack and aquihire, ...
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by jerrya 13y ago
If you thought the Atlantic's premise thin, here is the Raw Story: Are Creepy Dudes Now Using Drone Technology For Their Nefarious Ends? http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/05/14/are-creepy-dudes-now-u... Which takes what one human on the pla
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by jerrya 13y ago
I think you're missing the point. Broadcasting your radio signals unencrypted means there is no privacy. Making a law saying that it is private is like making a law the sun should come up at 5am. The sun will do what it wants and the commun
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by jerrya 13y ago
I think the airwaves are the public's airwaves. If you broadcast unencrypted information through them, Joe Average Public should not get in trouble for listening to them. But I'll go further to. I think my living room is mine. If you send y
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by jerrya 13y ago
Thank you, that's interesting and leads to this from the wiki (corresponding to English common law, I think.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost,_mislaid,_and_abandoned_pr... "The rights of a finder of such property are determined in part
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by jerrya 13y ago
Picking up someone's phone that they left at a bar and doing a teardown on it is theft. Not in a "I think this is equivalent to theft" sense; it is theft in the legal "you can be charged with theft for doing it" sense. I know this because
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by jerrya 13y ago
I said lose, not steal. I didn't say "steal" anyone's phones. And I didn't say it was ethical behavior. But yes, I think if you lose your trade secrets, your product, whether it's a phone or whether it's the formula for Coca Cola, or KFC, t
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by jerrya 13y ago
At your link, I don't see her advocating domestic violence in any way shape or manner. I do see her describing one form of it, and then citing the first person to open a domestic violence shelter saying that one form is prevalent. That is a
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by jerrya 13y ago
Oh I'm sure I am probably in the legal wrong. I think that if cable companies broadcast encrypted signals in through my house, I should legally be able to decrypt them. (But I am pretty sure it is currently illegal to do that.) I think that
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by jerrya 13y ago
Since I am not a lawyer and know nothing about patent law, I have no problem with what the farmer did, up until the point I read that he had intentionally signed other agreements with Monsanto, and that, I think, poisons his intentions. Apa
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by jerrya 13y ago
My suggestion is that instead of reaching for the downvote, that you click the link and read what "Girl Writes What" has to say. Though admittedly a little long-winded, she raises some very interesting points.
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by jerrya 13y ago
Sigh. I clearly went to the wrong business school, and I bet being married and having a kid didn't help me either on this score. :( (I was there in that capstone project where you had a bug in the excel spreadsheet and we just pasted value
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by jerrya 13y ago
Philip Greenspun used sarcasm. He knew all the tricks, dramatic irony, metaphor, bathos, puns, parody, litotes and satire.
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by jerrya 13y ago
I thought it was missionaries in Africa, but it's been a year since I looked at their page. I had thought they had a demonstration mission flying from Europe into Africa, but perhaps it was a different "para-car" solution.
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by jerrya 13y ago
I think it's a pretty neat device (based on the last time I checked out their website, a year or so ago.) Generally safe since it's a dune buggy under a parachute, and entirely appropriate or so it seems for their mission, flying a few supp
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by jerrya 13y ago
What I want is a Chromebook that can use a Nexus 10 (or two), or Nexus 7 as an additional display.
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by jerrya 13y ago
Right. The problem is that you used the American spelling of the f-word. My guess is that if you had spelled it with an English accent, everyone would have thought it charming, quaint, positively British, and blooody brilliant.
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by jerrya 13y ago
It helps to talk about it. Even if we all agree the practice is malodorous, without public discussion of it, we are apt as individuals to concede to it as we believe we have no alternatives. It's similar to the puzzle interviews which are c
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by jerrya 13y ago
When I go back to the original list http://www.laurencegellert.com/2012/08/what-is-a-full-stack-... , full stack developer mainly seems to be backend developer + javascript & knowledge of the browser context. It does make me think that
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by jerrya 13y ago
I don't have a free market in cable providers. In my largish apartment complex, there is one cable provider: Cox. I can't use a sat dish, my apartment faces the wrong direction and I'm on the second floor. FIOS isn't available. CenturyLink
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by jerrya 13y ago
I have actually had good success with the IRIS software bundled in with an HP Scanner, But: a) It is Windows b) It is a good (in the best sense) example of what is still cripple ware c) It is not available to people that don't purchase a sc
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by jerrya 13y ago
This document, like so many other legal documents, has been scanned in. I assume this is how it was delivered to and archived by the court, and not just a scribd artifact. The document was almost certainly produced on a computer, but it is
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by jerrya 13y ago
I thought that by telling them I would use google to learn what other people have already learned about the task, I WAS proving to them I know how to implement their ideas into code. I am more worried about the folks that just jump into a c
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by jerrya 13y ago
I tend to say, and this has not worked well for me, "Uh, I would google it, and see what other people have done, and learn from their experiences, and either use their license appropriate code, and or their knowledge and experience and cons
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by jerrya 13y ago
Presuming that it has appropriate checks and balances. e.g. audited access and look-ups, with every plate-holder having the right to use that same information themselves (whether the history of spots, and every look-up of the same). You s
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by jerrya 13y ago
The Court, including Scalia, has already ruled that technology can be suppressed when it comes up against Constitutional protections. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyllo_v._United_States (And at other times, various courts have ruled:
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by jerrya 13y ago
I am not a lawyer. I found Professor Orin Kerr's discussion of United States v. Jones (2012) at the Volokh Conspiracy both enlightening and depressing. Professor Kerr's analysis there, if I recall it correctly, was that any violation occu

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