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by snerbles 9y ago
Fiber-Optic Intrusion Detection Systems (FOIDS) are often used in physical fenceline security [0], with permanent installations using hardened conduit or impromptu setups of kevlar-jacketed fiber, zip-ties and concertina wire. It's on
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by snerbles 9y ago
The inflammatory nature of the chans is in and of itself a filter - people that partake in imageboard discussions tend to be more thick-skinned as a result.
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by snerbles 9y ago
Experiments in free-space optics go even further back. In 1963, a group of amateur radio operators established a laser comms link at 190km: http://www.modulatedlight.org/eos/operation_red_line_gallery...
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by snerbles 9y ago
Totally safe, until your local war-driver sniffs out your insecure device and comes back at two in the morning to upload illegal content via your ISP.
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by snerbles 9y ago
Make sure you receive a notification of delivery, so you have an idea of why people are randomly thanking you months after you've forgotten about setting such a thing up.
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by snerbles 9y ago
When the stresses exceed the salve of McDonalds and Netflix, we'll see the guillotines roll out again. Many of the heads in the basket will be our own.
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by snerbles 9y ago
It's tragic that some consider "classical liberal" an alt-right dog whistle.
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by snerbles 9y ago
The fictional history of Star Trek did have a global nuclear war in the 21st century.
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by snerbles 9y ago
Just watch, Thag creates an obsidian package manager that anyone can upload their arrowheads to - this will truly disrupt the neolithic hunter ecosystem and break the walled gardens of the gatherers.
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by snerbles 9y ago
The loud evangelists for social justice are usually seeking power. Blue-collar jobs aren't considered prestigious, so they'll get little more than lip service.
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by snerbles 9y ago
We become desensitized to certain forms of stimuli over time. Someone with horrendous body odor may not even notice it at first, but once he can actually smell it the stench is making his neighbors gag. In other words, it's bad enough
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by snerbles 9y ago
The author danced around but missed the detached, holier-than-thou elitism that radiates from the entire Bay Area.
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by snerbles 9y ago
At least one can tell those two apart. To someone learning the language, Swift 2 and 3 are almost indistinguishable. Lots of fun compiler errors and deprecation warnings were had.
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by snerbles 9y ago
As a newcomer to Swift, finding "old" blog posts and tutorials that are written in Swift 2 is utterly maddening.
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by snerbles 9y ago
Having more force is irrelevant if it can't be properly applied. Easy when a few yahoos take over an abandoned building on federal land, a little harder when an insurgency of thousands has metastasized throughout a society. See the ou
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by snerbles 9y ago
To be fair, attitudes of many on the coasts are doing a good enough job of that already.
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by snerbles 9y ago
The nail that sticks out will be hammered down.
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by snerbles 9y ago
Slashdot's score weighting is configurable. You could even add a positive score offset to foes.
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by snerbles 9y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if dismissals similar to yours were made to those concerned about the IBM's tabulation machines arriving in 1930s Germany.
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by snerbles 9y ago
Peace Corps has a higher academic barrier of entry, requiring a four-year degree or certain specific skills. Much easier to enlist in the armed services, if you're reasonably fit.
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by snerbles 9y ago
This works until a registrar revokes your domain name.
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by snerbles 9y ago
Sure, that's the cost of doing anything with FB. A pseudonym is used to avoid nosy third parties, not Facebook itself. Less pressure to expose one's self to the psychological pathogen that is the Facebook Timeline.
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by snerbles 9y ago
Not to mention the wacky animated GIFs every other paragraph.
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by snerbles 9y ago
No. For third-party app logins I use a friendless FB account under a pseudonym.
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by snerbles 9y ago
When control of the modern public sphere is vested in the owners of social networks and internet infrastructure, that balance of power becomes rather lopsided.
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I couldn't find a privacy policy or terms of service anywhere on their site.
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by snerbles 9y ago
How would you know if that data was used in a decision?
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by snerbles 9y ago
archive.is does not crawl automatically, it must be pointed at a page by a user. While this makes it particularly useful for snapshotting frequently-changed pages, it is not a replacement for the proper Internet Archive.
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by snerbles 9y ago
Internal studies probably correlates such language with reduced pushback from users.
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by snerbles 9y ago
Flagged: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14989835 Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14985094 Are the ones I've seen.

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