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by patcheudor 8y ago
Auto insurance rates are greatly variable throughout the US and many people cary more than state minimums. Near $200/mo., is pretty normal in California. My auto insurance, with a perfect record is $3100/yr with a $5 million umb
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by patcheudor 8y ago
Keep in mind, the 2008 financial crisis happened because a tipping-point number of people didn't understand how variable interest rates worked & after that crisis, we did exactly nothing in our public education system to explain ho
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by patcheudor 8y ago
>Why did she go to private university? There's no shortage of public universities with substantially better financial terms... If my daughter would have had to take out student loans to go to public university, she would have likely
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by patcheudor 8y ago
I was the architect for a major Microsoft partner adoption of The Microsoft Network (MSN) back in the early 90's. I'd just finished our companies BBS project a few years prior, followed by our FTP software service and WWW support
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by patcheudor 8y ago
As I understand it, a few people were regularly parking their RV's in front of people's homes for weeks on end and in rare cases being rude to local residents. It only takes a few bad apples to ruin it for everyone. Apparently t
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by patcheudor 8y ago
I had something very similar happen. Our power bill went up 30% in March of last year over what it was in February after the power company installed a smart meter. This was odd because March was so temperate that we didn't use our HV
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by patcheudor 8y ago
Not really the same at all. The gravitation water vortex power plant is designed in such a way that fish can easily go through in both directions because the turbine is in the upper, not lower portion of the vortex, leaving the drain clear
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by patcheudor 8y ago
Yet Russia made a very fast drone (if you believe Putin): https://russia-insider.com/en/putin-stunner-3-dagger-invinci...
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by patcheudor 8y ago
Depends on your perspective. If you are running a consumer grade drone over 2.4Ghz, okay. However, it's actually getting impossible to jam military drones because of technologies like direct sequence ultra-wideband (DS-UWB). Further
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by patcheudor 8y ago
Let's say China builds a jet that is as good as the F-35. Given our ability to precision target planes with missiles delivered by drones, what's the point of the F-35? Putting a human in the cockpit of an aircraft for any form o
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by patcheudor 8y ago
You'd think for their own self-worth they'd rather be working on something that makes far more sense.
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by patcheudor 8y ago
I'm not sure even in a world where dogfights are still a thing that the F-35 makes any sense. If we are talking the ability to deliver air munitions, again, I just can't see it. What makes an F-35 more special than a drone?
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by patcheudor 8y ago
The F-35 program is an amazing thing in 2018 when every war in the last two decades has been mostly about ground insurgents. This, taken with the fact that we've had massive technological advances when it comes to drone warfare and th
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by patcheudor 8y ago
Nothing is rogue when you point your DNS to someone else's host. Because you pointed a domain you owned at GitHub, it was then possible for GitHub to obtain a certificate for your domain. Sure, maybe something was missed in the terms
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by patcheudor 8y ago
This is the correct answer. We noticed this happening in our small lab and decided to run some tests and in fact if one person searched for something odd like 'Swedish fish' then visited sites selling Swedish fish, everyone in th
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by patcheudor 9y ago
When I was a kid I played with Lego. Every free moment was spent with Lego. My parents were continually warned by their friends and even our family doctor that I shouldn't spend so much time playing with Lego. It was 'addictive
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by patcheudor 9y ago
>t's a tool to help attentive drivers avoid accidents that might have otherwise occurred. This needs far more discussion. I just don't buy it. I don't believe that you can have a car engaged in auto-drive mode and remain
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by patcheudor 9y ago
It depends. Both WiFi and LTE can be attacked via evil-twin attacks where a base station pretends to be the legitimate one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_twin_(wireless_networks) and: https://www.docum
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by patcheudor 9y ago
No database needed, just ask for e-mail validation by sending an account validation link to the e-mail. Problem mostly solved.
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by patcheudor 9y ago
Yes, but its not a 577 HP track-tuned roadster. I can drive my 320 HP manual sedan quite smoothly as well. There are some cars where: a) you don't want to drive them smoothing because that's no fun - even for just the exhaust no
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by patcheudor 9y ago
>People who can't maintain proper speed without either flooring it, or taking their foot off the pedal, shouldn't be driving. Not entirely true. I've been to German driving school and my father really pushed the concept o
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by patcheudor 9y ago
It's amazing how many "basics" Tesla is missing with the statement that their cars have all the tech to be fully self driving. I have an Infiniti QX80 with the surround camera system, lane stay, and collision warning system.
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by patcheudor 9y ago
Not really. It's common to support animal rights while despising humans. This is especially true amongst those who subscribe to the more fringe animal activism groups that as an example free animals used for medical or cosmetic testi
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by patcheudor 9y ago
It was covered a bit in the article but I think it needs some additional visibility. Not only did plenty of developers have access to the same data, there were a number of parallel research projects investigating manipulation of online com
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by patcheudor 9y ago
From last years DEF CON 25, pre-dating what we are now learning about Cambridge Analytica (CA): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5Hx86H3-mc Ultimately this isn't a political issue, it's an ethics in engineering is
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by patcheudor 9y ago
>I'll happily pay money to get a cert that expires in 3 years instead of 90 days. No way. Every time I've worked with an organization with three years expiry it's guaranteed they have no idea, after three years how to eve
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by patcheudor 9y ago
Only partial control if you don't file a counter. I've had just around ten or so of these notices for videos I've uploaded, all related to iTunes bits I've used or in one case music playing in the background at a sporti
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by patcheudor 9y ago
Yes, filters that big of any quality would cost more than the $133 fisheye lens he used and add one more thing that could go wrong. I'd gladly sacrifice a $1300 lens to capture a rocket launch that close. Mitigating lens damage is si
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by patcheudor 9y ago
Errant high-power microwave signals still seem to be the #1 likely scenario in my book. It was covered here previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15332122 While I tossed out the idea in that thread that it could
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by patcheudor 9y ago
The last time I checked, it's not okay to commit a felony in the pursuit of a felon. I can't imagine this underwent anything close to a legal review before it was implemented. Did they honestly think they'd get the pirates

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