hyborg787

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Comment · 12 years ago

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?

Comment · 12 years ago

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

Comment · 12 years ago

consecutive lines from the same sender are collapsed into a single message, double spaces are where new lines should be.

Comment · 12 years ago

For television, addic7ed.com

Comment · 12 years ago

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?

Comment · 12 years ago

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.

Comment · 12 years ago

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

Comment · 12 years ago

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

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

Comment · 12 years ago

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

Comment · 12 years ago

Does double jeopardy not apply here?

Comment · 12 years ago

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.

Comment · 12 years ago

http://www.reddit.com/r/halleberry

Maybe if you spelled her name correctly?

Comment · 12 years ago

Article is from May 2013 FYI, currently not reflected in the title with a (2013).

Comment · 13 years ago

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?

Comment · 13 years ago

Things can be in the public domain, but have restricted usage - example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_insignia#Usage