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mehmehshoeon Court strikes down FCC’s net neutrality rules

Wouldn't VPN companies be affected as well? That would greatly affect my browsing.

mehmehshoeon Browser Extension Password Managers Exposing Passwords Everywhere

Android has two versions of Keepass. Make sure your read the details before you choose which one you want to install. The difference between the two is how/where you store your key file, either on their server or on the local sd card.

mehmehshoeon Madagascar village 'hit by bubonic plague'

Funny, I've been wondering when that little bug was going to surface again. Interesting that it sprung up in a relatively secluded island nation which would be comparatively easy to quarantine. If that hit in the slums of India or Brazil...CDC would be losing their shit right now.

Speaking of the CDC, nothing about the outbreak on their website right now. Neither in the news or outbreak sections. I also checked the travel section and the plague does not show up on the radar as a disease with a history in that nation.

mehmehshoeon SpaceX Successfully Completes First Mission to Geostationary Transfer Orbit

I am so glad this went well. Too bad it did not happen on Thanksgiving. I had my laptop out and had all the kids looking over my shoulder watching the two launch attempts. Doing my part to get the younger ones interested.

Nice picture from the space-x site- http://www.spacex.com/media-gallery/detail/90781/2601

mehmehshoeon How License-Plate Scanners Are Eroding Our Privacy

Oh the cameras are public too! Well not just the cameras but the default passwords that secure them.

Vid of the Defcon talk titled "Drinking from the firehose known as Shodan. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhNWwFu1Qjs&list=PLCDA5DF85AD...

mehmehshoeon You can no longer just leave Syracuse airport [video]

While the LAX shooting was happening I kept wondering why the shooter didn't just go backwards through the exit. There is usually just one (half asleep) agent sitting there. This would certainly prevent this.

TSA quit screening my thoughts!

mehmehshoeon Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013

I stopped using Windamp for a long time until I purchased my first Android phone. After looking through the dozens of Mp3 players on the market, I saw my old fave, downloaded it and have been using it ever since on my phone.

RIP Llama

mehmehshoeon What 4chan thinks of HN

Oh I was in tears by the third Stallman posting. It looks like he was posting the same things in other threads as well. Stallman spamming

mehmehshoeon Stop Freelancing

This reminds me of a PandoMonthly talk with Chris Sacca:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqUG2_cmZ6I

He talks about his "aha!" moment when he was broke and then realizes the people he meets would rather see him as a part/leader of a team, and not an individual.

The moments I refer to are between 32-36 minutes.

mehmehshoeon The Craigslist killers

Very well written. I had never paid attention to this story before. The last half of the article was just a huge punch to the gut.

mehmehshoeon Why Cruise Ships are My Favorite Remote Work Location

I thought I'd share an interesting segment from Tina Fey's book regarding her honeymoon cruise when a fire broke out on the boat.

"In the event of an emergency, it is the entertainers who are in charge of the lifeboats. Because the rest of the crew has actual nautical duties, the kids from Fiesta Caliente are trained to man the lifeboats. If you ever have to get on a lifeboat, the person in charge of your safety will likely be a nineteen-year-old dancer from Tampa who just had a fight with his boyfriend about the new Rihanna video. James also told me that each lifeboat has a gun on it and that once a lifeboat is in the water, the performer–lifeboat captain is trained to shoot anyone who is disruptive. This is apparently legal in accordance with maritime law."

mehmehshoeon How to Make a $19 Police Scanner

I thought it was m as in mancy =)

mehmehshoeon My Friends and I Bought an Island

I wonder if a small heard of goats/sheep could be self sustaining out there and help with clearing some of the vegetation? Out here in fire country, people with large acreage will rent sheep from farmers to come and eat the brush over a month or so. I saw some at Sears Point once and I have to say the critters did a better job than a large mowing machine.

mehmehshoeon Angry entrepreneur replies to patent troll with racketeering lawsuit

The first lawyer I witnessed publicly losing it was Charles Carreon during the Oatmeal lawsuit. The term could be "oatmealing" =)

mehmehshoeon Ask HN: What literature do you read?

Weird Life: The Search for Life That Is Very, Very Different from Our Own.

I am cheating with an audiobook though....spend a lot of time in a car=)

mehmehshoeon Ask HN: What literature do you read?

Couldn't agree more about Cryptonomicon.

mehmehshoeon California school district hires firm to monitor students' social media

I live in the area and I am friends with teachers within the school district.

I see this article as a fluff/pr/sales bit of writing. The article states nothing about the tech or who supplies the names of the children to be watched. Most of the people on HN can guess the tech. Who is giving the ID of the targets is the interesting bit.

mehmehshoeon California school district hires firm to monitor students' social media

"a larger portion" of contract workers across the globe who labor a maximum of four hours a day because "the content they read is so dark and heavy,"

Oh great, he is using Mechanical Turk to watch over students in LA.

mehmehshoeon Kit Kat's homepage is currently a parody of Android announcement page

Was I the only one thinking that video at the end was taking a dig at Mark Shuttleworth? Great bit of funny marketing regardless.

mehmehshoeon The Temple Operating System

So I guess a large majority of comedians are racist. That may hurt ticket sales.

mehmehshoeon Largest Homeless Camp In US is in Silicon Valley

Dunbar's number..aka Monkey sphere =) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar's_number

"Dunbar's number is a suggested cognitive limit to the number of people with whom one can maintain stable social relationships. These are relationships in which an individual knows who each person is and how each person relates to every other person."

mehmehshoeon Twitter, NYT Whois and DNS altered, Syrian Electronic Army takes responsibility

Yup. The biggest fallout from this won't be that those big sites were down for hours, it will be the millions of computers that redirected to that IP.

http://blog.opendns.com/2013/08/27/high-profile-domains-unde...

mehmehshoeon Don't Get Pwned on Public WiFi: Use Your Own VPN

Thank you! File hosted on Mega...hah!

mehmehshoeon Don't Get Pwned on Public WiFi: Use Your Own VPN

I have used PIA for 6 months or so, the business being US based has worried me. Speeds have been good so far and the pricing is great. I have a question for Linux users with more experience than I. Has anyone wrote a script that could tell if the openvpn connection has been cut, then just kill eth0 automatically?

mehmehshoeon Hi I’m Hank, and I bought a bus

I've been studying sailboats and living aboard them for the last year. You would be amazed on what tech is out there to be virtually self sufficient for energy, water and heating/cooling. A lot of this can transfer to a live aboard bus. * Wind-electric generators * Led * Solar Panels * Low voltage heaters..etc

Many of the comments here about cooking fuels being heavier than air are correct about the danger- nothing that proper ducting and a bilge pump could not handle. In order to live like this you must adopt a camping lifestyle. Everyday life activities, such as cooking and bathing, become more like camping and require more preparation.

edit-poor formatting, sorry. I meant the asterisks to be bullet points.

mehmehshoeon In California, a Champion for Police Cameras

Great pilot program, now we can step it up a notch. Put cameras on all state level politicians and judges=) When the corruption numbers start to fall, then move up to the federal level=)

mehmehshoeon Detaining my partner: a failed attempt at intimidation

"Those stopped have no automatic right to legal advice and it is a criminal offence to refuse to co-operate with questioning under schedule 7, which critics say is a curtailment of the right to silence."

Wait...What? HFSMFCSWTF!

mehmehshoeon Why I left Google

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Buckminster_Fuller

I believe that he meant to keep learning and reaching...not stacking up degrees.

I love the ole' trimtab

mehmehshoeon Area 51 'declassified' in U-2 spy plane history

I've been curious about that fellows job description as well. I just emailed that question to the website. I'll post the answer if/when I get a reply.