NeutronBoy

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by NeutronBoy 9y ago
> There's no reason these days something like an efi partition couldn't be put in flash next to the firmware, cheap. SSDs on the other hand are still expensive, after many years I was just able to afford a 512GB. Unless you wa
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by NeutronBoy 9y ago
> I mean, do you know any civil engineers who would say, "Oh hey this foundation is cracked, let's build something that tries to patch those cracks, and when that's broken, we'll build another level on top of that, an
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by NeutronBoy 9y ago
Debian will still support UEFI, just not SB. I use Arch and UEFI. With a kernel supporting EFISTUB, a UEFI system can boot the kernel directly, without the use of a bootloader - it's awesome!
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Why facts aren't always more important than opinions(abc.net.au)
1 points by NeutronBoy 9y ago|0 comments
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by NeutronBoy 9y ago
If I miss a flight by say 15 mins, in certain fare classes, the airline will let me reschedule to a later flight at no cost. Which means if they can't resell that seat in 15 mins, they're losing money because that seat is now empt
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by NeutronBoy 9y ago
On the otherhand, it accounts for earnings that your employer doesn't know about - e.g. interest on investments. Which is useful for people who aren't great a money management.
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Planet: Secure for Now(exple.tive.org)
1 points by NeutronBoy 9y ago|0 comments
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by NeutronBoy 9y ago
Everyone here has accounts in development databases named 'aaa', 'asd', 'asdf', 'qwer', 'hjkl', etc!
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by NeutronBoy 9y ago
Four upvotes and the page is already Slashdotted... I guess this is why people don't host their own content! (I think that's the point of the article, not having read it)
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by NeutronBoy 10y ago
> you're Frankly, if you want to have an argument over the semantics of language and the interpretation of words, you need to be on top of your writing.
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by NeutronBoy 10y ago
> What happens if you say no? They don't let you in
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by NeutronBoy 10y ago
Agreed, but it's not about the brand - it's just that in the market segment for a $35-40k mid-size sedan, there's not a whole lot of need to wait two years for a car, which is why it's so uncommon. The reason it doesn&#x
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by NeutronBoy 10y ago
> Which other car is 400,000 people waiting patiently to buy for two years, even putting down a $1,000 deposit? None, but I would hazard a guess that's because if you want to buy a BMW, a Mercedes or an Audi, you don't need to.
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by NeutronBoy 10y ago
I'm reading through the support messages that were posted. Where exactly did they say they wouldn't refund the customer? It was an assumption made by the author that since they didn't ask for the money back from the driver, t
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by NeutronBoy 10y ago
Not really, the point of verification is to verify that you are who you say you are, not to prove that you're somehow special.
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The art and science behind hand-drawn weather maps at the Bureau of Meteorology(abc.net.au)
2 points by NeutronBoy 10y ago|0 comments
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by NeutronBoy 10y ago
You also need to be a master at every piece of the puzzle, rather than being able to focus your efforts.
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by NeutronBoy 10y ago
On Android, if you install a new application that can handle links, Android will ask you the next time you click on a link how you want to handle it.
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Firefox on Windows XP: End of the Line(chuttenblog.wordpress.com)
2 points by NeutronBoy 10y ago|0 comments
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The Internet of Microphones(mjg59.dreamwidth.org)
3 points by NeutronBoy 10y ago|0 comments
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by NeutronBoy 10y ago
Nice writeup - good to see a solution proposed, rather than the same complaints about 'how TLS is broken'! That said, the key flaw that's raised at the start of the article (how do you know that amazon.de is Amazon) is not re
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by NeutronBoy 10y ago
> If you can't tell it just feels wrong to me. Just something's off about this concept. It's your representative's job to represent you . Marc has no obligation to answer your question.
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S2n Is Now Handling 100 Percent of SSL Traffic for Amazon S3(aws.amazon.com)
248 points by NeutronBoy 10y ago|23 comments
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by NeutronBoy 10y ago
It makes supporting hibernate a lot easier - your system can just dump the contents of memory to the swap partition.
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by NeutronBoy 10y ago
I understand, but their default response for "You've done something to hide information from us" isn't going to be "Oh well, we tried. On your way!"
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by NeutronBoy 10y ago
> potential patent troll I must be confused. How are they a patent troll if they actually do the the R&D part of the patent? A patent troll would buy the filed patent and just spend money enforcing it to collect cash... I am a bit b
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by NeutronBoy 10y ago
I agree. You need to be able to differentiate between 'types' of fake news. It means different things to different people. Three perspectives I can think of at the top of my head, but it's a sliding scale: 1. Flatout lies wit
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A fistful of Bitcoins: Characterizing payments among men with no names(blog.acolyer.org)
2 points by NeutronBoy 10y ago|0 comments
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by NeutronBoy 10y ago
'How selecting a tool without understanding if it was the right tool to use was the wrong decision'
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by NeutronBoy 10y ago
> I wonder how much of this particular philanthropy is just giving back money that those countries spent? I.e. Microsoft licences, or balance of trade with the donor countries? I mean, that's literally how capitalism works. You earn

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