LoganCale

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by LoganCale 10y ago
My DeLorme inReach can send a message with coordinates and then doesn't need to remain online and continue transmitting. (Of course, you want to keep it online so you can continue to communicate with SAR, but if the battery were to die
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by LoganCale 10y ago
That does seem a possibility—or once she set up her camp she remembered the somewhat poor advice of staying put (this can be good if you're actively being searched for and likely to be found quickly, but once days or weeks have gone by
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by LoganCale 10y ago
I'm not aware of a similar thing in the US. And depending on the remoteness of your location, you may get an indication of a good signal (3+ bars) but still be unable to transmit or receive a text. It's common in the mountains whe
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by LoganCale 10y ago
It's not dangerous if you have navigational skills. Most people, however, do not, or haven't developed theirs very effectively. I see it myself sometimes with other hikers at the front of a group—they take a wrong turn and suddenl
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by LoganCale 10y ago
Please don't do this. I see people doing it, even going so far as to leave flagging tape on obvious, maintained trails so they don't "lose their way". And usually people don't remove it after. It makes an area trash
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by LoganCale 10y ago
They're growing in popularity, but they're expensive and some of the popular ones (not PLBs specifically, but satellite trackers & communicators) like SPOT and DeLorme inReach have monthly subscription fees as well. Someone wh
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by LoganCale 10y ago
I'm a very regular hiker and backpacker, and while I always feel bad in situations like this, I also always feel that people who get lost so easily that they can't find the trail—especially one so developed as the Appalachian Trai
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by LoganCale 12y ago
That is false. Border Patrol claims the right to enter private property and homes of citizens without a warrant within 100 miles of the border.
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by LoganCale 12y ago
They altered people's feeds for a psychological experiment with the specific intent of manipulating their mood. That is highly unethical.
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by LoganCale 12y ago
Having kids doesn't make you right about something.
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by LoganCale 12y ago
The horror! Someone might encounter a word!
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by LoganCale 12y ago
And they were all shit.
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by LoganCale 12y ago
…and then rejected that noble use by allowing other tyrannical regimes to censor content so it can't be used that way again.
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by LoganCale 12y ago
No. I'll keep using vim, because I'm efficient in it and I enjoy using it.
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by LoganCale 12y ago
Good. It should be a problem for them.
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by LoganCale 12y ago
Because the entire point of a Turing test is that you don't know whether you're talking to a machine or human and you have to decide based entirely on your conversation.
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by LoganCale 12y ago
The Real Name policy was the beginning of the end for me, Reader being shut down made me lose interest in all new Google products, and Snowden made me stop using some of the ones I already had been.
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by LoganCale 12y ago
It's California locations. 10.9 Mavericks was the first in the new naming scheme. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mavericks_(location)
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by LoganCale 12y ago
Yes you absolutely can rewrite history.
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by LoganCale 12y ago
Yes, let's do nothing and let the governments of the world do whatever they want to us. What's the worst that could happen?
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by LoganCale 12y ago
Exactly right: it's the fact that this makes mass surveillance so much easier that is the problem with certain surveillance technology being used by law enforcement.
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by LoganCale 12y ago
In the hands of police, absolutely. I do not want police to have access to rapid, easy surveillance at that level.
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by LoganCale 12y ago
They'll be used sparingly until people are used to them and then they'll start using them more.
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by LoganCale 12y ago
Gotham and Helvetica are both sans-serif.
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by LoganCale 12y ago
Everything looks bad with ClearType.
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by LoganCale 12y ago
That comment isn't even offensive. People get offended way too easily.
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by LoganCale 12y ago
Goodbye, Word Lens.
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by LoganCale 12y ago
Photoshop and Illustrator are not quality software in many ways, but for professional designers they contain features that competitors do not. And a bigger issue locking people in is that if you are collaborating with anyone, everyone has t
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by LoganCale 12y ago
You can't buy the latest versions of Adobe software. They are simply not available for purchase. You can only rent them. So if you work with designers who use Creative Cloud you are similarly forced to subscribe. At this point, I&#x2
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by LoganCale 12y ago
The problem is, Adobe never did this and abruptly forced everyone to switch to a subscription model if they wanted to upgrade. And existing versions only keep working for so long unless you keep the same hardware/operating system with

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