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oohh i'm going to have to dig to find the one on impressioning

check out picked locks under an electron microscope.

http://pumpingstationone.org/2013/12/lock-picking-and-sem/

you can actually tell which ones were picked.

Tons of kits like this still exist now a days if you are into guitar playing. kits to build copies of long defunct pedals, or old school tube amps. a lot of fun to make your pedal board, and you can learn as much or as little as you want.

As a kit I cut my teeth on building a hero 1 robot from heathkit before I even learned to write cursive. I often tell people that just to up my geek cred. Luckily the drive to do nerdy things has never really left me.

I'm really unsure how this is any different than the multiaccount product here https://www.dynamicsinc.com/Corporate/Products

of course with the exception of it altering you if you left it at home, however that is a bit creepy, and, well let's just say I won't be getting a coin for my wife anytime soon

I've spent the past year "working" within graphical programming, and I have to say it is a slow form of torture.

I have been "writing" IVR applications for a call center. The interface is far from intuitive, and it is jsut too easy to miss what is actually going on. The loops and if statements are all there, but you have to click through on the item to actually see what is going on.

Forget trying to find an easy way to locate where something is. at least in my case (VXML) I was forced to use grep to at least give me an idea of where to look, then spend 10x the amount of time it would take in plain ol code to find where to make the change.

ugh.

give me ASCII code any day

ahh yes, the creepy gone wild stalker story

just an FYI, you can (even if you don't have the email anymore) get old posts removed from google groups, you have to jump through a bunch of hoops, but it isn't too hard to do. Just read around. I had to cover for 18 year old me posting god knows what on usenets several years ago. I did this when google first bought deja news however, you can likely get them to remove it.

who knew people were saving stuff back in 94-95. hell anyway 18 year old me didn't care, but luckily I can cover for him.

My wife works for Agriculture Extension in our state, so she is a bit in the know here. She says Greek Yogurt is the only growth dairy has seen in over 20 years. Because of that, everyone is going to (or already has) start making it. As far as being New York centric, I would venture to guess it would be because a lot of the research this is based on, is coming out of Cornell, which is the Land Grant institution in New York (Land Grants run extension).

I tried reaching out to them a few months after it all went down, and my wife could pick up insurance. The main contract they had was set to be cancelled (they also canceled contract with 15 other companies) so in the long run it worked out for me.

oh, and my Daughter is fast to recovery, just need to keep her from bouncing off the walls for another with week, which is impossible for any 5 year old.

feel lucky you don't have a kid with medical problems.

I've had to drag out accepting an offer from a company so I could find out 100% if my child's doctor was covered by their insurance or not. In the end I had to turn it down because he wasn't in the network, and having to pay the 20k out of network deducible would have ate any net gain I would have gotten by taking that job, I had to turn it down.

I felt bad dragging out the process so long, but I really had to cover myself, and at least on their side they were 100% understanding.

This sucked, however we're still lucky. We had her (hopefully) last surgery last week. While staying in the Ronald McDonald house (her surgeon just moved further away from us) we got to hear tales of people having their house foreclosed on, due in part to their kid going through leukemia treatments (they were/are insured btw).

You shouldn't have to lose your house because of medical necessity

The Fungus is made from people!

It's also not OK to give up everything. This statement makes it seem like it's OK to try to get water from a stone

this place is close, but i bet they are running into the same issues. it's a shame, because it really could stop a lot of fraud using it. http://dynamicsinc.com/Corporate/products_dynamic_cc.php (note, they only now offer one type of card via one bank, they seem to have been sidelined)

it reminds me of dawn of the dead. just a little bit creepy

for more in depth history, check out this book https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road_to_Wellville

Sometimes people do it themselves https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5219485

well, we can't get spotted dick here (really we can if you look hard enough(also, i only take pictures of the can to send to friends)), but heinz was founded in Pittsburgh.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._J._Heinz_Company

living in the town where Heinz was founded (Pittsburgh, PA) brand loyalty can get a little over the top, we look down on anyplace that doesn't have Heinz ketchup, and years ago when I live in the bay area, I chastised a restaurant because i knew (I just knew!) they watered down the ketchup. Come on, I'm from Pittsburgh, I know my Heinz

a few years ago i read the account of what went down with the kidnapping, Truly horrible stuff there, highlights include ball stomping, injecting him with an unknown substance which still affects him (likely a parasite) and leaving him for dead in the middle of the desert. For some reason I can't find it, which is likely for the better

you can also read what happens when you take it too far http://www.freeleonardpickard.org/Skinner-Timeline.html http://www.dallasdancemusic.com/awareness-politics/73509-tee... http://www.vice.com/read/life-is-a-cosmic-giggle-803-v18n5

of course rumor has it he would take DMT via IV for 8 + hours several times a week. I can only imagine what that would do to someone's mind (hint it wouldn't be pretty)

This isn't just related to software. I remember reading a few years ago an interview with Henry Juszkiewicz, the CEO of Gibson guitar (here http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/money/companies/management/20...) The quote is "I said we are going to increase prices. Prices were ridiculously low. And people said, the price has been decreasing 20% a year, how can you reverse that? I said I'm just going to double the prices on a lot of models. I actually tested it and got an inverse price curve. Basically it showed that every time I raised prices a certain amount, volume would go up."

Not sure how many people play guitar here, but Gibson's quality has slipped a lot since then, yet they are still raising prices, and I imagine volume is still increasing because of it.

Personally, I build my own guitars :)

wow, that brought back some memories, it's all fun and games, until someone puts a penny in their gun. Anyway they were called tracer guns, and it doesn't look like they are made any more https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracer_gun

Reminds me of the movie Gotcha! which upon looking it up, is based on the game Assassin. interesting

who is Heather Arthur, and why they hell does she have 3 posts up on here about some people's opinion on her project. get over yourself, and move on, seriously.

to highlight this, I can think of an emails that got delivered YEARS after I hit send. This happened once in almost 20 years of emailing, yet in still happened. This probably occurred about 6 years ago.

Play store is down for me too, crashed hard on my phone about 5 minutes ago

To be fair, I'm more disappointed, that i didn't track each scan a little further, and I'm also disappointed no one flamed me when their scan took them to a web page telling them they shouldn't go around just scanning random things.

I did an experiment in my town, placing my own qr codes over everything i could find. running for a month, with putting 80 or so qr codes through out town.

the number of scans i got was around 10. no one scans QR codes

I have been thinking about printing up my own posters, like "Scan the code below to donate to Toys for Tots", but i still don't think I'd get many scans. here's an article http://www.veracode.com/blog/2012/06/dangers-of-scanning-qr-...