205guy

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by 205guy 13y ago
Much as I would love to take all Internet advertising and its affiliate marketing extremes to some distant planet and nuke it from orbit, I'm afraid the Internet as we know it would go with it. Navigational system == search == google =
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by 205guy 13y ago
Am I he only one who read that bit about wire-tapping the Supreme Court judges? While unsurprising, that really seems to cross the line from counter-whatever to political manipulation.
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There's a lot of negative reactions on here, and some of them might be valid (unfamiliarity, any friction reduces sales). But I liked the concept. The "flip over for CVC" worked for me on Firefox, and that was an elegant solu
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by 205guy 13y ago
I haven't looked it up, but the patent probably covers the ratcheting mechanism which allows the belt to adapt to any body size, retract when not in use, and locks upon impact. A simple fixed (or manually adjustable) 3-point belt would
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by 205guy 13y ago
I think the characterization of #2 is way off. As others have pointed out, you're talking about mrmoneymustache.com but you're not very accurate. The guy/family essentially has $1 Million (probably more) in assets (paid-off h
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by 205guy 13y ago
Wow, just, wow. You've swallowed the war hawks' propaganda hook, line, and sinker.
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The difference between the boat and a cell phone is that the boat is automatically steering a course based on the GPS. It's also relevant that it's a boat because the open ocean provides 2-dimensional movement without obstacles. L
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Actually, I'm not sure the OP ever stated his job or job requirements. From reading between the lines, it seems like the OP and the other temps were content taggers: to watch a video/film and identify the characters and actors on
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Nobody said it was surprising, you're just mistaken in the tone of the write-up. The job of the science writer is to take some science news, explain it, add some context and quotes around it and make it exciting enough to click on and
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by 205guy 13y ago
From the article, I got the impression that the only way to really have secure communications is to create your own crypto. Now that you mention "air gap," I think that is the key (pun intended): it would have to be a crypto devic
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by 205guy 13y ago
Your understanding of keys is about right. It is the OP article that your are not understanding. You ask "so how can the NSA decrypt such a message?" That's what the article is telling you: Either by 1) getting the private ke
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by 205guy 13y ago
That seems like a fairly complete syllabus, quite like what I spent 4 years learning in school (2 undergrad, 2 post-grad), minus the internships and actual work (and the mobile and web apps that we didn't have back in the day...). I wo
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by 205guy 13y ago
Minor distracting nitpick: the post title is misleading. I thought PG was the one who said "No filter." I realize the title has no quotes, but missing quotes seems like a smaller mistake than requiring the reader to decipher what
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by 205guy 13y ago
I came to say the same thing. I can't believe the article didn't trace the practice back to Campbell's book, especially after mentioning Star Wars (which Lucas pretty explicitly based on the formula in the book). To be fair,
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by 205guy 13y ago
The article didn't go into details, but there was originally much contact between Ni'ihau and the other islands, though mostly the nearest, which is Kaua'i. During the period of initial contact with Westerners, many Hawaiians
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by 205guy 13y ago
I think it's a rather pointless question because there are so many ways to define an island. If you say "land surrounded by water," then it's the EurAsiaAfrican landmass, if you look at geology (of which I am no expert),
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by 205guy 13y ago
Ni'ihau is part of the County of Kaua'i, State of Hawaii, USA. Just because the king sold the land doesn't mean the king reliquished sovereingty over it. Then the sovereignty of Hawaii passed to the Republic, then to the Terr
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by 205guy 13y ago
A few more details about Ni'ihau that were left out of the article. - There was actually one other landowner, a native Hawaiian couple that the Robinsons had to buy out to own the entire island. The story goes that they didn't wan
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by 205guy 13y ago
s/posted/replied/ - there fixed that for you. Even the Dragon Ball wiki mentions the origin of the name: http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Kamehameha . Given that the Japanese often vacation in Hawaii, the
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by 205guy 13y ago
I just realized my first comment only applies to the "main" Hawaiian Islands. In the Northwest Hawaiian Islands, there are lots of different access regulations, and none of them open to the public. On some islands, the scientists
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by 205guy 13y ago
After seeing the article about North Sentinel island, I wondered how long until a similar one about Ni'ihau. It is typically dubbed the "Forbidden Island" in the tourist literature, so it was bound to come up in someone'
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by 205guy 13y ago
I have been reading up on distant islands for years. The topic is fascinating and seemingly endless (wikipedia now has more and more articles covering these remote specs). However, Tristan da Cunha was uninhabited and the current settlement
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by 205guy 13y ago
I had the same question (the article isn't that great, it comes from a "bathroom reader"). From previous reading about this fascinating topic, I think they must've established the dates for the other tribes and other isl
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by 205guy 13y ago
2 reasons nobody has (surprisingly) mentioned yet: - Trains: the Acela is established and successful, already taking about half of the passengers on the Eastern corridor. - Right of way: (to borrow one of your sentences) the population dens
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by 205guy 13y ago
Or why not toss a tech writer in the arena (or a QA person if you want tests, or etc.)? Why should it be a homogeneous team of programmers?
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by 205guy 13y ago
Worse than threatening to expose MLK's private life, they wrote to him as if someone from his religious community found out about it and shamed him and suggested he kill himself.[1] So not just blackmail, but psyops. As I wrote in anot
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by 205guy 13y ago
I came here to say the same thing. But one of the other comments [1] points out how the "local" listings (Google-owned Zagat) or maps are actually Google's curated business listings, not the business' website. Same goes
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by 205guy 13y ago
You left out the part where you go to some protest (OWS, anti-gmo, anti-KeystoneXL, anything that opposes the corporate interests that run the government). That's what makes this whole surveillance thing scary is that it can easily be
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by 205guy 13y ago
Bingo!
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As opposed to taking a chance at preventing that abuse? Perhaps not as dramatic, but on the whole better to curtail it before. Once the level is abuse, it's much harder to correct. I do see what you're saying, though. The surveill

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