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If you treat it like real mail it ends up exactly the way the OP describes: a few high-value messages at risk of being lost in a deluge of low-value, often unsolicited, noise. My r…

The question, though, wasn’t whether ATF agents might interpret the regulations one way or another, but what the regulations are. Millions of people purchase legal and freely avail…

The only part that is actually considered a firearm under federal regulations is the lower receiver, so it is the only item that is controlled and requires paperwork. Everything el…

> She had gone straight to the lethal option and had no other recourse. Not true. I presume that PSNI, like any law enforcement agency in the U.S., operates with some form of a use…

> Wait if the county police become your police if there's no other police department, then why does any city spend their taxes on their own police? Policy-wise the motivations for …

Not for reform reasons, but Camden, NJ did exactly that in 2012: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2193971/Camden-poli... The county police became the de facto police depart…

Interestingly, I implemented every mitigation listed in the article: kill the web server process, remove and add an empty directory at `~/.zoomus` to prevent it being re-added, rem…

This is part of the reason why they institute fatigue standards, to try to keep people from being over tired and still working, which led to people being hurt.

Agreed, and a more succinct way of saying what I was getting at. Attempts to quantify inherently subjective attempts aren't very productive in their own right. What matters far mor…

This is an area where I think the Coast Guard does a decent job. We have a program called Team Coordination Training[0] which, while monotonous and annoying to those who have to ta…

Spot on. In the Coast Guard we have a similar operational risk assessment model called General Assessment of Risk (GAR)[0], which uses six categories and a score of 1-10 in each to…

Yes, AIS is utilized by all ships, and even though military vessels are permitted to not broadcast in the clear their AIS data, they can still receive other ships' AIS broadcasts. …

If they're not actively engaged in a naval exercise or actual warfighting requiring them to maneuver outside the Navigation Rules[0], they are subject to the rules the same as any …

Black Mirror

Me too.

I think one thing here is clear: don't use image sliders.

Here's the backstory: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/11/canoni...