Planet Money: How the FBI's fake cell phone company put criminals into real jail cells
Episode webpage: https://www.npr.org/2024/05/31/1197959218/fbi-phone-company-anom
jdnewmil
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Yes, this was an appropriate response. I hate people who wave guns around like they are toys.
NPR sez Florida law would disallow him voting, but he wasn't convicted in Florida, so they defer to the law in the state where he was convicted. New York allows felons to vote up until they are imprisoned, which doesn't seem likely to happen before election day since he is appealing. Skin of teeth again.
...especially the knowledge that your gold was taken.
Way too late for that. Every language I know makes some kind of auto conversion for numeric comparisons... and sometimes for strings as well.
I stopped buying phones from carriers 15 years ago for this very reason.
Stumped? This [theorem]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagorean_theorem) is a contender for most different proofs.
Using sudo when it isn't necessary, and the real cannon: sudo su.. Adding sudo to your command lines indiscriminately causes files you create to be owned by root even though they are in your home directory, and then you end up using sudo to make changes to the files... and then the filesystem permissions cannot prevent you from successfully running an accidental "sudo rm -rf /" command.
Seriously... sudo is not a "habit" to develop in order to avoid dealing with filesystem permissions problems.
Its more like a kind of claustrophobia... in Japan, men's urinals are often visible from the door because the Yakuza used to use that as an isolated location in which to kill their target. (And despite the high cleanliness standards and widespread availability of public bathrooms Japanese people avoid them like the plague.) So it it a cultural expectation that women will get assaulted by men if they find themselves in a small space.
Yes, irrational. But people often don't behave rationally.
Noob question?
You do seem confused though... Debian is both a distribution and a packaging system... the Debian Stable distribution takes a very conservative approach to updating packages, while Debian Sid (unstable) is more up-to-date while being more likely to break. While individual packages may be more stable when fully-updated, other packages that depend on them generally lag and "break" as they need updating to be able to adapt to underlying changes.
But the whole reason debian-based distros exist is because some people think they can strike a better balance between newness and stability. But it turns out that there is no optimal balance that satifies everyone.
Mint is a fine distro... but if you don't like it, that is fine for you too. The only objection I have to your objection is that you seem to be throwing the baby out with the bathwater... the debian packaging system is very robust and is not intrinsically unlikely to be updated.
The books went to some pains to convey that memories after birth were not passed along. Haven't watched this flick though.
Why downvote? This is an often overlooked trap for programmers... especially those of the "data science" variety, but certainly not restricted to that subset.