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They could request it all they want but there are no current US laws that would require OpenPrinter to comply with such an order. There may exist secret agreements between major printer companies and the US government to implement this feature and it could potentially be part of an approval process for being allowed to sell printers to the US government but there are no laws requiring it.

One of the critical things I use example.com for is triggering wifi login portals as it doesn't not use SSL. Certificate pinning and all that fancy stuff has made it so the browser has an absolutely awful time figuring out what to do when https://google.com does not present itself as the same host it was earlier.

I installed new ceiling fans in my house. Everything was fine for about a year until one fan kept turning off randomly or the light would come on. It wasn't on the default setting but it was on like the second or third option in the dip switches. The fan controller died about a couple weeks later so I was never sure if it was just acting up or it's death was a coincidence. A new controller was incompatible with the old remote so never had an issue again.

So a written threat only becomes a crime when someone reads it, even if you never intended for anyone to read it? Is it a crime if I make a threatening statement in a diary and someone breaks into my house and reads the diary?

The Florida statute requires that it be transmitted in a manner that can be viewed by another person. If you have no idea that someone could view your communications with a chatbot, did you really intend to break that specific law? Technically, that threat was communicated to another person but not through her own intentions.

How do manufacturers print QR codes on packaging that potentially could change daily, like in the case for expiration dates? 1D barcodes don't ever change so they can be easily printed in mass on the packaging.

It's probably because if someone were to get your static barcode (some account number?), they'd be able to use it immediately and forever. Whereas the QR code is a payment link that authenticates on the backend. Kind of like a credit card magstrip versus the chip.

It was much easier to assign blocks of IPs to an ISP rather than a 4.3B line lookup table. And how would you ensure that an address has been rotated? How do you determine who the real owner of an IP is when collisions occur? You're asking for a worldwide atomic database propagated to all routers in the days where a 32bit number was considered massive.

If I start doing odd jobs on the side for cash, there's zero papertrail of my income other than maybe text messages between me and customers. How would the government know how much money I make? Should I force my customers to file a 1099-NEC? Should I be required to get an EIN because I want to mow my neighbors lawn for cash?

If you're working a W2 job or contracting for a big company, the government is probably aware of your income and that's where we should be focused on automating tax returns but if your income comes from regular people, they likely have no idea.

Unless you turn the entire national security apparatus around to surveil citizens' income, I don't think it's ever possible for the government to know everything.

How it should work is that the government should show you everything they already know and prompt you to fill out anything they don't and then you submit it. The majority of people would immediately benefit from this. They don't do this for a few reasons: number one being the tax prep lobby that wants to make doing your taxes a burden such that even regular people feel the need to spend money or have their personal financial information gathered by private companies. The second reason is that if the government is already aware of how much you've made, chances are you've already paid your taxes and would either be looking at a refund or other tax credits, the government is effectively spending money to make it easier for you to take money away from it.

Article does mention they improved their backend stuff by using bare metal servers so that "you connect to the closest server".

Cloudflare offers 10GB of free R2 storage. HA has a backup plugin for Cloudflare R2.

HA already has many plugins for doing voice processing locally or through other cloud providers (freely or cheaply)

A cloudflare tunnel would also give you direct access to WebRTC streams, just like being at home. HA Cloud just offers relay servers so you don't have to directly connect.

If you want to give HA money, go ahead but there's nothing truly compelling it offers that I couldn't get elsewhere for much less.

Virtual private servers and shell accounts.

It's not really a cloud service, maybe some of the add on features are but the major feature is the tunnel. I signed up for the trial and it didn't really give me anything I actually needed. The tunnel makes things simpler but I already had tailscale on another box so what's the point? Plus, I so rarely ever need to access my HA dashboard. I don't really want to pickup my phone to turn a light on. The whole point of HA is automation, not bypassing a vendor's app. Once things are operating how I want, I don't need to fiddle with it so why do I need to pay money to fiddle with it remotely?

I don't understand, why is it a joke? HA permissions are just to lock certain users or groups out of controlling certain things. You wouldn't be randomly giving out accounts to people you don't know or trust. It's the controls to your smarthome after all, not a shell account on an open sign-up server.

The suits they make for bodyguards often have hidden stretch panels for greater mobility.

In reality, the sport coat was originally designed for equestrian sports. Modern fashion has turned the sporty features into aesthetic features. A equestrian wouldn't buy a normal sport coat and someone looking for a nice jacket to wear to brunch wouldn't buy a polo jacket.

This slightly resembles what I'd buy as a sport coat but the cut is a bit different because this coat is actually intended for horseback riding whereas my sport coat is cut for general comfort.

https://rjclassics.com/products/knight-melton-hunt-coat-blac...

I do enjoy wearing suit pants that are lined. It's like wearing satin shorts.

Do you buy shirts in S, M, L, XL kind of sizes or do you buy them in neck and sleeve length? I'll buy casual shirts in standard sizes but my dress shirts are all specific measurements, any place that sells suits will probably have a shirt that fits your neck and arm length. You can definitely go further with the measurements (like the bespoke shirt your wife made) but unless your body is really disproportionate (like a distended belly or you're a body builder), neck and sleeves are good enough. Generally, the fatter you are, the thicker your neck is so that's effectively how they gauge your torso size. Sleeve length is proportional to your height so taller equals longer sleeves. Suit jackets use your chest circumference and sleeve length.

A couple years ago, I was selling individual pieces on ebay from a big box of RAM I got for cheap. Nothing exciting, just some low to midrange stuff that sold cheap (wish I held onto it a bit longer). I had quite a few people with slavic names wanting to do business outside of ebay. I turned them all down mostly because I don't sell outside of ebay. One wanted me to ship to Turkey and lie on the customs declaration about what it was. I suspected they were trying to import this stuff to Russia but I have no proof.

An automated DVD burner is no larger than a mini fridge. Unless they meant to say a DVD press, those are much larger. The burner is fine for bootlegs, no one cares if it's not a perfect replica of the retail release. But for counterfeiting, you need a press to make legit-looking DVDs. Bootlegs are the least of concern, who cares if someone watches a movie they probably wouldn't have been able to afford anyway? But with counterfeiting, you can find TV show boxsets on Amazon that are obviously counterfeits. They sell for retail prices but one typical tell is that they use single layer DVDs (because those are cheaper to press) and often have half or less the bitrate of the original release.

It's because Afghanistan has no money to pay for this stuff

This took me a awhile to figure out what I was actually looking at. Thought it was some sort of real rodeo. Then I thought it was some sort of convention for car repo companies. Finally, it's a conference for those who work in the utility locating business, as in, those who survey and mark buried water, gas, electricity, and telecom lines before any sort of digging takes place.

They are looking to see if you've gutted a laptop and filled it with explosives or drugs. Although tbh, a computer that can launch a desktop doesn't need much physical space and the battery just has to last long enough for a cursory glance.

Tracking objects in space is something China and Russia can do just fine today, it's hard to keep the presence of a satellite a secret. But trying to determine what a satellite is doing is a bit harder. You can infer based on altitude, orbit shape, and inclination. EO birds generally fly at low altitude or in highly elliptical orbits to capture higher latitudes. ELINT and space observation birds fly near adversary satellites. Generally, satellites don't move too much so you don't need to spend a lot of resources tracking them. However, things like the X-37b and the GSSAP satellites are reported to be highly maneuverable which not only allows for flexible missions but also more difficult track and requires more resources to do so.

These are probably the kind of machines you sometimes see in gas stations and bars, there's only a few of them in any location at most so there's never too many players nearby to be dissuaded from playing. Plus, a jackpot isn't the only way to win money.

Probably uses formally verified code along with plenty of housekeeping processes to keep any failures from shitting the whole bed. In critical system design, you build in redundancies that work in parallel such that any one failure will not interrupt the system.

The main computer system in the Space Shuttle is an excellent example of this. It had 5 identical IBM System/4 Pi machines. Three of them ran identical code and handled the same work. The fourth ran a completely different codebase to handle the same work, preventing a bug in the main code from killing the whole system. A fifth computer handled other tasks but could be swapped over to the critical role if needed. You could lose 2/5 computers and still have insurance against a cosmic ray flipping a bit.

I've known plenty of alcoholics that are happily married and have great jobs. From an outside perspective, their life looks nice but they have an uncontrollable urge to drink constantly.

I'm pretty sure there are plenty of alcoholics that have lived under socialism too.

Many of the early synths came from America. John Chowning actually first licensed his FM synthesis patent to Yamaha so that's probably what gave them a tech boost they needed to grow in the market.

Early electronics from Japan were often seen as inferior products compared to the American and European products (RCA, Westinghouse, Philips, Telefunken, etc). Japan of yesteryear was the China of the 1990s and early 2000s, some decent stuff but a lot of cheap clones. Now, China makes everything so that analogy falls apart today. The 1970s oil crisis was one of the major events that helped bring Japanese goods into a better light, Japanese cars were absolutely killing the domestic automakers on fuel efficiency and price and rather than engage protectionist tariffs (Chinese EVs today, hmm?), they forced the domestic automakers to try harder. This change in public perception helped give a real sales boost to other manufacturing sectors, like consumer electronics which in turn helped drive innovation in a very short time period. That's not to say Japanese product was junk in the 50s and 60s, there were a few dominant players of quality products (Sony) but like Chinese manufacturing today, there was still a lot of cheap junk.

That's why we have different criminal statutes for homicide.

If you're at a gun range looking down a scope and someone crosses right in front of your gun as you fire, you would probably be fine since you were shooting responsibly and had no way to see them until it was too late.

If you're at a gun range and that backstop is deficient such that a bullet passes through and hits someone, again, probably not liable but the gun range may be since they built a bad backstop and let people use it.

If you are at a gun range and lose control of an automatic weapon and kill someone, you may be liable for negligence because you were using a gun you couldn't control.

If you are cleaning your gun and it goes off because you forgot to check if it was loaded, again, criminal negligence.

If you threaten someone with a gun and they get shot while trying to wrestle it away from you, that may be some form of manslaughter. You had no intention of shooting them but the act of threatening them with it created a situation where the other person died. Same with killing someone while drunk driving, you didn't mean to crash your car but you did something to create the risk.

If you plan to kill someone, it might be the top tier of homicide charges but it depends on how much planning went into it. If you walked in on your spouse cheating and went to grab a gun to shoot the affair partner, maybe a lighter form of murder than if you made a plan to track the affair partner to their house and killed them there.

Simply put, there are a multitude of ways you can be charged with a crime that takes into account your intentions and forethought. Did someone intend for these agents to escape their sandbox? Did they do their due diligence in building a sandbox such that it would be difficult for agents to escape? Just like with all software, a reasonable person assumes that nothing is bulletproof, spend enough time and money and you can probably find a vulnerability. The question is does a reasonable person think that this sandbox should have kept an agent contained?

Quora is such a gamble when it comes to accurate or relevant results. Either you get something incredibly insightful from someone with real experience or you get misinformation and stupid opinions. It's really only slightly helpful when I'm looking for subjective opinions or a personal perspective on some topic. It's very much a negative result when I'm looking for factual, verifiable information.

Right, I'm sure the fridge has the ability to set the temperature through the touchscreen or remotely but the inverter controlling the compressor should default to a medium setting when no commands (a specific temperature or an off command) are given by the computer. It would cost only a couple dollars to drop in a microcontroller between the computer and inverter to monitor for a periodic temperature command. No command after 1 hour? Set the inverter to cold and wait for further instruction.

I could see this being kinda annoying if you've told the fridge to be off (like in an unoccupied house) but it instead turns on because the computer has bricked itself but considering fridges usually have food in them for the majority of their lifespan, defaulting to cold is a fail-safe mode.

Fridges are one of the more critical home appliances. Sure, it's not going to be the end of the world if your beer fridge cuts out but hundreds of dollars of food is not something everyone can easily replace. EBT doesn't cover buying replacement food if it spoils. People also keep expensive prescriptions in fridges. You probably have at least two appliances for heating up food, a stove, oven, or microwave, such that you have some less convenient alternative available. But most people do not have an alternative fridge they can simply move all of their food to.