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The main reason this bid is surprising is if no one bought these properties at this county level auction, they would show up cheaper at a city auction.

Just finished: In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin Arabian Sands by Wilfred Thesiger

Now reading: Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiesen

Been on a travel themed binge the last few weeks, rereading my favorite travel books. I highly recommend Arabian Sands, gives a pretty unique view of how the Arabian Peninsula was changing right after WWII.

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We're currently hiring for a number of positions, but the one below is what I do so I can speak to it best.

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Getting high isn't just limited to smoking marijuana... There are a huge array of substances that could cause safety concerns for passengers on an airplane.

You can enable XHR logging in the settings panel as well.

F12 is the default shortcut for opening the IE devtools, maybe that's why?

I think OCR may have reliability issues, but most road signage has consistent properties (size, height, font, etc.) that could be easily optimized for.

It also covers the (admittedly limited) situations where no GPS is available (tunnels, skyscrapers). If there are temporary changes in speed limits due to construction or other events, OCR could immediately identify those with no need to download new information.

These cases look fairly cut-and-dried. The one thing that makes me wonder is the international angle, neither defendant is located in the US.

Seems like the real prize is setting a precedent to be used in other cases. It would seem recovering monetary awards from international parties may be quite difficult or impossible.

Perhaps it was when the Solicitor General lied to the Supreme Court? As he/his office has to appear there often it behooves him to maintain a good relationship with the court.

See here for more: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6576399

2. If buffer is equal to url's scheme's default port, set buffer to the empty string.

A good example would be the Golden Gate Bridge (at least they used to do this, I haven't been to the west coast in several years).

HTC could use something that would differentiate themselves from Samsung et al, maybe Cyanogen could do it?

In reference to the required standards for querying by the NSA:

The Court concluded that this requirement had been 'so frequently and systematically violated that it can fairly be said that this critical element of the overall.. regime has never functioned effectively.'

edit: from Pg. 16, footnoote 14

Well, the article has a quote from an Austrian minister that they searched the plane, not sure how that could be taken any other way.

Well, if you know what vine is, I'd say there's a very high chance you understand '@'.

They have examples of malware that use that exploit?

Although this thread is pretty old, I just saw something that reiterated my earlier point, Sony's insurance arm accounts for over 60% of the company's profits: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/28/business/global/sonys-brea...

There's no way a stock movement of that size had anything to do with the Xbox.

From a comment on the linked post:

"Both Google DNS and OpenDNS implement the (Google-proposed) ecdn-client-subnet DNS extension, that basically forwards the higher part of the client IP to the authoritative DNS for the specific purpose of latency-based routing...

I assume you're not using latency-based routing for static data (otherwise a CDN would solve it). In that case, you're out of luck because it looks like Route 53 doesn't support ecdn-client-subnet"

If the only thing Sony made was the PlayStation line, then yeah, it would be difficult to call that a coincidence. But Sony has recording studios, movie studios, medical equipment, TV's, phones, a huge array of other consumer electronics, various video games (lots for the PC), PC's, and oh yeah, the PlayStation and the PSP/Vita.

And as noted elsewhere, the price started moving only 5 minutes into the presentation, way before anything of substance was announced.

I don't see how that law comes into effect in this situation unless they left something out of the article. It didn't say Tesla is preventing others from opening services centers, just that Tesla owns them all so far.

There's probably a non-trivial amount of model specific knowledge needed to repair a Tesla that can't be picked up at a general mechanics' school. Maybe when Tesla's sales volume increases there will be a higher demand for mechanics that Tesla couldn't fill and 3rd party shops will open.

Well, it wouldn't necessarily be so hard to test a few devices on a plane.

But there are thousands of models of phones, tablets, wifi cards, 3g cards, bluetooth accessories, LTE/WiMax cards, gps devices, etc., etc., etc.

Then we get into the wide variety of planes in the air with varying amounts and types of avionics, radios, etc. And those systems are in different places in different planes.

And don't forget aftermarket alterations both in software and hardware (i.e. custom firmware, different batteries) to those devices.

So your test wouldn't be too hard, but the result it seems you want (i.e. a definitive answer on the safety of electronics use by passengers on aircraft) takes a hell of a lot more legwork.

I generally agree, but this might be a case where there's already a lot of information about people without the condition and as he says, very little about those with it.

This sounds suspiciously like the EFF but exclusively/more for IP focused issues.

The point is that Netflix will, but unlike traditional broadcast and cable, we won't. Unless I'm mistaken, Netflix isn't included in any sort of ratings, the main source of our information about television viewership.

Netflix will indeed have some of the most powerful analytic tools available to apply to their programming, but we have no way of independent verification. Well, I suppose they may break it down in a quarterly report, but they may not have any reason to.

I think lots of people are interested in the viability of this model. Television format entertainment hasn't been significantly "disrupted" by the internet yet and this could be a step in a new direction, but it'll be hard to tell without Netflix releasing their numbers.

Currently on the Steam client I have installed on my laptop that runs Mint, I can install roughly 20 games from my existing Steam library. Some of these games were available the moment I installed the client, others gained working Linux ports and became available in the Linux client with no action on my part.

Beside the Call of Duty port for Mac mentioned below, I know of no other game that has required multiple purchases for multiple platforms.

It depends on what the decision was based on.

If it's based on the 1st Amendment, then an constitutional amendment would be necessary. But if it's based on law passed by Congress, then Congress can repeal or amend the language of the law the decision was based on.

Directly from the article: "The other key piece of information to get from the string file is that this is an optional mode..."

Authentication, synchronization, ticketing, etc. I'd think something like requiring you to unlock your NFC device in order to "swipe" in would be pretty nifty 2-factor auth.

I'd suggest taking a look at the wikipedia page, it has a list of potential uses.

I'm not sure how you can say there isn't anything to know about running. Volumes upon volumes of books, magazines, and articles have been written about every aspect of running, from training and nutrition guides to novels and short stories.

There's no need to know that any of this even exists in order to enjoy running, that's part of running's beauty. But there's lots to know if you want to.

p.s. I should add that Born to Run is an interesting read about a part of running that lots of runners don't know much about.