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dnm | 8 years ago | on: Utility poles

> the voltage in those two power-carrying wires is constantly switching directions

I'm not buying this (in the USA). I've been in my breaker box. For a typical 110 volt outlet, the black (hot) wire is connected to the breaker, which is connected to one of the wires coming into the house from the street. The white (neutral) wire is connected to the same ground bracket that the bare (ground) wire is connected to.

240 volt connections (like my dryer and range) are taking a hot line from one of the lines coming into the house and another hot line from the other line coming into the house. You can see it on the bus bars in the breaker box. That's why dual breakers are used. Adjacent breakers pull for different bus bars.

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dnm | 8 years ago | on: Ad blocking is under attack

So is their argument that by including their hostname in easylist, you are circumventing copyright controls because they validate copyrighted material usage? The takedown notice didn't seem to be related to the domain name per se, but rather the effects of including it in easylist. IOW in order to view our client's copyrighted material, we are providing access controls and by denying the code access to our server, you are circumventing those access controls.

dnm | 8 years ago | on: Author of cURL denied entry to the USA

No, of course not, but we've never seen anything like what we're witnessing today. There's reality, and then there's Trump's version of reality, and the 40% that believe everything he says, despite facts to the contrary.

dnm | 8 years ago | on: Teller – API for your bank account

Concur. My credit union recently switched the backend processor for their credit card. Now, the only option for transaction download is csv or xls. Welcome back to the 90s.

dnm | 9 years ago | on: NRA complaint takes down Surge's 38,000 websites

I think this kind of gets to the nut of the whole discussion here on HN. Everyone's talking about whether or not what the Yes Men did was legal, but IMO, the question is why did DO take them down over a legal threat ("...the NRA sent a legal complaint...")? The vice article was pretty ambiguous, but if this was a suit or court order, CloudFlare wouldn't be able to "pass." This apparently wasn't a court order, nor was it a DCMA takedown (or Vice's writing is just really bad). And it looks like youtube told them to come back with a court order.

dnm | 9 years ago | on: Dropbox Smeared in Week of Megabreaches

This. I can't believe how the media/government has completely bought into the fact that the creditor (bank) failed to do proper due diligence in order to verify who they are extending credit to. And to make it seem like it's the fault of the person being impersonated is absurd. SSN as a password was the single biggest banking failure ever committed, aside from what happened in the 2000's mortgage debacle.
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