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by BearOfNH 17y ago
There's a most excellent vintage 1980s lecture by Robert Anton Wilson titled "The Jumping Jesus Phenomenon". The gist of it can be found at the rawilson.com website as well as elsewhere. Wilson defines the "jesus" (small j) as the number of
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by BearOfNH 17y ago
The review is nice as far as it goes, but given the tech bent of the author I'm a little surprised he isn't the least bit leery about turning control of his car over to somebody else. All your movements can be monitored. Accidentally park n
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by BearOfNH 17y ago
Try Firefox with the AutoPager extension. Just keep scrolling down and the follow-on pages appear. Not perfect, but adequate. And don't blame the author -- the magazine did the pagination.
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by BearOfNH 17y ago
If they can get away with deleting my books, what's to keep Amazon from correcting newspaper articles? Envision your five-month-old edition of NYT or WSJ, where it quotes Tim Geithner saying the stimulus package will take effect "almost imm
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by BearOfNH 17y ago
The analogy with a car is specious. There is just one car, as opposed to unlimited copies of a file. Plus the State has vested interests in automobile ownership and licensing. If on the other hand you had a stolen copy of _1984_ on your cof
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by BearOfNH 17y ago
TCP and UDP packets look pretty much the same as far as this design is concerned. It's all IPv4 where the IP header has IP source/dest address and a TCP/UDP bit. The source/dest _ports_ are in the first 32 bits of the TCP or UDP portion of
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by BearOfNH 17y ago
FTA: "When the mafia ran this town, it was fun. [...]" This from a cabbie there 27 years. Howard Hughes bought the Desert Inn 42 years ago on March 1, 1967, ushering in the corporate takeover of Las Vegas. The takeover was finished by the t
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by BearOfNH 17y ago
FTA: "It’s not hard to see how a warming Earth could change those dynamics: as the globe heats up, the top of the atmosphere should get colder." But if that were the case, noctilucent clouds would normally be an equatorial -- not a polar --
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by BearOfNH 17y ago
I use Yahoo finance many times daily, much more often than Google finance or other sites. Yahoo offers real-time update of broad market indices and delayed update of my favorite stocks on their main page, along with headlines and videos of
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by BearOfNH 17y ago
There's a total solar eclipse over China on the 22nd, exactly midway between the forecast dates. Quite a coincidence, if that's what it is. In any event the prediction is NOT for the market to tank within the quoted timeframe ... rather tha
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by BearOfNH 17y ago
My off-the-cuff experience says Bing and Google are about the same for the searches I run. I see no reason to choose one over the other, yet. But Microsoft could compete in non-search areas if desired. Specifically (a) fewer ads and (b) bet
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by BearOfNH 17y ago
Unless I personally know the guy, most of the time my eyes are on the lady. But no mention of her wearing the logo...
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by BearOfNH 17y ago
Nice write-up, it gives me some things to look for next time I watch the movies, like Amidala's costume color. Trek is a series of standalone 42-minute episodes written by different authors with different agendas. Wars is one man's vision a
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by BearOfNH 17y ago
Based on the comments I think Panasonic is within their rights here, but still I would probably not buy from them. I'll stick with cameras using rechargeable AAs. Possibly somebody will figure out how to make a knock-off battery that the ca
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by BearOfNH 17y ago
Impressive story, despite the Django and EC2 plugs. Of course this suggests a start-up project: a business service that does crowdsourcing. The service would be customized for one task and would have various forms of cheat detection (e.g.,
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by BearOfNH 17y ago
IBM 1130 CDC 6400 PDP-8,10,11,12,15[,20 same as -10 except system calls] DEC VAX DEC Alpha x86-32 Itanium
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by BearOfNH 20y ago
I think Windows Vista (tm) is going to go down in history as the best thing that ever happened to Linux. MS has done the equivalent of pointing the pistol straight at their shoes. "...How about the ability to install any of 20,000 programs