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To save people the reading, the safety feature triggered was an automatic dive maneuver initiated by the flight computer as a result of an incorrect angle-of-attack sensor reading …

I have coworkers like that too, guys who've been working for much longer than me (and getting paid more), without savings. We're not working at a minimum wage job, how do they even…

The evil seller doesn't ship the item but signs the product shipped message anyway. Who's gonna stop them, it's not like the blockchain knows if they actually shipped it or not. Or…

>Bush’s contracts with Yellowstone show that the company advanced him a total of about $250,000 and that he paid them back more than $600,000. how do people get tricked into agreei…

Well I guess our disagreement is that the world at that point had the dynamic where any electronic item was to be confused with a bomb. I was alive in 2007, some LED lights arrange…

Well, if in her view, it was just a nametag and not a scary piece of technology , then I think it's reasonable to not understand why anyone would be uneasy. Did people wearing goog…

the only naivete I can find in those links is that of the airport workers thinking a light up nametag is a bomb. About as ridiculous as the time boston shut down over some light up…

Arguably stronger than the locks on most home doors, that could be picked in under a minute

I should hope he didn't roll his own encryption, pretty sure openssl existed in 2000, the NSA could have gotten a copy of that easily

not the master key, the schematics to the lock maybe. Assuming no bugs, I don't see how the source code could help in any way, they may as well have downloaded the source code for …

No tether has ever been destroyed. While tether in its terms maintains that Tethers are redeemable "provided that you are a fully verified customer of Tether" [1], there is no know…

I don't know if I'd describe the speed of light as "low", more like the universe is really, really big

Someone have a readable version? Article shows up for 250ms on my screen then disappears leaving only the reuters header, tried switching browsers and everything

so the plane will tow the rocket beyond the environment? as long as the front doesn't fall off, seems like a good plan

Never used next, looks interesting. So with this setup, the browser doesn't do any work, all pages are loaded as if they were static, and rendered server side?

Late response, but I think it has to due with social pressure. You may meet the host in person, and feel bad about giving someone you know "personally" a bad rating. Additionally, …

I also distinctly remember enjoying going to the mall as a kid because of the fountains and glass ceiling atrium, lots of seating spaces, is that not a thing anymore?

leave it to the lawyers to take the fun out of everything :(

we are ALL teapots on this blessed day :)

I was interested to see what that looked like and found Opening down: http://www.mobiletechworld.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/... Opening up: http://i.stack.imgur.com/gZdjo.png…

This reminds me of "lets do x, except in THE CLOUD" all over again. fight censorship by putting things in THE CLOUD where it can't easily be blocked, stream video from THE CLOUD wa…

The technology has existed for many years already, and it has already made 'broader implications', see git. The only thing new about it is that people now call it 'blockchain' inst…

lazy actor: I print out the barcodes, and stick them on the paper rolls at random bad actor: I manufacture the cheaper rolls, and stick labels for the expensive ones on, and scan t…

I imagine something like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MKcTbYDP7w except for bricks