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841.
by scoot 10y ago
Okay, so what did the High Way Patrol (is that seriously a thing?!) do about it?
842.
by scoot 10y ago
> there are a few things worth nothing Freudian slip?
843.
by scoot 10y ago
That's good to know - the ads are the reason I reluctantly switched from OpenDNS to google. (Reluctantly in that Google already has enough of my data, thanks, through gmail, search, maps, docs and other services, not because it doesn&
844.
by scoot 10y ago
In the mobile app I'm using the company name in your comment has split across two lines as "Go-ogle", which suddenly made so much sense! I was slightly disappointed that this isn't what it says in the paper, or presumabl
845.
by scoot 10y ago
Tells what people? How do you know who owns a device?
846.
by scoot 10y ago
> Assume 10% of transactions are Amex. Big assumption. Amex is not commonly used outside the US. I reckon you could safely cut that to 5%, if not less.
847.
by scoot 10y ago
Good old SQL injection?
848.
by scoot 10y ago
The Scratch-like drag -and-drop programming environment is only one of several. Code Kingdoms Javascript supports both block and text, and transitioning from one to the other, MS Touch Develop is text based, and then there's Python: h
849.
by scoot 10y ago
Forgive me, but why is the fact that a university is offering a class to its students (hacker)news-worthy? Isn't that what universities do?
850.
by scoot 10y ago
DNA?
851.
by scoot 10y ago
> it means that the airplane could have very small wings, which are usually good for efficiency This is all well and good under normal flight conditions, but the glide ratio in the event of motor failure would not lend itself well to com
852.
by scoot 10y ago
The fact that @gilsadis didn't understand this this suggests to me that they are in entirely the wrong business.
853.
by scoot 10y ago
Religion is a scam in either case, so why not streamline it?
854.
by scoot 10y ago
It isn't just ethics; in Europe, at least, it's regulatory. (See GDPR and it predecessors). The response from Udacity suggests not.
855.
by scoot 10y ago
"One Million People" - Huh, well I never. I had a similar idea, inspired by the Million Dollar Home Page, but 5 years before "One Million People". I think mine was a bit more innovative, (but just as likely to have faile
856.
by scoot 10y ago
Like a solar powered watch or calculator?
857.
by scoot 10y ago
Why do you consider $30,000 dollars madness, but not $3,000? $100 for a single dose? Hand-shaken or not, it's still madness.
858.
by scoot 10y ago
Exactly what I just said. But that is "insinuating", which is what is warned against in the guidelines. Directly calling it out isn;t mentioned. The guidelines are backwards.
859.
by scoot 10y ago
Highlighting something in an article that shows that a poster clearly hasn't read some or all of the article is "insinuating", and seems to be widely accepted. (And why not - a counter argument based directly on the source ma
860.
by scoot 10y ago
Critical System Protection - a security product from Symantec that includes process whitelisting.
861.
by scoot 10y ago
> Coiling the cord by hand causes the wire to twist, which in turn causes fraying. Not if you know how to coil it properly - yet the sheath on the cable of my MBP PSU has split, despite not using the fold-up cable storage arms that would
862.
by scoot 10y ago
Right at the top: "Optical sensors and motion accelerometers work with the W1 chip to automatically control the audio and engage the microphone, giving you the ability to use one or both AirPods. "
863.
by scoot 10y ago
Very surprised at their choice of a quadcopter which has four very obvious single points of failure. A hexacopter, or better still an octo with split flight controllers and power sources has some chance of recovering from a powertrain failu
864.
by scoot 10y ago
I had no idea who Mitch Hedberg was, so I googled: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7auvTMm47uM Cracked me up! That guy is sharp.
865.
by scoot 10y ago
I'm pretty sure lead poisoning is a myth. As a teen I used to habitually chew on lead solder while I worked on electronics projects. No adverse effects so far that I'm aware of.
866.
by scoot 10y ago
Good spot. Following that link, there was an "up next" video of what looks like a trade-show demo of an "Eigenharp" - in which they describe "Touch 3D": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9qPf31xY
867.
by scoot 10y ago
So - if an intruder breaks in to your house, you can shoot him without repercussions; but if an intruder breaks into your house and trips on your loose stair carpet, he can sue for his resulting injuries? Bizarre!
868.
by scoot 10y ago
Then RYFC: "it's good to know that Philae hadn't bounced off into space." does not correlate with someone who had bother to read the article before commenting. You can't "bounce" from a stationary positi
869.
by scoot 10y ago
RTFA. It was already known it had landed, just not exactly where.
870.
by scoot 10y ago
I guess he's referring to this? http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/526741/30/0/threaded

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