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RijilV··on Vote.org is a non-profit that wants to get the U.S. to 100% voter turnout
You've never been to a bar/coffee house/grocery store/etc on a weekend? Lots of people work the weekend, often it is those who are paid less and have more rigid schedules. Also you run into religious days where some are not able to perform work.

Honestly it is a hard one to mandate as a single few hour window on a single day. Someone has to be working at hospitals for example.

Maybe it should be election week

RijilV··on Unethical Research: How to Create a Malevolent Artificial Intelligence
Clearly we should create some type of AI to detect such individuals...
RijilV··on Understanding the bin, sbin, usr/bin , usr/sbin split (2010)
One outcome of this that drove me nuts back in the day on Debian system was libpcre was installed in /usr and grep was in /bin. This meant perl regex were not supported because the maintainers of Debian didn't want the dependency on /usr from things in /bin, and didn't want to "bloat" / with something as distasteful as libpcre.
RijilV··on US Senate website says use HTTP instead of HTTPS
Well, briefly - the General Service Administration declared "By September 30, 2014, agencies needed to update their public networks to Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)"

There is an exception process, but Akamai already supports IPv6 (though they do charge extra for it, booo!). You'd like to think something as high visibility (PR, not web traffic) as senate.gov would comply with the GSA.

http://gsablogs.gsa.gov/technology/2014/01/02/1128/

RijilV··on US Senate website says use HTTP instead of HTTPS
Weird, they're hosted on Akamai. Even weirder, it doesn't appear that www.senate.gov supports IPv6.
RijilV··on Why Do So Many Zippers Say YKK? (2012)
> You don’t buy your jeans and jackets by looking for their letters on that pull.

I actually do check for a YKK zipper, though I tend to mostly buy second hand clothing and focus more on the quality rather than style.

RijilV··on Snowden Seeks Assurance from Norway It Won’t Extradite Him
Presumably he'd drive, as Norway and Russia share a border.

What isn't clear to me from the article is why he'd risk it for an award from a group of writers who have branches in Russia..

RijilV··on Detecting the use of “curl – bash” server side
It's a best effort though, you're relying on the package maintainer to have tracked all the installed files and clean up anything they might have modified, which hopefully you or something else hasn't modified after the package was installed.

The packages authored by distributions tend to be pretty good, but I've seen RPMs with nothing more than tar zxf in them and no tracking of the files installed.

The major package managers expect the package to manage the artifacts installed, this works if everyone plays nice and does their job...

RijilV··on People with names that break computers
I have the same situation, though my suffix is less common. My strategy is to drop the suffix when purchasing a ticket, which has mixed results. Some airlines (United) remove the space between my last name and suffix when I do have to use it (International flights) which caused me some angst until I figured it out.
RijilV··on Show HN: Tumbless, a Tumblr-like blogging platform running on Amazon S3
Might I interest you in a CDN rather than serving static files out of S3 in a single region?
RijilV··on Amazon Hires Homeless Workers, and Everyone Ends Up Disappointed
These positions were in Western Washington outside of Seattle. Standard minimum wages apply and Amazon has a history of paying above min wage.
RijilV··on Gotham Air: Manhattan to JFK in 6 minutes for $99
Why does international flight mean 2 full suit cases? Seriously I'm 12 days in on a 14 day business trip across 'the pond' with a half sized roller board and that includes both the work laptop and a personal one, juggling props (hey come'on it's Europe) and running gear.

For business I figure if the privatized transport from the airport is 1/2 as long and not silly costs I'll expense it without guilt. At supposedly $99 from JFK it sounds legit for a short business trip. Granted they claim PMV, so YMMV.

RijilV··on Real-time lightning map, worldwide
Worldwide, if you don't count Africa...
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