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by adestefan 12y ago
I just heard on NPR that Amazon only has 40% of the ebook market. That's a far cry from any monopoly position.
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by adestefan 12y ago
That's a huge leap to make. Is everyone that doesn't agree with you corrupt. Am I corrupt?
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by adestefan 12y ago
Wow it did actually go up in flames. I thought that was just going to be hyperbole in the title, but I was incorrect.
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by adestefan 12y ago
Cromemco and the Dazzler was the pieces of hardware that were the basis for most of the local news weather graphics that were seen on TV in the 80s.
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by adestefan 12y ago
X.org 1.16 running with systemd and most drivers allow non-root execution in Linux now, too. This is the default on Arch Linux unless the driver dies not support it.
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by adestefan 12y ago
Anyone interested in this might want to look into the N8VEM Project [0]. It started out as a single board Z80 system, but people have now designed expansion cards. Other people have also added other SBCs with 6x0x, 68k, and 808x CPUs [0] h
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by adestefan 12y ago
They're also very common in linear RF amplifies.
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by adestefan 12y ago
The worst leakage is when the winter storm names start showing up in the winter.
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by adestefan 12y ago
The Weather Channel purchased Weather Underground in 2012. WU doesn't push the sensational stories on their weather pages, but their "News" section is just as much of a joke now.
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by adestefan 12y ago
/etc/systemd/journald.conf ForwardToSyslog=True or systemd.journald.forward_to_syslog=True on the kernel command line. Is it just cool to not read documentation anymore?
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by adestefan 12y ago
iOS 8 somewhat mitigates this through using random MAC addresses when scanning
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by adestefan 12y ago
There are lessons in leadership in many military texts.
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It's a map, not a graph so there is no y-axis. The colored area represents the size of the army with the gold area being March to Moscow and the black being the retreat. There were two small groups that split from the main thrust. The
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by adestefan 12y ago
CP/M abstracted IO operations and allowed you to write applications that where machine agnostic. This was a big deal at the time since there were a large number of BASICs that were incompatible for doing low-level operations. As an exa
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by adestefan 12y ago
The signature can be a perfect match and still harm your system. Do you reverse engineer every binary that you run?
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by adestefan 12y ago
Because it is GNOME with just a replaced shell.
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After someone dies these are no longer protected.
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by adestefan 12y ago
Then private communication shouldn't be a thing. In that case we should just allow all wiretapping and ban encryption
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by adestefan 12y ago
I find that git add -p is a crutch and everytime I need to use it I scold myself for not committing more often.
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by adestefan 12y ago
A classic take on the situation can be found at http://www.npr.org/2011/03/30/134960461/its-time-for-basebal...
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by adestefan 12y ago
> A closed-source integration service is not an open platform. I believe that Github is exactly what the OP is complaining about.
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by adestefan 12y ago
While it was a little bloody (mainly through assassinations), there was a sizable faction within Austria that hailed the unification of Germany and Austria. The Reich was cheered by thousands on their celebratory tour through the country in
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by adestefan 12y ago
No one really won the War of 1812. Instead everyone just got sick of fighting (the Americans got sick of spending money they didn't have and the British needed to worry more about Napoleon) and said let's act like nothing happened
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by adestefan 12y ago
It has been almost 200 years since you won the War of 1812. Maybe this the first salvo in Tim's conquering the US market.
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by adestefan 12y ago
There was never anything wrong with the idea of UAC; the problem was the implementation. When the feature was first introduced so many Windows programs did things that caused UAC pop-ups that it because nothing more than an annoying click-t
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It is.
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by adestefan 12y ago
I once had to do jury duty for the Federal Court of Maryland. In that case you are slated to call in for a day or two every week for a month. At the time they were starting to select a jury for a public corruption trial that was estimated t
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by adestefan 12y ago
If the taxi industry hired the same guy, then HN would be up in arms about how the industry is dying and that lobbying is destroying the world. The hypocrisy is astounding.
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by adestefan 12y ago
I do the same, but only when I write mathematics. I have different i, j, k, l, q, t, x, and y. However, I always serif my 1's, and slash 7 and 0.
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by adestefan 12y ago
The problem is that it makes sense in the densest areas of the country, but because it's so dense it then ends up being the most expensive areas of the country to implement.

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