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howard941
22,428karma·4,690submissions·November 1, 2014
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My article submissions aren't endorsements, unlike my favorites...
My professional interests: Embedded and RF/networking. Droooooones. Bare iron, freertos, lately NuttX. Resource constrained or ARM. Hard realtime. *BSD / linux embedding and BOFHing. New product and sustaining devel.
Amateur radio. Attorney (Fla.)
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I get mine from http://forecast.weather.gov . Amazingly good pinpoint forecasts.
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This shouldn't be done. Nothing's materially wrong with the way things are now.
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To put a finer point on it can we say it's Accuweather's goal? I think at the end of the day Accuweather just wants to be a cash-making front end to NWS products.
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What is it about bats that makes them vectors for so many maladies? EDITED to remove spurious ref to rodents
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Good point
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Social Security just tried to authenticate my wife's birthday this way. She told them no, give me your phone #. It googled to SSA in Alabama and she called it up and proceeded from there.
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Yesterday's post had a lovelier headline
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It's [flagging] like this that makes me yearn to see a price for flagging. It's too easy and used too often. Perhaps payment in karma in exchange for piercing the thin skin.
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The payday loan people are very nice and friendly. Seriously. Maybe the only friendly finance people those struggling talk to. Even so yes they are actively harmful.
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Difficult to discuss this without talking about the Jones Act ramifications of using a Finn-built vessel
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No worries. E2E is nice but their devices are already or soon to be cracked. Revelation is inevitable.
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https://archive.ph/WryBD Although it has some weird features - like phony employment - it's not weird. At its core it lives through an intentionally deceptive loophole. Guess who…
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This misses the Waltz_2 problem. Waltz's device is cracked (assume). So even if he's using real Signal the plaintext is exposed once it's decrypted by his device.
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Can the excess water be dumped out to waste generating just enough power for grid stability?
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West central Florida's been doing this three times for the last two autumns, after the hurricanes roar through. It's not the end of the world, no, but it's awfully inconvenient.