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therockspushon Border agents can search cellphones without a warrant or reasonable suspicion

If you fly up from countries south of the US you have a tight list of airports you can clear customs at. Wilmington NC is the odd one on the eastern seaboard. Its about 520 miles north of the nearest one. For flights coming up from the Caribbean headed to New England its a lucrative place to be.

https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-19/chapter-I/part-122/sub...

therockspushon San Jose officer used Flock to help relative track domestic violence victim

Tip of the iceberg. And he only got fired.

therockspushon QuadRF can spot drones and see WiFi through my wall

set that alarm

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48861717#48864989

therockspushon Abandoned and Little-Known Airfields

Have this bookmarked.

I love the Crissy Field section, considering what it is now and how recently it was being used.

https://airfields-freeman.com/CA/Airfields_CA_SanFran.htm#cr...

therockspushon Weather Model based on ADS-B

Flight plans are usually filed hours before a flight with old wind data and sometimes can't be changed in congested airspace.

But pilots really care about wind shear. Its the thing that makes people suddenly hit the overhead compartment. It typically requires flight crews reporting it to ATC over radio. Improving accuracy of local wind events is very valuable.

therockspushon Lufthansa plane flew for 10 minutes without pilots

https://jonbeckett.substack.com/p/ils-cat-i-cat-ii-and-cat-i...

Real auto land, CAT iii, is what you're thinking of and it requires specific things that most airports and planes don't have equipped

therockspushon Amazon Makes It Harder for Disabled Employees to Work from Home

You're right about Amazons leverage.

In Santa Clara county we have our local behemoths trying to get their property valuations dropped. https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2024/11/08/tech-goo...

The way commercial real estate lending is tied to lease rates usually means its almost impossible for them to go down unless you operate at these scales.

Most commercial landlords around me would rather have prime main street spots stay empty than refinance because of lower lease rates.

therockspushon Urban spatial order: street network orientation, configuration, and entropy

Charlotte is specifically called out as one of the worst offenders in this article mate.

therockspushon Urban spatial order: street network orientation, configuration, and entropy

Weird. I just bumped into this paper when I was trying to learn why Charlotte has such a confusing layout. I've never felt more lost.

therockspushon Why am I dreaming I have an exam I didn't study for?

Same one about the combo here. Almost every person I ask has some variation on that one. Crazy how universal it is in my world, especially since it's usually about something that would have happened 20 or 30 years ago, but never really happened.

therockspushon Ottawa wants the power to create secret backdoors in networks for surveillance

Four Lions puffin party. Parody of incompetent jihadis using a kids game to communicate.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fd4yjFto0A

therockspushon The Naughty Words the FAA Removed from the Sky

Looks like DROWN is still out there.

https://opennav.com/waypoint/US/DROWN

therockspushon I organized a 20-acre game of Capture the Flag

Seeing a lot of similar stories here. We used to do a game of hide and seek on our massive dead end street. Wed use peoples bushes and cars to hide. I still remember the sound of crotchety old mr peabody chambering a round in his shotgun behind us one night. Pitch black. Never saw his face, just heard him let us know we were about to die if we didn't leave. Pretty sure he knew it was 2 little kids

therockspushon Lawsuit accuses GM of sharing drivers' data with insurers without consent

I have a 2018 Chevy, and cancelled onstar immediately, which was intentionally an exercise in annoyance and confusion. But I still got metrics emailed to me.

I found a way to detach the wireless dongler tucked up behind my glove box. The only side effect was my little digi-compass not telling me which direction I was pointing anymore.

I don't think they let you do that anymore.

therockspushon Sky High Sabotage: Major Airlines Are Using TSA to Shut Down Competitor

So far they've had to pull out of a few airports when FBOs stop hosting them, mostly without explanation. The same FBOs that allow part 135 operators, some owned by the majors, to run. Seems related.

therockspushon Sky High Sabotage: Major Airlines Are Using TSA to Shut Down Competitor

I just had a flight with JSX cancelled because of this, it's sad.

Regulations are written in blood, but this one just looks like it's written in green.

therockspushon US Air Force DevOps Engineer Sets Himself on Fire in Protest War in Gaza

We live in fame or go down in flame, hey! Nothing'll stop the U.S. Air Force!

therockspushon Grabby Aliens (2021)

Who knows what they've been grabbing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5qYH-Y3tQ4

therockspushon The Tears of a Clown: Probing the comedian's psyche (2008)

That's true for everyone, right?

Nobody sees a psychiatrist because they're happy all the time.

therockspushon Controlled Tango into Terrain (2008)

The title is a tip of the cap to Controlled Flight into Terrain, CFIT.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlled_flight_into_terrain

therockspushon The worst users come from referral programs, free trials, coupons

Mine are all online now.

So you can activate them before you go.

In the time it would take to pull the scissors out of the drawer, I can just .click() all of them.

I don't even pay attention to the ones I activate anymore, I just get a nice surprise on the receipt.

On a $100 grocery run it knocks off an average of $20.

therockspushon Office Landlords Use Cash Gifts, Loans to Inflate Building Values

Every time I explain this to people you see the 5 stages of grief go across their face, especially when it's a property that used to host their favorite restaurant or something.

I sometimes have to go back and remind myself this is really happening, it's such bullshit.

therockspushon The Self Balancing Monorail [video]

Cool, never seen this. There's a similar thing on big ships.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-rolling_gyro

therockspushon Analysis of the California Delete Act

Used to be, in the good old days, getting yourself off lexisnexis did a good chunk of the heavy lifting out of these data pits.

For anyone who doesn't know what BlockShopper does, what does it do?

therockspushon Titan sub debris field: Parts of missing sub's cover found, expert says

I wonder how long it will be before someone resurrects this idea and starts another company like this.

Sounds like something Billy McFarland could get into.

therockspushon Federal Reserve's FedNow Will Integrate with Metal Blockchain

This is being considered a precursor to the CBDC. States coming out against this(NC, SD, FL) are fighting this in the name of american freedom, but I wonder how many people consider it the mark of the beast.

therockspushon Study finds female astronauts more efficient

The Forlorn Hope from the Donner Party did this study a while back.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donner_Party#%22The_Forlorn_Ho...

therockspushon The anatomy of the Cayman Islands offshore financial center (2016)

The US is a tax haven mate

therockspushon The Mathematics of Crowds: How Pedestrians Inadvertently Self-Organize

I understand completely, and there's probably a good part of it explained by peoples space awareness turning off when they're around their kids. If I had a haypenny for every time someone walked their doublewide stroller into me, forget about it.

But people do it everywhere. Elevators, stairs, bars. Ants do it for a reason.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiNEORy0Krc

People do too but if they aren't aware enough to move out of the way, it might tell you what part of the brain those people are operating with.

therockspushon Fix your resume using AI

If this makes buzzword resume fluff requirements disappear, bless it.