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vageli
7y ago
> At least in most of the usa, wearing earplugs (or earbuds, headphones, etc) while operating a car, is illegal. Please check with your local PD to be safe. You may just be putting yourself and others at higher risk by attinuating your s
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vageli
7y ago
> This reminds me of a time I needed a blower fan for my refrigerator and Amazon’s recommended one for next day delivery seemed suspiciously underpriced. I ordered it despite my trepidation that the item was going to be made out of silly
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vageli
7y ago
> > they’ll figure out devices that does not > Just owning one of them could then become probable cause for a search of everything else you have, and then you'll be held in contempt and jailed until you hand over the password.
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vageli
7y ago
What do you mean "after the second or third time"? Are you suggesting that if this person were to sue for the repeated harassment and presumably prevail (with some kind of damages attached) that the behavior would persist?
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vageli
7y ago
> The FAA has a video on the subject: > https://youtu.be/vS6KA_Si-m8?t=185 > I suspect the rationale is that any potential for exposing new parts of the battery chemistry to water are dwarfed by the effectiveness o
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vageli
7y ago
> They even said that laptops with replaced batteries are fine...how on earth are they going to enforce that? What's stopping me from saying "Oh yeah, I got the battery serviced last month"? Given the reactions to the Boei
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vageli
7y ago
> It'a not a decision made by US airports, the US requires every person who lands on US soil to clear US customs even if that person's final destination is outside the US (ie. the US doesn't allow sterile transit). Is it t
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vageli
7y ago
> I disagree. There is an implicit contract between website publishers and search engines that it’s ok to do this. The website can set nosnippet in robots if they want to not have the snippet in search results. Who made this contract? I
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vageli
7y ago
> China was always going to annex Hong Kong eventually, this is something almost everyone with any interest in this particular situation has known for many years. So if I told you you would be maimed in 10 years, does that make the maimi
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vageli
7y ago
Ah so you mean leveraging the exploit for financial gain by using it (ransomware) versus selling. That makes a ton of sense!
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vageli
7y ago
> Court isn't cheap. > You're paying for it with a lawyer or with your own time At some point surely you can countersue for harassment?
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vageli
7y ago
It must be a car manufactured before VIN standardization in 1981, at the very least.
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vageli
7y ago
> If they still wont comply after one year, mass incarceration is an option. Alternatively people could be executed on sight. Surely this is in jest?
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vageli
7y ago
> This point to an actual use of the cryptocurrency - exploiting a 0 day against someone who might have a crypto wallet means you can actually directly make money off exploits. Prior to crypto, having a 0 day wasn't equal with abili
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vageli
7y ago
> Schools are finding that this is a problem, but haven't had the ability to manage it. So we have built a product to address this very issue ( https://www.schoolbench.com.au ). > SchoolBench allows you to match profile
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vageli
7y ago
> We do use facial recognition to detect the faces in the photo, and then integrate with the school's student management system to work out what permissions or media consent has been granted for each student. > From there you can
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vageli
7y ago
> Is this the first successful remote exploit of the iPhone? No? https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-49/p...
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vageli
7y ago
> Ok, but what about mattress stores? Are you telling me they aren't for money laundering? Margins are insanely high on mattresses. Why the connection to money laundering?
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vageli
7y ago
> I agree financial debt can kill a company. I'm not familiar with what management debt is. > But I don't know of any companies that were killed by technical debt. I would imagine the failures of those companies are attribut
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vageli
7y ago
> I wish you much strength. The kinds of decisions you are facing (have faced) are the hardest you can imagine and can only be understood if you have been in the situation yourself. I believe that nobody has the right to judge them. Last
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vageli
7y ago
Many people go to a lot of trouble to perpetrate fraud, look at that guy claiming to have invented bitcoin for example. That is not to say that I believe this site to be fraudulent. I could not find any information on a course available, co
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vageli
7y ago
> Or you could do a two second google search and find photographic evidence: http://www.biyubi.com/tecnologia.html All of that sounds very interesting, but as edgarvm points out, it's not exactly evidence. Reads mor
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vageli
7y ago
> Nicely demonstrating that just as "open source" is open to multiple interpretations, so is "free software". Within certain communities, there are widely-accepted definitions (from OSI, FSF, Debian, etc) but not ever
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vageli
7y ago
> "addictive" being the key word, I think - which implies machine intelligence picking the next show, not network executives. How is it implied that machines are picking the next show? Humans are able to engineer addiction as w
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vageli
7y ago
> AAPL is still undervalued compared to stocks like AMZN. Apple's P/E of 17 is amazing compared to Amazons 78. I'm not really sure why their stock isn't traded with the same enthusiasm that other tech companies see. I
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vageli
7y ago
> Such usury loans are absolutely illegal in civilised countries, for instance everywhere in Europe. Just saying. This is proved untrue with minimal searching online. Here's one example: https://www.msn.com/en-gb
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vageli
7y ago
> For which to get on you need an address to live at. For which to get one, you need a bank account (at least, but in 99.9% cases this alone is not enough), otherwise no agency is going to give rent you a house. At what age do you become
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7y ago
> Right, but it wouldn’t have happened if they hadn’t had such lax security, and I would argue that capital one are liable here for failing to adequately safeguard consumer data. If you properly secure your stack, you don’t get hacked. I
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vageli
7y ago
> Broad sweeping statements don't do anyone justice. > We live near the westmost tip of the US and have a water management plan for the entire county. We pay into a mitigation that manages the entire watershed. I live on the east
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vageli
7y ago
Exactly this! If the outcome for every case could be known in advance algorithmically or something we wouldn't have lawyers. Since the law is written by people and interpreted by people, it remains blurry when you zoom in close enough
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