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Supermarkets here usually require an employee to approve backpacks. You put your bag on the scales, hit a button saying it's a bag, then an employee comes round to confirm. In prac…

The average weight of a mid-sized sedan is about 1,500kg, and the average weight of all American cars is closer to 1,900kg. A 4-seater close to 1,000kg is exceptionally light by mo…

Another non-vegetarian here. I made a veggie hotdog last week which was close enough to the real thing that I would struggle in a blind taste test. Hot dogs are super easy to immit…

>In the US people constantly quit to start small businesses, work for other businesses, or just not work at all. There is zero threat of violence if you choose not to work. SOME pe…

>that comes from a line of people that had to make do with scraps. That line is long. It only takes one generation feeding their children a diet of pre-made meals and snacks to bre…

I believe all this as well. If they wanted to, Adobe could invest heavily in DRM that would take at least a few months to crack. But it's far cheaper to stick a login wall in front…

You can set up a phpBB instance on a shared hosting provider for People do it all the time, but they keep themselves to themselves and you don't find out about it.

It's definitely better than holding a hospital ransom. It's very unlikely that anyone will die if you spread ransomware in a university.

They didn't target the hospital: "The cyberattack was not intended for the hospital, according to a report from the German news outlet RTL. The ransom note was addressed to a nearb…

>I get where you're coming from, but by phrasing it this way you draw up the image of a secret cabal of influential marxists waging a "campaign" via gullible students. Probably bec…

People aren't just scared of the idea of armed police, they're afraid of police departments who have a history of getting away with murder. John Brown Gun Club and Redneck Revolt d…

"Would the response have been the same if all the heavily armored folk were black?" There's precedent for this. In the 60s the black panthers open carried in California to protest,…

Maybe not all of them, but you only need a few people like the over-enthusiastic COD cosplayer cop [1] in management positions to kick things off. Considering the vast, vast amount…

How do you do this without uncomfortable levels of government surveillance?

>It's also illegal to do this, so it's not a valid edge-case. Road signs can get dirty or damaged. There definitely are edge-cases where a self-driving car might not comprehend an …

On top of what everyone else has said: reliability. My record player + amp have never had any problems I couldn't fix on the spot. Only things I've had to repair/replace were needl…

I think Google uses phone sensors to tell motorbikes apart form cars. Pretty simple tech: cars don't lean. Which makes it all the more infuriating that Google Maps still has huge f…

Citymapper does this. It sometimes works in London: the app supports NYC but I don't know if either the feature is supported or if it's functional. When you've set your start and d…

>How do people magically get their hands on these various substances Some people sell psychedelics in person. In my country they're incredibly rare and I've never seen anyone sell …

As other people have mentioned, HTTPS without HSTS still makes MitM a problem. And there are still other attacks possible on public wi-fi networks which don't involve MitM-ing HTTP…

"66% of the airports are exposed on the Dark Web" What exactly does this mean?

>And they all progress towards harder drugs Massive [citation needed] here. This is absolutely untrue from my personal experiences.

I'm probably slightly younger than you, and I barely notice the CCTV cameras anymore. Weirdly, the one time I genuinely felt uncomfortable was last week. I saw a traffic camera* sw…

I can't really get irritated with this. Privacy is just one thing out of many that people can care about. Maybe online privacy is just low on their list of ethical issues? People w…