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In comments on a Youtube video (which I cannot now find) the flat earthers didn't know the difference between GPS and radar, and thought that the limited range of oceanic radar for air traffic control somehow proved that GPS satellites
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Or the other variant, "Never wrestle with a pig. You both get covered in muck, but the pig likes it." https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/07/08/pig/
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How does the meaning of "jawn" differ from "thing"?
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Voltaire: " in this country, it is good to kill an admiral from time to time, in order to encourage the others ". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Byng#Honorific_eponyms
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It depends on whether someone wants to make something of it. The costs taken into account by the CFAA include the costs of investigating the incident and repairing any damage, and courts in the past have tended to accept pretty much any ass
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> I doubt there's a judge who would give more than community service for a stunt like this. Trouble is, the judge doesn't get to decide. Judges have to follow the federal sentencing guidelines. These can produce some bizzare
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It is if you intentionally structure your communications to evade their accounting.
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The output buffer on the Internet side of the router is information in the computer. It was modified without authorization when packets were sent through it.
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He was accessing the router by sending packets through it. Authorisation to do this was only granted in return for payment, and he hadn't paid.
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In the USA this would be a violation of the CFAA https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1030 . Specifically, the router is a "protected computer" and the procedure described here is "exceedi
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I have an old book by Magnus Pyke called "Butter Side Up" which has a chapter on this. The bit about Streptomyces wasn't known then though. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnus_Pyke https://
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That would totally fit in to Burning Man.
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I remember watching the twin towers collapse on 9/11, and the part of me that wasn't thinking "Oh God!" was thinking "Wow, that looks just like a special effect".
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I think this goes beyond a few random conversations. Chomsky's comment implies a command structure.
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I remember using Multics Emacs at Cardiff in the early 80s. It was really noticeable how much more responsive it became when nobody else was using the system.
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The reference to log and trig tables is significant. At the time these tables were compiled by hand, and accurate tables were considered as necessary as accurate charts. Babbage's work on the Differential Engine was initially prompted
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I just tried that 8 Values thing. Interesting, but it depended too much on existing buzzwords and quotes, and contained a number of false dichotomies. E.g. "From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs". If
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The Chomsky quote is something you hear from the Left from time to time: a political theory which implies some kind of deliberate coordination between capitalists as a class. Is there a Protocols of the Elders of Capitalism which includes t
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Elon Musk's goal is to persuade you to give as much money as possible to him while paying as little as possible in taxes. If your goals are aligned then I expect you to be writing a cheque to him now. Thought not. On your second paragr
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See also "Moneyland" https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/sep/07/moneyland-oliv... Its about the ways in which the top 0.01% hide their money in networks of shell companies, tax havens etc, a
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I'm more optimistic. WWII was the last attempt to capture the wealth of developed nations by invading them. These days such a strategy is a complete non-starter because no developed nation can withstand an invasion. Think of it like th
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I have this little fantasy where the car makers start selling a "big engine" noise as an optional extra to replace the default sewing machine noise, and then someone hacks it and cars start sounding like this https://ww
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If you ever find yourself arguing with an anti-vaxer, point them at this page. One personal story beats a thousand medical statistics.
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"Core competencies" is a widely misunderstood term. Lots of people equate it to "business model", as in "we sell widgets so therefore selling widgets is our core competence". A thing is a core competence if, an
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I'm not clear whether the SLOC counts are for the application itself or including their test harnesses. It would be good to have a table of results with this data.
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The trouble with depending on user flags is that it creates opportunities for blackmail. https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/11/18220032/youtube-copystri...
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Here in the UK there was a period when the Union Jack was hijacked by the far right (notably the British National Party and the National Front). They made prominent use of the flag in everything they did, so people avoided displaying it in
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Rather puts me in mind of the deliberate poisoning of alcohol by the government during Prohibition. The attitude was that if someone died from drinking poisoned hooch, well it was their fault for drinking it. https://www.snopes.c
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For the non-Haskell readers, I should point out that this is just an old joke in the Haskell community. If you want it explained, see here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3870088/a-monad-is-just-...
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The "Monad" typeclass in Haskell is a unification of a bunch of things that are treated separately in other programming languages. By "unification" I mean the same kind of thing that physicists mean when they say that Ma

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