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by repiret 10y ago
> This is like the story where some government tried to come up with a super high-tech pen that works in the space (because regular pens don't work in zero gravity environment) when the final answer was just a pencil. The debris fro
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by repiret 10y ago
I absolutely agree that not all crimes are deterred by the likelihood or consequences of being caught. But the intersection of crimes that are committed in public and crimes that are committed dispassionately, where the likelihood of bei
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by repiret 10y ago
Apprehension after the fact does actually prevent the perpetrator from committing a substantially similar crime, as least for as long as they're in custody. In addition, things that increase the likelihood of getting caught serve as a
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by repiret 10y ago
The RAT is backup power for the hydrolics. Do you have a citation that there's no backup battery for the electronics, because I don't believe it. Even for the crappy 25 year old not-approved-for-IFR GPS I had in my Cessna needed
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by repiret 10y ago
Article III section 1 gives a lifetime term to all Article III judges. Article III courts include the Supreme Court, Federal Appellete Court, and Federal Circuit court.
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by repiret 10y ago
Yes. In an embedded environment, its not uncommon to: 1. Have a NOR flash part rated for 10,000 or fewer cycles. 2. Have no facility for remapping bad sectors. 3. Have no wear-leveling mechanism. All of this is reasonable for a product tha
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by repiret 10y ago
>> processors such as the ARM cortex-M series have built in debug features such as ~8 breakpoint registers > And these software breakpoints are written into flash. The GP is referring to the eight FPB hardware breakpoints, which do
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by repiret 10y ago
Schools aren't required to carry EpiPens, at least not in my home state. They have, however, recently been allowed to carry them.
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by repiret 10y ago
The price went up because Mylan got a monopoly on epinephrin auto injectors, they have that monopoly because regulations prevent would be competitors from swiftly and/or economically bringing competing products to market. Nobody has to
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by repiret 10y ago
Thats like saying pirated software exposes the greed of software companies. I don't think that anybody believes that EpiPens themselves are very expensive at all - just like software, the cost comes from the cost of development, which
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by repiret 10y ago
If you have a need to verify IDs, a tool to help is helpful even its maker isn't going to pay for the consequences of getting the wrong answer. I doubt the people who make the black light flashlights are making stronger promises.
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by repiret 10y ago
Agreed - this would be really interesting broken by county. Santa Barbara County versus Modoc County in California; Multnomah County versus Lake County in Oregon; etc.
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by repiret 10y ago
Most CPU architectures have instructions to zero memory, but whether its a single instructions or a few in a loop doesn't make much of a difference [1], since the problem is that the underlying memory is dog slow in comparison. If you
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by repiret 11y ago
I don't think I had seen "Sichuan" before. Turns out Szechwan and Szechuan are antiquated romanizations of Sichuan.
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by repiret 11y ago
Not likely. The exhaust normally comes out directly from the engine compartment, forward of the firewall. But the modification moves it farther aft - bringing it closer to where a survalence package would be mounted. That said, this planes
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by repiret 11y ago
Yeah it's a great plane, hard to beat for any operation where you don't need more speed more altitude. I'll bet law enforcement can operate them for about 2X a regular squad car. Unfortunately most of my family gets horribl
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by repiret 11y ago
I own a Cessna 182 that was originally owned by the Washington State Police. While they owned it they added an automotive-style muffler (planes don't normally have mufflers) to use it for stealth surveillance. They tore that all out
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by repiret 11y ago
I think the question is how the character of the surveillance changes when technology allows it to be done at larger scales with longer retention and more data mining. I think this a central question in modern privacy policy. You could a
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by repiret 11y ago
I'm sure they will eventually. Right now we're in the very early days of unmanned and manned aircraft sharing the national airspace system, and its still administratively easier to use a manned aircraft. But I'm sure in 10
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Frd
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by repiret 11y ago
> extrapolates the current pay period out into the full calendar year and then deducts taxes at that rate For US Federal taxes, thats generally how its supposed to work - see [1], and for some exceptions [2]. > small gross increase [.
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by repiret 11y ago
Lawyers have a doctorate - it's what the D in JD stands for.
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by repiret 11y ago
And then how do you know the formal definition you give to Cryptol is correct? How do you know that Cryptol correctly transforms the formal definition to a logic circuit? How do you know it correctly transforms your C/Java/Assem
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by repiret 11y ago
The article makes frequent use of the term Sixth-former, which I hadn't heard before: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixth_form It appears to be the equivalent of 11th and 12th grade in the US.
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I think most architectures are like that.
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by repiret 11y ago
Controllers don't always simulcast on the military and civilian frequencies. Sometimes they do, because its convenient, just like they sometimes simulcast on Ground and Tower or on Ground and Clearance, but often they only transmit on
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by repiret 11y ago
I once heard that while in the United States, 100 years is a long time, in Europe, 100 miles is a long distance.
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by repiret 11y ago
Most general aviation engine failures are caused by poor fuel management. Training and discipline helps just as much with fuel management. While there are clearly situations where this device can save lives, I agree with the GP that the ca
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by repiret 11y ago
> When the engine goes out you generally only have 10 seconds to decide where to land. That depends entirely on how close you are to the ground when the engine goes out. If its during takeoff, you might have less than 10 seconds to dec
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> In other words, removing a pound of cargo can reduce the total weight of the plane by several pounds Thats only true if a significant amount of fuel is used to overcome induced drag when in cruise. If most of the fuel is used to overc

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