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by spdustin 11y ago
Providing a fingerprint (identification) is different from imprinting your finger to unlock a device. It's been upheld in the past that passwords/passphrases used to unlock encrypted content are considered to be testimony (because
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by spdustin 11y ago
Would you mind terribly quoting the law that requires me to submit to the physical act of unlocking my phone? Since it's not a two-factor system, it is equivalent to a passphrase, which (IIRC) has been upheld to be a form of testimony,
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by spdustin 11y ago
No need to apologize, there's great information there for many readers, I'm sure. I myself benefited from the reminder that the TSA serves to deflect liability away from carriers in the event of a dangerous device getting through
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by spdustin 11y ago
I would go further to suggest that, simply, more people attempt to carry contraband such as illegal drugs, than attempt to carry "dangerous" items, such as those that "terrorists" would ostensibly try to bring on board.
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by spdustin 11y ago
I wouldn't think they'd have the authority to seize the drugs themselves, since the warning sign is from the Port of Portland, the governmental authority that oversees PDX as well as marine ports. My feeling is that they would be
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by spdustin 11y ago
And the reality is, physical screening measures will always result in the "bad guys" getting more clever with circumvention methods.
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by spdustin 11y ago
There are no powerful people going through those lines. Just semi-rich ones. The GP's list would be more effective. And only if it got enough people to participate in our government by writing/visiting our representatives and dema
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by spdustin 11y ago
As much as I despise the whole TSA process, it is ostensibly to prevent terrorists from using an aircraft as a weapon, or destroying it and killing hundreds of passengers. I don't know of any private jets with the amount of chemical or
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by spdustin 11y ago
Thanks for that clarification! I honestly never considered that technical aspect of the scans, as I do not have Global Entry, and I didn't know that retina scans are technically infeasible to utilize for ID purposes. You've given
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by spdustin 11y ago
I have PreCheck, first due to my frequent traveler status with my (at the time) favored airline (which, as I understand it, PreCheck doesn't offer any longer) and then as a paid member, when I noticed that over ten consecutive entries,
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by spdustin 11y ago
No retina scan for PreCheck, that's for Global Entry / Nexus.
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by spdustin 11y ago
You stated a fact alongside your opinion, that a large portion of the TSA's operation includes seizing drugs. Do you have a source for this?
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by spdustin 11y ago
This is a non-issue. First class flyers pay for a ticket that allows them shorter lines, not expedited screening. They're still subject to being randomly flagged, and they will go through the same screening process as everyone else. Th
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by spdustin 11y ago
It, well, depends. In my business, clients are often given the choice between a non-exclusive, perpetual, royalty-free license to basically do whatever with the final product (which often includes code and graphics but not, for example, sou
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by spdustin 11y ago
I don't know what the hell is going on at the author's house, but I have both an Xbox One (with active Kinect) and an Amazon Echo in the living room, along with two kids, and I can count on one fist how many times either of them h
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by spdustin 11y ago
Yes, "anything like this"... TFA links to a simple, one-step app that converts an image to a one-bit black and white image using a particular dithering technique. Commenter wanted to know if such a simple "do one thing well&q
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by spdustin 11y ago
Isn't that the truth. I've written a lot of tools in different languages for clients to interact with SharePoint Online, and the whole "submit your credentials to this central place for all of office online" thing bugs m
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by spdustin 11y ago
It's been turned on for some time now. Just no marketing push that I've seen. Quietly hidden away on Azure under another name, IIRC. It's early still, though, and my memory is going a bit. :)
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by spdustin 11y ago
Just ... Just take off a shoe, man.
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by spdustin 11y ago
If you support the .NET Framework Data Provider for OLEDB, it's worth mentioning. That opens up a bunch of additional data sources for folks, potentially including Active Directory, and suddenly you're (maybe) getting the attentio
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by spdustin 11y ago
Connecting to servers that aren't given an IPv4 address (because NAT sucks)?
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by spdustin 11y ago
And what if my users rent it?
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by spdustin 11y ago
Docker ID same as HN ID
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by spdustin 11y ago
That gives me hope, but please forgive those of us in the US for our cynicism when it comes to acquisitions like this. It's become almost a truism that acquisition = EOL.
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by spdustin 11y ago
I'll chime in and say: Support for IPv6. It's ... self evident? I think we've reached a point that it's okay to call out a network client that doesn't support it.
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by spdustin 11y ago
And I and the rest of my family can do it from anywhere in four rooms without me or my phone being present. It's wonderful.
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by spdustin 11y ago
FYI, the above response was related to the below comments about existing DO customers getting screwed out of a $10 promotion, one that wasn't even featured prominently on the Gitlab site. I wanted to show my support for DO and Gitlab h
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by spdustin 11y ago
At the time, the comments page was filled with venting about existing DO customers getting the $10 shaft.
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by spdustin 11y ago
No, it isn't. The HN post is about CI being more affordable thanks to DO. And with Gitlab.com, it's free , can't get much affordable than that.
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by spdustin 11y ago
I have a (perhaps) more incendiary take on this kind of thing. I have no problem with promo codes for new customers. Zero. None. As a business owner, I know damn well there are some products or services that need a little "taster"

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