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Or a good way to avoid having party guests trash your house.

Because these objects are moving fast, you would need to look a long way out. Long range radar is hard because the inverse square law applies in both directions, so you need 16x th…

You need an outgoing mail server, but ISPs provide those, and typically don't block port 587.

I know that residential ISPs block outgoing port 25 because of the spam issue. Is it common for them to block it incoming as well? You don't really need outgoing port 25 to run you…

The US has the first amendment. Can you give an example of something the US government wouldn't let Apple publish?

His resume includes: - FAA ATP AMEL and ASEL certificate with CL-65 SIC rating and Part 121 experience; CE-510S rating (single pilot, Cessna Mustang) - Helicopter ATP - single-engi…

WRT to the safety note, it's not as bad as CRT TVs where you had to worry about discharging voltages of 25 kV or so, but point taken.

Does knowing that you're running or contributing to Open Source code count? The AWS Open Source blog posted elsewhere in this topic implies that Elastic is making it hard to tell.

> all commits in the github repositories are made by AWS staff. Given that it was just made public this morning, it would be surprising if it were otherwise. The real question is w…

Copyright law has nothing to do with "reputational harm," assuming Java in fact suffered any.

Making credential stuffing harder is the main reason to do this. Credential stuffing works because users reuse credentials across sites. If someone attempts to use a password from …

Could you explain? Unless you're using a really weak password or reusing passwords, how would it affect you?

Exactly. I think of the HIBP password list as having three types of passwords (this is an oversimplification, but bear with me): 1) Extremely weak ones that lots of people use (e.g…

WRT the how could they get it so wrong question, I guess it's time for the obligatory link to Michael Crichton's essay "Why Speculate?" and his discussion of the "Murray Gell-Mann …