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by astine 16y ago
"What I'd really like to see is a Linux distro that managed applications the way OSX does - every program is contained in its own directory." That exists, it's called Gobo Linux. I've never touched it, but you can give it a try: http://www
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by astine 16y ago
I inserted "Something in Chinese" into Google translate. It's just supposed to be jibberish because the hypothetical caller doesn't speak Chinese.
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by astine 16y ago
Might want to provide more details than "China." On the phone: Hello China? 在中国的东西 I'd like to use you're limetless labor pool to build a business 在中国的东西 Can you help with that? 在中国的东西 Um, no? 在中国的东西 Ok, um, bye. 在中国的东西
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by astine 16y ago
The phrase, "Your tax dollars at work" is a common joke to make fun of any government programs which seem silly. It doesn't necessary imply that the speaker is making a political statement.
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by astine 16y ago
Assange's hypocracy is very much pertinent, if we are to accept his reasoning for what he and his organization does.
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by astine 16y ago
I wonder if the irony is lost on anyone that it is Assaange here that is worried about a leak in his organization. Assuming the rumors are true, an individual who believes that leaks in organizations' security are always fair game is reac
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by astine 16y ago
I think that you're deluded if you think that Wikileaks' actions will be of any benefit to the Afghanis. If the United States were to suddenly leave tomorrow, the region would not suddenly become peaceful. Possibly the contrary would happen
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by astine 16y ago
That's because people associate 'good wife' with a subservient wife. Feminism has encouraged women to act in their own interests rather than their families interests for some time now and the values have sunk into the culture. 'Good husba
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by astine 16y ago
Do you want your screen saver to turn on only when you click a button? There are a number of behaviors that you want your computer to do automatically without your input and a proximity sensor can help it do these things more intelligently.
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by astine 16y ago
Flash drive. There's a number of flash drives that autoexecute when inserted into a computer. These are a known vector for software infections. As far as I know, ram doesn't generally hold memory after it's been powered down. Ram sticks don
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by astine 16y ago
Gentoo's package manager, Portage, is written in Python, so Python presents a special challenge, when upgrading or using a different version that the default.
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by astine 16y ago
When I was little, my father had a spare computer on which he let the kids install games and play around. I spent a lot of time getting shareware games to run and then playing them. When I was around 9 or 10, my dad (who was an EE) decided
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by astine 16y ago
These ideas aren't new. I doubt that they are impossible but we haven't yet solved the technical problems that would make 'vertical farms' cost effective over regular farms. If farmland became expensive enough (really expensive,) I could se
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by astine 16y ago
What's the likely hood, security issues asside, that much of this code ends up in the 'final' Diaspora product down the line? I might misunderstand their intentions, but as I understand them, these guys are trying to start an open-source pr
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by astine 16y ago
Ah! figured it out. He's Buddha. I knew I should have Googled that. When you wrote 'guy,' I read 'Greek,' and spent a while trying to ascertain which Greek believed exactly that. :)
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by astine 16y ago
Do you mean "recent?"
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by astine 16y ago
They keep trying that, but no one uses them.
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by astine 16y ago
Sounds a lot like Plato. Good guess?
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by astine 16y ago
Actually, lighter skin used to be an issue for westerners too. Lighter skin suggested the same thing as it did in Asia and tanned skin was looked down upon. Recently, with the massive changes in the economy over the past hundred or so years
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by astine 16y ago
Technically, your supposed to spell it out, but unless I'm talking about PostgreSQL (which doesn't work unless you spell it out) I say 'sequel' because I like it better.
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by astine 16y ago
I disagree. Oppression is a loaded term. At he very least it implies a certain unreasonableness. For example it is not unreasonable to expect me, when visiting Italy for example, to realize that certain hand signs are offensive and to avoid
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by astine 16y ago
Nonsense. If the only Jew in Buenos Aires can't find a kosher deli, that is not 'Tyranny of the Majority.' Tyranny of the Majority is when a majority actively pursues legislation that is harmful or marginalizing to a minority. If a Jew in 1
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by astine 16y ago
Where is 'here.' In Virginia where I'm from, calling someone 'you' can be rude.
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by astine 16y ago
I don't know how ABCL works, but Dalvik uses it's own byte code so unless ABCL compiles to raw Java, it won't work for Android.
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by astine 16y ago
It certainly proves that gender identity and perceived gender roles are not entirely environmental. If the segregation of of boy toys and girl toys were the only or primary cause of gender personality for boys and girls then it would have b
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by astine 16y ago
A troll is someone who is deliberately attempted to derail conversation and waste people's time for his own amusement. A 'peasant' in this guys nomenclature is merely someone who is too opinionated for his own good.
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by astine 16y ago
It was Google caving into the black lobby. Santorum does not have that kind of power.
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by astine 16y ago
As opposed to Perl for tasks that would be much easier with Perl scripts than with shell scripts. I know SysAdmins who do this. Perl won't be replaced as A SysAmin language of choice for while now, I don't think.
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by astine 16y ago
When he talks about "young people with guns" I think that he is talking about the US military. I don't know if I agree with him, but I'm positive his statements aren't racially motivated. I'm also positive that this has nothing to do with R
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by astine 16y ago
"That isn't socialism, but boy does it feel like workers being more efficient when they seize the means of production—the compiler—rather than being coerced or exploited." If you're interested in the notion of putting the means of productio

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