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by olympus 8y ago
I’d guess that a lot of the encrypted systems had a password written on a sticky note on the desk or in the laptop bag. Encryption doesn’t do much unless you take the other sensible steps. It’s more worrying to me that a doctor might not r
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by olympus 8y ago
No recruiting, I started off by wanting to point out that military lawyers don't "make" captain, they are given that rank to start. Then I realized it sounded like a little like a recruitment talk so I decided to go all in.
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by olympus 8y ago
Lawyers can commission directly as captains in the USAF (and probably other branches) as long as they are not too old and can pass the fitness test. I think they also have to have passed a bar exam in one state, but it doesn't matter
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by olympus 8y ago
Ah, I understand now. Increasing the index of the outer planets is what would make the fit better, and the asteroid belt is a good way to justify it (and happens to be consistent with some other theories about the solar system).
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by olympus 8y ago
??? Adding a point in between two other points literally can't make something more linear, it can only make it less linear.
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by olympus 8y ago
You need a system with more than two planets. A system with only two planets is going to be linearly spaced on any type of scale. Once you've filtered out systems with two or fewer planets, you need orbital measurements with decent pr
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by olympus 8y ago
Additionally, there are some specialist/professional apps that charge quite a bit and they would be screwed by a limit. Example: the iPad is the defacto standard for electronic flight bags (digital charts for pilots), and the market ra
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by olympus 8y ago
The article specifically says the Justice department is dripping the case because they have a new warrant and Microsoft is complying.
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by olympus 8y ago
While the new law isn't the best, this particular course of action based on the law seems completely reasonable. New law -> new warrant -> no reason to continue wasting government $$ on fighting a court case that now has federal
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by olympus 8y ago
Features like being required to delete (actually delete) your information if you request it. Features like being required to show you what they know about you. Once you realize facebook/google/etc probably know better than you wh
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by olympus 8y ago
This is less attractive when you realize that all big companies will have a non-European subsidiary pay a non-European component of facebook for all their advertising needs, which would hugely lower the revenue base that 4% is calculated fr
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by olympus 8y ago
Bulldozer and Piledriver worked fine , but never came close to "crushing" Intel's offerings. They were a decent option for specific workloads that only cared about parallel performance on a budget. If you cared at all abou
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by olympus 8y ago
Except it didn't crush most of Intel's stuff. It had more physical cores but lost in actual performance. That's why Ryzen was such a big deal, it's the first time AMD has been able to compete with Intel since the Athlo
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by olympus 8y ago
Those have desktop class high TDP CPUs in them. The distinction here is that this is a low(ish) TDP CPU intended for laptops where battery life matters.
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by olympus 8y ago
You're right, for some reason I was thinking Exynos wasn't ARM based because it wasn't Qualcomm- not sure why. That takes the list of ARM competition down to just the Chinese offerings, unless I'm mistaken about that.
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by olympus 8y ago
Me too, but for a different reason. I feel like many privately held unicorns aren't really worth as much as their last VC investment would imply. If we get more of these companies publicly traded then we can see how much they are rea
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by olympus 8y ago
I'll offer a counter opinion. I subscribed to the New Yorker for almost a year. The New Yorker leans hard left politically and it was really tiring. I consider myself a moderate progressive and got tired of the condescending tone th
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by olympus 8y ago
Being able to go toe to toe with low-power areas says little about being able to compete against full-power areas, and vice versa. Intel is a laughing stock when trying to compete in low power areas even though they dominate full power. A
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by olympus 8y ago
Right, but what they've said is "we've lost TM and it's going to deorbit sometime in the future. We'll watch it and keep you posted." Which is all well and good until you realize what they haven't said,
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by olympus 8y ago
As signatories of the Outer Space Treaty they should give a heads up to the international community, and are liable for any damage that's caused by this event even if they provide warning (but could probably get out of it with enough p
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by olympus 8y ago
I suspect there is some nuance here that needs to be considered and was probably brought up in the numerous court cases regarding dumpster diving. While it's okay to be nervous about cops stealing your DNA from your trash, it's fi
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by olympus 8y ago
A better option is to just own up to being a dumpster diver and look in everybody's trash cans on the street. There's a plausible cover story that you want to maybe get some valuable rich-people trash (maybe a Juicero) and it&#x2
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by olympus 8y ago
500 is effectively unlimited compared to the 22 GB that AT&T throttles you at on their native plans. My Cox internet also had a 500 GB warning. Plus, Netflix HD streaming is about 3GB per hour. You can stream a two hour movie every nig
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by olympus 8y ago
They're separate things. They are multi-function buttons on a throttle or stick. Here's a castle picture in the link below- on the right side of the F-22's throttle you can see a large button that has angled sides and four t
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by olympus 8y ago
Because a single PE teacher can manage five rotating classes of twenty kids throughout the day. If kids didn't rotate periods, then all 100 kids would take PE at the same time. That would require extra PE teachers, because one teache
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by olympus 8y ago
Box is slang for vagina.
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by olympus 8y ago
It's a cultural thing. Fighter pilots play several games with each other, usually violating a rule means you have to pay money (the dead bug game and fixation on the number 69 are also interesting). They claim the games increase situ
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by olympus 8y ago
The best you can physically do is about 2 ms more lag than the fastest ground based system, and that's assuming you're only adding in the transit time from ground station -> satellite -> user. So it possibly won't be a
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by olympus 8y ago
Grunts have to live with stuff because they have no other choice. Pilots are zipper suited gods whose complaints actually matter. All joking aside, they have human factors experts work on the UI, and it must go through operational testing-
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by olympus 8y ago
It won't be as good as you think. This one is going right next to the Model 3 in Elon's book of things he'll technically deliver but will progressively dial back the claims before and after delivery.

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