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>...or try to read all of the listed material and figure out what I'm going to emphasise in the exam. Or you could have just sent out an email stating what would be emphasized on the exam.
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Yes. They have patents pending for prequel injection too.
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Guns as opposed to guys?
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13y ago
How about... just not holding any stocks?
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http://www.amazon.com/Make-Your-Own-Page---Kids/dp/084317459... 1998. Hell, I think I still have this book laying around somewhere. I got it at a book fair in elementary school and from then on out I was always ma
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I remember 1st Page 2000 from Evrsoft, though it might not have been quite in the 90s at that point.
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Nice to tptacek is still alive and kicking. I kinda missed him.
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>Illustrating how far afield the NSA deviates from its self-proclaimed focus on terrorism and national security, the documents reveal that the agency considered using its sweeping surveillance system against Pirate Bay, which has been ac
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So I AM on a list! I feel so warm and fuzzy inside all of a sudden :)
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If you're turned off by the length of the article, read it. It's worth it. This post --itself pretty damn long-- is basically pulling out the most appalling pieces regarding Greenwald's JSOC source and the source's state
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I didn't realize there was both mathoverflow.net and math.stackexchange.com. A quick glance at both looks like they serve largely the same purpose. Cool modelling in any case!
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And then modded controllers destroyed any remaining semblance of skill. From what I can tell they're still a problem in other games.
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If account ownership verification is your concern, then the digits of a credit card offer relatively little assurance. Fun story: I used to work for a company that utilized the last four of a CC on file for verification. They also let anyon
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Halo 2 is almost as stupendously broken as Ocarina of Time. Superbouncing into inaccessible areas with game objectives --the skull on oddball, flags on CTF-- during live matchmaking games was fun. Sword flying (and rocket cancelling) across
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I'm not sure what EU is.
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Interesting! I don't have a strong enough background to know if Ron Garret's suggested protocol is superior to chip-and-pin or falls to the same sort of attack mentioned in the link, but surely a strong and water-tight implementat
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>This is particularly unfortunate since US cards also happen to have pretty poor security... I remember reading about someone (or some startup) trying to address this issue by using public key crypto to address the short-comings of credi
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European Union.
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>or any network of people who engage as a business in facilitating the transfer of money domestically or internationally outside of the conventional financial institutions system Wouldn't that definition mean that every single bitco
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L'esprit de l'escalier. Macintrash would have been a perfect name for the build :D
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Every time I read a comment like this I know I'm at Hacker News. Did you read the article? These companies all held illegal discrimination pacts designed specifically to prevent them from needing to shell out a little bit more cash to
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Jobs' comments: >OK, I’ll tell our recruiters they are free to approach any Adobe employee who is not a Sr. Director or VP. Am I understanding your position correctly? >if you [Brin] hire a single one of these people that means w
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> put on hold as off-topic by FreshPrinceOfSO, Christian Payne, billinkc, ajma, Maxime Rouiller 23 mins ago This is why StackExchange sites will die. Or perhaps they're just being subtle: "This question was caused by a problem
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And now we are at #111 on page four. Slow clap.
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Edit: In the time it has taken to write this up, this article is now ranked 51 and is well on its way to the third page. Mods, go fuck yourselves. > Maybe tech companies don't have to live in overpriced, overhyped coastal cities. It
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Happened to me relatively recently, actually. Had an encrypted machine that hadn't been rebooted in months. No backups (it's not production related, just a personal box, but still). Power outage hits. MFW when I can't remembe
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In his head, of course.
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>I would imagine that a [lot] of ad-blocking users are fine with paying for content if the price is reasonable (i.e. equivalent to the revenue a site gains from it's advertising sources). But that's just it. Even if they could
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Or any inept or incompetent administrator who feels his or her position is threatened by this demonstration of a superior solution to what seems to be a widely faced problem.
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>There, in the company of jailed reporters in China, Iran and Egypt, is Mr. Shuler, the only person on the list in the Western Hemisphere. Their list is out of date then. http://freebarrettbrown.org/
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