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My DeLorme inReach can send a message with coordinates and then doesn't need to remain online and continue transmitting. (Of course, you want to keep it online so you can continue …

That does seem a possibility—or once she set up her camp she remembered the somewhat poor advice of staying put (this can be good if you're actively being searched for and likely t…

I'm not aware of a similar thing in the US. And depending on the remoteness of your location, you may get an indication of a good signal (3+ bars) but still be unable to transmit o…

It's not dangerous if you have navigational skills. Most people, however, do not, or haven't developed theirs very effectively. I see it myself sometimes with other hikers at the f…

Please don't do this. I see people doing it, even going so far as to leave flagging tape on obvious, maintained trails so they don't "lose their way". And usually people don't remo…

They're growing in popularity, but they're expensive and some of the popular ones (not PLBs specifically, but satellite trackers & communicators) like SPOT and DeLorme inReach have…

I'm a very regular hiker and backpacker, and while I always feel bad in situations like this, I also always feel that people who get lost so easily that they can't find the trail—e…

That is false. Border Patrol claims the right to enter private property and homes of citizens without a warrant within 100 miles of the border.

They altered people's feeds for a psychological experiment with the specific intent of manipulating their mood. That is highly unethical.

Having kids doesn't make you right about something.

The horror! Someone might encounter a word!

And they were all shit.

…and then rejected that noble use by allowing other tyrannical regimes to censor content so it can't be used that way again.

No. I'll keep using vim, because I'm efficient in it and I enjoy using it.

Good. It should be a problem for them.

Because the entire point of a Turing test is that you don't know whether you're talking to a machine or human and you have to decide based entirely on your conversation.

The Real Name policy was the beginning of the end for me, Reader being shut down made me lose interest in all new Google products, and Snowden made me stop using some of the ones I…

It's California locations. 10.9 Mavericks was the first in the new naming scheme. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mavericks_(location)

Yes you absolutely can rewrite history.

Yes, let's do nothing and let the governments of the world do whatever they want to us. What's the worst that could happen?

Exactly right: it's the fact that this makes mass surveillance so much easier that is the problem with certain surveillance technology being used by law enforcement.

In the hands of police, absolutely. I do not want police to have access to rapid, easy surveillance at that level.

They'll be used sparingly until people are used to them and then they'll start using them more.

Gotham and Helvetica are both sans-serif.