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by Bill_Dimm 13y ago
I don't know if this procedure for deleting a Facebook account still works, but it's worth a try: http://www.groovypost.com/howto/security/permanently-delete-...
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Linux Distributions Store Wi-Fi Passwords in Plain Text(news.softpedia.com)
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by Bill_Dimm 13y ago
Original article has much more detail: http://healthland.time.com/2013/12/10/teachers-give-better-g...
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by Bill_Dimm 13y ago
The expression is normally used to comment on the overall market behavior for the day (or some other time frame), not a single transaction, so the whole "There's one buyer and one seller for every trade" thing is somewhat irr
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by Bill_Dimm 13y ago
"More buyers than sellers." This is the equivalent of saying someone has more mothers than fathers. There's one buyer and one seller for every trade. Every single one. If John sells 1000 shares and Frank and Sam buy 500 sha
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by Bill_Dimm 13y ago
That really depends on whether or not I could afford to (the sad reality of our legal system). Fortunately, the EFF seems to be helping him: https://micahflee.com/2013/11/canonical-shouldnt-abuse-trade...
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by Bill_Dimm 13y ago
I don't really see how Canonical can take away the right to use a trademark nominatively[1], as provided by law, just by declaring your rights to be gone in a policy. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use_(U.S.
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by Bill_Dimm 13y ago
Yep. Several years ago the Eastern Technology Council (a local business association) had its annual party on the campus of one of its member companies named Safeguard Scientifics. The local paper reported it as a Safeguard Scientifics net
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by Bill_Dimm 13y ago
Thanks! It's unfortunate that it's Chrome-only. It worked well on their examples, but not on this (not a d3.js): http://www.cluster-text.com/tmp/news.svg Still, it's an interesting start. Correcti
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by Bill_Dimm 13y ago
Is there a way to get static SVG (i.e. no JavaScript) out so you can incorporate the chart into a document, edit in Inkscape, etc., or does SVG+JavaScript inherently mean that the result is stranded in the browser?
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by Bill_Dimm 13y ago
Yes. The author of "Information Theory, Inference and Learning Algorithms" had this to say about it: http://www.amazon.com/review/R16RJ2PT63DZ3Q/ref=cm_cr_rev_de...
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by Bill_Dimm 13y ago
There seems to be a typo at the beginning of the "Implementing dual numbers" section. It says: The number a+bd can be encoded as... Should be: The number a+b*epsilon can be encoded as...
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by Bill_Dimm 13y ago
Slide #4 says: "Suppose you are about to interview a candidate for a position as a C programmer for various embedded platforms ..."
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by Bill_Dimm 13y ago
According to the About JUCE page the license is GPL, so you need a commercial license if you want to use it in a non-GPL project. The pricing doesn't look too bad if the library is solid (£399 for a single project, £699 for unlimited)
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by Bill_Dimm 13y ago
Yep, I did that when I was a teenager -- entered the machine code for an entire word processor for the C64 called SpeedScript. The good old days ;-)
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by Bill_Dimm 13y ago
YouTube (which now has HTML5) Sadly, YouTube videos that have embedded ads seem to be Flash-only.
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by Bill_Dimm 13y ago
I'm guessing: Total time will vary dramatically depending on whether the database is on HD, SSD, or in memory, so he is separating out that component. Of course, he might be optimizing something that doesn't help much if it takes
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by Bill_Dimm 13y ago
It's "Dunning–Kruger" (for the benefit of those that are not familiar with it and are trying to Google it).
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by Bill_Dimm 13y ago
I haven't used Windows 8, but Microsoft's documentation says that IFilter support was removed[1] in Windows 8, so search engine software, document clustering software, etc. that relied on IFilter to extract text from various file
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by Bill_Dimm 13y ago
Facepalm
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by Bill_Dimm 13y ago
That must make it easier for the NSA to link your phone number to your Facebook account.
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by Bill_Dimm 13y ago
I had a similar experience. When they copied our website they even copied the corporate logo at the bottom of the page, which was linked back to our corporate website. I was looking at the referrer logs for the corporate site and saw clic
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by Bill_Dimm 13y ago
Why would you expect the US government, or ANY government to respect the right of privacy of citizens of other countries? Because being openly hostile to foreigners is not very productive in a world where international commerce is importa
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by Bill_Dimm 13y ago
This petition is probably just a confirmation of the majority of the names on that list It's far worse than "just confirmation." If the NSA is training a machine learning algorithm to identify subversives based on various
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by Bill_Dimm 13y ago
Marks become genericized when the consumer's mind uses the mark as a word for the category rather than as a specific product/line/company. Wouldn't that be facilitated by consumers seeing other companies/products in the category using the
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by Bill_Dimm 13y ago
I'm not sure I see your point. It's a two step process (IANAL): 1) fail to defend your trademark, 2) broad usage becomes popular, so you lose your mark. Sure, you may not lose your mark without (2), but you don't get to (2) without (1) an
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by Bill_Dimm 13y ago
Here is a list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_generic_and_genericized...
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by Bill_Dimm 13y ago
I was just assuming that your numbers were correct. Just to be clear, these are not my numbers, they are Microsoft's numbers. If the weight is really 1.3476 lbs and Microsoft reports it as 1.3, the number is "correct" and they've told
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by Bill_Dimm 13y ago
A) Actually, I don't know that it is a zero that is being dropped, even though that may be likely. If numbers were being reported by a scientist, dropped digits would be an indication that the measurement wasn't accurate to any more digi
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by Bill_Dimm 13y ago
There are other, more subtle, sleazy things in that ad. Microsoft seems to choose how many places to display after decimal points in a "convenient" way. Large batter life is good, so Microsoft displays "9.5" for its product, but "10" (not

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