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by alricb 10y ago
At that time, the current territories of Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg were part of the Spanish Netherlands. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Netherlands )
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by alricb 10y ago
This is a bit anachronistic, since Canada in 1752 was still part of France, depending on how you see it (Acadia had been in British hands since 1710). I also wonder what political entities are counted for Germany.
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by alricb 10y ago
Courriel is definitely from Quebec; it was only adopted officially in France in 2003, while it had been in use in Canada since the late 90s.
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by alricb 10y ago
More the latter, although a French person hearing "double entendre" might understand that it means "double sens"; it's just not an expression that is used.
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by alricb 10y ago
> risqué meaning ‘risked’ (a verb, not an adjective) No. "risqué" is also an adjective denoting that something involves risks (like "risky" in English) or that a statement is licentious, shocking (like "risqué&qu
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by alricb 10y ago
The patents may be invalid; Mangrove Partners filed a petition with the Patent Office to have them declared invalid, and the Patent and Trial Appeals Board agreed. But VirnetX has appealed the declaration to the Federal Circuit, which cou
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by alricb 10y ago
It should be noted that the patents in that case have already been invalidated by the Patent Office: "The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office conducted parallel reviews of the four patents and on Sept. 9 said none covered new inventions.&
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by alricb 10y ago
From a purely functional perspective, complex roof lines and the multiplication of volumes suck for durability and energy use. The more complex the roof, the more vulnerable areas it contains. The more edges and transitions you have, the ha
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by alricb 10y ago
Very American-centric (but then this is by someone who helped found the "New America Foundation"); for instance outside the US Academia is mostly supported by governments, not gifts. Intellectuals all over can still have their hea
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by alricb 10y ago
Indeed, it's a mistake, but the solution isn't military, it's political; to ensure its safety, the US must promote disarmament on a global scale, with Russia and China, but including itself.
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by alricb 10y ago
As of December 2015 there were 217 flag officers in the Navy [1], meaning 1-star (rear-admiral, lower half, O-7, eq. to a brigadier general) to 4-star (admiral, O-10). You have 162 places for Navy flag officers, but you also have 61 spots f
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by alricb 10y ago
It depends on whether the cameras are just for show (like most CCTV cameras) or whether the authorities actually care. In the Rialto experiment, the police chief was running the experiment as he was doing his master's degree with a pre
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by alricb 10y ago
The royal family is really lacking in the pedigree department. They've married into the right families now, but originally the Sauds were a bunch of hicks. They allied themselves with religious outsiders on the understanding that the p
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by alricb 11y ago
It's pretty low level: you can specify the layout of a record in detail, for instance: http://www.ada-auth.org/standards/12rm/html/RM-13-5-1.html It also has support for hardware interrupts and real time
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by alricb 11y ago
Dude, we're talking about Chicago here, the town were Jon Burge operated for over 15 years.
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by alricb 11y ago
"At a hacker space, when you walk in, you've got to assume people are trying to crack (your computer). They can't help it," he said. Poor little hackers, they have no self-control. Also, isn't it standard practice
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by alricb 11y ago
"On-Line" might mean on a Bulletin Board System, some of which did do pornography.
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by alricb 11y ago
If you look closely at the pictures, you can see that Ali and Harrison are actually holding 45 rpm records (large center hole) and not 16 2/3 rpm records (small center hole, like a 33 1/3 rpm record). The Highway Hi-Fi was discont
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by alricb 11y ago
Do you suggest they should use raw system calls? On most systems your options are either calling standard C functions or doing raw calls (not portable). Someone did start a C stdlib implementation in Rust, but it appears to be inactive: ht
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by alricb 11y ago
Background: http://www.ipjustice.org/internet-governance/ip-justice-jour...
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by alricb 11y ago
PDFBox can read and render (to an image) pdfs in addition to generating them. I don't know how feature-complete it is.
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by alricb 11y ago
Their "Migration Guide" [1] contains a list of improvements. They should probably add a date to their pages, but reading their mailing list the release is at most a few days old. [1]: http://pdfbox.apache.org/2.0&#
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by alricb 11y ago
In many cases you just have to parse stuff (using a recognizer). If you want to verify that your parser is, in fact, parsing the right way, then you have to look at it formally.
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by alricb 11y ago
You still need to think of what's inside the module and how it behaves. It's nice that a contract allows you to, say, kill an attempt at denial of service that messes with the parser, but it's better to make your parser resis
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by alricb 11y ago
I'm not British, so it's hard to judge, but I'm not entirely certain the interpretation he gives of the events cited are completely accurate. This is a man who supported the Iraq invasion and accused protesters of harming the
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by alricb 11y ago
In a sense, langsec is complementary to verification, as it pertains more to specification than to implementation. Partly it's about using the least powerful level of the Chomsky hierarchy you can get away with, but, if you need to go
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by alricb 11y ago
Gold isn't useless, it's great for decoration, jewelry and small sculptures. For instance, because it's so malleable, you can easily turn it into a sheet and apply it to a sculpture, as the Greeks did. We don't usually t
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by alricb 11y ago
Localizing Logo has a long and storied history. Papert founded LCSI in Montreal, and LogoWriter, their implementation, was localized in French (keywords and all, but there are very few keywords) and used in Quebec schools. It was also local
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by alricb 11y ago
That never actually happened; it's a legend that was already found in songs from the 1100s. The 1361 or 71 date is from an invented marginal comment in an edition of Montaigne's works: http://gatinais.histoire.pagespers
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by alricb 11y ago
Oh, the nostalgia. Does anyone know if there's something similar for Amiga (for ascii art)

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