throwaway234

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by throwaway234 12y ago
Every "free" service from Google has the end goal of serving you personalized ads. That's their business.
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by throwaway234 12y ago
Honestly I think it still is to the majority of the public. Sure another engineer who is at all concerned with privacy knows about these devices, but I doubt a kid who is robbing a pap john's driver at gunpoint is aware.
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by throwaway234 12y ago
He would spend so much time in the UIUC ACM office working on that thing. Pretty impressive for an undergrad ;)
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by throwaway234 12y ago
Many uninformed people honestly do believe that, yes.
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by throwaway234 12y ago
A ride on Virgin Galactic is $250,000 a ride to the ISS on a soyuz is $70,000,000.
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by throwaway234 12y ago
That's why you build a Mars-dreaming company AND an electric vehicle company :)
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by throwaway234 12y ago
I think he's talking about the Selective Service System aka the draft. If you're male and haven't signed the document saying you will die for your country at the whim of a random number generator, you cannot apply for federal
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by throwaway234 12y ago
From reading the front page and only blog post, I gathered it is paired with bluetooth to your phone, and you set a timeout before self-destruct. So if you set an hour, if your card hasn't been paired with your phone in over an hour it
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by throwaway234 12y ago
What tool do you use to change configurations? I know my 2007 Lexus has those programmable options like beep durations and such, but I have only found two solutions - paying the dealership $60 to change them, or buying a $15 android app tha
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by throwaway234 12y ago
As a millennial in SoCal, I think it's safe to say we need cars. But we don't buy new cars because they have iPhone docks, we buy used cars because we can afford them. Not sure how this article could not mention student loans once
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by throwaway234 12y ago
I can confirm it can be abused really easily. Back in middle school (2006? 2007 maybe?) me and my friends used a firefox macro addon and a free anonymous text website to send a few hundred vulgar texts to a girl that one of us had recently