NickHaflinger

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by NickHaflinger 11y ago
The Washington Post quoting the Voice of America. Who will save us all from these Drug crazed cyber terrorists :) I though the war was caused by a decision taken in Washington to arm the 'rebels' in order to overthrow Assad.
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by NickHaflinger 11y ago
On the front page: 3 mentions of Visual Studio, 2 mentions of Microsoft, 1 mention of ASP.NET Yes, yes, yes Microsoft are still bleeding edge with the software :)
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by NickHaflinger 11y ago
How about the conspiracy theorists funding a probe, sending it to the landing site and taking samples of the human waste product the astronauts allegedly left there. Back on earth they can do a DNA comparison with the surviving relatives. T
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by NickHaflinger 11y ago
Has any of the conspiracy theorists ever considered pointing a laser at the moon to detect the retroreflectors that were left their by Apollo 11. http://www.lpi.usra.edu/lunar/missions/apollo/apollo_11/ex
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SJW vs. John Carmack (Oculus Connect Keynote)(youtube.com)
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by NickHaflinger 11y ago
Such terrorist attacks are being cynically used as a pretext by the state security apparatus to shutdown private communication between its own citizens. If Chine spies on its own people then that's a violation of their human rights. If
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by NickHaflinger 11y ago
Sound different from the life experience of a woman I met recently who also had to withdraw from uni through overwork. That was over fifteen years ago. Unfortunately she was sectioned by her family (who all then skipped off to America). She
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by NickHaflinger 11y ago
"In trying to read the scrolls, scholars and curators have invariably damaged or destroyed them. The Herculaneum papyri survived only because all the moisture was seared out of them—uncharred papyrus scrolls in non-desert climates have
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by NickHaflinger 11y ago
I. we demand that the University of Missouri system president, Tim Wolfe, writes a handwritten apology for the Concerned Students 1–9 – 5–0 demonstrators and holds a press conference in the Mizzou Student Center reading the letter. In the l
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by NickHaflinger 11y ago
You're on a losing game trying to argue your case with the Wikipedicians. Lets see some notable characters that do past the notability test: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpongeBob_SquarePants_(charact... https:&
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by NickHaflinger 11y ago
TPP is designed to formalize the reality that corporations tell governments what to do, not the other way round. Why else would governments sign away control of their own economy to secret tribunals appointed by the self same corporations.
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by NickHaflinger 11y ago
0. Go to religious school and there learn to lie, cheat, steal and take pleasure in other peoples misfortune. .. 6. Take note of who is causing you problems at work and ensure they experience problems in the future.* * They obviously have t
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by NickHaflinger 11y ago
"These are rules for States. It has no bearing whatsoever on the GPL." TPP is designed to give commercial entities equivalent rights to nation states. That's what the 'Investor-State Dispute Settlement' provisions r
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by NickHaflinger 11y ago
I would think that everyone here agrees that 'computer' security is in a state of turmoil. Is it possible to design a computing system that fails-safe in the event of a bug in a component, instead of opening the entire system up t
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by NickHaflinger 11y ago
There are more plausible depictions of travelling through time out there than using a DeLorean travelling at 88 mph. Take Primer for instance: "Primer (2004)" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0390384/
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by NickHaflinger 11y ago
"The Future of the British bomb", John Ainslie http://www.swordofdamocles.org/pdf/future.pdf
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by NickHaflinger 11y ago
Enough all ready with this 88 mph requirement before the flux capacitor is activated. All they have to do is point the DeLorean east and the rotation of the earth will do the rest. Not to mention the earths orbital speed round the sun, the
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by NickHaflinger 11y ago
What's remarkable is that slavery was the norm since the beginning of human culture. It's even mentioned in the Holy Bible and the most Nobel Quran. What's even more remarkable is that it was only prohibited in the west as re
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by NickHaflinger 11y ago
Not only that these atheist socialists are stealing revenue from God fearing business people. http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/02/fcc-overturns-state-...
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by NickHaflinger 11y ago
"When it came to the lies, even well-rehearsed ones, the subjects tended to falter .. the liars had nothing to draw on" How do you explain this man .. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ucJN8cRDqM
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by NickHaflinger 11y ago
Is this the future of advertising, a whole 'article' dedicated to a peanut butter coated roasted corn snack, Apple, Amazon, the Jackson Five, talk about product placement. I would have really liked to read an article on the causes
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by NickHaflinger 11y ago
Why do keywords have to end in a colon. couldn't the parser use space " " to detect the end of a word, like in C ..
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by NickHaflinger 11y ago
So, a crook beat the other crooks at their own game. Where's the crime in that.
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by NickHaflinger 11y ago
Death and destruction reduced to banality and written in the style of some cheap pulp novel.
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by NickHaflinger 11y ago
How will this protect me from malicious URLs and email attachments?
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What is Grsecurity(grsecurity.net)
2 points by NickHaflinger 11y ago|0 comments
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by NickHaflinger 11y ago
Am I the only one here that see the pornification of the culture as so very very sad.
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by NickHaflinger 11y ago
'It should come as no surprise that the Internet is riddled with holes' .. It's a surprise to me and most people on here, it's the computers connected at either end that are riddled with holes. 'For all the holes di
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by NickHaflinger 11y ago
According to 'The Innovators', the early Gates negotiated a non-exclusive license for the use of his sisters catchers mitt :) http://www.amazon.com/The-Innovators-Hackers-Geniuses-Revolu...
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by NickHaflinger 11y ago
OK, sorry for the factious response. My solution for when you can't switch off is to take up keep fit. Running on grass (not concrete), swimming, weights etc. You'll be so busy, you won't have time for intrusive thoughts. And

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