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by rit 4y ago
In point of fact, Insurance companies have been refusing to cover some of these Kia and Hyundai cars because they're "too easy to steal". The lack of immobilizer chip apparently is the culprit. https://www.cnn.com&
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by rit 4y ago
You also can't buy Audible books through the Audible app. I get that Google wants their cut and Amazon doesn't want to give it, but come on.
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by rit 7y ago
Supporting test credit cards in production with no fraud or risk assessment. Do you want fraud? This is how you get fraud.
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by rit 12y ago
There are still pretty heavy economic restrictions on US Citizens & companies doing business within Cuba. IIRC there is also US imposed restrictions on foreign companies who do business in the US doing business in Cuba as well. It makes
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by rit 12y ago
Yes, at the very least in Apartments in the US. Every apartment I've lived in (in several states/both coasts) has had the simple style keys. IANAL (i am not a locksmith), however. Homeowners obviously have more choice in the locks
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by rit 13y ago
That's a truly fantastic article. And a bit scary, considering I have a family member training to fly one.
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by rit 13y ago
I should note as well that as I recall, the Navy & Air Force ran into similar problems in Vietnam as may happen soon. They phased out most of their prop aircraft in favor of much faster jet bombers (and strategic bombers like the Aardva
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by rit 13y ago
Most drones only carry IIRC a single hellfire missile. Not particularly useful against Infantry, and a 1 shot and you're done. An aircraft like the A10 (and a helo like the Apache, as noted below) has a huge benefit over a drone in its
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by rit 13y ago
A valid point, and one I should have noted. Mea Culpa.
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by rit 13y ago
It also talks about how after speaking to Nakamoto – who told him to leave him alone... Nakamoto's Son – who told him to leave him alone... and Nakamoto's Brother – who told him to leave him alone... The reporter still showed up
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by rit 13y ago
And specifically, sea salt tends to be low in Iodine. "Iodine, an element essential for human health, is present only in small amounts in sea salt,[1]" (cribbed from Wikipedia) [1]: http://pubs.acs.org/doi/ful
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by rit 13y ago
San Jose is the nearest major city to Mt. View, Sunnyvale, Palo Alto & Santa Clara... they're using it as a Metro area grouping. EDIT: Yes, these are part of the "The San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA Metropolitan Statistical
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by rit 13y ago
I suspect (this is entirely speculation) based on conversations with Hoteliers in Italy before that they find it an onerous, silly requirement. They simply have to show that anyone they authorized to access their network was logged. Follo
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by rit 13y ago
YMMV, depending on country... and how much the hotel cares about Wifi access. Italy has strong controls related to terrorism, IIRC. The which has meant the last few times I stayed in hotels there you had to hand over your passport for photo
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by rit 13y ago
I worked for 10gen (now MongoDB) for over 2 years (I left in December). Never once while I was there did they publish a benchmark: There was a [publicly] stated company policy to not publish or comment on benchmarks. If you have evidence ot
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by rit 13y ago
You confuse decisions by government with those of the American people. I can assure you, as an American, I have qualms about blowing up people with anything, including drones... and I hold due process to be one of the most fundamental human
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by rit 13y ago
That is already happening. We are moving Eventsourced into Akka to become "akka-persistence": https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/eventsourced/B2Nx4HJB-...
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by rit 13y ago
You mean like this one? http://www.mongodb.com/press/10gen-announces-mongodb-backup-...
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by rit 13y ago
Exactly. And it potentially opens up legal grounds, with evidence. Every member of the protected classes he has venomously disparaged, who applied for and didn't get a job (or was fired) to claim discrimination by him.
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by rit 13y ago
He was in a position to hire people, and expressing views that clearly indicated bias towards certain protected classes. That alone would be cause for concern. I don't know that I"d advocate his firing, but I'd certainly ques
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by rit 13y ago
Very differently (I'm the original author of Casbah, though I gave up maintainership a few months ago when I joined Typesafe). Casbah was always created to be a straight MongoDB driver, with no ORM features. It has no dependencies on &
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by rit 13y ago
Why would it confirm it? "Correlation does not imply causation". He may be pulled in by the same rumours as everyone else and being overly cautious. Just because he does this doesn't indicate he has confirmed or denied the ex
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by rit 13y ago
This is a bit hyperbolic. Vigilantism refers specifically to "an individual or group undertaking law enforcement without legal authority". Not to defend the clearly overreaching actions of the Malibu homeowners, but hiring secur
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by rit 13y ago
I can't answer fully for Clojure's reasons for not supporting TCO, but it will at least be fundamentally rooted in the fact that the JVM, as a platform, does NOT support TCO. Scala is usually the language brought up as a counter argument he
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by rit 13y ago
this is coming up 404 now : even when you click the link to the article on the front page of the listed domain. Anyone have a cache of the content?
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by rit 14y ago
You could go back even before Gattaca. In the beginning of one of Heinlein's earliest works (and one of my all time favourites), "Double Star" [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Star ], he discusses using latex fake fingerprints to frame
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by rit 14y ago
And it was Terminal 5, so that makes sense. It looks like they're not getting their 787s (and an order of 'superjumbo' A380s) until this year. A training/demo aircraft makes sense. Not to mention free advertising people like me, sitting i
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by rit 14y ago
Just a random piece of pedantry; the article states that Poland's LOT is the only european airline operating the 787 right now. I was at Heathrow maybe 90 days ago and British Airways had a brand new 787 (Painted in fancy "Dreamliner" dres
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by rit 14y ago
Apple has blocked things like "Google Voice" in the past claiming it duplicates existing functionality in the phone. I suspect (And this is entirely speculation on my part) that if iOS Maps had not been under such a cloud of scrutiny since
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by rit 14y ago
I noted v8 in my comment; it won't be a panacea. It certainly doesn't fix the encoding/decoding overhead of BSON<->JavaScript, but the JIT and multithreading will help in other areas. Group still will not become sharding-capable wit

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