SagelyGuru

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   by SagelyGuru 15y ago

   People will naturally want to drop these noise words for new registrations. I contend, on the contrary, that 'readable' is more readable/typeable than 'readable.com'
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   by SagelyGuru 15y ago

   See the first paragraph of The Implementation section and the example of the proposed conversion. foobar.com -> foobarcom foobar.net -> foobarnet foobar.org -> foobarorg foobar goes to whoever registers it first
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   Motion to Abolish Domain Base Names

   5 points by SagelyGuru 15y ago|11 comments
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   by SagelyGuru 15y ago

   Non-geographical base domain names (.com .org .xxx .net .info etc) should be all scrapped because: 1) They are not fulfilling clear enough purpose, not being distinctive enough. Most websites provide some information (.info), allow some com
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   by SagelyGuru 15y ago

   I used to do admissions interviews for computer science at a UK university. Some applicants liked to boast about their A grades in ICT. My usual response to this was: "err, ok, I won't hold it against you".
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   by SagelyGuru 15y ago

   This looks like 'snake oil'. What exactly is the purpose of using the brainfuck code instead of the message itself? Surely, if steganography fulfilled its purpose and the message was not discovered, then the simplest/most compact form of th
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   by SagelyGuru 15y ago

   This patent, and many other similar 'Intellectual Property Rights' are no doubt carefully entered on some accounts as real assets and then 'financialised', i.e. leveraged by a huge factor, borrowed against, turned into some kind of bonds an
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   by SagelyGuru 15y ago

   Invisible font in Opera - amazing indeed ;)
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   by SagelyGuru 15y ago

   Having colour tables in image files is a bad idea for these reasons: 1) For small images, the table is bigger than the raw image itself, as this article amply demonstrated. 2) For poor quality images, colour quantisation does not save anyth
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    by SagelyGuru 15y ago

    Journalism is a smart choice of a perfect job. Nowadays you don't even have to investigate and think.
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    by SagelyGuru 15y ago

    Please don't let the Indian government anywhere near the Internet. On my one visit to India I saw at first hand the infinite gulf that exists between the great, charming and interesting people of India and their idiotic government officials
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    by SagelyGuru 15y ago

    Just another pre-planned step towards the New World Order, One Global Fascist Government, no dissent, no freedom. Maybe they mixed up their CIRP acronym a little, it should have been called a CRAP proposal.
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    by SagelyGuru 15y ago

    Beautiful object! However, it must be by several seconds out by now. There were several 'leap seconds' introduced since 1970.
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    by SagelyGuru 15y ago

    It is too little too late
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    by SagelyGuru 15y ago

    Well said! The same situation exists in all subjects and the presented arguments can be extended to all of them. Perhaps lives are not always lost but time and money are, for sure. When a large chunk of research money has to be used up buyi
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    by SagelyGuru 15y ago

    This is great news, well done! The existence of FreeBSD and other 'alternative' o/s and software in general is more valuable than it may appear at first sight. I would draw an analogy between variety of software and variety of a genetic poo
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    by SagelyGuru 15y ago

    The idea of heavier than air but lighter than deadweight seems to be a worthy compromise to explore but of course, if the engines fail or it runs out of sunshine/fuel, it will not be able to stay up very long, just like any other heavier-th
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    by SagelyGuru 15y ago

    I always thought this a great idea worth pursuing, especially if you are 'sailing' down the prevailing winds/jetstream, i.e. from North America to Europe it is practically a free ride. It can be a lot more problematic 'beating upwind' the o