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by plugger 2y ago
ITAR
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by plugger 2y ago
Look, did they use industry to help them with things like xraying their motor grains to check to confirm they had no voids? possibly. But this team has been at this for nearly 20 years and made their first spaceshot attempt over a decade ag
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by plugger 2y ago
Good advisor, yes. But knowledge retention is critical. They've been at it for nearly 20 years, not 5.
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by plugger 2y ago
Actually, they have a team bio on their site. They look quite young to me. https://www.uscrpl.com/the-team
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by plugger 2y ago
Unless they turn faculty I kinda doubt it. Not to sully your robot team, but I expect many of these students to want to progress to bigger and better things in the commercial space launch sector which they can't do at USC. Also, money.
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by plugger 2y ago
> I think college student teams strike a combo of time, talent and resource that would be surprisingly hard to come by in the larger “civilian world.” The flip-side of this that you have a bunch of very smart young people absolutely drip
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by plugger 2y ago
The biggest hurdle (besides knowledge) in an endeavor like this is cost. Those sponsors aren't providing technical expertise. The main 'competitive advantage' USC RPL has developed that enabled this space shot is their in ho
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by plugger 2y ago
Nothing. The FAA in the US is pretty good about these things and as long as you stay below 490,000 ft AGL and are flying a sounding rocket (eg not trying to make orbit). With that said, well-resourced doesn't matter too much, it's
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by plugger 2y ago
While I'm happy for you, I feel it's worth mentioning that you can be a moral and contributing member to society without participating in a church/organised religion.
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by plugger 2y ago
Wo-we's AMD A9 miniPC is $79 USD new, has 8GB RAM, a 128GB M.2, and a Win10 license. I've been running one as a geostationary satellite ground station for close to a year now and it's great! It also doesn't have the heat
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by plugger 2y ago
Can confirm. My last good finding was a unauthed and blind SQLi.
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by plugger 2y ago
While this is true, the Flipper Zero doesn't have wifi radios or an SDR that can transmit in the wifi frequency ranges. OOB it's impossible to jam wifi with with the Flipper.
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by plugger 2y ago
I was diagnosed with severe spinal stenosis last year and I've found a combination of walking daily and working at a sit/stand desk in the standing position has helped me immensely. Our backs are designed to be under load and if y
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by plugger 2y ago
They can do right. The X-37B is still on orbit, and from an unclassified perspective it looks like a huge success.
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by plugger 2y ago
6 days ago here in Australia a local army lawyer (David McBride) was given a 5 year 8 month stint for leaking classified documents. The documentation was around Australian SAS soldiers committing war crimes in Afghanistan. Given they'r
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by plugger 2y ago
> the corporation's human capital management software How's my fellow human capital stock going today?
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by plugger 3y ago
Given the somewhat flaky nature of RPi's in terms of heat/load issues, and combined with the fact that they're quite slow I completely bypass them these days for cheap AMD miniPCs (x64). The Wo-We AMD Excavator A9-9400 unit h
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by plugger 3y ago
Basically Australia has balanced national security via FVEY/US backing with a huge economic upswing delivered off the back of China's rise globally for a couple decades now. Australia is effectively a parasitic passenger on the ba
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by plugger 3y ago
The Optus outage was in the order of 8-9 hours and was a core network fault off the back of a bodged upgrade rolled out in the middle of the night. It's completely unrelated to China, the United States, or geopolitics in general. Optus
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by plugger 3y ago
In that research did you watch this video? https://www.abc.net.au/news/programs/the-business/2023-11-06... I kinda think if you want honest appraisals of the Australia/China relationship you'd proba
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by plugger 3y ago
> ...and expected Australian imports to come flooding back in but almost nobody bit that hook due to the amount of time and money export companies had spent arranging relationships with other countries instead of China in the wake of the
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by plugger 3y ago
If people are going to listen to a famous actor advertising bs on tv as valid investment advice that's on them, and Matt. I wouldn't put that on Ben M.
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by plugger 3y ago
probably both
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by plugger 3y ago
I just ordered a Bosgame Ryzen 3 Mini PC (U32) with 8GB DDR4 RAM and a 256GB M.2 drive for $160 USD. And it comes with Windows 11. I'm blown away by how much you can get for so little these days.
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by plugger 3y ago
A HAB won't even approach space; you'd be lucky to get roughly 1/3 of the way there before the balloon burst.
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by plugger 3y ago
thinking on this a bit more I suspect they would have been seeing iridium flares. that network operates from 1610-1626.5MHz and iridium flares are quite visually spectacular.
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by plugger 3y ago
Technically it's closer to 1.7GHz, but most Geostationary birds transmitting on L band are slightly below that. GOES is at 1.68GHz (roughly) while Polar orbiting satellites (think NOAA 15-19) are just above 1.7GHz.
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by plugger 3y ago
I can't speak to FileVault, but Bitlocker and TPM can be quite easily defeated through sniffing the bitlocker key as it's transmitted from the TPM chip to the CPU to decrypt the drive on boot over the LPC, I2C, or SPI bus. Unless
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by plugger 3y ago
I agree. As an expat yank I've seen both sides. I was raised in a gun heavy household and had a loaded Sig P229 and MAK-90 in my bedroom at 18. Moving to Australia and realising I didn't like to live life with 'my head on a s
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by plugger 3y ago
Tiring to see so many Americans continually ignore the fact that guns, shooting enthusiasts, and hunters all still exist in Australia. Just a simple google search would reveal shooting clubs exist across this continent. Sure, shooters are n

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