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Sometimes things like that are intentionally designed to funnel payoffs to somebody.

Arrest should always be the first choice. But it's not always viable, and taking up arms against the US makes them a legitimate target.

To take out just the room where the target is requires knowing what room the target is in. They usually do not have that kind of information. Hamas has been on the front lines for …

It's around here. Doesn't look like much of anything, except an awful lot of fence for what looks like not much of anything. I've never seen movement. (The highest mountain in the …

I'm not sure about "well designed". Rather, my thought is that such a subsidy encourages sellers to raise the price of the unit while including something else along with the unit. …

I keep reading this same concept and I keep questioning whether they have the whole story. I'm definitely in the group where cracking gives temporarily increased mobility, but it's…

But do you actually need that at the consumer level? Make some properly formatted garbage, send it down the wire to the other end of the tester and see if you can read the result. …

I would like to see some color band coding. Not logos--they're often done in a very hard to read fashion. And the way the USB spec works you can't make a does-everything cable. Max…

Yeah. I was expecting to be horrified but reading the article I find it entirely reasonable. Hey, that ground is burning! I was traveling at highway speed, I would have no way of k…

Yup. Someone clearly scraped my LinkedIn and sold the info as a bogus lead, I've been getting several texts/day about business financing, and the occasional call. Ironically, the c…

Most unsolicited telemarketing is inefficient--and that means a high cost of making the sale, which means whatever they are offering is either too expensive, too low quality, or an…

Google's mapper has an option for whether to minimize walking. Turned on, it will do things like this, prioritizing the route with the least walking. it would be quite willing to d…

This whole thing has me thinking of that midair a while back, the helicopter avoided the wrong aircraft and flew right into the they were supposed to be avoiding. What if they actu…

And people have such a poor distinction of exactly where the limits lie. My mother was blind. I was able to teach her how to glue up PVC. (For those of you who don't know--it's a d…

And sometimes seriously non-trivial. When there is a substantial elevation difference you need a lot of ramp--which needs a lot of space. We already are seeing the problem with roa…

Yup. My doc's appointment reminders come from some service in another state. It's a pool of numbers, sometimes they come up as suspected spam. I suspect the dodgy guys deliberately…

Yeah. A few months ago my wife and I had a miscommunication that ended up with her one place without her phone and me waiting for her in a different place. Completely unknown numbe…

Recording into the recent past is quite common. You implement it by storing the data *to memory only* until the trigger event happens, then you write out what's currently in memory…

That's where I stand, also. You're a party to the conversation, it's not something that would implicitly be expected to be private (thus no bedroom recordings etc), it should be le…

They are impossible. You can't make a system that can force bad actors off the system that can't also be used to force politically undesirable actors off the system.

And some AI will probably come along and scrape that. I didn't see the specifics of the problems but I had a very strong feeling that there's no planning for safe failure.

Why do people keep making this same mistake about longevity?! > Readers have a 20% reduction in the risk of dying before their time. > Readers are 2.5 times less likely to contract…

Under US law my understanding is that your password is something you know and thus can't be compelled. (Although border control can say that showing them your phone is a condition …

There has always been a difference between physical presence and actually being considered in a country, this is not unique to the US by any means. From a practical standpoint it's…

Yeah, long ago I tackled a variant on this--given a directory of files, which ones are already somewhere? I persisted data on what was already there--and found I didn't want to do …