A Tangle of Rules to Protect America’s Water Is Falling Short by gardenfelder

America’s stewardship of one of its most precious resources, groundwater, relies on a patchwork of state and local rules so lax and outdated that in many places oversight is all but nonexistent, a New York Times analysis has found.The majority of states don’t know how many wells they have, the analysis revealed. Many have incomplete

ByHackTechNovember 2, 20231Comment

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8 Rules for “civilian hackers” during war, 4 obligations states to restrain them by bookofjoe

As digital technology is changing how militaries conduct war, a worrying trend has emerged in which a growing number of civilians become involved in armed conflicts through digital means. Sitting at some distance from physical hostilities, including outside the countries at war, civilians – including hacktivists, to cyber security professionals, ‘white hat’, ‘black hat’ and

ByHackTechOctober 7, 20230Comments

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US court rules Reddit doesn’t need to identify users who pirate movies by thunderbong

A group of 20 major film companies have been using Reddit posts as a way to locate copyright infringers and find parties to sue and accept fault for online piracy.At the moment, the most you can do to prevent copyright infringement online is compel internet service providers (ISP) or VPN providers via court order to

ByHackTechAugust 6, 20230Comments

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The Rules for happily collaborating on a LaTeX document by prirai

associate-prof in 3D geoinformation at TU Delft blog • contact • protégés • publications • research • slides • software 05 Jan 2015When it comes to writing my papers, I must admit that I prefer LaTeX over that-other-ubiquitous-software-that-I’d-rather-not-mention. Prefer is an understatement here: I would probably do anything to avoid writing a paper with the

ByHackTechJune 15, 20230Comments

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Bazel Rules_xcodeproj Version 1.0 by siggi

Almost exactly one year ago I wrote the first commit for rules_xcodeproj. Like a lot of software engineers, I’m pretty bad at estimating, and thought that I would be able to finish 1.0 in 2 to 4 months 😅. The longer development cycle was a result of an increased scope and level of quality that

ByHackTechFebruary 6, 20230Comments

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The make or break element in the 2022 F1 rules by tomcdonnell

We have heard a lot about the expected changes to the racing the new aero will make this year. But less about the equally new Pirelli tyres. They are arguably every bit as critical as the aero in determining whether F1’s aim for more on-track action is realised. Pirelli’s Mario Isola was keen to point…

ByHackTechJanuary 19, 20220Comments

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Rules for Buying Crashing Growth Stocks by imartin2k

Posted January 6, 2022 by Michael Batnick It’s ugly out there. The Dow Jones Industrial Average might have hit an all-time high today, but growth stocks can’t find a bottom, particularly the high multiple ones. ARKK, the poster child for this group, is down 45% from its highs last February, the largest decline in its…

ByHackTechJanuary 6, 20220Comments

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