Russell Polo

Web developer, sailor and general tech tinker-er. Crew on the Halfmoon Replica, former commodore CYC and lead web support for

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@cb_doge Trust in media peaked at Watergate?

No wounder that's their favorite call back.

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@PeterBernegger Not until judges blocks counting of ballots that were not mailed to a legitimate voter, can we expect anything to change.

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@Am_hailey Post from African account that contains obvious artifacts from cut/paste from msword.

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@davepl1968 This also means you, as I did, grew up in an area where nobody locked their houses.

Not many places like that left now.

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Depends on when the house was built. I had a house built in 1950 with the water meter in the garage. We weren't home during the day so the quarterly attempts to read the meter usually failed, they mailed us a card to self-read the meter and did estimated billing until they got the correct numbers. This usually resulted in a shocking bill when they reconciled .

Early 2000s we had to let them in to install a remote sensor the meter reader could read with a tool from outside the house.

Where i am now, meters are in a box at the street and all connected via wifi or Bluetooth they get daily numbers and can detect leaks/continuously running water.

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@AEM_1981 @TheDude5294 @shipwreckedcrew Well they should, currently it's basically impossible to convict a Democrat of anything in D.C. but that entire district is a mess with biased judges. Disband the D.C judicial district. Congress could do it, weak gop leadership won't touch it.

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In a perfect world, if there's a political angle to the crime/prosecution, then the venue would be moved to a district that voted ~51/49% or so, to give a decent chance of a balanced jury.

But we don't live in that world. Just getting trials like that out of D.C and Manhattan would be a great first step.

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@TheDude5294 @shipwreckedcrew At minimum, if a jury pool voted 95% for one party then it's automatic change of venue (regardless of if the accused is on the winning or loosing side of that equation) .

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@MartinSzerment Apparently the math works, heat radiation is a function of temperature,higher temp->more radiation. it's a solvable problem. I think the current biggest challenge is the cost per pound to orbit...and Elon is working on that.

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@whiti31633 @GuntherEagleman Unfortunately, in this case it's taxpayers that would be paying the fine.

I think the guy used a stolen ssn, but that doesn't mean it isn't detectable.

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It was the structure of the contracts. Most were some form of "costs plus" which means they literally had no incentive to reduce costs because their profits were a function of total costs. When spacex signed a contract '$X per launch' the incentive is on them to reduce their internal costs to make some (or more ) profit.

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@tanpukunokami @TryRebootnIt State of Maryland hits up for ~$300/year per car. We pay more because our plug-in hybrid doesn't use much gas. --- I did the math we are getting royaly screwed because we don't drive a huge number of miles. The extra reg fee is way more than the fuel taxes if we had a SUV.

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@brockpierson For some reason, these cables always required a 180 degree rotation between devices.

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@MichaelDChaney @davepl1968 As an ex Microsoft guy, he's confused because of the tendency M$ has to incorporate apps into the OS as a method of killing competitors.

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@davepl1968 Most likely there's a newer version of the program, but a) would require upgrading expensive machines that still work just fine and b) it's only available as a subscription and requires full internet connection for no reason other than license verification.

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@kai_h @YueKuratsu Yep pretty much... wish I had known about the rubber chicken. Destroyed a bunch of expensive CDRs... perhaps that would have helped.

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@ayesha_fatiima Additional point: Linux users generally have a better understanding of security and are far less likely to click a random install link that appears as a pop-up.

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@ShaunStromb @KeenanPeachy Without a parliamentary system where minority parties get some seats, no 3rd party will ever have significant success in this country.

I'd support discarding congressional districts for such a system, but nobody in power ever will.

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@OtherSide61 @Kshi_nippon Actually, I've seen these in rural areas all over the place. Just needs to be outside the city. Although, seeing a camera monitoring the stand is also getting pretty common.