CamperBob

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by CamperBob 15y ago
Somebody hasn't been paying attention.
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by CamperBob 15y ago
This is unfortunately no joke. Only a fairly primitive technological culture will waste energy and S/N ratio by using coherent signals for communications. Modern radio and TV signals look more or less exactly like static to a receiver tha
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by CamperBob 15y ago
The 'sleep' part is not actually what's important. Just lie down in a quiet, dark place and close your eyes for 20 minutes, and you will gain a large portion of the same benefits that you'd have gained if you actually fell asleep.
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by CamperBob 15y ago
There are those who disagree with you. :) Valid point, I don't think a good case can be made for putting a lead whistle in your mouth. But I wouldn't worry about the fumes. It's likely no worse than SnPb solder fumes, which don't contain
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by CamperBob 15y ago
The vapor pressure of molten lead has got to be pretty low... and I expect the bioavailability of elemental lead isn't all that great in any event, compared to some of its salts. You're probably OK. :)
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by CamperBob 15y ago
I've been trying to accumulate a list of practices or behaviors where there has never been any (or much) barrier to copying, and where for someone to complain would sound a little bizarre. Never mind hair styles and couture.... your quest
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by CamperBob 15y ago
Next step is several years in jail and close monitoring of the future crime activities. The real problem is the ridiculously lax penalties for car theft in many jurisdictions. In the Seattle, WA area, you basically don't even see the ins
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by CamperBob 15y ago
Not to forget the F00F bug, which did the same thing in full-blown protected mode.
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by CamperBob 15y ago
Should be able to use a two-byte BEQ, BNE, BCC, BCS, or something like that instead of the jump, depending on what COUT returns.
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by CamperBob 15y ago
Spammers quickly figured out how to make a mockery of Bayes based solutions. And who is still out there filtering spam using IP addresses & domain names? Spamhaus. For what it's worth, the SpamBayes plugin for MS Outlook has reliably
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by CamperBob 15y ago
Yeah, and I'm announcing plans to explore Angelina Jolie's pants. Same likelihood of accomplishment. Until we take NASA's mission seriously and fund them accordingly, it's all just empty talk, seemingly repeated every couple of weeks.
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by CamperBob 15y ago
also, if it makes you feel any better, these projects tend to have a way of trickling down/out knowledge... Absolutely. The HST, for instance, is basically a Cold War spy satellite that's pointed the other way.
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by CamperBob 15y ago
How important is the magnetosphere, really? Earth's magnetic field is rather fickle.
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by CamperBob 15y ago
The last time the topic was raised, at least several hundred people volunteered.
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by CamperBob 15y ago
It's possible that they were faced with a mass walkout of key employees. I know I'd tender my resignation the next day if I worked for someone who issued a press release like Go Daddy's earlier one. As a rule, the few employees who are gen
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by CamperBob 15y ago
Anyone who possesses anything resembling "hustle" will not rely on HR to establish relationships inside a company where they want to work.
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by CamperBob 15y ago
Cache associativity isn't necessarily the only problem. Also possibly relevant, from http://drdobbs.com/184405848 (Mike Abrash): "The other cause of erratic performance—and by far the worst—was 64K aliasing. On most Pentium 4s, if two da
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by CamperBob 15y ago
She has to take money from somebody , or she doesn't get elected. Hence the problem.
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by CamperBob 15y ago
Man, that sucks. Places like Fermilab are perpetually starved for funding and need to get the most bang from every buck. Doesn't sound like that's happening, with processes like that in place.
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by CamperBob 15y ago
One huge advantage of our system in the US is that it gives us a good excuse to scream bloody murder when legislators try to pass bills allowing telemarketers to call cell phones. (This just happened, as a matter of fact.) If incoming cal
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by CamperBob 15y ago
And the new bosses can change. Obama's election was the result of almost nothing other than: "I'm not the status quo." And he won. Wow. Gun, meet foot.
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by CamperBob 15y ago
So, a lean, simple, easily-verifiable government that protects basic rights and provides basic needs and which only intervenes when processes (groups) come into direct conflict seems like the correct goal--not this bloated ill-defined over
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by CamperBob 15y ago
Sites like www.riaaradar.com have been around for years. No effect. Edit: just checked, and riaaradar.com is, in fact, gone. And www.riaa.org is still up and running five-nines, thank you.
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by CamperBob 15y ago
And how are those farmworkers doing these days?
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by CamperBob 15y ago
This is a Constitutional matter.
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by CamperBob 15y ago
That's the true horror of the situation. Not only are our representatives for sale, they're for sale cheap . If the media companies were bribing these clowns with billions of dollars, that would be one thing... but some of the people who
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by CamperBob 15y ago
There are years of jurisprudence and years of common law precedent that form the true vision of what the First Amendment means today. I always find this argument irritating. You don't need to be an attorney or a jurist to twist words aro
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by CamperBob 15y ago
Which, as others have said, is why the black banner or page should target the Senators behind the legislation, not just the legislation itself. The Overton Window needs to be slammed shut on their fingers.
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by CamperBob 15y ago
(Shrug) They can lobby all they want. The goal is to make this sort of legislation a "third rail" -- touch it and your career dies instantly. (Social Security being the classic example.)
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by CamperBob 15y ago
The distinction is very important: a customer is someone who pays you money. To Google and Facebook, users are just parameters to be optimized.

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