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Careful which countries you go to with that VPN. You don’t want to intentionally circumvent an access control restriction. ;)

I wouldn't be surprised to if this was largely accounted for in supply side contamination issues. It appears that Amazon treats all SKUs identically, sourcing the closest one to fu…

Both of these require active threats. "Stand your ground" laws just mean there is no duty(law) to seek retreat above all else before actively defending yourself. "Castle", in Calif…

I've for a while said that a _unique_ password is better than an _awesome_ password. _Bad_ passwords are still bad, however. (And for $DIETY's sake, don't use your work email addre…

Excepting that in SF the "everyone" does not want the land owners to make productive use of it: they want the status quo. (Well, the status quo of what the remember as being the "h…

One also needs to take into account how these larger companies' internal groups function. "Brian" probably looked into it, knowing that obscurity != security, but got a response ba…

If only there was a way to allow a people to hold power over their government.

"""Micro was a way of creating a foundation for writing and running distributed systems. It's a pluggable architecture so that the underlying systems can be swapped out based on pr…

"""One of the terrorists pulled out a laptop, propping it open against the wall, said the 40-year-old woman. When the laptop powered on, she saw a line of gibberish across the scre…

The issue is that it needs to be explained in terms that they can understand: ... or part of your line will fail, randomly, and may take over a day to repair, IF your maintenance p…

For the people complaining that it's slow: what plugins are you running? My contribution: Community packages used most often: api-workbench, fonts, language-sql-mysql, term3, vim-m…

I was really hoping they would tackle the harder problem of dealing with a production hive. Temperature and weight are fairly easy to monitor, but knowing activity would be useful …

Odd that it won't boot. What hardware are you running and which kernels have you tried? Any way for you to capture a trace? This probably isn't the best forum to give you a hand. C…

> In my opinion, companies like Google build one hit after another Wait, what? Do you have any idea how many ideas they've churned through to get the relatively few hits they've ha…

You have it backwards. The farmed has been found to have higher mercury content.

Road speeds need to be re-evaluated every 5 years. They take into account the speeds of traffic that are currently flowing on the road.

Yes, it was: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=veh&gr... states: "360. "Highway" is a way or place of whatever nature, publicly maintained and open to the use o…

See CVC 360 "360. "Highway" is a way or place of whatever nature, publicly maintained and open to the use of the public for purposes of vehicular travel. Highway includes street." …

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10557793 (tl;dr: Gene Amdahl)

For a look into how disabling/enabling privacy trackers impact sites, try out the Privacy Badger plugin. It's got some granular support, and crowdsourced guidance. With a button to…

Yes, it means that some states can allow rampant piracy, and other states who are aggrieved can not block the import from the offending stats. Which is precisely what some of those…

Until security is treated similarly to QA this will never improve. Along with quality, robustness, performance, etc; security needs to be treated as a first class feature. That sai…

Might as well disclose that Sentry is commercial-ware with a limited free tier: What happens when my free trial expires? When your trial expires we'll downgrade you to our free tie…