VonGuard

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by VonGuard 11y ago
Just got back from Paris in June, and Gar du Nord is definitely rife with pickpocketers, but they are actually really easy to spot if you know what to look for. They were casing my wife and I every time we went there for a train. Right now,
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by VonGuard 11y ago
Sqrrl built the tech the NSA uses to sift through phone calls and such. They're now selling this tech for big data applications.
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by VonGuard 11y ago
Their consultations with the NSA, for a start? If you dislike Palantir, though, you should also dislike Sqrrl.
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by VonGuard 11y ago
I totally agree that Reddit is an old boys club. But this is how all online communities seem to work: age = power and respect. How would you solve this problem? It's been like that since newsgroups. It seems to be just a human tendency
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Call for Speakers at Big Data Technology Conference, Chicago(bigdatatechcon.com)
1 points by VonGuard 11y ago|0 comments
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by VonGuard 11y ago
Absolutely! As is perspective. Time just translates to a whole series of indexes for which planes of existence, in which dimensions are aligning into the measuring perspective. It's the pointer for some such reflection, and angle to se
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by VonGuard 11y ago
Reality is just a giant whirling layer of infinite View Master-like multidimensional slides, overlaid one upon the other. Every slide locks into place to be seen as we are looking in whichever direction, at whatever time. I'd wager tim
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The Fight to Preserve Dead Videogames(gamespot.com)
6 points by VonGuard 11y ago|1 comments
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by VonGuard 11y ago
Wow, Star Trek life signs sensors!
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by VonGuard 11y ago
Probably part of a larger security initiative with money to pay for studies. I'd wager there's a Congressional committee tasked with writing policy to secure critical infrastructure like power plants and such. After 9/11, you
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by VonGuard 11y ago
The actual reboot takes something around a minute, and the plane is designed to keep flying while rebooting. It's during take off or landing that this would be a real problem. Think Starship Enterprise. You can't turn off the whol
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by VonGuard 11y ago
Yeah, and as I recall, it took something like 5 years to find this bug because no one had kept a machine up that long.
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by VonGuard 12y ago
That explains it! I really do like the presentation and the whole site. I just couldn't resist the comic book guy opportunity.
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by VonGuard 12y ago
Yeah, I searched for "Nimrod" and got nothing but a few other characters who reference encounters with him. He's in Marvel Universe, so clearly they're just picking and choosing who gets in here. This database is sorely
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by VonGuard 12y ago
I predict about 10 minutes before my asshole friends have ordered me 100 boxes of Tide by pushing this button about 100 times as a gag.
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by VonGuard 12y ago
Australia is officially the only place in the world where the laws and technological restrictions make me never want to go there. Bandwidth is capped, porn is filtered, videogames cost a ridiculous amount. I know the country was founded by
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by VonGuard 12y ago
I've just written a piece to back yours up. I'm media, but I'm tech media, so I have a buncha stories in my piece about how tough Apple is to deal with. I've been trying for years to write about CUPS, but Apple owns the
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When good software developers go bad(sdtimes.com)
2 points by VonGuard 12y ago|0 comments
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by VonGuard 12y ago
Yeah, Crichton can be fun as long as you take him as pulp, not as some genius expert on the topics he writes about.
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by VonGuard 12y ago
Damn, just as I was writing my comment. Clearly, this is the guy Crichton based http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eaters_of_the_Dead on.
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by VonGuard 12y ago
Not a big Crichton fan (most of his books spend the first half explaining how smart everyone is, and the second half is always those smart people making terribly stupid decisions) BUT, Crichton did write Eaters of the Dead, a book that is a
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by VonGuard 12y ago
Worked for Apple.
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by VonGuard 12y ago
Just for the record, the Atari 2600 also had a chess game with AI. It also had only 1024 bits of RAM, but it had access to all of it because there was no OS or underlying hardware support, like in the Speccy. So while this is definitely ama
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by VonGuard 12y ago
Yup: http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/ 5 undisclosed Xen vulns. Wheeeeee!
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by VonGuard 12y ago
OOoooooK, the 30's and 40's saw what spawned the Film Noir movement: a climate of fear and paranoia, somewhat related to fears of Japanese invasion during WWII, but mostly came from movies like Dark Passage, and the fact that two
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by VonGuard 12y ago
I was here the first time. I'm here now. This is so totally different than 1999. In 1999, the boom included a lot of counter-culture people. Hackerspaces were still hidden underground things, and the technology was so new, a lot of pie
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by VonGuard 12y ago
This is brilliant, I wish it'd get more upvotes and attention. Wireless waves are such nebulous, hard to understand things. It's great to see a visual representation!
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by VonGuard 12y ago
I believe Age of Empires 2 was rebooted on Steam because someone discovered there were about 3,000 games daily played on GameRanger, every day, for 5 years.
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by VonGuard 12y ago
I actually wrote one of the comments included in this piece, and I'd like to encourage all of you to donate to the EFF so they can continue to work on important issues like this. They do not pay their lawyers extravagantly, and most of
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by VonGuard 12y ago
Yeah, not everyone has access to Fry's or Weird Stuff, sadly.

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