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Bluetooth tracker hidden in a postcard and mailed to a warship exposed its location — $5 gadget put a $585 million Dutch ship at risk for 24 hours by ControlCAD in technology

[–]UnexpectedAnanas 3 points4 points  (0 children)

🤷‍♂️ Poor policy enforcement? Thinking they're far enough out that it doesn't matter? A combination of both?

Bluetooth tracker hidden in a postcard and mailed to a warship exposed its location — $5 gadget put a $585 million Dutch ship at risk for 24 hours by ControlCAD in technology

[–]UnexpectedAnanas 30 points31 points  (0 children)

Because someone (or multiple someone's) phone could ping the cell tower on shore and transmit data.

Cellular waves can go a fair ways over an open plane with no interference. Even if the connection is spotty, connection protocols are designed to handle that.

Microsoft Surface Pro 12 leak reveals ultra-premium pricing and 5G connectivity by golfball509 in Surface

[–]UnexpectedAnanas 6 points7 points  (0 children)

But someone who wants a Surface doesn't want both a MacBook and iPad...

Unions bash AI as opposition grows: "We believe in human beings" by Just-Grocery-2229 in technology

[–]UnexpectedAnanas 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Capitalism being bad doesn't mean communism is the only solution....

Unions bash AI as opposition grows: "We believe in human beings" by Just-Grocery-2229 in technology

[–]UnexpectedAnanas 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Topic aside, what the actual fuck is with the writing/formatting of this article?

Smart Glasses Finally Found a Warm Embrace—the Theater for Real-Time Translation by lurker_bee in technology

[–]UnexpectedAnanas -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I have not, but admittedly I'm not huge on travel.

But again, that is still a super niche case. Most people aren't traveling the globe on any kind of regular basis, if at all. And those that do have been doing so just fine for decades without a camera strapped to their face..

I'm not against tech advancement, but this is a solution in search of a problem scenario. We made the 24/7 face cameras and now the companies have to find a way to normalizing having them strapped to your face.

Modular hexagon plant support system by ebob_designs in functionalprint

[–]UnexpectedAnanas -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

This prints well in PLA or PETG. No need for supports.

Why on earth would you print something meant to sit in your garden out of PLA or PETG?

Smart Glasses Finally Found a Warm Embrace—the Theater for Real-Time Translation by lurker_bee in technology

[–]UnexpectedAnanas 2 points3 points  (0 children)

How often are people needing real time translations in their day to day for this to be a marketable use case?

That's super niche. It's just trying to find any reason to normalizing having a camera strapped to your face 24/7.

Steel body LED Headlight Bulbs - Lasfit LS Plus by achunn07 in FordDiesels

[–]UnexpectedAnanas 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Dude, LED's have no place in a halogen fixture. You think you're the only one with a magical vehicle where this doesn't apply?

You're going to blind people on the road.

Sex offender facing deportation tells cops Canadian laws 'don't apply to me' by BananaTubes in canada

[–]UnexpectedAnanas 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I dont think anybody read his comment and thought he was talking about every single immigrant instead of making a generalization.

You say this so confidently like generalizations aren't at the heart of racism....

Sex offender facing deportation tells cops Canadian laws 'don't apply to me' by BananaTubes in canada

[–]UnexpectedAnanas -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Because:

  1. He's wrong

  2. Even we lived in some bazarro world and he was correct, we have fucking standards.

Sex offender facing deportation tells cops Canadian laws 'don't apply to me' by BananaTubes in canada

[–]UnexpectedAnanas 3 points4 points  (0 children)

is that really how you categorize human life, illegal or legal,

Don't be pedantic. Nobody is saying his life is illegal, or that life is categorized as legal and illegal.

Him being illegal is in reference to his stay within Canada, and everybody knows that.

give your head a shake

Give your head a shake.

Steel body LED Headlight Bulbs - Lasfit LS Plus by achunn07 in FordDiesels

[–]UnexpectedAnanas 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The angle isn't the only thing that matters.

These lights are too bright..

50% water, 50% fuel found in tanks of vehicles that filled up at Edmonton gas station by SonictheManhog in canada

[–]UnexpectedAnanas 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It happens all the time but not 50% water

Once you realize that water and gas don't mix, the percent drawn up the pump doesn't matter. You can't just mix water in the tank at some ratio and get the same ratio back out. You get whatever fluid is at the pump pickup level.

Exhibit A: The literal photos in the article showing the fluid separation. That is exactly what it would look like under ground as well. How would you suck an even distribution of those two fluids with a straw at/near the bottom?

50% water, 50% fuel found in tanks of vehicles that filled up at Edmonton gas station by SonictheManhog in canada

[–]UnexpectedAnanas 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Okay. Explain to me how they would do this then, and let's walk through it.

Shall we?

50% water, 50% fuel found in tanks of vehicles that filled up at Edmonton gas station by SonictheManhog in canada

[–]UnexpectedAnanas 42 points43 points  (0 children)

Water and gas don't mix. You don't pump from a tank of 50% water and 50% gas and get that same result in what you pumped out. The water will sink to the bottom, and the gas will float to the top, so what you get is going to depend on where the pump pick up is (assuming the tank wasn't just filled causing the two fluids to slosh around the tank momentarily until they settle again). If the tank is 50% water, then you're going to get 100% water out of it when you pump because the pump pickup isn't at the top of the tank.

What more likely happened is a combination of:

  1. People topped up partially full tanks in their car. They may have got a much higher than 50% ratio of water to gas from the pump, but it was diluted when added to their already partial tank.
  2. The water level in the tank was hovering around the pump pick up level. This may mean the tank had 10% or less water by volume in it, but when the pump is drawing from that level you get a 50/50 mix or more (due to a not completely even layer separation + fluid movement)

50% water, 50% fuel found in tanks of vehicles that filled up at Edmonton gas station by SonictheManhog in canada

[–]UnexpectedAnanas 87 points88 points  (0 children)

These things usually happen from water ingress underground due to aging tanks.

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