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  • When I did absentee voting, the voter signature and voter id information were on a perforated slip attached to the outside of the envelope.

    That way, the process is something like:

    1. Look at the slip. Verify voter signature, eligibility to vote, and mark as having voted in the voter rolls.
    2. Detach perforated slip from sealed envelope. Sealed envelope now contains no identifying information. (This envelope was mailed inside an outer mailing envelope.)
    3. Entire sealed envelope and contents thereof goes into big bin of accepted ballots.
    4. Later, election workers open the sealed envelopes from the bin and run the actual ballot papers through the scantron machine.
  • Or, uh, maybe this story is simply false and mistaken reporting.

    In fact, it appears Israel was not a party to this proposal, which was floated by the United States. In order for a ceasefire to work, you gotta get all of the belligerents on board.

  • For what it's worth, the BBC is putting the crowd size an order of magnitude lower ("tens of thousands") than this headline, which seems to be based on self reporting from the protest organizers.

    300,000 is just a teensy weensy hard to believe.

  • Depending on which mission this is it could be a lot shorter. The original PLSS backpacks had a two hour air supply. The LM was powered by batteries and could only sustain life for 48-72 hours depending on configuration. If they launch and rendezvous with the orbiting CSM, they can extend their survival by several days, but there's functionally nowhere to go.

    For my money the best way to go is probably in the suit, outside, and let the oxygen run out while the carbon dioxide scrubbers are still working.

  • That's not NASA money. NASA doesn't get any funding. It's all Northrup Grumman and Lockheed Martin that have the reverse engineered anti gravity drive.

    The stealth coating tech on the G5 fighters is just what they allowed to leak to the public.

  • Most games I've seen, nobody ever horse trades for color groups.

    Complex deals and negotiations, land swaps, leveraged buyouts, and free rent passes, are all supposed to be part of the game. Getting a color group solely by landing on the spaces first and buying them for list price is indeed rare, by design.

    This leads to my other pet peeve... You're not supposed to have enough money to go around the board the first time and buy every space you land on at the list price. You're supposed to be forced to make strategic decisions from the beginning of the game about what you go for, and what you bid in the auctions.

    Most of the made up "house rules" are really about circulating more money into the game than is supposed to be there.

  • You should also know that because of jail and various other teleports, the orange group is the most popular group on the board. It's something like 1.8 times the average to land on those spaces, because two of them are 6 and 8 spaces from jail. Jail is a very popular space because Go To Jail also counts as Jail.

    Boardwalk has very high rents, but it's also pretty unpopular to land on.

    The worst rent-to-popularity values are yellow and green.

  • Why not just have the app dynamically generate the static with random numbers every time. There is no video file of white noise, and bonus the bumper intro is never exactly the same twice.

  • (not a lawyer). If you bought the game copies that the AIs are playing, then it seems like you're not making a copy of the game just to have the AI play it.

    That kind of assumes that your AI is playing the game through a mechanism like AutoHotKey, generating keyboard or controller inputs that pass through the operating system to the game.

    If your AI hooks into or modifies the game code to "play", then it could run afoul of anti-reverse engineering clauses that are common in the click through license agreements. Those clauses may not be enforceable in your jurisdiction. Legal results on anti-reverse engineering clauses are kind of mixed in the United States.

    Edit: for reference, there was a software called "Glider" that played World of Warcraft for you, so you don't have to grind to level up. Blizzard absolutely hated the makers of Glider, but it stuck around for a long time, before it was ultimately sued into oblivion.

  • Here's my guess. I don't know anything about this particular device, but I have worked with medical devices.

    A powered exo-skeleton sounds like it might be a class II medical device. Being a medical device, the OEM was required to produce a safety risk analysis per ISO 14971 in the EU and 21 CFR 820 in the US. I don't know what all was listed, but probably one of the safety risks was thermal runaway from the (assumed) lithium ion batteries.

    Lithium ion battery packs have a well known problem with occasionally overheating and catching fire. This famously delayed the launch of the 787 Dreamliner. This is also why you can't put your phone or laptop battery into your checked luggage.

    In the original risk analysis, there will be a number of mitigation steps identified for each hazard. For the lithium thermal runway, these probably include a mix of temperature monitoring, overheat shutdown, and passive design features in the battery pack itself to try to keep the impacts of over temperature and fire away from the patient.

    So how does the price get to 100k? It could be some kind of unique design features that are now out of production and the original tooling is not available. The 100k cost is probably something like to redesign the production tooling, particularly if you have to remake injection molds.

    You can't just use any off the shelf battery pack, because that would invalidate the risk analysis. You'd need to redo the risk analysis, repeat at least some amount of validation testing, and possibly resubmit an application to the FDA.

    TLDR: you can get some MEs and EEs together to solve this problem, but once they're on the case, you can blow through 100k real fast.

  • So seems like Iran intends this to be a one and done response for everything Israel has done the last few months.

    i.e. "Please don't escalate this any further. We prefer this level of escalation and no more."

  • Foreign nationals, let alone foreign governments, are not allowed to give money to political campaigns in the United States. Actually illegal. Bill Clinton got in trouble for it

    If you can prove that an NFT scheme was foreign campaign money laundering in court, people can go to jail.

  • Most places in the US will have nothing about severance written down anywhere, but it's very common to actually pay severance in a mass layoff situation (unless the whole business is going under).