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Re:How to Use Your Cat to Hack Your Neighbor’s Wi-Fi on Friday August 08, 2014 @02:30PM (#8154332)
Train a small animal such as a ferret to hit the WPS button on any popular access point and let it loose in their home?
Re:Robotic suit gives shipyard workers super strength on Tuesday August 05, 2014 @09:57AM (#8136889)
The '1920 law' aka 'Jones Act' is not limited to natural gas. It deals with transport of goods where both the source and destination are American ports.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchant_Marine_Act_of_1920

Re:IRC logs from the beginning of the Gulf War (1991) on Saturday July 05, 2014 @12:51AM (#7991069)
consecutive lines from the same sender are collapsed into a single message, double spaces are where new lines should be.
Re:Videogrep: Automatic Supercuts with Python on Thursday June 19, 2014 @05:10PM (#7918326)
For television, addic7ed.com
Re:Poll: Unban TempleOS? on Thursday May 29, 2014 @06:13PM (#7818940)
Someone not familiar with him might see one of stranger posts and wonder why that kind of post is allowed to be on HN.

Can we leave it to the community to upvote his better posts?

Re:Stay Classy Makerbot on Friday May 23, 2014 @05:46PM (#7791512)
How do you avoid the chilling effects of patents existing then without getting into patent pools or cross-licensing arrangements? People will be hesitant to put any time into R&D if they don't have assurances their work won't be quashed by lawyers.
Brandon Sanderson has some videos up on youtube that show how he writes his stories, including writing notes and referring to them:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxFySrqdi8E

The FCC's solution was to mandate Dynamic Frequency Selection (DFS) in consumer devices.

http://www.fcc.gov/document/5-ghz-unlicensed-spectrum-unii

Re:*NEVER* sanitize your inputs on Monday April 14, 2014 @10:04AM (#7586181)
It's short for transmogrify: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/transmogrify

Calvin & Hobbes may have played a part in popularizing the term? http://calvinandhobbes.wikia.com/wiki/Transmogrifier

Re:3rd Circuit vacates Weev's conviction [pdf] on Friday April 11, 2014 @11:34AM (#7573479)
Does double jeopardy not apply here?
Re:Radiation-hardened quine on Friday February 21, 2014 @10:33AM (#7277385)
Exercise for the reader, make a quine that still works even if any one character is mutated (by 1 bit or 8?), rather than deleted.
Re:3D GIFs Created with a Simple Visual Effect on Monday February 17, 2014 @12:31PM (#7253139)
http://www.reddit.com/r/halleberry

Maybe if you spelled her name correctly?

Article is from May 2013 FYI, currently not reflected in the title with a (2013).
Re:Bank Of America Promoting Bitcoin To Its Business Customers on Monday November 11, 2013 @09:56PM (#6715574)
I'm curious, if sales tax applies, how do you apply it to the sale and remit it to the city? Do you send them USD or BTC?
Re:USPS: ZIP Codes are “proprietary business information” on Wednesday November 06, 2013 @06:16PM (#6686288)
Things can be in the public domain, but have restricted usage - example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_insignia#Usage
Re:Top Hospitals Opt Out of Obamacare on Thursday October 31, 2013 @06:49PM (#6650590)
Heavy regulations & requirements on the insurers.
Re:Xerox responds to the recent character substitution issue on Tuesday August 06, 2013 @02:17PM (#6168216)
This has nothing to do with OCR. It's an issue with the JBIG2 compression re-using similar patches as substitutes for certain areas of the images if they're "close enough". This issue is exacerbated at lower resolutions.
Did you not have a lawyer to represent you?
The end of the report says something along the lines that Facebook can expect to win an opposition if the Face* thing can be argued to be related to something Facebook actually does and if there's a significant portion of a survey that associates it with Facebook (30% is not low). So Faceplanting is fine, but Facetalk, Facemail, Facefriends, Facephotos are probably things Facebook can oppose and win if they haven't been trademarked yet.
"Facebook wins right to police “face-” trademark prefix" is a misleading headline.
Re:Module that casts photorealistic shadows on Wednesday July 03, 2013 @12:47PM (#5985777)
Perfect for making me click the back button when your landing page performs abysmally slow.
Re:How to know when someone is in trouble in the water on Friday June 21, 2013 @02:58PM (#5920207)
From my relative who was a Boat & Water Safety person in Minnesota regarding this article:

This is a song I have been singing for years. Drowning is silent, fast, and deadly. One of the best videos I have seen on this subject is "The Reasons People Drown", produced by Dr. Pia. It is excellent, chilling, and should be watched by everyone who is responsible for or who cares about small children and non-swimmers who venture near the water.

Drowning victims are helpless, and without intervention, will be dead in one minute or less. Most drowning victims perish within 6 feet of safety, and that safety often is a person who could have rescued them if they had known what was happening within arms reach.

Re-read the description of a drowning victim and then compare it to the sight of a child at play. There are many similarities and if you are not vigilant you will never notice the differences.

If your child is near the water, you need to be near your child. And, it is not possible to adequately monitor a child in the water and read a book at the same time. Pay attention to the child only, and don't try to keep an eye on more than two at one time!