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Honest question from a web developer, and I'm ashamed I don't know more, is there a clear concise guide to building accessible websites? I've had to support ARIA for U.S. Government websites, and certain color schemes for color accessibility, but I really don't feel like I know how to build a web product with accessibility in mind. I am genuinely sorry that I haven't developed the skill more, and would like to take this opportunity to learn more.
Re:The US Marines' Love Affair with 3D Printing on Tuesday March 13, 2018 @03:22PM (#16578954)
Older military aircraft used to have a 'War emergency power' setting (WEP), it produced more than 100% of the engine's normal rated power but it decreased the operating life of the engine substantially and could only be run for a few minutes.
I assume that if you're freelance you're at more risk of finding yourself on the receiving end of a CFAA violation. What I wonder is that if security researchers who work for domestic companies face the same degree of scrutiny that these freelance researchers do.

I guess that if you work for a company you're probably not looking at anyone's website that's not explicitly paying you/your company and under some contract.

Re:The Konami exodus on Thursday June 15, 2017 @10:21AM (#14560625)
Planet Money did a podcast on this very thing

http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2016/10/28/499805238/episo...

Probably a daft question but I'm curious as to what others have to say. If this happens, what kind of attorney or lawyer should you contact? Is simply googling "attorney's near me" and reaching out to the first result good enough? The lawyers I work with are all corporate contract lawyers, not the kind that deal with criminal law.
If you were able to get drugs from a pharmacy or dispensary or a regulated service, there would't (hopefully) be a black market to supply the drugs which creates untold violence.

I have a completely untested theory that the number of deaths would be less with a well regulated legalization of drugs than with an unregulated black market where gangs and organized crime supply the demand for illicit substances.

This quote was stolen from the comments section on the original article by Brian_EE

"I wonder how realistic the operations of the virtual airlines are. In the game, do you get to have local police come on your plane and beat up your passengers and drag them off before you take off on your flight route?"

It's very impressive to me that Microsoft took the technical details of Flight Simulator so seriously that it fielded questions from customers like this. What's doubly more impressive is that Bill Gates got directly involved with what is essentially a bug report.
Isn't Berkshire Hathaway UAL's largest shareholder?

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/warren-buffetts-big-bet-on-...

Re:Let's stop bashing C# on Friday February 03, 2017 @09:08AM (#13559846)
I just prefer to use languages that I'm more proficient with. And, the cost of MSVS etc. is expensive, as the article mentions.
Re:The privacy wars are about to get a whole lot worse on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @03:29PM (#12446518)
NY Times had an article in 2013 about this very thing. [1] But the amazing thing was, when users/customers found out that they were being tracked and the level of detail found in the tracking methods, some of them complained. They were quoted as saying "creepy", and "way over the line."

If users knew how much of their entire lives could be pieced together by browser tracking, cookies, and the same techniques that advertisement companies use to target groups of people, I feel that they would say the same thing.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/15/business/attention-shopper...

Re:Why Email List Building Is the Best Killer Sales Strategy on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @01:22PM (#12445265)
I can't comment for everyone but I spend a significant amount of energy filtering out all advertisements in email. Honestly, for me, there's more business potential in helping me to stop receiving ads in email than to sell me something through it.
Re:The Eighth Dirty Word – “Just” on Monday August 01, 2016 @11:41AM (#12203256)
I cried a bit, reading this.