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Re:Airbnb Law Enforcement Transparency Report on Friday September 02, 2016 @07:00PM (#12416853)
Is there a formal requirement for an emergency request?
Re:Fun with the Windows Subsystem for Linux on Friday July 22, 2016 @08:57PM (#12147837)
Looks like the comment on their warning isn't rendering html? Hopefully people still see this :) $ rm -rf /mnt/c/ <strong>[DO NOT DO THIS]</strong>
Re:PriceZombie is shutting down on Friday March 25, 2016 @11:23AM (#11360551)
If Amazon found out they can still shut down that affiliate link.
Re:Ask HN: Did Comcast just screw me over? on Tuesday March 22, 2016 @10:36PM (#11341715)
That's correct. They are internal on this model. Even if they were external, I still want my wifi network, just not the public hotspot so disabling all wifi wouldn't help.

Ask HN: Did Comcast just screw me over?

Posted by dan-silver on Wednesday March 16, 2016 @11:39PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I noticed yesterday that Comcast enabled their public wifi hotspot[1] on my home router. I'm not sure if there are security risks or if it increases my electric bill, but it provides no additional benefit to me so I want it disabled. Since they removed the easy way of disabling it from their website, I called them and they disabled it. However, I'm now thinking that they just stopped the...

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Re:Show HN: 1200-piece, 4K-resolution jigsaw puzzle for Android tablets on Saturday February 06, 2016 @01:51PM (#11049117)
If it's for android tablets, why not publish in the Play store?
Re:Show HN: GitHub Hovercard v0.3.3 on Saturday December 26, 2015 @01:51PM (#10794824)
I don't think Edge has extension support yet. A Firefox port shouldn't be that difficult though.
Re:Nations Approve Landmark Climate Accord in Paris on Saturday December 12, 2015 @02:55PM (#10723909)
Are there details about how this will affect regulations in the US?
Re:Show HN: Something pointless I made on Monday November 30, 2015 @09:58AM (#10649675)
I'm seeing 3.9 MB for audio and 7.8 MB for the video.
Re:Show HN: Something pointless I made on Sunday November 29, 2015 @09:11PM (#10647208)
That's an interesting way to get background music. Wastes bandwidth on the video though. <iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/UsMewmMTA_c?autoplay=1"></ifra...
Re:Show HN: Play games together on a big screen using your smartphone on Thursday November 26, 2015 @07:47PM (#10635359)
Did we just HN the game? Seems to be freezing and quit a few times.
Re:Master of Puppets: Analyzing and Attacking a Botnet for Fun and Profit on Monday November 23, 2015 @11:25PM (#10619125)
Direct link to PDF: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1511.06090v1.pdf
Re:NASA not ready for dangers of deep space, auditors say on Monday November 23, 2015 @12:16PM (#10615704)
aka, The Martian
Re:FBI Returns Seized Devices to EFF Client on Sunday November 08, 2015 @12:26AM (#10527629)
Is there any easy way to determine if the equipment can be trusted?

Does anyone offer services in this area and how much would it cost him?

Re:Using a Neural Network to Train a Ruby Twitter Bot [video] on Sunday November 01, 2015 @08:35PM (#10489423)
That's a really misleading conference talk title. Nothing is really mentioned about ruby and the first 20 minutes is a general intro to NN.

Not saying it's a bad talk, just probably mislabeled.

Re:Environment Variables and Path in Windows 10 on Sunday October 25, 2015 @11:22PM (#10449449)
Details of what's changed in the win 10 console https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2014/10/07/console-im...
Re:Google PDF Search: “not for public release” on Tuesday September 01, 2015 @06:17PM (#10156176)
Combine with site:[url] for smaller scope. example: "not for public release" filetype:pdf site:house.gov

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