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by snerbles 8y ago
That precedent was overturned by SCOTUS over forty years ago. It is no longer legally relevant, but I suppose it's useful as a speech control dogwhistle. https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012&#x2F
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From a pure time savings perspective, this makes sense - naturally, links to XKCD are already popping up. From a maintenance perspective, a well-written script can serve as a reference after the original task was long forgotten. A poor sub
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If you knew the sheer scope and extent of what the US DoD runs on desktop Windows, you'd have a heart attack.
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Empowered as such business owners may be, remember that they are not free from the consequences of their discrimination.
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While not specifically caused by Microsoft, here's one of my prior horror stories on forced updates: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11985904 The replies are even better. TL;DR - "Who cares if we rebooted t
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That doesn't gain you as many stars on GitHub, conference talks, TechCrunch articles and HN threads.
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Pro-PRC shilling is a pervasive phenomenon - see the 50-Cent Party. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Cent_Party
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Packingham v. North Carolina [0] was about the constitutionality of the state banning users from social media - not on social networks issuing their own bans. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packingham_v._North_Carolina
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The PLC/robotics/industrial automation space is often ten to twenty years behind in software best practices, with things like source control being completely alien to many vendors. Documentation can also be hard to come by, burie
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Maybe it's just my personal biases - the rumble of a Minuteman compared to a Delta or Atlas seemed rather abbreviated, and the launches themselves were often obscured in inclement weather. An SLBM popping out of the water would be rat
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It's open ocean straight south of Vandenberg AFB all the way to Antarctica. This geographic quirk makes it a safer location to put satellites into polar orbit - Earth-observing sats launched out of Cape Canaveral have to take a "
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by snerbles 9y ago
Agenda-driven reporting is older than you think. The 1898 sinking of the USS Maine comes to mind, where the papers put the public into such a frenzy that it led to war. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_of_the_S
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There are cases where the First Amendment can apply to "private-owned public spaces", such as company towns [0] or shopping malls [1]. While such a designation has not yet been applied to Facebook, some are exploring the possibil
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HN's bubble is a bit more tone-sensitive, where rowdy rabble-rousing from any side usually gets squashed...but the thresholds of tolerance are a bit skewed with softly-worded comments. Carefully crafted traditional/conservative co
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> Or disassemble their libraries. Be warned that FANUC is very litigious about that sort of thing. I can't go into specifics, but they've sued companies out of existence for less.
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To be fair, some applications on some distros have HiDPI issues. LibreOffice [0], icons in GTK2 apps, anything that uses Java Swing, etc. Particularly galling is the oft-suggested fix of temporarily reducing desktop resolution and fowli
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Laser dazzlers [0] were deployed by the UK during the Falklands War [1], but actual combat use has not been confirmed. They've seen more common use in Iraq and Afghanistan in recent years. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/
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> You are literally moving their communities further into the deepweb and making gun ownership a nefarious thing! For some, this is the intended outcome.
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> A smaller fraction fear that the registry will either be public from the start or significantly breached within a short time frame, such that gun owners will be selectively targeted for harassment or burglaries. Gawker is well ahead o
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Silicon Valley, located in the vicinity of San Francisco Bay. The Bay Area area is noted for anti-military sentiment, especially given the history of UC Berkeley during the time of the Vietnam War. Naturally, some of this spills over into
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> the social network can only share as much as you give it You and your "friends".
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You'd see wide-spread jamming well before then.
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Such applications are far from consumer tech, where the likelihood of safety-ignorant users is much higher.
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FANUC's Collaborative Robot line comes to mind [0]. Padded, force-limited, and will stop on contact. I haven't had a chance to play with these - they're still pretty new. [0] https://www.fanucamerica.com/hom
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by snerbles 9y ago
It needs a little extra to meet PLd/e, no? I usually work with Allen-Bradley, my Siemens experience is rather lacking. Most of our customers would run away screaming from anything that's not hardwired safety, and are too cheap to
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For modern industrial applications, the safety circuit is often (edit- see child comment's note on safety PLCs) managed by discrete safety relay hardware such as the AB GuardMaster or Pilz PNOZ. There's a good chance these weren&
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It is still not unreasonable to believe that such systems exist, and those systems will become more prevalent over time. An EtherNet/IP-controlled servo drive with an HTTP configuration page installed in 2008 will likely still be runn
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Until there is tangible motivation (i.e. multiple players get publicly put out of business by lax security), customers will continue to refuse to understand things they cannot put their hands on.
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About a month ago I attempted to restore a DOS-based industrial HMI panel that we shipped mid-1995. The 2 MiB of proprietary custom 72-pin SIMM flash memory had gone corrupt, and neither us nor the panel's OEM possessed the original s
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It may at least serve as a fallback, considering that the vendor may cease to exist and client software is rendered permanently unavailable.

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