VirtualAirwaves

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by VirtualAirwaves 6y ago
What a great find! I guess back then, they didn't think too much about the "rights" for a fragment of code lifted from a magazine. I don't think movie studios would do this today.
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by VirtualAirwaves 8y ago
Grape/wine vinegar (usually) isn't Kosher either.
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by VirtualAirwaves 8y ago
C'mon. If it's part of a Linux distribution it's part of "Linux".
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by VirtualAirwaves 9y ago
Windows handles this nicely with User Account Control (UAC) and Secure Desktop mode. Many of OSX's problems come from trying to shoehorn security on top of operating system concepts that were developed in 1969.
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Tyler Cowan asks: “What it would take to change my mind on net neutrality?”(marginalrevolution.com)
3 points by VirtualAirwaves 9y ago|0 comments
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The Strange Case of Former Hostage Joshua Boyle's Wikipedia History(wikipediocracy.com)
4 points by VirtualAirwaves 9y ago|0 comments
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Element 14 / DigiKey Holding Orders Based on US Government Watch List(eevblog.com)
8 points by VirtualAirwaves 9y ago|0 comments
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The Self-Styled Martyr of Silicon Valley: The Odd Tale of Ellen Pao(commentarymagazine.com)
3 points by VirtualAirwaves 9y ago|0 comments
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Why Liberals Are Turning Against the Internet(quillette.com)
6 points by VirtualAirwaves 9y ago|0 comments
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I Am Pressing the Space Bar and Nothing Is Happening(youtube.com)
10 points by VirtualAirwaves 9y ago|1 comments
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CDC: Cancers Associated with Obesity Make Up 40% of Cancers Diagnosed in US(cdc.gov)
4 points by VirtualAirwaves 9y ago|0 comments
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How to Lay a Mine Field: Setting Anti-Personnel Mines-1943 US Army Training Film(youtube.com)
3 points by VirtualAirwaves 9y ago|0 comments
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by VirtualAirwaves 9y ago
We've been running Erlang directly on Xen with "no os" for a while. Works great and very efficient.
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by VirtualAirwaves 9y ago
And there's no "shyness" of overweight people telling healthy-weight people they're "skinny". I hear it every day, and my weight is dead-smack-in-the-middle of the "healthy" range for my height.
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by VirtualAirwaves 9y ago
In the United States, Obesity is one of the leading causes of death, with estimates as high as 300,000 deaths/year. (See https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/adult.html ) Deaths from Anorexia are about 150/y
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Amazon Echo Spot(amazon.com)
54 points by VirtualAirwaves 9y ago|54 comments
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by VirtualAirwaves 9y ago
Try getting your money back if it's stolen. (And try convincing the bank you didn't give someone your PIN!) With a credit card, it's the banks money.
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by VirtualAirwaves 9y ago
This is one issue our President should take some executive action on, if at all possible. At the very least, people should not be charged for credit freezes for the next few years, and existing laws should be reviewed. Taking action against
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by VirtualAirwaves 9y ago
I miss the old early 80s Times Square! Nice and seedy. (I was born in Brooklyn in 1962)
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High Sierra Filesystem(en.wikipedia.org)
5 points by VirtualAirwaves 9y ago|0 comments
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by VirtualAirwaves 9y ago
This is a great video, and accurately sums up MongoDB and NoSQL. I can't imagine why they need to raise money, why they spend so much money as it is, and why they think there's a big growth business in NoSQL.
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by VirtualAirwaves 9y ago
I wonder if a technique like this will work for unshredding documents.
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by VirtualAirwaves 9y ago
I've never seen Chip+Pin on a Credit Card in the United States outside of Target Stores that uses it on their own store card. Everywhere else is Chip+Signature. Are you thinking of Debit Cards? (I won't use these. I got my bank, B
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by VirtualAirwaves 9y ago
Don't we need more men in primary and secondary school teaching? I would think so.
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by VirtualAirwaves 9y ago
I fast at least 6 days/year for religious reasons. 3 are 12 hour fasts, and 3 are 25 hour fasts. It really does feel good, and I don't think it's harmful. I'm very consciousness about my weight in general, and this is ac