zombees

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by zombees 10y ago
So why the desire to have a VTOL car right now? The capability to do affordable commuter air is almost in reach and we already have aircraft in the certification pipeline that can fly 2 people on electricity alone for about an hour (see Pi
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by zombees 10y ago
In general aviation (anything other than the airlines for our purposes) midair collisions happen with alarming regularity anywhere there is any congregation of aircraft (typically within 10mi of a non-towered airport). Add to this that the
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by zombees 10y ago
Would you care to elaborate? He's from Europe.
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by zombees 10y ago
At the last company I worked for, we discovered an intrusion when we started getting a ridiculous number of credit card fraud complaints. It should be noted that we sold scientific instrumentation to other small companies and rural markets
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by zombees 10y ago
I'm not sure what side I stand on here but this definitely seems very excessive. It's also worth noting that this has been going on for a while: https://techcrunch.com/2012/10/06/sex-trafficking-on-b
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by zombees 10y ago
Yea... not my day
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by zombees 10y ago
Last time I write stuff while tired...
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by zombees 10y ago
If all the dimming star headlines are piquing your interest, you must read Pandora's Star and Judas Unchained by Alexander Hamilton. It's about the same event being observed but a couple hundred years from now in a post FTL socie
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by zombees 10y ago
I love all the FPGA boards coming out but I really wish the software was better. Lattice uses the same synthesizer as Xilinx which is well known to be completely user hostile (will silently optimize huge swaths of code because it doesn&#x2
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by zombees 11y ago
In this case, what they mean is that the signal will be truly line of light. As you go up in frequency, radio starts to behave more like light so while you may get some convenient reflections here and there, for the vast majority of the ti
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by zombees 11y ago
Can someone provide an explanation of how this works or provide a reference with an overview? The article is light on details. I assume this means preventing banks extending credit against deposits that don't necessarily exist? EDIT:
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by zombees 11y ago
Yes, but you could probably make a case for sending DMCA takedowns to the chromium repo because someone doesn't like that the old versions "circumvent" the ads at which point the ball is in their court. If they fail to take
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by zombees 11y ago
True, but the sites it's working against aren't the content providers, just the advertisers. As such, it's not intending to help you violate anyone's TOS in particular (except maybe and advertiser).
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by zombees 11y ago
The url's in the lists are (mostly) ad companies though. It just doesn't send the http requests to url's on the list. I could set up a website out of the blue and have it serve ads that would be successfully blocked by any
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by zombees 11y ago
More important is that it's designed to interact with blizzards servers. Adblock is a generic utility
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by zombees 11y ago
There is one important difference with comparing MDY to adblock though. MDY made software specifically for WoW. Adblock does not make software specifically to target Business Insider or anyone else. Further, if this precedent was set, you
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by zombees 11y ago
Islam?
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by zombees 11y ago
While arguably not correct, is there any particular reason to downvote this? I think it's a fairly valid point
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by zombees 11y ago
Sounds like Intel's acquisition is working out nicely. Perhaps part of the plan?
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by zombees 11y ago
"Anything that fits in the refrigerator and will remain contained within it." Covers all uses for refrigerators and prevents anyone from putting bulk liquids, penguins, coyotes, live hand grenades, radioactive material, nuclear we
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by zombees 11y ago
Holy shit. Where is all of this being sourced? Is this all "fall of the Soviet Union" stuff where someone wandered into a silo and took apart a bomb?
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by zombees 11y ago
The difference here is that a drone will not be doing 2200mph over 3k miles so differences in the position of stars won't be particularly noticeable. You may be able to do some trickery with a few outward facing cameras and some softw
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by zombees 11y ago
If I really wanted to get around this, you can just use your magnetometer and do a 180 whenever you get interference. Combined with a pressure sensor (typically accurate to within a few feet of altitude if calibrated correctly) you can pro
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by zombees 11y ago
Why do all the islands is the Atlantic skew left of the time zone they should be in?
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by zombees 11y ago
I thought the same thing and I totally agree that this should be covered. Thinking more about it though, the media has kinda clung to The War on Drugs any time they need to fill airtime and any time it comes up, they're pretty hand wa
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by zombees 11y ago
Yep, this has been a thing for a while now. http://mysocialsherpa.com/the-ultimate-retaliation-pranking-...
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by zombees 11y ago
"How to make friends and influence people" was actually written more from a sales perspective. The topics usually boil down to efficiently establishing trust with lots of people. While I'm not sure this is really what'
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by zombees 11y ago
This. My company uses about 40% of their engineering time manually completing firmware builds (literally dragging and dropping dozens files back and forth for various in house tools) and dealing with the super awesome proprietary version co
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by zombees 11y ago
> There's not much on electronics - nothing about how such big pulses are generated, or the clever trick which allows transmitters and receivers to share an antenna without blowing out the receiver. Well, you have my curiosity now.
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by zombees 11y ago
It's really cool how they can arbitrarily turn the prop on and off like an electric aircraft, even reversing its direction. Might this be one of the earliest examples of thrust reversal for breaking? Also, could this be a more effici

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