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by _red 12y ago
I have both an XPS and MBAir (2012 model). I routinely boot the same linux-USB desktop distro on both. The XPS is probably a bit faster (i7), and screen DPI is better. But, MBA provides and overall better experience. The most glaring things
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by _red 12y ago
I was going to say that: More often than not in life we find our greatest strengths are enablers for our greatest weaknesses.
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by _red 12y ago
My ATT Uverse uses about 30 watts. I personally don't believe that a set top box could use 500 watts (thats more than 4A draw - probably more than most 2U rack servers loaded with CPU's and Hard Drives).
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by _red 12y ago
Fingerprints can be changed as easily as a username. Simply never use the "raw" fingerprint output of the device, instead XOR it with some key (like either something from factors 2 or 3, or simply a static key).
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by _red 12y ago
I was also put off by the video, made me pretty much disinterested in the product as well. After a bit of introspection, I think the turn off is the cheap emotional ploy that you will somehow gain a lifestyle from using their inbox filter
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by _red 12y ago
Are we running this VM inside another VM?
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by _red 12y ago
>I honestly don't think Apple are too concerned about not selling a watch to that man. The watch is targeted at the hundreds of millions of teens and 20 year olds that are already attached to their iPhone, and want another gadget to
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by _red 12y ago
>Imagine a typical scenario. You are walking down the street and suddenly need to navigate somewhere. How many minutes are you going to waste playing with that little nub and resizing things on the screen before finally pulling out your
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by _red 12y ago
How is this different than the nearly universal use of vaccines? Before you compulsively knee-jerk and claim that I think vaccines are evil and cause autism, take a breath. The most damming argument against vaccines is that the continual
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by _red 12y ago
What is the net functional difference between an "antibiotic" and "stimulating antibody production"?
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by _red 12y ago
Question. How are vaccines different than "over-use of antibiotics" that we always hear about? Are the constant use vaccines creating superbugs?
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by _red 12y ago
>Not strange at all. What exactly is the purposes of a marketing team which prevents interested users from using your products? There is no marketing to be done at that point - the market has already found you.
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by _red 12y ago
Beyond just that, is the notion of "work week" - not just the notion that we work on Mondays but not Sundays - but that there is some distinction between "work" and not. Most of these things are the result of religious r
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by _red 12y ago
No, NN won't fix the issue. Even more, most NN supporters cannot actually state what they envision such laws to even do. If you ask, they will give you handwavy answers like "provide equal access"...then they will be unable &
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by _red 12y ago
Forget the average user, can you explain in detail how you envision this to work and be administrated at a network level? So I'm a packet, leaving my computer...what happens now and what laws govern me? So for the NN supporters have be
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by _red 12y ago
I think you missed what my point was. They are all family. Most such experiments carried out in 'the west' are done with strangers. This is a non-trivial difference. Go to the Ozark mountains in Arkansas and find a small cluster o
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by _red 12y ago
The answer mostly appears in the setup: >The Machiguenga had traditionally been horticulturalists who lived in single-family, thatch-roofed houses in small hamlets composed of clusters of extended families . Their living situation is on
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by _red 12y ago
For the same reasons, I've been investigating M-Disc. Requires special writer (but sub-$100), but can be read by any DVD reader. Etches instead of dye, result is claimed 1000 year lifetime. DOD has evidently certified. http:/&#x2
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by _red 13y ago
I think Embarcadero is seriously hurting themselves with their bunker mentality. Their whole "there are only X paying customers left, therefore we need to charge $3000" stinks of someone who is preparing for failure, instead of gr
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by _red 13y ago
Basic economics already says we will never run out of oil. Sure it may be $10,000 per barrel, but it will still be available.
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by _red 13y ago
Its funny that this was just posted, because I was just at my local grocery store. This store hires handicapped people to act as baggers - so I always make sure to spend an extra moment after checkout thanking them and just generally trying
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by _red 13y ago
"Number One Issue For Democracies" As opposed to what? The inequality within aristocracies / theocracies? This is stock standard "content-free information" that seeks to motivate (usually for political/economic
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by _red 13y ago
IANAL, however my whole family is. I doubt they could do that. People are often afraid of such fine print gotcha's but would almost always would not stand up in court. Contracts are assumed to be "In good faith, and neither for no
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by _red 13y ago
Print out your blog post and go driving around in southern TX / NM. When you are stopped, show them your blog post.
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by _red 13y ago
Must each taxi driver also be named Harrison Bergeron?
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by _red 13y ago
The thing that blows my mind is how so many accept industrialized schooling methods as some sort of long-term facet of humanity. The truth is its been around for about 100 years give or take. It was instituted by the large monopolist who br
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by _red 13y ago
What if you don't want to deal with the toxic mercury gases?
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by _red 13y ago
In addition, Glacier should be thought of as "offline" storage , like a tape rotation scheme. When thought of that way, the cost for restoration is non-existent. Its not for "I may need this file next week" (thats what y
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by _red 13y ago
Some of them are pretty funny (note, this is from http://lucb1e.com/credgrep/ ) Your search has been succesfully performed. The result: Userid: 100206240 Email: jamie@whitehouse.gov Encrypted password
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by _red 13y ago
Your historical knowledge is ok. But it wasn't a monopoly. At its peak it had 90% market-share. It was never "illegal" or "impossible" to sell petroleum in competition to it -- just highly very difficult to compete

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