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Except archive.org doesn’t obey robots.txt files any more [1], and they also ignore requests to remove content. [1] https://blog.archive.org/2017/04/17/robots-txt-meant-for-sea...
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“Fired” can imply that you were dismissed for misconduct, inefficiency, or some other individualized cause. If the reason was instead your employer’s lack of money, you should say that you were “laid off,” even if no one else was let go tod
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X is just the letter prefix identifying the series of ITU-T Recommendations related to “Data networks, open system communications and security.” You can see a list of all 25 series (“W” is not assigned) and download most of the documents
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Yes, it’s a feature, so you don’t have to remove the key from a bag or pocket to enter or start the car. In typical designs, the car continually transmits a low-frequency (e.g., 135 kHz) radio signal to wake up any wireless keys within rang
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Your lament is not an unusual one for a business owner; it’s unfortunate that legislators and regulators sometimes overlook or disregard the costs of compliance, especially for smaller firms. Areas of regulation that apply to most small bus
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I think few users know or care what certification authorities (CAs) signed the certificates of the websites they visit. Using a public CA other than Let’s Encrypt can be valuable, however, in situations such as these: - You want a certifica
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Microsoft’s term for part of this, by the way, is “Component-Based Servicing”: https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/askperf/2008/04/23/under... https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/joscon&#
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The software engineering P.E. exam is being discontinued after the April 2019 administration, due to low turnout: only 81 candidates since 2013. https://ncees.org/ncees-discontinuing-pe-software-engineerin...
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You may have been using CDE, but the default on IRIX in the 1990s was Indigo Magic Desktop (later called IRIX Interactive Desktop), with SGI’s own port of Motif. This used the 4Dwm window manager, which had window decorations like those of
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He couldn’t pay it all, so the FCC settled for $2,360, paid in installments: https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-16-184A1.pd...
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I’m suggesting only that form-letter comments or statements of support or opposition, unaccompanied by substantive facts, analysis, or argument, don’t do much to develop the administrative record, which is the point of taking public comment
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This isn’t a surprise: comments are meant to ensure that rule-making agencies consider relevant information before making a final decision; they aren’t an opinion poll. See the Administrative Procedure Act, 5 U.S.C. § 553(c): After notice
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10y ago
I’m assuming you are in the U.S. and need to verify tax ID numbers to be included on information returns (e.g., Form 1099) to the Internal Revenue Service, rather than for employment eligibility or credit decisions, for which E-Verify ( htt
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10y ago
I think all of my banks offer this feature today, but I’ve never used it. I already have a general idea of my situation, and the few times I’ve needed accurate total figures, it’s always taken longer to identify and adjust for unposted item
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10y ago
Meta, meta correction: AT&T owns DIRECTV, not DirecTV. (Source: SEC Form 15-12B, filed November 9, 2015.)
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In California, Michigan, and most other U.S. states, engineers who work for companies as product designers have a so-called “industrial exemption”: they are not required by law to be licensed, or indeed to have professional qualifications o
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As another commenter has noted, FiOS is Verizon’s trademark for service delivered using what is known generically as a fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) network. A typical network of conduits and fiber optic cabling installed along major streets
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Two interesting documents produced with Scribe were the 1985 editions of Adobe’s red and blue books, the PostScript Language Reference Manual and PostScript Language Tutorial and Cookbook , published by Addison-Wesley. The colophon in th
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10y ago
You might consider using a cryptographic protocol for secret sharing [1], such as the one of Shamir [2]. These protocols divide a secret into shares, so that the secret can be recovered, even in part, only by assembling a specified number
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11y ago
Thanks for asking. I just installed 9.0.4, and here are a few examples: - Tableau Server runs only on Windows, so why can't it use a TLS certificate and key from the CryptoAPI certificate store, rather than requiring these to be conver
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I agree that the FCC is concerned—as to some devices, in its present rules and guidance, and as to all certified equipment, in the proposed rules I mentioned in another comment—only with software that can affect radio compliance characteris
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The FCC has an open rulemaking proceeding that would expand these requirements beyond the 5 GHz U-NII devices covered by the OET document to all Part 15 devices. See paragraphs 45 and 46 on page 18 of the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (FCC
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[97.3] means the answer to the question is found in section 97.3 of the FCC Rules, specifically 47 CFR 97.3(a)(33): http://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/text-idx?node=se47.5.97_13
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I think your guess is correct. As the announcement says: This position will be required to work around test schedules as necessary to ensure the successful crop production does not interfere with testing progress.
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The CA can revoke the certificate, but since revocation checking in browsers is neither universal nor reliable under attack, revocation isn't a completely effective way to recover from a compromised private key.
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If you no longer trust the person, it's easier to tell the janitor not to admit him than to rely on his returning the key (and any copies) or to change the lock on the apartment.
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There are a few more details in the FCC's official “Notice of Apparent Liability for Forfeiture,” which was released yesterday: On June 14, 2013, agents from the Tampa Office tested the seized cell phone jammer and confirmed that
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The linked document was published in 1988; here is the title page: http://history.nasa.gov/computers/Compspace.html Readers might also be interested in Digital Apollo: Human and Machine in Spaceflight by David Mindel
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See Commonwealth Edison Company, Schedule of Rates for Electric Service, Ill. C. C. No. 10, 1st Revised Sheet No. 148: However, in certain individual situations, certain retail customers in the central part of the City of Chicago are
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With so few customers (and no new ones allowed), it’s not surprising that the DC distribution system in San Francisco isn’t widely known, but it’s not a secret. Regulated electric utilities like PG&E provide their services pursuant to t
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