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by jmccree 12y ago
What's hilarious here, is that Level3 played the exact same game Verizon is playing now. Back in 2005 they dropped their peering entirely for several days with Cogent due to "Unbalanced Traffic Ratios" as cogent was sending L
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by jmccree 12y ago
Uber now includes Uber X, "rideshare" type service with drivers in their own personal cars. Where I am, a 2 mile cab ride to the grocery store will be $12 without tip, the same on Uber X is ~$6. It's far cheaper and less hass
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by jmccree 12y ago
You do realize that all the officers that are on the LEC SWAT team are employed by local police agencies, none work for NEMLEC. Mutual aid emergency services teams comprised of members of multiple agencies are common all over the country. &
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by jmccree 12y ago
If you assume they had no pressing need for any VPC specific functionality, you can get similar security by locking your security group/s down to only ELB for public service ports and having one instance in another security group with
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by jmccree 12y ago
I believe their argument is the LECs are private non-profit corporations that merely provide coordination and equipment to law enforcement agencies. The police officers are never working for the LEC, and I'm sure any police-only equipm
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by jmccree 12y ago
I'm pretty sure the poor child's situation is a direct result of a flash bang 'distractionary device' being thrown into his crib by law enforcement. The suspect was NOT in the house, and they found NO DRUGS in the house.
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by jmccree 12y ago
I can't argue with that, just felt the need to defend APD a bit, as a lot of people are confusing them with the redneck swat team who threw the flashbang into a crib. APD has changed a ton for the better after Turner became chief. Befo
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by jmccree 12y ago
I'm not so sure. Atlanta made tons of changes after the Kathryn Johnson incident and the Atlanta Eagle raid. They totally disbanded the red dog unit, and have been much more sensitive to public perception after those events. I think mo
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by jmccree 12y ago
They are probably using MSA instead of PSA: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_primary_statistical_are... .
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by jmccree 12y ago
I think the key wording was "uber for bouncers" and "per guard". We're not talking executive protection or major event security. An average armed guard in my city would be lucky to make $15/hr. For $35/hr
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by jmccree 12y ago
In Atlanta, critical mass got up to 300+ riders before the city/police finally got tired of the illegal blocking of intersections. (They call it "corking") Atlanta police had 10-20 motorcycle cops follow the ride and pull ove
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by jmccree 12y ago
I know that android smartactions allows you to set the phone to ring for only certain white listed numbers.
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by jmccree 12y ago
I upvoted you, but I'm guessing people are objecting to your attempting to "be a spokesperson for the late twenties crowd", when I think your case is exceptional. I'm mid-almost-late twenties and I've never heard of
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by jmccree 12y ago
This is interesting. My building has tv/phone/internet via DirecPath, a fiber based isp now owned by DirecTV. The only alternative is via the local telco, AT&T. Will be interesting to see how this plays out.
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by jmccree 12y ago
If you check the talk page of the student, you will see it's filled with 5+ "warnings" from the Wikipedian. I could see how that could be considered bullying.
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by jmccree 12y ago
I think what people are missing is it's the mindset of "willing to defend one's self, no matter the cost" that deters most people from messing with you. I was raised in the rural south and was brought up with the thought
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by jmccree 12y ago
I believe almost all phones in the US now supply GPS info for 911 calls. I remember flip phones 10 years ago having the option in settings to only enable location transmitting for emergency numbers. See http://en.wikipedia.org&#x
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by jmccree 13y ago
It's extremely common in the US. Each state, county, city, different "special districts" can impose their own sales tax. For things like national chains it would be impossible to advertise prices, as one store may be under 10
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by jmccree 13y ago
This is why the rest of the world hates us in the tech industry. We get to sit in $1,000 chairs, which we easily justify, and in offices where catered food, massages, game rooms, etc are common. Yet you want to complain about the tip jar fo
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by jmccree 13y ago
The waste problem has been solved. We store it somewhere safe until we decide something better to do with it. What hasn't been solved is the effects of of all our coal, gas, and oil usage that could be replaced by nuclear power. It mak
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by jmccree 13y ago
The big problem is there is two interview/recruitment processes: A) the undiscovered talent, where you want to make someone jump through hoops to find that talent. And B) the established person who's resume and a 5 minute chat can
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by jmccree 13y ago
It's only "simply asking" if you ignore context and subtext. When Jobs said he would be "greatly pleased if google stopped", it carries the implication that jobs would be greatly displeased if google did not. The
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by jmccree 13y ago
I don't think that's a fair comparison. Forcing hand writing instead of typing is an artificial limitation not related to the core skill set of presenting. I would consider that like telling a graphical artist, sorry no wacom, you
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by jmccree 13y ago
I suck at auditory stuff in general, and if I have to take notes on something, I can't process any of what's being said and must basically try to frantically transcribe what's being said. The idea of expecting everyone to tak
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by jmccree 13y ago
I guess with this line of thought, the US has 50 different militaries.
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by jmccree 13y ago
An irc community is now a "posse". Awesome.
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by jmccree 13y ago
I know and have met the author of this blog as they used to own a business that organized developer conferences, published books, and a monthly magazine. If I had to hazard a guess, after many years of cat herding developers (many of whom d
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by jmccree 13y ago
I use collectd and have found it to work rather well. The documentation could certainly use some work, but once you get figure things out it's pretty easy to configure. CPU usage is almost non-existent for the amount of data monitored.
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by jmccree 13y ago
PETA has a $10 million budget for "Research, Investigations and Rescue", out of their $30 million total budget. That's 100 $100k investigations per year they could fund.
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by jmccree 13y ago
You'd first need to show at least one state where off duty officers lack arrest authority. NJ Statute Quote: "40A:14-152.1. Municipal police officer; power of arrest for crime committed in his presence anywhere within state. Not

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