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by jstalin 14y ago
Simple solution: Opt out of the naked scanners, every time. I've gotten used to the pat downs and they don't bother me at all. I just give myself an extra 10-15 minutes lead time when arriving at the airport.
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by jstalin 14y ago
Lawyer here. The administrative search exception to the fourth amendment means that an administrative agency can search to enforce an administrative regulation without a warrant. The most common example of this that everyone would understan
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by jstalin 14y ago
LOL, ok, you win.
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by jstalin 14y ago
Forgot to mention - it costs $50 to form an LLC in Michigan and takes about a week (I've heard horror stories about forming an LLC in CA). $100 additional for same-day service. And you don't have to publicly disclose the LLC's members, only
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by jstalin 14y ago
Grand Rapids is the biggest of them. It's a nice area, decent and growing downtown, lots of activities, good housing stock, growing diversity, etc.
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by jstalin 14y ago
Indeed. Avoid eastern Michigan. Western Michigan is like a totally different state.
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by jstalin 14y ago
Come to (western) Michigan. We have new corporate tax reforms that dramatically reduced liabilities (6% rate for C-Corps, flow-through taxation for LLCs and S-Corps, personal income tax rate of 4.3%), we have a 6% sales tax, low property ta
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by jstalin 14y ago
All the more reason to route all your traffic through a VPN or SSH tunnel. It's so cheap these days to get yourself a VPS in Europe or Asia. Comcast (or whichever ISp you use) will never know what you're doing over their pipe. I find the be
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by jstalin 14y ago
I still have his first book, a masterpiece: Build your own laser, phaser, ion ray gun, and other working space-age projects .
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by jstalin 14y ago
No one seems to be mentioning the incredibly high usage of Tumblr in that survey. I have to say I'm really surprised.
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by jstalin 14y ago
A reason to support upcoming Ubuntu phone distro?
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by jstalin 14y ago
Just look at the difference an active core makes by observing the difference between Earth and Mars. How likely is it that a planet has all the right things: liquid water, enough gravity (mass), active core, planets further out sweeping up
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by jstalin 14y ago
Maybe it's generational (I'm 33) and maybe it's personal preference, but I much prefer a physical book over reading on a tablet. I remember reading an article somewhere saying that our brains do a better job of organizing material if it's a
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by jstalin 14y ago
"Because they were granted to them as a right in order to justify having to string cable into homes to deliver a product that was nascent at the time in many communities." I'd be willing to bet that the initial capital cost of stringing up
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by jstalin 14y ago
I run ghostery and adblock and went to the HBO site. Nothing ever comes up. After the little spinner stops spinning, just a black screen.
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by jstalin 14y ago
Vista nearly ground several of our offices to a halt when we began a rollout. It was a complete disaster. Windows 7 just works. Vista didn't.
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by jstalin 14y ago
My enterprise is not even considering Win 8. We have 5000+ PCs to manage and there's no business reason whatsoever to upgrade. It was hard enough to get our users to deal effectively with their upgrade to Office 2010...(who moved my cheese!
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by jstalin 14y ago
Agreed. I stick to the foreign movies section of netflix these days. Hollywood movies have gotten to be utter garbage. I think maybe I go to the movies once a year.
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by jstalin 14y ago
I use fail2ban as well. I honestly don't get why people get so worked up about SSH. As long as you have a long, secure password, how is it a security vulnerability?
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by jstalin 14y ago
The name itself has an error. It should be "An overly picky language style-checker."
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by jstalin 14y ago
So the government passes laws to limit housing stock, then passes laws to artificially keep rent low, then people complain about prices going up and a lack of housing stock? Has anyone in SF read an Economics 101 textbook?
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by jstalin 14y ago
Same here. We also have clients who have started to use dropbox for file sharing with us. This is giving the legal department heartburn...
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by jstalin 14y ago
I don't see how a 480w battery can power a 750 watt motor for 30 miles.
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by jstalin 14y ago
Competition === good
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by jstalin 14y ago
I just love it when politicians express indignant outrage when they're the ones who made the rules... Tax competition is a good thing. Kudos to Google and Bermuda.
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by jstalin 14y ago
It's more about preventing commercial tracking than anonymization. Ghostery is really cool. Some sites have upwards of 20-30 tracking scripts running. It's just ridiculous.
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by jstalin 14y ago
This is why I use Adblock, Ghostery, and always-on Private Browsing in Firefox.
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by jstalin 14y ago
Yes, running from home on a dynamic IP. As another commenter says, my comcast IP is pretty stable.
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by jstalin 14y ago
And you clicked on it :)
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My Raspberry Pi WordPress server survived the front page of Hacker News(pipress.vo3.net)
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