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12y ago
This should be solved by disabling third-party cookies, right?
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12y ago
If i go to $healthfoodstore around the corner i have a variety of high quality, dark roasted espresso from different regions. I would be tempted to say that the store's prices are almost always lower than your offering Good point. Th
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12y ago
Mmmh, coffee. * "Versand innerhalb einer Woche nach Röstung" -- but how long after I order? I'm a spoiled Amazon Prime customer, and I can buy specialty coffee locally at a cafe, and so-so fresh roasted coffee at one of sever
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12y ago
40 EUR/kg nothing unusual for "specialty coffee" as understood by the SCAA. Specialty means the best possible quality, without any defects in smell or taste.
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12y ago
I still have a Nexus S. With early versions of ART in Android 4.4, booting the system and precompiling everything took more than half an hour! Current hardware is much faster, though.
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12y ago
I just checked the web player, and it requires Adobe Flash (gnash is not enough). The fun thing is, even with DRM coming to browsers natively, there probably won't be a module for Linux/PPC. DRM must be closed-source for obscurity
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12y ago
Taking down an IRC network (assuming DNS is not affected or users have cached list of servers in their client) is incredibly difficult. Yes, but remember that DDoSing individual servers and taking over channels through the resulting netsp
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12y ago
My personal dream endgame would be a dynamic language, such as Python or Ruby, that includes the concurrency features such as goroutines and channels Erlang is dynamic and has all those features :-) It's true that the GIL in Python p
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How long does your battery last under Linux, with reasonable screen brightness? What's the battery discharge rate indicated by powertop? Are you using a full desktop environment?
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Nice! Simple HTTP API, no custom client needed, very easy to include in scripts. Is there any reason why you're not serving via HTTPS? Without encryption, credentials are completely open to the network.
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Of course a court can seize domains. But if an investigation follows, it should be carried out by the police, not by private companies (and especially not by the plaintiff). At least that's what I'd expect from a constitutional st
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12y ago
BASF, probably one of the largest targets for corporate espionage in Germany, is migrating all employees to Office 365. I suppose their data will be completely safe in Microsoft's hands, because the contract says so ;-) http:/&#x
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Congratulations! From https://www.newschallenge.org/challenge/2014/refinement/text... : > How much do you think your project will cost, and what are the major expenses? Our most significant expense is the
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TextSecure awarded 416k USD by Knight Foundation
(knightfoundation.org)
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Horizontal Hostility among Non-Meat Eaters [pdf]
(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
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They say Telegram is the most secure messenger out there. Have you even tried to google (or yandex) this? There has been a lot of discussion about their hand-rolled crypto. http://unhandledexpression.com/2013/12/
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Recently Google has added a built-in translation feature to Chrome that has some usability issues. Since these issues haven’t been fixed in the past couple of releases, they might be here to stay. Built-in Google Translate was added in Ch
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Here's a nice marketing video about the development of the machine: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78rxgkC9naA
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Diary of a Corporate Sellout
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So Boeing got nervous after the SpaceX announcement and quickly bought some Samsung tablets for... uhm.. in-flight-entertainment? ;-)
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He explains how and why his code works. Adding too much formal terminology would make it seem like there is another layer of theory you need to grasp before you truly understand what's going on. Complicated terminology is elitist to be
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12y ago
Only the speed gets throttled ...by a factor of >100, which narrows down the use cases a lot. They don't completely turn off your internet, but they turn off >99%.
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I think it is missing the point - the protests are not against digital innovation, as much as Uber would like to point so. Not about innovation per se, but about recognizing that even with all that internet stuff added, Uber basically sti
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Thanks for the tip! In reaction to the iOS news, the developer of Pry-Fi wrote this post about the state of the application: https://plus.google.com/+Chainfire/posts/Y4fjP6cH45v Since the phone-specific Wifi stack
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Google+ broke our trust
(zdnet.com)
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Do you have any links/references for a large scale hydroponics operation? According to [0] from 2000, about 8% of the greenhouses in Almeria, Spain use hydroponics. [1] from 2010 says it's now 10%. The pictures in [2] show that
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What about chlorinated water? Would these bacteria survive swimming in a pool?
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Linux can't get to that point for a long time since it's limited to sending scroll wheel events. I don't have a proof, but this doesn't seem to be the case for GTK3 apps. Scrolling in Evince (GNOME's PDF viewer) a
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Linux is the only modern OS I've used that doesn't have the capability to send crash reports back to the developers Red Hat's abrt does that: https://github.com/abrt/abrt/ Using kdump, it can also
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It should be very easy. Things are never installed system-wide -- no cross-app conflicts. When starting an application, either you manually specify each file or directory to include, or you just package every dependency into your executable
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