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by shabble 13y ago
I wonder if there's a market for a power strip of this type that also presents a standard serial/USB UPS interface to the hardware, giving it a grace period to shutdown before the hard kill.
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by shabble 13y ago
How much do (surface level) large-bore oil/gas pipelines cost? There's not necessarily a requirement to place it underground. The biggest saving over rail is probably the much lighter weight of the capsules, which should require m
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by shabble 13y ago
I'd have thought[1] (post reentry) initial parachutes/streamers, either released or retracted, with a retro-engine landing. Could be that the weight savings in fuel aren't enough for that choice, or that there are other good
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by shabble 13y ago
There's an interesting report on the A380 certification evacuation test[1] of ~870 people in 78 seconds. Granted, that was in a hanger with volunteers who knew it was going to come (but not when). Serious fuselage damage might put enou
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by shabble 13y ago
I meant in the body of the message "I can't log in to my stupid $theirdomain/$theirservice account!"
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by shabble 13y ago
I wonder if you could train a spam classifier to identify & autorespond (or to randomly just drop/bounce/"help"[1] if you want to automate your current workflow :) ) these messages? Maybe even a simple regex for <
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by shabble 13y ago
The first was submitted a couple of weeks ago at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5871927 but didn't seem to take root. Hopefully there'll be a part 3 that gives an excuse to resubmit :)
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by shabble 13y ago
http://projects.washingtonpost.com/top-secret-america/ Millions is probably overstating it though. FTA: "An estimated 854,000 people, nearly 1.5 times as many people as live in Washington, D.C., hold top-secret se
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by shabble 13y ago
At a guess, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breaker_Morant_%28film%29
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by shabble 13y ago
Not in an insurgency, low-intensity warfare sort of way. Not unless you can somehow make them very targeted. "We had to destroy the [village] in order to save it" doesn't really apply if you consider, say, New York City. As
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by shabble 13y ago
Not quite what you're talking about, but there was recently a couple of posts by the 'binwalk' author about differentiating encrypted vs compressed data (presumed header-less): http://www.devttys0.com/2013&#x2
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by shabble 13y ago
likewise. There's quite a lot of valuable data I have encrypted in various blobs that I'd love to get back, but have totally forgotten the passphrase. I keep them around because I hope that one day I'll have an epiphany (or b
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by shabble 13y ago
This does seem like a reasonable approach, but would definitely need a rate-limiting system/opt-out to avoid intentional activate-mail DoS to the actual address owner. Might also help whoever has foo@bar.com and similar, too.
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by shabble 13y ago
I'd never considered blister packs as an impulse control measure before; I had assumed it was for ease of dosing/packaging, and perhaps longer shelf-life (The US approach of (until relatively recent automation improvements) manual
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by shabble 13y ago
I'd never heard of it until I came across it mentioned/shown[2] in the [unofficial] C-64 Prince of Persia conversion[1] linked from some HN thread the other day. I've done the Storage Oscilloscope + pin twiddling for profilin
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by shabble 13y ago
The bit on the last page "I imagined a future in which rich people create dozens of scapegoats for themselves, like [...] body doubles, and wondered how some data-mining bot might tell the difference." reminds me of the "Frie
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by shabble 13y ago
The biggest issue I had during initial training was the mask leak/loss/purge drill. From what I recall, it's a side-effect of the Diving Reflex[1] that cold water on the face (and nose especially) makes it quite difficult to
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by shabble 13y ago
There seem to be 2 confused issues in this (sub)thread. Firstly, the Therapeutic Index argument (ratio of effective dose to dangerous/fatal dose), for which the 2 drugs are (very) roughly equivalent, based on some back-of-envelope esti
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by shabble 13y ago
Are you talking about 3.5g Tylenol (Acetaminophen/Paracetamol) in conjunction with [moderate to large] amounts of alcohol? Because otherwise, it's unlikely to be fatal even in a single dose, and is within normal dosage guidelines
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by shabble 13y ago
There was some drama about a bunch of Fisker EVs catching fire[1] after immersion, but apparently[2] not (directly) battery-related. Offhand, I'm not sure if the specific battery chemistry requires vents for in/out-gassing, or whe
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by shabble 13y ago
People working near are likely to be wearing suits something like [1]. I'm not sure if there are any fundamental constraints to putting a camera inside a similar shielded enclosure, but I imagine it could be possible that the camera le
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by shabble 13y ago
I understood the point he was making to be that under a strict interpretation of the law/regulation in question, there is no flexibility around whether you have it because you're intentionally harvesting undersize stock, or whethe
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by shabble 13y ago
> Oh by the way, these are also by and large submitted to the Federal Register for people to have a chance to read and submit comments and request public meetings. How realistic is it for a normal person, with a full-time job, perhaps
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by shabble 13y ago
A 'marriage of convenience'[1] in that sort of situation is typically treated as fraud, with potentially high penalties (deportation for the incoming, jail for the citizen). I've heard from more than one recently married cou
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by shabble 13y ago
It's a lot less risk for an organisation to appear prudish or paternal than to give their opponents a free attack ad about "corrupting our children/society". The weird rules (apps vs browsers) likely just fall out from t
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by shabble 13y ago
> I rather like the idea of a fishery protection vessel called the "Experiencing A Significant Gravitas Shortfall". I'd go with the Me, I'm counting .
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by shabble 13y ago
I was just flicking through Excession trying to find some appropriate event, but yes, I think that would do nicely. As a bonus, it's also a Scottish bank holiday[1] [1] http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/People&#x2F
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by shabble 13y ago
> The Moscow situation is not comparable to Afghan countryside. Precisely. If anything, it's a much more easily controlled environment for gas diffusion, and allowed almost immediate entry by the special forces to clear the area. E
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by shabble 13y ago
because spies would probably not be spraying graffiti, sitting around singing hymns and waiting to be arrested? If your escape strategy is to hang around being as obvious as possible, and then hoping for only a short prison sentence, you&#x
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by shabble 13y ago
It was only yesterday I came across his most recent update[1] and was hoping the best for him. Truly a sad day for all who knew him, or enjoyed his works. In the spirit of Douglas Adams' Towel Day[2], I propose the institution of &#x27

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