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by pmorici 6y ago
It isn't just a matter of speed. There are some drive commands that only work when you attach a device via an adapter that supports UASP. OPAL drive encryption being one.
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by pmorici 6y ago
It's software that decides when to charge the battery / buy power and discharge the battery / sell power using forecasts based on historical demand trends and the spot price of power.
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by pmorici 6y ago
All those cited examples were unquestionably deliberate. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldrich_Ames https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Hanssen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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by pmorici 6y ago
"painting an entire profession as monsters is simply wrong." Asking people to act to professional standards and holding them to those standards isn't painting them as monsters nor does it seem unreasonable.
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by pmorici 6y ago
Two thoughts. Fire the ones that refuse to comply. The unemployment rate is 15% right now. Second you have a law enforcement agency that is separate from the one with the problem enforce the rules. That could be a state police agency th
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by pmorici 6y ago
https://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/justin-trudeau-announces...
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One result was it gave a pretense for the prime minister to issue the equivalent of an executive order banning 1500 types of rife which were previously legal and giving anyone that owns one a 2 year grace period to dispose of it. This was
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by pmorici 6y ago
The device doesn't need to store the key to do the encryption. It can be given the key when you boot it and then clear it before shipment.
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by pmorici 6y ago
I doubt it has it's own FCC ID. It probably uses an off the shelf wifi card to avoid having to do FCC testing.
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by pmorici 6y ago
Here is what I don't get about this product line. The docs say the encryption is done on the attached workstation. Which means your network transfer speed is going to be limited if you don't have a pretty high end machine with a
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by pmorici 6y ago
They market this stuff aggressively to the government as a military IT solution.
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This all strikes me as extremely alarmist and far-fetched. The chances of COVID causing an indefinite pandemic that alters the nature of human behavior and the course of history forever in my estimation is zero. Business and economic diff
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by pmorici 6y ago
I had this story about HP webcam software in mind. [0] But I'd say it very much depends on what you are doing. I don't think it is an inherent short coming of the technology but if you don't think about what you are doing t
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by pmorici 6y ago
Train it with a set of data that doesn't include a wide enough variety of faces.
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I don't think so if anything veterans of those conflicts probably have way more restraint because half the crap police have been shown doing wouldn't be allowed by the military. If soldiers shot and abused people as routinely and
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by pmorici 6y ago
Not really. It makes it sound like they know that professional misconduct happens with such frequency in their unit that they can't control themselves. It also turns the story from one of misguided support for a colleague to one of c
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by pmorici 6y ago
Justine Damound is another one that happened right in Minneapolis recently. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Justine_Damond
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by pmorici 6y ago
This article from a local news station claims the real reason for the resignations is because the union said they wouldn't provide free legal defense to that particular units officers any longer and the two accused had to pony up for t
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by pmorici 6y ago
I don't think the warnings about the nature of COVID are wrong the pandemic is just unevenly distributed and people have a hard time contextualizing their personal risk when they aren't directly effected. 110,000 Americans have d
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by pmorici 6y ago
Federal tax revenues are also being gutted its just that the federal government has the magical power of having control over the currency in which they issue their debt.
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by pmorici 6y ago
Point is that GM leadership did things to inhibit the development of EV's even though they were the first company to develop one. (Blackberry didn't try and kill smart phones they were the MySpace to Apple's Facebook) When y
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by pmorici 6y ago
Bit of revisionist history. The EV1 only came about because California was passing laws requiring ~2% of vehicles sold in the state to be EV's by 1997. A regulation which GM campaigned against and then sold their interest in the batt
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by pmorici 6y ago
Workhorse a company that recently bought a closed factory from GM in Lordstown Ohio and got financing from GM to do so has had a concept for an electric commercial van advertised on their website for some time. They used to have a concept
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by pmorici 6y ago
No, I'm saying that comparing police to doctors isn't useful.
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If you do use the fb device for some reason you don't need to have the user give the screen parameters like size and bit depth. Once you know the name of the framebuffer device all of that information is available in /sys/cl
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by pmorici 6y ago
In Baltimore, the minimum wage is $15 an hour (31k / yr) and the starting salary for a police trainee is advertised to be around 35k. The point isn't whether they get paid the wrong amount for the qualifications required the point
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by pmorici 6y ago
No where, I said 'slightly above starting out'. For example in Baltimore where they have a $15 minimum wage (~31k /yr) the advertised starting salary for a police officer is something like $35-38k while they are in training
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by pmorici 6y ago
I agree that both professions have the same sort of "service in a time of crisis" mythology surrounding them but how does the fact that the norm for the medical profession is high pay where as the norm for police is slightly above
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by pmorici 6y ago
Some of those tweets that the article quotes sound like something straight out of the Onion. People are asking these social media companies to put themselves in an impossible position.
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That's sort of what a corporate entity provides and why people form corporations instead of doing business in their own name.

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