matthewmcg

Finally, a power button! Talk about burying the lede. That's a big improvement for most casual users. Yes, you've been able to use a GPIO pin, a momentary switch, and a special daemon, but this works out of the box.

My municipal water meter transmits readings in the clear on the 915 MHz band. There's a neat program to catch the readings: https://github.com/bemasher/rtlamr

Right, but what are the chances that the "new material" doesn't include any elements of protected expression from the underlying work, e.g. characters? I understood the request to be about writing a sequel.

Under U.S. copyright law, yes. A sequel is a derivative work, i.e. a work based on or derived from an underlying work. Only the copyright holder of the original work may authorize derivative works.

Example: https://news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/tolkien-estate-sues-ove...

Meanwhile the old game (ra2) runs pretty well with enhancements from cnc.net to allow easier installation on modern windows systems and net play.

Anyone else miss sites carefully edited by a small team like longform.org?

The DOJ statement has more detail on the fraud:

>Under government contracting rules, there must be a nexus between the costs charged to a government contract and the objective of the contract. Thus, a contractor may charge to a government contract costs directly related to that contract, as well as indirect costs that benefit multiple contracts including the government contract. A contractor may not charge costs to a government contract, however, that have no relationship to that contract. This prohibition prevents government contractors from using taxpayer funds to subsidize non-government related work.

I've got the Virtuoso. The '586 (?) model with improved burrs. It's bulletproof. I did have to replace a few of the plastic parts that act like mechanical fuses when I tried to grind a batch of coffee that had a pebble in it.

I have one. It’s made my machine so much better. Once you find a grind setting and dose weight that works well for your beans, you get perfectly reproducible shots.

Obligatory Simpsons reference to the "Lisa's Wedding" episode where the airplanes of the future are "reevaluated" "wacky old designs."

https://frinkiac.com/caption/S06E19/376809

I got an SL and regret that I can't now replace the fancier touchscreen with an aftermarket unit. I'd get CarPlay, but I'd lose the 360 camera view and EV-specific features (charge timer, range estimates, etc.)

I always assumed that the reference to Spirograph creator "Dr S." on the Simpsons was just something the show invented. Interesting to see the actual person behind the toy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbSG5JEfrVY

Gross. Unencrypted OTA TV is one of the last areas you can enjoy a modicum of fair use with respect to personal recordings. DVRs, skipping commercials, transcoding to watch on a different device or in a different place. Too bad this is being closed down.

The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes

Reductive or oxidizing?

Correct. This is called "third party doctrine," and the theory is that since you've voluntarily entrusted this data to the third party, you have no reasonable expectation of privacy in it and a warrant is not needed.

That's right--in the U.S., some utilities are "investor-owned." Others are cooperatives (owned by customers) and still others are owned by various local governments.

I work as a lawyer for a business that has lots of lawyers. Compliance with differing state laws is indeed very expensive. I would personally like to see a federal privacy statute that preempted these various and sometimes inconsistent state and local privacy laws.

Came here to make the comment that there are certain industry specific contract forms that are very deeply embedded in very narrow domains, including things like NAEBs (natural gas commodity sales) and the AIA Contract Forms (construction). And of course real estate. Some are publicly available. Others need to be purchased from the organizations that create them. The common factor seems to be sponsorship by an enduring organization that is widely trusted.

This is the amusing hobby of some of the characters in Edward Abbey's The Monkey Wrench Gang.

Thanks for sharing this, OP. I enjoyed The Switch by the same author so I just bought the kindle version of this. For those that didn’t see the chapters of McDonald’s earlier book posted serially here, it is a sort of pre-history of the computer focusing on electromechanical switches in the phone network.

Perhaps the mechanism is to explode the bomb close enough to the surface of the asteroid to heat it with the x-ray pulse and cause ejection of debris from the surface--that would impart a reaction force on the asteroid. That's suggested in this article: https://www.llnl.gov/news/nuclear-impulse-could-deflect-mass...

The Disney Imagineering videos are pretty cool...you should check them out. Sort of the "making of" for the parks.

Boy that takes me back. I liked to think that Roy Scheider was playing the same character he played in Jaws.

There’s a bit of a “Pluto problem” [1] though with labeling NPR and not explicitly government supported media organizations like Voice of America. This suggests to me that the decision was based on some personal beef the owner has with NPR and not any kind of objective basis.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-33462184 (warning: BBC is explicitly supported by the British Government)

Thanks--these are good criticisms. I agree with you that the strength of the Water Knife was more in the conceptual parts and the imagined world--often these were just mentioned rather than fully built out, like certain events that are just shown as news footage while a character is waiting in a lobby.

Termination Shock was similar.

I would definitely like to read more speculative fiction on this topic!

This is a good occasion to point to the excellent novel The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi. I think I first heard of it here on HN, and it was described as a "Sci-Fi" novel--sadly, we're approaching the point where we'll have to relabel it as a neo-noir dramatization of current events.

The novel name checks the nonfiction book The Cadillac Desert by Marc Reisner which is also excellent background.

This is so true.

Another factor: when there are people in pictures, they're often looking at phones.

My Dad ( https://petermcgrath.me/#/people ) is a great enthusiast of "street photography." He doesn't sell his work, but it's more than a hobby for him--Garry Winograd was one of his graduate school instructors and he's been shooting actively since the late 1960s.

He says his big challenge in the last decade has been finding interesting shots of people when most in a crowd are looking down.

Which is a bit silly as the price per share of the last preferred equity financing round and the authorized number of shares are filed in the corporate charter which anyone can access. That gives you at least a lower bound on the valuation.

For U.S. public companies, at least, the SEC views greenwashing as securities fraud matter. There are examples of the SEC bring enforcement actions for misleading ESG statements:

https://www.sec.gov/securities-topic/enforcement-task-force-...