Nwallins

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by Nwallins 17y ago
I think by real world , he meant meatspace .
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by Nwallins 17y ago
> Be aware that this security issue only affects Atlassian customers who created an Atlassian account and purchased one of our products before June 2008. Since then, we have been using a more secure user management system based on Atla
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by Nwallins 17y ago
> if you develop a proprietary product, you are not entitled to do as you please with it Of course you are entitled to do what you please. You may make your product less useful, or even eliminate it. The point is, your customers hav
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by Nwallins 17y ago
> iPad's got very viable rivals such as WePad, ChromeOS, MobLin N.B. Moblin merged with Maemo to become MeeGo -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MeeGo
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by Nwallins 17y ago
> Until very recently in human history the Europeans brutally conquered half the world and effectively turned the "savage people" that were unlucky enough to survive the raping and the pillaging into slaves. It wasn't just the Europea
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by Nwallins 17y ago
> At 4:20 one of them says, "We had a guy shooting" even though _clearly no one is shooting_ at the time. What's up with that? It's not clear that no one is shooting , though. It's only clear that the available and very limited pers
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by Nwallins 17y ago
> He doesn't want an iPhone either. He's using Nexus One instead. Eh? > I played with my wife’s iPhone for just a few minutes before I knew I had to have an iPhone.
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by Nwallins 17y ago
> They've got a bunch of people "studying his habits and movements", figuring out where he eats and sleeps, and telling the population not to feed him because it's actually bad for him. > People, even other homeless people, are n
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by Nwallins 17y ago
From http://enso-now.com/n/info.php > Upgrades to Android 2.x will be available within 1 month to our customer on their private section for simple downloading and upgrading. Easy instructions will be provided. Funny -- from http://
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by Nwallins 17y ago
N.B. USM, as in USMC, as in United States Marine Corps.
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by Nwallins 17y ago
> But they can’t say Firefox only supports free and open video formats while still supporting Flash. Mr. Gruber should be more precise by what he means by support . Firefox's support for Flash is not like the proposed support for H.2
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by Nwallins 17y ago
> Don't be partisan. In what sense?
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by Nwallins 17y ago
All of that can be explained by attempts at viral marketing. They don't want be 'outed' as the source, not to sabotage YouTube but because the viral kids won't promote BigCo. I don't know if this will be Viacom's position, but it's one tha
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by Nwallins 17y ago
> By your logic all witnessable acts of good must be viewed with suspicion. Suspicion that they may be profitable? I think you have missed the point. The assertion in question is that Apple is losing money by hosting this tribute.
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by Nwallins 17y ago
> He's saying the laws we agreed on treat physical property and intellectual property the same Well this seems incorrect on its face. e.g. Copyright law To my knowledge, copyright does not even address physical property. Thus it doe
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by Nwallins 17y ago
> This meme needs to die ... The cognitive bias is so painfully blatant: "the guy I disagree with is a liar bullshitting idiots, or is an idiot himself"? Come on. Cognitive bias? Why restate the assertion with loaded terms? Are you s
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by Nwallins 17y ago
> Debt is only ever a problem for a country ... What about interest payments? What about the risk of having the debt called in, or the risk of using up all of one's credit?
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by Nwallins 17y ago
> whatever the truth about China. The question at hand is essentially: What is the truth about China ? I am not sure why you are bringing up US and UK finances and itching to make the comparison. Sure, making China look bad might fu
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by Nwallins 17y ago
> I have no problem trusting independent bodies with things, so long as they are well-chosen and truly independent. Right, and a well-chosen king rules better than a representative democracy. The problem is, how do we choose a king
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by Nwallins 17y ago
> The central requirement is that the currency-makers be independent of just about everyone Thus ignoring our entire system of checks and balances. Do you not see the danger, here? > This angers everyone who thinks they know bet
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by Nwallins 17y ago
> Isn't that assumption always taken by default when considering nearly all market actions? Yes, and bankers are generally motivated by self-interest when undertaking market actions. However, we are not talking about a market action.
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by Nwallins 17y ago
I don't see where randomness comes into his explanation. Rather, I see his explanation for technological success as hinging on massive societies which specialize, which is in turn based on highly developed domestic agriculture, which is in
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by Nwallins 17y ago
> Compare the impact the US system of government has had with the impact the Icelandic form cited in this article had. The indigenous populations of North America and Australia have been around for thousands of years as well, with thei
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by Nwallins 17y ago
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ophcrack > Starting with version 2.3, Ophcrack also cracks NTLM hashes. This is necessary if the generation of the LM hash is disabled (this is default for Windows Vista), or if the password is longe
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by Nwallins 17y ago
> Libertarians, on the other hand, don't know or understand the philosophy from which many of their political conclusions were copied What is the basis for this assertion? > and are thus susceptible to reverting to political conc
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by Nwallins 17y ago
Actually, the article says that Ophcrack does deliver the original password: > The computer will restart and Ophcrack will be loaded. Sit back and watch as it does all the work for your. Write down the password it gives you, remove the
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by Nwallins 17y ago
Actually, it looks like the blog is having problems. The direct link seems to load fine.
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by Nwallins 17y ago
Somehow the link to the (awesome!) patent troll patent got hosed up -- http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Se...
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by Nwallins 17y ago
> subtract the average temperature from the observed temperature for the same month ... If it's getting hotter the anomalies will get bigger. Based on the above, it should be noted that anomalies are signed, and an anomaly of +5 is bi
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by Nwallins 17y ago
Shoot, even I can do that -- easy!

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