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by ama729 13y ago
It would be true if they charged a percent of the money deposited for every dollar, it's not the case here.
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by ama729 13y ago
IMO "ps aux | grep" is better than pgrep, it's nicely formated and allow option like "--color", which allow to quickly find the option/process you were looking for.
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by ama729 13y ago
It's even in the official Debian/Ubuntu repositories for ages, so I'm not that much worried.
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by ama729 13y ago
An alternative would be to use KeePass, works very well on linux. It's one file, and that's it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KeePass
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by ama729 13y ago
The only difference between alcohol and "drugs" is that alcohol is legal. It's one of the most addicting drugs you can find[1]. Withdrawing alcohol improperly can also lead to permanent brain damage and death[2]. [1] https:&
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by ama729 13y ago
That's something I don't understand, how can homeopathic remedies even be sold? The manufacturer can't prove the health benefits they claim and the product don't contain the element on the bottle. It's just complete
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Oculus Rift will "eventually" be redesigned with Facebook branding(gamespot.com)
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by ama729 13y ago
> First Oculus gave out the perks they promised to deliver, haven't they? That's the whole deal with backers. You back a project and you should receive the promised perk in return. You don't back a project just to get the
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by ama729 13y ago
From Notch: "And I did not chip in ten grand to seed a first investment round to build value for a Facebook acquisition." http://notch.net/2014/03/virtual-reality-is-going-to-change-...
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by ama729 13y ago
That acquisition just doesn't make any sense, even when reading facebook's reasons: - Who are going to use the Oculus outside of gamers? Just selling a smartwatch is already a tough sell for anyone but technologists, I just can&#x
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by ama729 13y ago
Except an argument can be made that this referendum mean nothing, the turnout was 53%, only 53% voted against it and 40% of those 53% didn't even know what they were voting on[1]. And things even changed between referendum[2], so yeah,
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by ama729 13y ago
> European Constitution (2005) France - 54.9% against (29 May 2005) > Netherlands - 61.5% against (1 June 2005). No one else in Europe was > offered a choice. That's because not all countries have a referendum cult
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by ama729 13y ago
"Ooops forgot murder!" (or if you are more cynical, "lobbying regulation")
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by ama729 13y ago
> which would have had a nearly non-existent impact on normal use Then don't you think it would have been a bit useless? "Normal use" does tend to include wrong comment. (Which have their utility, see https://me
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by ama729 13y ago
GOG is run by pretty amazing people , for example, they recently announced that they were interested by regional pricing[1] when people made it clear they were not pleased by this change, they changed their mind[2]. Impressive. Also, it&#x2
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by ama729 13y ago
It date back at least to 2005-2006 if you look at their press release: http://gwei.org/pages/press/press.html The letter from google is also dated 2006: http://gwei.org/pages/google/legal
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by ama729 13y ago
On Ubuntu/Debian, if you want to have an icon to make it easy to toggle it, install: sudo apt-get install gtk-redshift
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by ama729 13y ago
Reading all the comments here, have people not been watching the news like ... ever? Large sentence are the norm in the US, not the exception. Petty thief in California and elsewhere[1] are sentenced to 25 years minimum if they are repeat
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by ama729 13y ago
> To me, that statement strongly suggests that Intel is participating in some sort of NSA program. Well, they certainly do, since the NSA have some public work on cryptography IIRC.
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by ama729 13y ago
I'm not knowledgeable in the intricacies of cryptography, so this is something that bug me, how can the Random Number Generator be backdoored in a way that would be usable for the NSA without being detectable? Surely you could graph th
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by ama729 13y ago
> The community has designated a Nobel leaurate as its nemesis, solely because he asked some inevitable questions every thinking person in his profession ought to ask. Does someone know who he's referring to? Edit: Thanks!
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by ama729 13y ago
Thanks for providing your input! > That said, some facts aren't merely private matters. If leading public figures are violating the law or lying to constituents or abusing their family, the public has a right to know. Is the "P
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by ama729 13y ago
To you and the other commenter: But how is that different from a journalist making the same thing? If it was false or showing the farmer having sex with his/her wife/husband/alien living in the attic, it would be understandab
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by ama729 13y ago
Of all things, you would think that the first amendment would protect such a thing, can any lawyer weight on that? > The measure passed Idaho’s Senate earlier in February to the applause of agricultural representatives who said it would
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by ama729 13y ago
Except Apple did it because they were forced to by a class-action lawsuit. I think that's a pretty good example of "regulation".
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by ama729 13y ago
No it's not. Lets recap the CandySwipe Saga[1]: - The creator does exactly the same thing than most people accused King.com of doing: Ie. blocking someone's trademark application because they both have the same word in it (here &q
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by ama729 13y ago
Except a shell company does generally have assets, IP and so on, when there is a bankruptcy, there is a chance the shareholders get something out of it. Also, Fiat money has the government (and well, the bank notes are worth at least someth
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by ama729 13y ago
> WhatsApp is a real company with real monetization strategies. Yes and no, they only got 20 millions in revenue last year, not even profit: http://www.forbes.com/sites/parmyolson/2014/02/19/exc
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by ama729 13y ago
Apparently it wasn't a bad according to wiki (but the source is in German, so I can't confirm if it's true): > Orey Gilliam,[6] who also assumed the responsibility for all of AOL's messaging business in 2007, ICQ resu
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by ama729 13y ago
> I've been thinking about ways to create an offline-equivalent backup, so that it can be automated. One way would be to have a computer that is only connected via serial cable, which only accepts new files to be backed up. (No abil

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