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by wl 14y ago
Weight, as long as it isn't excessive, is only something racers need to worry about. I own aluminum and steel frame bicycles and the main difference is how the different materials feel when going across bumps. The weight difference is proba
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by wl 14y ago
My degree is in electrical engineering and I never dealt with high power stuff in school. Analog and digital electronics. Signal processing. Control systems. Semiconductors. I could have taken power classes if I wanted.
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by wl 14y ago
Apple rebranding iTools to .Mac.
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by wl 14y ago
ShotSpotter cannot be "unlocked" to record conversations by accident. These sensors are placed far away from where people might be talking and this is intentional. Conversations are just one more source of noise to be filtered out.
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by wl 14y ago
It's not in Davis or even on campus which is adjacent to Davis. It's on McClellan Air Force Base.
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by wl 15y ago
That's what I usually do. I have a first initial + last name @ gmail.com account and tons of people sign up for accounts using my email address. Unfortunately, doing a password reset on for a bank account, cellular account, or the like is u
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by wl 15y ago
The problem is, a continuous, consistent pattern of negative reviews can just as easily come from someone who has it out for a business. I have a friend who is currently a target of such a vendetta. He got into an edit dispute with someone
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by wl 15y ago
The problem is that the headline is wrong and the Turing Award isn't a Nobel Prize. It may be similar in prestige to a Nobel, but it is awarded by different people. Maybe there is no harm in saving people from having to do a search, but the
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by wl 15y ago
It's a standard attorney-client relationship. The attorney acts as a representative for the client in legal matters. Just like an employee represents a company when they go to work. What's the difference here? Righthaven tried to acquire so
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by wl 15y ago
While police acting as goon squads for private interests is problematic, there is another larger problem here. Police departments everywhere are becoming more and more paramilitary. In the United States, the Federal Government actually give
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by wl 15y ago
They cut power to cell repeaters. They didn't jam anything, though they certainly got hell for it. The FCC is investigating.
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by wl 15y ago
That's not quite correct, actually. Citizens United overturned a part of a law that prohibited corporations and unions from spending their money on "electioneering communications" (generally defined as communications advocating for or again
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by wl 15y ago
I'm wondering why people are trying to get the leap second removed from UTC. If people have situations where leap seconds are problematic, why not just switch to TAI which already doesn't have leap seconds?
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by wl 15y ago
Granted, the plural of anecdote is not data, but I've filed six DMCA takedown notices for photographs I've placed under Creative Commons licenses but were not used according to the terms of those licenses. Every company I dealt with took sw
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by wl 15y ago
I've been getting emails from Verizon about home phone, DSL, and cell service for over two years. I have never been a customer. The password reset for the account requires account numbers I don't have access to or the ability to receive tex
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by wl 15y ago
SOPA provides for DNS and IP blacklisting. In fact, there was even a failed amendment to take the IP blacklisting out.
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by wl 15y ago
That's not quite accurate. 501(c)(3) nonprofits CAN engage in political activity. They are just limited in the amount they can do. A group like the Sierra Club whose primary activity is lobbying and politics and who incidentally does other
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by wl 15y ago
I'm not a web dev so I'm a bit puzzled by the social buttons everywhere. How often do people actually click them? To what extent can they drive traffic to your site? I've often wondered if they're a bit like QR codes in that a small portion
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by wl 15y ago
No part states it explicitly (such technology didn't exist when it was written). People who are arguing against this practice cite the 4th amendment, which reads as follows: "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, pa
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by wl 15y ago
You would think so, but Apple has been really poor in this area as of late. They discontinued Shake. They replaced Final Cut Pro with a rewrite that catered more to hobbyists than professionals.
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by wl 15y ago
The government already does this for some things. SIPRnet is for the transmission of information classified up to secret and is airgapped from the public internet. This is where the Bradley Manning leaks came from. JWICS and NSANet are run