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Me too. 21*220$=4620$, which is quite a bit for a PC- it would have been a good article, especially if he bought everything with bitcoin.

I thought to myself: "This looks like a good time to stock up on SDR equipment, in case this ever goes through."

And then I realized this is exactly the same thing gun enthusiasts thought when they though Obama would limit their guns/bullets, and stocked up on them, and I thought it was silly. I guess we're a lot more similar than I would have thought, made me think a little bit more about it. I'm reminded a bit of that "first they came for me" poem/story.

Oh, no doubt. Realistically I don't expect my phone to be secure from the lockscreen, it's more to keep pests out. Anything secure is from full disk encryption, passworded SU, etc. As far as person-looking-over-you protection, they're not bad.

That story just makes me sad. Like, from the bottom of my soul and my hacker's heart kinda sad.

So? Out of the thousands of people that frequent this site, a tiny percentage of them make this, and it's cool for people that have never seen it.

Also, relevant xkcd. https://xkcd.com/1053/

Imo the pattern lock is really secure if you make it hidden at lockscreen.

You can also eat it, I've seen it on truffle pies. Silver can also be used as an antibiotic as well.

That sounds racist. /s

Seriously though, this is a core part of dietary concerns, it's almost a certainty that a Russian is going to have a slightly different reaction to foods than a European, due to centuries of eating different foods. I think it's only recently we've really started to discover that evolution isn't just survival of the fittest, but a considerably more complex mechanism that has immediate impacts after very few generations to very slight stimuli. Not to mention stuff like gut flora, environment during pregnancy, etc.

"with one (UK-government-owned) bank, two wrong password attempts simply lead to an invitation to set a new password."

Good lord! Reading through this document is like reading a primer in how not to make a secure form.

Seriously, it's pretty strongly worded. Also: big suprise, some startups fail, and some succeed. Much like Harvard graduates.

In the news of the trademark, it is the name of a programming idea after all. It's also a very good name of a company given that "It takes a single argument, which is a function that isn't recursive. It returns a version of the function which is recursive."

Me too... I really wanted to know what an MRI heap was. Any ideas what it could be?

Same kinda thing with reddit/HN- getting one or two upvotes within the first couple minutes of posting is essental to a post getting anywhere. It keeps the post afloat long enough for people to notice it, instead of getting lost with everything else.

There's also ublock matrix which is noscript but easier to work with.

Gah, that just makes me unconformable on so many levels. It's not helped by the content of the video either...

Honestly, I had a very similar thing happen to me at an even younger age. Almost got expelled for hacking when I was just making stupid shit with batch programming. Similarly, I made a crappy little audio amp a couple years later at the same school, and again, almost got expelled for "making a weapon and bringing it to school" (they thought it was a stungun)

All it did was make me anti-establishment at a slightly younger age. The kid in this story knows that what he's going through is bullshit, and he's likely to have something pretty good come out of this due to all the media attention. If anything, I'd suspect it would drive him to create more, because if there's something kids like to do it's sticking it to the man.

I don't even think quadcopters could produce 20% thrust at that height... which is pretty bad as consumer quads have something like a 2:1 thrust/weight ratio, maybe 3:1. High quality racing quads can get 8:1, but those have tiny batteries.

There was a post on reddit/r/multicopter a while ago of prop thrust at different air pressures with the same current. It's pretty much exactly what you're asking for.

https://i.imgur.com/Z5toIVm.jpg

Assuming air pressure at 10000 ft is ~69kpa, and sea level is ~100kpa, there really doesnt appear to be much of a difference, except for medium-sized props, which had very interesting thrust outputs- gaining efficiency at low rpm and loosing a lot at high rpm.

Anyway, point being is a 250 class quad could pretty easily fly at 10000 feet. Not particularly well, but considering 1:4 (or even 1:8) thrust ratios arent uncommon with 250 class quads they could still pull it off.

Now, idk about bigger quads like the phantom/iris, their props have quite different geometries which probably act quite differently.

Honestly, we could probably support the same sized military with substantally less money, due to all the waste and mismanagement. Honestly though, it's not just the military- massive waste occurs at all levels of govt. All this focus on cutting spending; yet nobody ever seems to seriously look at waste as a better alternative to public spending. I guess because it's harder to investigate than to cut from a spreadsheet.

Small story from reddit: This guy worked in a government office where his boss would order multi-thousand page reports to be rush delivered to the office, which cost anywhere from hundreds to thousands of dollars depending on the report; and then took a single paper out and trashed the rest- because she didn't know you could just print single pages.

AFAIK it's because they last a long time with very small amounts of reactants, are low maintenance, and are potentially very small. I mean, it kinda makes sense but RTGs are better for space applications because you really don't need massive amounts of power in space, plus the whole "power forever with no effort" aspect; they might as well be perpetual motion engines.

Unicorn just pokes my brain the wrong way, like bad kerning. On the other hand, it does describe how rare these things are, which I feel does make it an accurate term- it also explains how companies like this are essentially legends.

It's an annoying term, but it works (unfortunately)

I mean, one could claim it hampers gun innovation. Not sure the laws about that though- I wonder if they have laws that allow the creation of guns that would normally be illegal..

Not sure what afsina's point is though.

Flare guns in your checked luggage is actually a really good thing to do even if you arent concerned about it- I have a friend who works at an airport and he says that protocol dictates they have to flag and keep special track of anything gunlike- and flare guns don't need any sort of licence to carry. It keeps your bags secure and makes sure your luggage gets where it is supposed to go.

Don't forget the 900mhz range! Plenty of cool stuff going on there. Oh, and you could make a searching antenna pretty easily- basically a shitty antenna that you can use to find signal strength easily, because it picks up so poorly.

Occam's razor. Burglars using fairly technical methods of ingress, or stealing keys?

AFAIK some/most garage doors now use rolling-key encryption, like car keys.

I hope I see qualcomm chips on racing quads- the STM chips used by stuff like the naze32/cc3d are great, but they still could be better. Heck, quadcopters just recently got floating point math in their algorithms.

Hah, that's fun. Who doesn't like a terminal gui?

Defraggler is the only one I can think of off the top of my head. I love that kind of interactivity in applications, so much better than a loading bar.

Israel is pretty upfront that they do discriminate at airports. Whereas the US/UK has those ridiculous random path mats.

Minecraft can be an immensely powerful learning tool, but it has to be carefully curated and controlled by a teacher- having played a lot of modded MC, most kids just do the bare minimum, or follow some tutorial online to get what they want. Of course, some branch out and do amazing things, which is what you want. Schools will fail to understand this (and fail to understand mods) so when the whole thing falls apart it will get ignored and cast off as "not workable" when in reality all that was needed was a teacher that understood.

Unfortunately, (especially in public schools) the teachers that end up teaching these are coaches that find out what they're teaching the month before school starts.