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screw that, I'm putting all my money into giant round stones with holes in the centre. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rai_stones …

hell yes, let's all put $150 million in something with no QA or security audit, what can possibly go wrong? also, I need to buy a gallon of PCP.

It's almost as if a cryptocurrency system used by the grey market and black market sections of the internet contained actual blackhats. What a surprise. Much as I hate to link to reddit, for effe…

THEY'RE GOING FOR THE GARBAGE FILE!!!

... and god help you if you were a 'scene' group and released a movie in anything other than a multi-part RAR set of 15MB files containing 2 x 700MB files. nuked!

Looks fine in Lynx, too! http://imgur.com/yAEimmZ

South Park definitely set a precedent. There was also a very active community of sharing MPEG1 recordings of Futurama in the warez 'scene' from the very first episode which aired in March 19…

Makes fucking up a remote firmware update on a $45,000 router look like a tiny hiccup, by comparison.

It is rather messed up that a broken infotainment system can kill the climate control. If your infotainment system is down but there is nothing physically wrong with the AC compressor or fan system it…

You have just described a car like a Suzuki Mehran (manufactured today in Karachi, Pakistan) and similar small cars manufactured in India. They're immensely popular in the developing world becaus…

In things like smart TVs, smart fridges with LCDs on them, and infotainment systems in cars, this is sadly the exception and not the norm. Hardware-oriented manufacturers push a product out the door a…

I don't think it's "cars" are getting weird, it's just this one weird Tesla and their business model... The article says: "Cars are big computers, and have been for a wh…

The insurance companies which insure commercial telecom satellite launches are EXTREMELY risk averse - I would be surprised if you see a commercial launch in any of the first eight re-uses of first st…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_1-litre_car aerodynamics on a car taken to the extreme, to the extent that it has cameras and LCDs instead of side/rear view mirrors…

If I had to guess, their first priority is launching new rockets that generate revenue, with paying customers' payloads on them (as all of the recent Falcon 9 launches have been), rather than a s…

In ships a portion of the waste heat from the engine is also used to pre-heat the fuel tank and lines to make it easier to pump, as heavy bunker oil is extremely thick at 'room' temperature.

It's a two stroke engine with oil mixed into the fuel, I don't think the intended users (there's such a thing as competition racing micro motorcycles??!) care too much about fuel effici…

> but it'll be expensive and heavy, like 5 HP and it'll be 100+ pounds. tl;dr: affordable, efficient, light weight: Pick any two ?

I think the big difference is this is really, really light weight and tiny compared to a small aviation engine. More in the category of something you would power a 100 kilogram drone with than an ultr…

This is potentially very interesting for medium sized drones that need 12+ hour endurance, as lithium ion/lipo batteries just don't have the energy density of gasoline... Even when you lose…

in a lot of individual 20 or 40 ft long amenities, as long as your amenities are not wider than 8' and 9.5 ft high.

Calling Peter Thiel, if there's about to be a glut of unwanted "old Panamax" container ships on the market for charter, maybe some will be for sale? Buy a few, strap them together and …

I realize this is a real thing, but "investment grade wine" sounds like such a preposterously stereotypical WASP thing... I'm sure they have a storage facility in the Hamptons.

419 scammers tricked into re-enacting monty python dead parrot sketch: http://boingboing.net/2007/02/20/419-scammers-tricked.html 419 scammers tricked into hand writing…

Basically the caveman version of the PUA approach. Be willing to make a boorish fool of yourself, have no shame in what you're doing and some percentage of responses will be positive.

On the flip side of this, white expat professionals sent to work in management roles for multinational companies in Pakistan and India will frequently find that their equivalently-ranked colleagues ha…

There is a Greek food place on south 1st ave in Seattle that advertises "BEST YEEROS IN TOWN!" on their sign. Yes they know what a Gyro is and how it's really spelled.

Yes. Doing this 'manually' step by step lets you choose which things are really necessary, your configuration might be different, and forces you to learn WHAT it's doing rather than jus…

For those saying "why fail2ban?", fail2ban can be used for a great deal more than just watching the sshd log. You can activate fail2ban rules for apache and nginx which help significantly wi…