GoodIntentions

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by GoodIntentions 12y ago
1968: Get busted at protest, get searched for weed. 2014: Get busted at protest, get searched for data. We're living in odd times.
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by GoodIntentions 12y ago
IMHO, firing someone who owns up to a keystroke mistake like that is wrong. Good managers fix the problem, weak managers fix blame. Root cause analysis + countermeasure might have boiled down to "operator error due to shitty interface
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by GoodIntentions 12y ago
May I suggest Elbonia for such uses? http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2009-10-30/
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by GoodIntentions 12y ago
It took me more years working than it should have to realize this: If someone consistently does a poor job, look up. They aren't the problem.
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by GoodIntentions 12y ago
I have had good luck with Toshiba satellites. Running Debian on a P750 currently. This is my second Toshiba with linux, don't have any issues.
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by GoodIntentions 12y ago
"All they think about is the Spies, and the war, of course. D'you know what that little girl of mine did last Saturday, when her troop was on a hike out Berkhamsted way? She got two other girls to go with her, slipped off from the
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by GoodIntentions 13y ago
>> but for the rest, stop complaining and find a place to sit down with your laptop. Exactly that. I carry an n900 as my daily use phone/pda and it works great as a "better-than-nothing" device for ssh access/webs
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by GoodIntentions 13y ago
I don't think they want all of Ukraine, just the Crimean peninsula. Socially and geographically, this is a different situation than Georgia, where ethic Russians are a small minority and the borders are large as opposed to a relativel
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by GoodIntentions 13y ago
The oldest rule in the world: http://www.dict.cc/german-english/Faustrecht.html Doesn't make it right, but we're about to see it in action.
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by GoodIntentions 13y ago
I saw this technique proposed on a webmaster's forum many years ago. If google hasn't given some thought to detecting this type of manipulation, I'd be surprised. If they've actually figured out how to reliably detect a
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by GoodIntentions 13y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogpile I haven't used dogpile in forever - actually thought they were defunct, but your comment brought it to mind. Seems like what you're after?
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by GoodIntentions 13y ago
So who's gonna run this anarchy thing?
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by GoodIntentions 13y ago
The difference being in my mind that I won't turn to an article in Britannica and find it randomly defaced, or deliberately seeded with biased information. Wikipedia is awesome, but gotta use it as a jumping off point to find referenc
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by GoodIntentions 13y ago
Pretty much exactly what I was going to post. Prophylactic use of antibiotics in hogs/whatever is stupidity in a class of its' own, selectively breeding organisms on an industrial scale for resistance to the drugs we might want t
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by GoodIntentions 13y ago
Not sure how noteworthy this is. Ask any of us to work for free and you might get the same answer.
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by GoodIntentions 13y ago
>> "Most businesses wouldn't bother having a cafeteria if only Excel could cook meals." This part is tongue in cheek, but true. There are businesses out there, where excel is used for everything, including many things
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by GoodIntentions 13y ago
"selfies cornhole messenger bag" Seems about right.
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by GoodIntentions 13y ago
"Paranoia strikes deep Into your life it will creep It starts when you're always afraid You step out of line, the man come and take you away" Buffalo Springfield, "for What it's Worth" 1966. Timeless tune, not
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by GoodIntentions 13y ago
perhaps someone has posted it, but I don't see it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subst Gotta really stupid-long base path? alias it.
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by GoodIntentions 13y ago
and this naturally comes to mind: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3514
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by GoodIntentions 13y ago
May I suggest replacing "un-American" with "doubleplusungood"?
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by GoodIntentions 13y ago
Ya Think? "Self-signed certs as a service! IN THE CLOUD! Need Support for your self-signed cert? 5k/year - 1 (800) 555 - 5549" I wonder if they have an affiliate program
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by GoodIntentions 13y ago
That must have changed? http://nic.ro/payments/ looks like 17 Euro/yr with breaks on longer terms EDIT: I went to the English site tho, not rotld.ro - perhaps residents only get the better deal?
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by GoodIntentions 13y ago
>> it powers all Blizzard games I could see that forcing a proper test cycle to take longer than implementing a change.
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by GoodIntentions 13y ago
War.. Most of the time I have been alive, the U.S. has almost had a military engagement someplace. What percentage of middle class' taxes are fed to the for-profit machine that in turn feeds the military? War serves another purpose,
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by GoodIntentions 13y ago
mikeknoop: no offense, but pacing a direct link to a compromised site isn't good. these types of posts should link to a screenshot.
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by GoodIntentions 13y ago
Not really a challenge. This is how I explained it to my non-technical father years ago: "Nothing you do online is anonymous. There is a record of everything you do." He understood it right away and ( I think ) has always treate
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by GoodIntentions 13y ago
>>an assembly line worker who knows how to operte the tool in hand. This is one problem imho, that stands in the way of more mature developers landing jobs and of juniors advancing. There is a trend to use 3rd party libraries as rad t
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by GoodIntentions 13y ago
I've worked with really good, skilled and really not so skilled people that held Microsoft certs. The folks that were not worth a shit on the job all seemed to list MS certs in their email sigs. Right or wrong, I take those mc* email s
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by GoodIntentions 13y ago
I don't think it was _terrible_. It just doesn't give as accurate results as Google in some searches, I assume due to the rafts of information collected about users - a trade off I will make happily.

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