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by zkms 9y ago
This was why what.cd was sublime (and its loss a travesty I haven't yet recovered from) -- it was a peerlessly extensive archive with uncompromisingly strict curation of metadata and content alike. Wanton downloading was not tolerate
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by zkms 9y ago
Is this what compiler/languages people talk about when they mention "name mangling"?
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by zkms 9y ago
IANAL but I know there's laws against impersonating a law-enforcement officer; I would not be surprised if falsely asserting authority of law with fake court orders / legal processes is similarly criminalised.
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by zkms 9y ago
Illegal underwater salvage operations to get pre-1945 steel from sunken warships is so cyberpunk it's almost straight out of Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon .
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by zkms 9y ago
Talking about about “overdiagnosis” without addressing underdiagnosis is, frankly, scientific and clinical malpractice. Untreated ADHD, which is underdiagnosed in adults (especially in women) can be a debilitating condition and there's
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by zkms 9y ago
> The FCC doesn't allow encrypted traffic on amateur bands Would traffic that is not encrypted but is instead authenticated (with a MAC tag or AEAD'd) be allowed? What are the exact FCC rules and laws at work?
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by zkms 9y ago
...is this a BSD securelevel equivalent? It sorta looks like it.
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by zkms 9y ago
> A network in communication with UAS must support a mechanism for intercept by authorized parties in the event of an emergency. This intercept could be simply for status information, for transmission of exclusion zones, or for forced la
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by zkms 9y ago
People with a better understanding of the LTE protocols than I do -- is it possible to make an LTE relay (like this "magic box") but without any cooperation from the network operator (so no access to any cryptographic keys/se
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by zkms 9y ago
Excellent, the author addresses latency-under-load and the use of queue mechanisms (CoDel) that are designed to avoid excessive queuing latency.
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by zkms 9y ago
Yeah -- "wifi calling" (running LTE signalling/data over an IPSec tunnel over wifi) is frankly superb -- I use it all the time, it seems to reduce battery drain (I imagine there's somewhat less use of the LTE modem), it
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by zkms 9y ago
In US, the receiver of the firearm is legally the firearm -- everything else is just boring bits of metal that you can buy without any sort of legal encumberments. Anyone can buy a chunk of 7075 aluminium that looks like an AR-15 lower re
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by zkms 9y ago
> If you reboot you should see a brief firmware splash mentioning the ME. Hitting ctrl+p at this point should get you into a menu which should let you disable AMT. my Lenovo T450s's vPro/AMT setup menu (MEBx) requires a passwor
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by zkms 9y ago
> Part of living in modern society is some basic minimum standards of quality and safety. Obviously those can be abused, but Seattle simply isn't doing that. 220sqft is a totally reasonable minimum. Requiring every unit have at leas
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by zkms 9y ago
> It pushes a lot of functionality normally fulfilled by a house (such as entertainment, eating, work, storage, etc.) onto the city at large - you live in the city, and just sleep in the house. This is plainly false. You don't need
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by zkms 10y ago
Ah! I stand corrected; I take back all I said about the murder-for-hire stuff.
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by zkms 10y ago
...avgas? I'd hope it get refilled with JP-5, unless the naval aviation field has suddenly moved back to piston aircraft when I wasn't looking.
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by zkms 10y ago
> but the actual protocol is not very robust. It's pretty easy to jam or overwhelm the system without trying if the software running the transmitter shits a brick. Yeah that definitely is an issue -- there's no fancy multiple a
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by zkms 10y ago
I don't gloss over it, but like I explained here, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14216073 , he was never formally charged nor convicted of it, there were multiple federal agents (Shaun Bridges and Carl Mark Force
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by zkms 10y ago
The author literally gloats that Ulbricht will never live outside a concrete box, as due punishment ("he had been held accountable") for the sole "sin" (his word, not mine) of creating a drug marketplace. There is no men
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by zkms 10y ago
The production or use of {murder-for-hire, weapons, poisons, child abuse imagery} all involve grave and inherent harm -- regardless of the laws that regulate/prohibit them. The harm that drug use/manufacture causes is a lot more a
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by zkms 10y ago
The only reason fentanyl ever got made and sold illicitly is that prohibition creates an extremely strong incentive for everyone in the supply chain to avoid detection (if you get caught, you spend a few decades locked inside a cage, no f
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by zkms 10y ago
It'd be nice to read something about Silk Road written by someone who isn't a drug war fanboy. It gets annoying to read all the paternalistic and contemptuous banter that the author fires off at anyone who dares defy his fundament
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by zkms 10y ago
> United Airlines will offer up to $10,000 when a traveler voluntarily gives up a seat on an oversold flight > Stop forcing passengers already seated to give up their seats, except for safety or security reasons. It is extremely frust
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by zkms 10y ago
Angry people with explosives will find ways to deliver them to their targets alas; think of it as the 21st century version of "the bomber will always get through". In fact, drones are actually pretty shitty in terms of capacity co
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by zkms 10y ago
> how do you effectively protect the airspace around airports, powerplants, or other critical infrastructure with such devices? Use cameras, acoustic sensors, and RF receivers to detect a drone's presence, and use a phased array ant
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by zkms 10y ago
The solution is simple: allow low-power ADS-B to be radiated from drones and encourage/require its use: see http://www.uavionix.com/blog/the-case-for-low-power-ads-b/ Add a penalty for flying anywhere that co
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by zkms 10y ago
the FAQ mentions "KERNSEAL, STRUCTGUARD" -- what are these? I tried searching on google but didn't find anything about either.
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by zkms 10y ago
There's a fundamental material difference between Uber/Lyft/UPS and ISPs -- the initial costs to get into business for people/package transportation services are orders of magnitudes less than for ISPs. The minimum cost
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by zkms 10y ago
This is why I disable javascript on my laptop and block ads on my iphone. I shouldn't have to chase around advert-closing buttons that's jinking like a high-performance fighter aircraft.

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