afturkrull

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by afturkrull 5y ago
On that website, why don't the text word wrap when I zoom in?
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by afturkrull 5y ago
> I wonder if anyone has anything from the early 80s. So much lost stuff. Do people really want their ancient ramblings preserved indefinitely?
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by afturkrull 5y ago
You make some very interesting points. I don't know why it was modded into invisibility. Speaking for myself, the prostitutes, sorry that should be ‘sex workers’, don't benefit from the job. Who does are the pimps who control the
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by afturkrull 5y ago
I found it interesting. Instead of down-voting a comment the down-voters should post a refutal. That would add to the conversation. I'm always prepared to change my mind. Instead of getting down-voted into oblivion.
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by afturkrull 5y ago
Where did your comment go ? https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=26843586&goto=item%3Fi...
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by afturkrull 5y ago
> Was there a private individual a few years ago who was doing a similar thing? Cleaning up backdoored servers? Do you mean Max Butler, who was given jail-time after deciding to not be an undercover FBI informant FBI anymore? https:&#x2
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by afturkrull 5y ago
"The FBI obtained court approval to access vulnerable computers across the United States." So, have you got it yet. In the interests of state security, security on your computer has been so diluted that anyone and his dog can get
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by afturkrull 5y ago
> I believe some of those are probably true .. That's actually the most accurate description of the international narc-terrorism business I have ever seen in print. Very well put bumbada ..
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by afturkrull 5y ago
Technically speaking, it isn't a worm as it requires the enduser to install.
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by afturkrull 6y ago
I have used Linux exclusively at home for years. Recently, I was very impressed with antiX Linux. Runs like the blazes on minimal hardware and highly configurable. For those used to a more busy desktop there's Ubuntu Mate or Lubuntu. A
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by afturkrull 6y ago
> they had to rename a gene to stop excel auto-completing it into a date. No one in their right mind uses a spreadsheet for data analysis. Good for working out your ideas but not in a production environment. I figure excel was chosen as
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by afturkrull 6y ago
“ .. the fundamental ontology of the world consists of a vector in Hilbert space evolving according to the Schrödinger equation. The laws of physics are determined solely by the energy eigenspectrum of the Hamiltonian. The structure of our
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by afturkrull 6y ago
Old news, ISPs have been using Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) for ages. Purely in the interests of "prioritise latency" for video or voice that "don't tolerate dropped packets" ;]
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by afturkrull 6y ago
"The wake up call of the Max was something that told them that all was not right." What exactly was the nature of this ""The wake up call"?
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by afturkrull 6y ago
"Neuroscientists are trying to work out why the brain does so much when it seems to be doing nothing at all." Because it's busy maintain a 3D model of it's surrounding environment. When the brain is deprived of such stim