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lfodofod

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    Comment #34623150

    > What is their opinion about being unable to go supersonic for more than short bursts currently classified as "will not fix" Those two countries do not do carrier ops, why would t…

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    Comment #34615427

    MANPADs have intercepted a few missiles, but are not a tool for intercepting missiles. > Yet it would have been a PR disaster if NATO admitted to supplying weapons to Ukraine befor…

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    Comment #34611935

    > Denmark joined because the US invoked Article 5 after 9/11 Article 5 has only been invoked once, and did not involve any actual conflict.

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    Comment #34604565

    Have any of the competitors been proven in combat anywhere?

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    Comment #34571947

    You’re just lucky, plenty of spam calls in the EU.

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    Comment #34571920

    Of course they can.

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    Comment #34571532

    European authorities are still able to enforce fines against him unless he’s exceedingly careful, even if he doesn’t have direct presence in the EU. This is why many websites just …

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    Comment #34571458

    > skate 5km every other day to get water Is it so shallow you can’t just make a hole in the ice?

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    Comment #34566200

    They don’t hide it better, there’s just much less of it.

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    Comment #34563029

    What is that meant to disprove?

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    Comment #34561159

    This is just lazy populist nonsense, why give it any airtime on HN? His argument essentially boils down to that some corruption exists in Northern Europe, therefore Southern Europe…

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    Comment #34558152

    Yes, AppArmor and snap try to. Still worlds away from what Windows and OS X are doing, not to even mention mobile platforms.

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    Comment #34558137

    Desktop linux still exists in a single user world today, excluding some exotic and super fragile setups you might see in .edu networks.

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    Comment #34557856

    It’s worth noting that desktop Linux has mostly missed this development

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    Comment #34556526

    Outdated and unpatched does not mean easy RCEs. Let’s imagine you compromise a telco and get past the hurdle of these tractors not having public IPs, they probably still won’t have…

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    Comment #34540570

    Vehicle registration has nothing to do with ownership, you don’t have to own a car to register it. In Europe we don’t have titles for cars like in the US. You don’t have to perform…

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    Comment #34539184

    From an European perspective the idea of a government registry tracking vehicle ownership seems downright bizarre. Our DMVs generally just track keepers and not owners. For land it…

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    Comment #34529766

    Sure, but you get to push your encoder settings far less than you otherwise could. You always end up with either significantly bigger files or significantly lower quality.

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    Comment #34529160

    Swartz was going to get a custodial sentence of less than 6 months, quite likely just probation. A slap on the wrist. What exactly did you expect the punishments to be like? A fine…

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    Comment #34529048

    The result after recompression is far from impeccable.

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    Comment #34525997

    > That's just because setting up cameras on public roads isn't allowed as you can capture people as well. Writing down license plates would be fine. Nonsense. https://www.enforceme…

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    Comment #34517482

    Yes, indeed. Pixel perfect rips of already compressed streams, immensely blowing up the size and requiring another round of lossy compression to actually be useful.

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    Comment #34516376

    You can’t produce good quality rips like this, if that was the best solution the DRM people would have won.

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    Comment #34501399

    Airbnb does this because fraudsters use it to cash out large amounts of money from stolen credit cards, they’re a lucrative target.

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    Comment #34485350

    It really appears that this CVE was issued based on that super vague twitter thread.