John_KZ

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by John_KZ 9y ago
The only secure way to run windows at this point is to get an old CD or ISO and run it in a VM or air-gapped machine. Unfortunately a lot of software these days ignores the possibility of being disconnected from the internet - some folks wo
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by John_KZ 9y ago
I hate scams myself, but what gives google the right to judge on this matter? Shouldn't they be following the guidelines of local governments?
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by John_KZ 9y ago
Great article. It never occured to me that someone might accidentally yank the fuel cutoff and die as a result.
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by John_KZ 9y ago
How is this legally allowed? Do the students know about this? I'd flip out if I learned that some uni staff members watch, criticize and analyze all my daily activities and then use them to pursue the universitie's goals. What mak
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by John_KZ 9y ago
Youtube already takes down anything they dislike. Definitions such as "hate speech" include literally all possible speech that is critical of anything, at any degree. Their preferred weapon though is de-ranking. This is the Amer
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by John_KZ 9y ago
>The network has lost 113 gigawatt-hours (GWh) of energy since mid-January. Does that refer to lost power due to power factor changes or trasformers losses or something? >That energy will be pumped back into the grid in a process that
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by John_KZ 9y ago
I hope they use the fund to cure themselves of their grandiose fantasies of enabling immortality. The brains they "preserve" will end up in a trash can 10-20 years down the line when their company fails or management changes. Remi
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by John_KZ 9y ago
That's complete bullshit. The reason is 100% because of the economy. Many of them will say it's not, others will also believe it, but if you dig down to the truth, it's absolutely and exclusively all about the economy.
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by John_KZ 9y ago
It depends on where you're from. If you need a VISA I assume you're not from the EU. If you immigrated from a wealthy country, then go for it. Worst case you go back home. But if going back home is a problem, then you'll prob
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by John_KZ 9y ago
Why would you complete a MOOC "cover to cover" when they offer no accreditation? People just pick up what they need and move on. If they were offering a complete program and degrees, millions would complete them. MOOCs are amazing
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by John_KZ 9y ago
Why the hell did your other comment about pregnant women got flagged?
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by John_KZ 9y ago
>and I'm sure they will come back in the future with the same flexibility for addons No they won't, they have been very clear on this matter. Web Extensions are crippled compared to NPAPI. You can't even disable javascript
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by John_KZ 9y ago
The prospect of scihub dying is terrifying, and scihub helped to push in that direction.
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by John_KZ 9y ago
Firefox is dead to me ever since they killed their addons and marketed it as a step forward. If I wanted to use Chrome I'd use fucking Chrome.
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by John_KZ 9y ago
Thanks.
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by John_KZ 9y ago
Can we compare it to the original footage? I'm kind of pissed I can't find it.
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by John_KZ 9y ago
This guy doesn't know what he's talking about. Uber is banned in Greece, Italy, Finland and a host of other countries. It's also legally banned in London afaik and heavily regulated in a lot of other places. Actually in Greec
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by John_KZ 9y ago
Yeah, $264M after taxes. What a disaster. I bet your life would be ruined if you won the lottery.
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by John_KZ 9y ago
Can you think of a better location to place a phone's unlocking and cloning machine than the TSA's examination office? Do they really need to teleport the phone?
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by John_KZ 9y ago
This kind of argument is starting to piss me off. "You can express your freedom of speech, but not in this public park, because it's privately owned" "You can state your opinions, but not on this website, because dis
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by John_KZ 9y ago
After reading up on it I'm so glad the implementation is transparent and I don't have to deal with it, but I'm also really dissatisfied with the discrete and imperfect nature of lookup tables and perceived brightness approxim
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by John_KZ 9y ago
Excuse me for my ignorance on the subject, but I thought gamma died with CRTs and all RGB values on images are intensity representations on a linear scale. Am I wrong? Is sRGB used for publishing or something?
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by John_KZ 9y ago
At this point is there a way for small organizations and individuals to protect themselves from data theft? IP and trade secrets are hard to develop in a closed network without internet access at all points.
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by John_KZ 9y ago
So it's like a lock, except you call it "modification request". Great, got it.
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by John_KZ 9y ago
No, the idea that fly-ash is highly radioactive is a faux created by the nuclear lobby. Some coal is more radioactive than other, but in general they're very safe from this perspective. The real problems are is it's corrosiveness,
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by John_KZ 9y ago
Also fly ash is a pain in the ass to get rid off. I've heard about companies re-using it in concrete products and other construction materials. Even if the value produced is low, any profit is better than dealing with the cost of safel
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by John_KZ 9y ago
The US already produces and consumes 1 billion metric tons of coal per year. Numbers in Europe are similar. Also all this coal is already cleaned and crushed. That's a lot of mass, even at the low yields, and it's essentially &quo
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by John_KZ 9y ago
I'm not a professional programmer, but I had no problems with Java's multithreading libraries. Lock handling, synchronization etc are a pain in the ass to get used to but not so much of a big deal, and I don't see how D is an
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by John_KZ 9y ago
Is this really standard writing paper? I assume it would be useful for calligraphy or learning how to write (as you can use the subdivision to draw letters to the correct height) but I find it weird for it to be standard issue paper.
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by John_KZ 9y ago
Video views pay a lot more than page views. Also they're just trying to capture your attention regardless of the article. It's an annoying bussiness tactic.

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