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For those who don't get this reference (I didn't), it appears to be from Atlas Shrugged: http://theexplanationproject.wikia.com/wiki/Directive_10-289 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/…

That would be a good subtitle: Did Microsoft steal its fonts from the Turkish army?: Font metadata proves 2003 Turkish coup plan evidence was faked.

Wasn't that conspiracy theory started by President Erdogan literally as soon as he possibly could start it (on the televised Facetime chat)?

Those kinds of modifications are of a completely different category than modifications to an autonomous driving system. There aren't serious civil or criminal penalties to deter "r…

Realistically, you handle such things via deterrence. When an accident happens, the car's software can be dumped (in some cases), and criminal/civil liability can be assessed based…

That's actually way cheaper than I expected it to be. Though I supposed an actual spaceflight-worthy camera with that sensor would cost far more than the one you linked.

That's a lot. Vitamin D tests are easy to get, so I just took a few over a few months to find a dose that would keep me at ~50ng/ml. Previous to that, I had taken 5000+ IU/day for …

> I believe you're required to keep something like 30-45 minutes worth of fuel beyond what you need to get to your destination. > I've noticed that people who work on electric airc…

I think the bigger bias at play is the just-world fallacy. Employers assume that everyone who is unemployed must be unemployed justly because something is wrong with them (e.g. the…

I'm not so sure. Wouldn't leaving the bootloader/root filesystem unencrypted make the device more vulnerable to physical tampering by a non-Apple party that could compromise user d…

There's also a bias against the currently unemployed. It took 6 months of hard work for a friend of mine to find a job after he quit one after 3 months without anything lined up, b…

From what I've read, the shooter was contained and did not have hostages. They didn't need to bomb him to death because "negotiations failed," they could have kept him under siege …

That may be part of the reason why it was so good. In 1998, they had to make it playable on 56k modems, and a lot of those optimizations probably transferred over to smooth play ov…

> Fun fact: Dominic Giampalo (who wrote the BeOS file system) is on the APFS team. His book "Practical File System Design" is an excellent description of a traditional UNIX file sy…

> I see "Start Encrypt" as a capitalist answer to a competing product with (very) cheesy marketing Also with very cheesy and bad grammar.

Honestly, I thought things were a whole lot better (from a UX perspective) when you just handed the cashier the card and they operated the card reader for you. They know their syst…

And all you'll get from the front desk is the hyper-inflated "list price" (for the uninsured). If you have insurance, your (insurance negotiated) price is treated as Top Secret con…

> but what part of the constitution allows you to ban a private citizen from speaking about their ideas? Perhaps no part. The article states the government has been careful to back…

This is total, corrupt bullshit. How the fuck is a traffic cop supposed to ascertain the origin of the money in your accounts, let alone if it was from the "the commission of a cri…

The acts may not be "illegal" but they are unjust and immoral.

IIRC, there exist things for GPS called "null steering antennas" that allow a receiver point a "null" at a jamming source to block it. I believe they're considered controlled munit…

EEVBlog did a teardown part of one of these systems from a B-52 ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzGaO4Kdz2Y ). IIRC, it used a completely mechanical analog computer.

If the FBI asks for the power to access N without a warrant, it should be automatically be required to get two warrants from two separate judges to get access.

The IBM clone business existed by 1985, but not "commodity hardware" in the modern sense. Like someone else said, the Macintosh was released at about the same time, was both IBM-in…

> There was no reason for a proprietary keyboard, either. Amiga's refusal to work with commodity hardware meant that it was doomed I do not believe the concept of "commodity hardwa…