[-] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago

Look up a Faraday cage, much easier to block the signals than it is to jam them.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

Incredibly, and not at all subtle. It's also of fairly limited effectiveness in most scenarios, wireless signals are generally a lot more complex than what a simple jammer will cover. On top of the difficulty in transmitting a reasonably large amount of radio power in any useful frequency, you have to also jam side frequencies to avoid fail over and certain noise mitigation techniques.

Honestly it's not even just that it's massively illegal, it's just so wildly impractical. Like, what would you accomplish? Radio waves fall off pretty quickly in strength, so your jammer is going to have a limited range, and if it doesn't you just knock out flight communications and emergency response while cellular hops to one of the other hundreds of frequencies and like 10 modulation protocols until something works, and it's going to be insanely difficult to jam all of those at once.

Just jamming 700mhz would involve an antenna array that would be bigger than a person and using the old "moar power" approach sees wattage requirements shoot into megawatt ranges pretty quick.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago

Again, the issue is the scar tissue. Even if it didn't develop into a cancer it will give you nasty COPD, gas exchange doesn't happen with scarred lung tissue. Look at silicosis, potters lung, popcorn lung, and the plethora of other occupational diseases that are caused by particulate matter damaging lung tissue for examples of what asbestos would do without the cancer

[-] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

We need a drive that's at least... Three times this size!

[-] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

It depends on where you are for the specific languages, but there is a general expectation of value for goods and services. In that hypothetical the customer could just refuse to pay the egregious amount and leave, the establishment could sue, and a court would end up figuring out the fair price in arbitration or trial.

Granted, the hypothetical is ridiculous, but it's good to apply the systems we have to the ridiculous so we know they can handle real situations, which tend to be so ridiculous we can't even make them up.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

Even if it was just ripping off their voice it's a shitty move. Even famous people, who make a living on their vocal characteristics, have the right to their identity being used.

See what we did there? Fuck this AI bullshit.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

If someone would just spill a drop or two of visine in his coke...

[-] [email protected] 39 points 1 week ago

That and they turned off bot detection in osrs. Dude headed gambling corporations, I don't trust him.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago

Or just make it yourself. The biscuits are dirt simple, butter, flour, baking powder, and just enough water to hold it together. Gravy is just a white flour gravy with lots of pepper. Ingredients are sausage with grease, flour, milk, and pepper.

Season to taste.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Oh, name and shame for that shit.

Richard Burke at Casper College does this and doesn't even use the book. Costed over $150.

Garbage practice that should be criminal fraud.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

I can speak firsthand that this is the case for Kroger in Illinois. Their unions fight to cap wages below living wage levels, pick some of the most expensive insurance on the market, and work with Kroger corporate to eat away your hourly rate with sliding payscales based on incredibly arbitrary criteria (overnight premium, but it only counts for 4 hours of a graveyard shift as an example that happened to me).

They are actually worse than not having a union, because then they could make more than $23 an hour in Chicago.

Oh, did I mention the union contract specifically prohibits strikes and any form of worker retaliation?

Awful company.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

The burden of proof that the sensors cannot provide false positives falls on the hotel chain, not the person getting charged. There is also the question of whether the sensors can be triggered by someone else, or an adjacent room.

You fight them by filing a lawsuit for fraudulently charging you.

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