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by arst 16y ago
Was the cockpit door on UA93 reinforced? I can't recall ever hearing/reading that.
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by arst 16y ago
Presumably someone (Coast Guard/border patrol/TSA/etc.) would have the authority to inspect the ferries and passengers headed to these offshore airports even if they didn't have jurisdiction over the airport itself.
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by arst 16y ago
Naturally, it’s important to note that Microsoft still has a lead in profit — $5.41 billion to $4.31 billion — but that’s because one is mainly a software maker (huge margins), while the other is mainly a hardware maker (lower margins). B
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Microsoft profit jumps 51 percent with record Q1 revenue(blog.seattlepi.com)
72 points by arst 16y ago|70 comments
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by arst 16y ago
(instead of made money, as you suggest) I apologize if that's how you read my post; I certainly didn't intend to suggest that or to belittle the amount of work and money that you've put into this project.
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by arst 16y ago
While I think the web is probably a better place with reocities than without it, slapping ads on this content feels a tad bit slimy to me. I'm curious to hear your take on the ethical and legal implications of it.
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by arst 16y ago
Do new iPod Touches have a mute switch? Mine from about a year ago doesn't.
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by arst 16y ago
Why did you change the title from "could drop" to "to drop"?
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by arst 16y ago
Though I hardly know anything of wikileaks, the wiki part in the leaks sort of suggests that it is kind of like wikipeia, so that anyone can leak whatever they want straight away I guess without going through some sort of filtering system.
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by arst 16y ago
Sub-$200 Android tablets: http://www.kmart.com/shc/s/p_10151_10104_020W023705190001P?v... http://www.amazon.com/Archos-Home-Tablet-Android-Black/dp/B0...
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by arst 16y ago
I use http://ditchnet.org/httpclient/ for an OS X HTTP client.
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by arst 16y ago
The author talks about how friendly the Clojure community is in the first paragraph but then goes on to take some silly potshots at other languages in the very next paragraph: I asked around and learned that he wrote a book called "Clean c
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by arst 16y ago
Funny coincidence that Mono and LLVM both had 2.8 releases on the same day, and one of Mono 2.8's new features is a stable LLVM backend.
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by arst 16y ago
Both posts are about the same domain.
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by arst 16y ago
This is about to change. Due to the way seniority and retirement ages are respected by the Chinese leadership you can track very clear generational shifts. In 2012 the fourth generation is going to mostly give way to the fifth generation, w
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by arst 16y ago
Technically, Twitter offers a “wrapper,” not a shortener. That’s because in some cases, it might actually make a URL slightly longer (such as if you try to shorten an already short domain name, like cnn.com) Obviously true of all of them.
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by arst 16y ago
Several miss spellings were in the posted original RC email at TC..miss spellings that you would think RC would not make. What would make you think that?
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by arst 16y ago
Archival of 'cloud' data is an issue I've been thinking a lot about lately. People are putting so much of their lives on the internet these days without generally giving too much thought to permanence and availability. Twitter's only been a
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by arst 16y ago
Only the MongoDB server is AGPL licensed, all of the official clients are Apache licensed; you're free to use mongo for commercial hosted services without getting a commercial license from 10gen provided that you publicly release any change
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by arst 16y ago
It seems to me (no security expert by any means) that port knocking and similar schemes are useful because they're orthogonal to SSH infrastructure and thus can provide a certain amount of defense against sshd 0-days and the like. Consider
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by arst 16y ago
Great point - port knocking would have provided a separate line of defense when that horrible Debian/Ubuntu keygen flaw hit a few years back.
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by arst 16y ago
But if we only compare countries with similar GDP (per capita, presumably) to the US then the sample size becomes tiny and the US is an outlier on the religiosity scale. You seem to be trying to imply a correlation exsits between religiosit
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by arst 16y ago
Do they? Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Greece, Indonesia, Tunisia, Italy are all quite religious but near the bottom of the murder chart you linked to.
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by arst 16y ago
There are few TV episodes that I'll watch more than 3 times, so the new Apple model is at least a win over the old Apple model for me.
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by arst 16y ago
You obviously understand your situation much better than I do, but don't you think that one of Github's big differentiators at this point is the network effect? Sure if you open sourced the whole site someone could put up a clone, but witho
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by arst 16y ago
There's a tremendous difference between expressing disapproval for what someone says and believing that they shouldn't be allowed to say it (insert not-actually-Voltaire quote here).
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by arst 16y ago
I've been kicking around and gradually prototyping an idea somewhat similar to greplin, but locally hosted. I originally thought of it more as a cloud archival system, as a guard against some dinky web service I use shutting down and lockin
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by arst 16y ago
I don't know much about node.js but have always heard about it in a server-side context - does anyone know what role node is going to play in the webOS ecosystem?
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by arst 16y ago
I imagine he's referring to the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Registration program, which is pretty blatantly targeted at Muslims (based on a quick glance, the only nation on the list that's not majority Muslim is North Korea). EDI
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by arst 16y ago
The waiver program is tied to citizenship, not ethnicity or religion. Arab Muslims who are citizens of a VWP nation are just as eligible as everyone else.

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