Amadou

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by Amadou 13y ago
Not in the executive class.
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by Amadou 13y ago
When damaged, coax (and POTS-based DSL for that matter) are both susceptible to environmental changes, so a cool-down in the evening can significantly change the characteristics of the wire, higher levels of humidity don't help either.
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by Amadou 13y ago
It's exciting because there is movement at the top end of the general monitor market, for the first time in almost a decade. I'm profoundly saddened by the situation. I have been waiting nearly 15 years for DPI to improve. I c
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by Amadou 13y ago
It is yet another hidden price of DRM. The W3C's embrace of DRM won't help either.
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by Amadou 13y ago
Nearly 10 years ago I bought happy hacker keyboards without numpads for all of my desktops and I haven't missed the numpad one bit. I did get the model with cursor keys though (edited to add: http://www.amazon.com/dp
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by Amadou 13y ago
We get a list of the things he got right - the "true positives." But no list of the things he got wrong, whether they are false positives or false negatives.
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by Amadou 13y ago
That's why people like Jon Huntsman didn't win the Republican primary in 2012, Well part of that is that primaries are mostly voted on by the extremists within the parties. The majority of republicans may well have supported H
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by Amadou 13y ago
just ID number, name and birthday. Probably the hardest thing to get is someone's ID number, but it doesn't sound like that is a secret. If you do have those three things, you can look them up in this system and then photoshop
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by Amadou 13y ago
This New Yorker article examining major discrepancies in health-care costs between McAllen Texas (which is the 2nd most expensive health-care market in the country) and the town up the road was eye opening for me. The summary is that when
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by Amadou 13y ago
The solution is to run your own server. If you want ultimate control, you have to do it yourself, which is painful - and one of the reasons I like freedombox which has, as a goal, to minimize the pain. They just aren't there yet. The
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by Amadou 13y ago
I'm a big supporter of freedombox - but today you can use a diaspora server operated by someone else, basically no pain. But freedombox is a long ways from a similar no-pain experience.
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by Amadou 13y ago
How does Facebook intend to validate these government IDs? I'm pretty sure they can't. They want you to send a scan of some photo-id - that means that all the anti-tamper / anti-forgery tech that might be on the actual ID wi
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by Amadou 13y ago
A censor is a _third party_ The definition you linked to says nothing about 3rd parties, only officials without specifying who they work for. In fact, one of the examples given in that definition is film censors which is within scope h
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by Amadou 13y ago
He's probably got a handful of tools in the bag, but the first on my list would be to cross-reference IP address with invites. If one ip address signs up all/most of the invites then that is a pretty big clue.
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by Amadou 13y ago
The Bill and Ted rule: Be excellent to one another. On the other hand, I have to wonder about the story of the police officer - how much is it going to cost that woman to deal with the misdemeanor?
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by Amadou 13y ago
FWIW, the RefControl add-on gives you more fine-grained control. I use it to spoof the referrer as the root of the site when I link in and then the correct referrer when navigating within the site. In some rare cases I force the referrer t
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by Amadou 13y ago
Oddly enough, your response is basically the same sort of overly-narrow literalism that gojomo was complaining about, just from the other direction.
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by Amadou 13y ago
I voted you up for truth. But... don't discount the profound disappointment that a headline like that generates in those of us who do know how a microwave works. We were teased with the idea of learning something we thought would al
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by Amadou 13y ago
Blank for me too. View source shows the text. I use NoScript and RequestPolicy. I'm thinking the page is another one of those that depends so much on javascript that it can't do anything without it. That's bad for the secu
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by Amadou 13y ago
Wow, I had no idea the ARC source was open. IIRC, at the time PKARC and PKZIP were legendary, and the Sea guys got a bad rep from the whole situation. But reading that post and the ARC license now, it sure does look like Katz was a putz.
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by Amadou 13y ago
then when I would call him out on it he would apologize. Later he would repeat the same offenses. Yes, that fits the profile of a sociopath - he manipulated you in order to get you off his back. The question wrt JFK is whether apologizin
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by Amadou 13y ago
When it comes to Bruce Schneier the question is "Do you trust Bruce Schneier?", but this seems to just beg the next question, "To not do what?". If you had read really short article, the "next question" is:
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by Amadou 13y ago
I agree, it was a joke. Furthermore, I took it as him saying that he could provide a list of reasons that people should not trust him but he won't because it would be the security pundit version of cock-blocking himself.
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by Amadou 13y ago
After the wall came down, the stasi shredded a lot of their files. But they were reassembled a few years ago and they revealed that some of the dissidents at the time were snitching on their fellows in return for less harsh treatment.[1] I
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by Amadou 13y ago
Registering allows you to sue for more money than if you don't register, Maximum is $250,000 per infringement if it is registered (and possible jail time for 10 or more infringements). If it is not registered then liabilty is just (
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by Amadou 13y ago
Looking at the list of incentives, I see that it starts off with paying for a meal. I've always thought that the societal expectation that (1) men should ask women out on a date and (2) because they made the invitation they are respon
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by Amadou 13y ago
That's why in many of the countries where prostitution is legal, pimping is still illegal. On the other hand, the results of at least one study suggest that prostitutes who work with pimps earn more, work less hours and have lower rate
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by Amadou 13y ago
That's not what I see when I read it. I see that he wrote a backup script that could backup two distinct groups of files depending on what argument he passed on the command-line. While the indictment mentions that some of the files inc
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by Amadou 13y ago
Goldman was actually violating the license terms of the open source software it had modified by not releasing it. I down-voted you because people keep saying that and it is false. The Vanity Fair article uses the qualifier "possibly&
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by Amadou 13y ago
I doubt patents have anything to do with this. Patents restrict use, copyright restricts copies. AFAIK, he didn't actually run the 'stolen' software, only copied it.

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