Anechoic

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it's a little silly to expect someone to use examples from outside their domain expertise Right, I get that. But... It did seem like he derailed his own point into a weird cultural commentary on programmers though That's what I was comm
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If that actually happened, that would be a major improvement on the legislative and legal front for everyone in the world, not just tech people. Doubtful. Right now the lesson is "don't piss off rich people when it comes to financial crim
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Just go to http://scripting.com/ if the threads2.scripting.com subdomain isn't working.
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The title references "geeks" while the actual post references "programmers" - I wish he had stuck with "geeks" as the challenges he describes are limited just to programmer or tech types, but are faced by folks in a number of scientific and
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by Anechoic 14y ago
Ask yourself, are political appointees selected on their careers merits or on the basis of their political clout? Bzzz. Sorry, trick question. The answer is already on US Attorney Carmen Ortiz’s very own wikipedia entry. Says it right the
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I disagree. Much as PDR is responding to Kerr's "implicit criticism," Kerr is responding to the implicit focus of the tech world. Much of the response to the situation as focused on three things: 1) firing Ortiz, 2) reforming/repealing the
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Various NPR shows (On Point and Talk of the Nation come immediately to mind) have covered this. On the media also did a report: http://www.onthemedia.org/2012/jan/13/dr-martin-luther-king-... transcript: http://www.onthemedia.org/2011/ja
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Nothing in what I said pointed toward closed standards, and I wasn't referring to closed standards. In my field (acoustics/noise & vibration control) we generally don't have closed standards and rely on standards to produce results that
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As I wrote, we need standards, and those standards to a lot of good in terms of setting best-practices and documenting procedures than can result in repeatable, robust results. Being able to point to standards compliance is also helpful in
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The article makes reference to the need for Standards organizations to charge for standards so continue fundind the development of those standards. I've contributed/am contributing to three ANSI standards and we're not compensated for that
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One issue with automated trains is when something inevitably goes wrong, if it happens in a heavy trafficked system like in NYC you might have dozens to hundreds of people dead Can you give an example of a subway accident (in NYC or anot
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You'd be suprised: http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2012/11/thieves_break...
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how rare are fires in schools? We extensively prepare for those Teachers/staff prepare for those by knowing how to evacuate students from the schools and calling 911. They aren't expected to actually fight fires, aside from using a fire e
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DC v. Heller: "Like most rights, the Second Amendment right is not unlimited. It is not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose: For example, concealed weapons prohibitions have been
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by Anechoic 14y ago
If you are in the US, do you just send the amount that turbo tax tells you to, or do you send more? Speaking for myself, I enter deductions into the H&R Block program and watch the estimated payment. When the payment is something I th
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by Anechoic 14y ago
Cross wind landings are fun once you get used to looking at the runway from the side window and getting tossed around in a Cessna like a kite. Happens in larger planes (as noted in other posts) as well. Flying into Colorado Springs is alw
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by Anechoic 14y ago
you wouldn't plot a town where there isn't one It happens. About 12-13 years ago, a colleague and I were driving around Ohio to document landuse near a freight railroad line. The maps we had (USGS, AAA maps and local street maps) indicate
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Bicycle frames last for 20+ years That's conservative - my mom has (steel) bike frames hanging in her garage that date back to the 1970's that are in great shape and they've barely been maintained in the interim. I'm guessing a well-maint
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by Anechoic 14y ago
This would be a great value-added service option for the Post Office. Deposit money in an account, have it shipped to a local post office, postal worker witnesses the acceptance and opening of the package, if everything is kosher, the buyer
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by Anechoic 14y ago
Frequent travelers and members of rewards programs aren’t treated that differently Um, actually we are. With Avis First (free to join) or Hertz Gold (last I knew there was a fee, but that may have changed), I take a shuttlebus to the rent
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by Anechoic 14y ago
It takes a 10 second google search to find contact numbers. While that's striaghtforward for anyone who is reading this, that's actually a show-stopped for a number (a significant number I'd bet) of folks for any number of reasons includi
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In fact, they go out of their way to make sure it doesn't. No they don't, iTunes offers the Library.xml file for interoperability. My Nokia E71 and E6 work just fine with iTunes (on Mac OS X) via Library.xml. In fact is works better than
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It really doesn't take much longer to go through the process. Show up 3 minutes earlier if you have to. YMMV with respect to the additional time. I also opt out and have had to wait as long as 15 minutes for the pat down (and to make mat
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by Anechoic 14y ago
According to his Twitter profile, he's in Germany: https://twitter.com/sneakatdatavibe
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He was running his campaign as if it was a business that he was trying to wring dry, and it seems he would have run the country the same way. That's the way he ran Massachusetts and (for the most part) we didn't like it. There is a reason
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Gassée is a former Apple exec who led the Mac team Wasn't he fired from Apple? edit: A quick wiki lookup indicates that he was "forced out" at Apple. The article also reminded me of the issues he had when Apple made some changes to Macs i
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but there's no indication that he shares Steve Job's ability to drive Apple to launch revolutionary new products every few years Can we at least wait a "few years" before declaring that Cook's Apple isn't able "to launch revolutionary new
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RIMM had $100 billion in cash 4 years ago?
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My $5 would be spent on a large wrench to undo the foundation nuts of power line towers. You're gonna need a breaker bar for that which will cost you more than $5 (but not much more... your point stands).
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One huge issue I've had with USB sticks on my keychain - the stick breaking off at the keychain loop and losing the stick. I keep the important stuff on encrypted disk images and immediately change my SSH keys when I notice the stick is gon

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