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by afreak 13y ago
I don't have the numbers for Google, but companies like Microsoft host e-mail archives regardless of deletion for something like a year. AOL claims that it hosts it indefinitely, but it would be nice to know what Google does. I wrote o
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by afreak 13y ago
> So yeah. I wiped all his emails from all his accounts and he hasn't bothered us since. Pro tip: If you are going to steal peoples money at least use a different password for all your accounts. Pro-tip: you did a great job wiping a
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by afreak 13y ago
When Florida got area code 321, Robert Osband managed to use a similar technique to get +1 321 LIFT-OFF. http://viaozz.com/cingularracing.com/story.html
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by afreak 13y ago
By your logic, we should have not banned CFCs in household goods but instead made them more expensive. The reason for why we want to have energy efficiencies is simply because we only have to produce so much more electricity to power everyt
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by afreak 13y ago
Have to wonder if this is one of those situations where Microsoft wants to buy it to figure out later what to do with it.
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by afreak 13y ago
That is a bit hyperbolic. My father has had his transmission destroyed in a two year old car because of a bolt flying off of the road. Debris on the road is bad regardless of what fuels your vehicle.
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by afreak 13y ago
While you should not take my word for it, I am friends with the owner of that site and it is perfectly safe to put your address into there. The author and I were sharing data.
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Check to see if you're in the Adobe user data leak(adobe.cynic.al)
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by afreak 13y ago
The Bitcoiniac's rep (and keep in mind this is a small company) told me specifically that it can take up to an hour for it to be processed and it has to be done by person. Where did you get that it was automatic and would take 5-10 min
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Using the world's first Bitcoin ATM(afreak.ca)
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by afreak 13y ago
It seems to choke on this mess of a regex: http://www.ex-parrot.com/pdw/Mail-RFC822-Address.html
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by afreak 13y ago
Chances are that if someone is two point releases behind for their Mac OS X install then likely they're not a potential customer if what you're doing fills a niche.
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by afreak 13y ago
Most Canadians are aware of how Bombardier gets a large amounts of subsidiaries. Subsidisation is a large part of the Canadian economy so if you were to ask any alert person here if Bombardier was getting subsidised, it would range from &qu
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by afreak 13y ago
Speaking as a Canadian, I personally would rather funnel money into projects that keep Canadians employed. There is a rather difficult problem with competing against other larger nations in the west (especially our friendly neighbour) who t
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by afreak 13y ago
You also should be using HTTPS for these sort of situations. Not that what you are suggesting is good in the first place.
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by afreak 13y ago
This Dilbert comic is 100% apt today: http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2010-10-14/
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by afreak 13y ago
This could be answered as yes and also no. Since 1985, Vancouver has had a 100% automated metro system ("SkyTrain") which has expanded to three lines (soon 4) and about 65 KM in track (soon to be closer to 80). Almost any metro sy
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by afreak 13y ago
Slight correction needed to the article: Mexico left the NANP in the late 90s and has adopted its own country code and dialing plan. It hasn't changed much since but you do need to use 011 and whatever code it is now to dial there.
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by afreak 13y ago
The way that a slinky moves also demonstrates the question that some ask about the giant stick and the speed of light. To explain, if you had a button a light year away and had the option to press it via a remote hand, the fastest we could
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by afreak 13y ago
Those who are truly paranoid should treat the e-mail as gone forever even if it is accessible for them; better safe than sorry.
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by afreak 13y ago
Surprised to see that FxOS doesn't have a remote display option like Android does. There is something like this for Android that I believe just uses the same hooks that components in the SDK do: http://mymobiler.com/ W
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by afreak 13y ago
SA moderation is only successful because it costs you at least $10 USD to restore a banned account.
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by afreak 13y ago
That is exactly it. We're all here to discuss the same thing and as a result you begin to see traits of an echo chamber within the comments. It's unavoidable really. What I think HN's biggest problem is story repetition, whic
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by afreak 13y ago
If this were truly the case, it would have been long ago since we had Quake and Unreal on the platform already. Linux gaming is only going to succeed if Steam does.
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by afreak 13y ago
It boils down to this: the United States needs to have a sphere of influence (good or bad) within Africa to compete with China, which is pumping billions into various African countries' infrastructure. The strategy as given in the arti
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by afreak 13y ago
By that logic there should be no property taxes and eminent domain should too be tossed out the window. While taxes suck, property should not be exempt from it otherwise we'll have much further unfair taxation system.
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by afreak 13y ago
> Of the 70% of the population who can speak Mandarin, many do not do it well enough, a ministry spokeswoman told Xinhua news agency on Thursday. Keep in mind that there are many dialects of Mandarin and what this ministry is referring t
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by afreak 13y ago
If humans were truly in danger from eating 'contaminated' fish, then we would have all died when we started to introduce coal smoke into our atmosphere (contains Caesium 137 and most plants emit more radiation per year than a nucl
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by afreak 13y ago
Innocent mistake? Probably going to be fine. Not filing because you're clueless? Different story.
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by afreak 13y ago
There are two organisations that I fear: - Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) - Department of Fisheries and Oceans (long story) I do not fear CSIS, the RCMP, or the CSE oddly. The CRA (like the IRS) will make your life a living hell if you do not

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