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by bdunbar 14y ago
I'm not a fan of Lincoln or Roosevelt the Second. Washington was an okay guy in my book.
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by bdunbar 14y ago
Funny how both the guys you mentioned are remembered for being leaders of men during war.
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by bdunbar 14y ago
Judge don't need a deep understanding of technology. They only need a clear understanding that if the Justice Department asks for X and that X infringes on enumerated rights, it's double-plus un-good.
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by bdunbar 14y ago
Layering on an a second layer of rules to the already existing rules doesn't work so well for computer systems. I doubt it will work as expected in real life. At least my experience is the more rules you have, and the more rules clarifying
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by bdunbar 14y ago
"Issue #4: Internet Freedoms" Adding an amendment for 'the internet' is lame. The already existing Bill of Rights covers it nicely. That we're getting laws and executive orders that nullify civil rights isn't a problem with the internet, bu
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by bdunbar 14y ago
"and start to build your houses from bricks instead of paper" Funny - I was thinking about my service in Okinawa, years ago. You know how in Karate Kid 2 they had paper houses because 'Japan'? Not so much. Homes in Okinawa are built of ci
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by bdunbar 14y ago
Seven people have been to space as tourists, so far. No signs of laser-armed sharks yet!
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by bdunbar 14y ago
A Deepness in the Sky, Vernor Vinge. Because 'unix epoch' is why. Also: it feels like a future where the details are right, but largely hidden unless needed. Star Fraction, Ken MacLeod. A romping good read, is why.
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by bdunbar 14y ago
I had the same issues. It's gotten better.
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by bdunbar 14y ago
I use caps lock, but I use 'ctrl' more often.
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by bdunbar 14y ago
I've got a pleasant clicky keyboard, a mouse, a linux host (slackware) available in terminal with X11 apps piped over ... and OS X. A long time ago, OS2 was better at running Windows apps than Windows was. The same is true for OS X running
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by bdunbar 14y ago
1. Remap Your CAPSLOCK Key Another upside to this is that people will gradually stop asking to use your laptop 'for just a minute'.
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by bdunbar 14y ago
I can see this fixing some problems I've noticed with browser-based apps in the enterprise. It could also be the next IE6, lying in wait for an unwary developer.
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by bdunbar 14y ago
If you recover the laptop re-install the software. I will allow that if you _think_ you can recover it, then tracking your opponent is the best bet. Maybe put DD on a deadman switch: if you don't check in every X hours poof . Now if they
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by bdunbar 14y ago
You ain't kidding. I found myself, a system administrator, in a large conference room, full of developers, meeting chaired by the head of development. "The lifecycle blah-blah-blah for the infrastructure team," he said "Is simple. They ra
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by bdunbar 14y ago
a) A/B testing grammar is a lame idea. b) Please isn't perfectly crafted, it's just the right way to spell that word. c) Text speak is a signal, but only a positive one for functionally illiterate Eloi.
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by bdunbar 14y ago
Using 'pls' in formal communication indicates sloppiness and imprecision of thought. It indicates that one is not serious. A mental flyweight. Shorter: spelling counts.
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by bdunbar 14y ago
my employer brought up the book Tom had written and said technically it belonged to him I'm assuming this was stored on a company-provided computer? IANAL but to be clean you should impose a firewall between employer-provided equipment an
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by bdunbar 14y ago
Do you want it back? If you don't then burn it to the ground: shell in, use dd to wipe the disk.
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by bdunbar 14y ago
Install iTerm2. It's a much better terminal emulator that Terminal.
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by bdunbar 14y ago
I have to wonder whether drones should just be vilified altogther. Good question. I can see uses for drones. I know guys who will personally benefit from automation like this. I say take a hard stand against them: no drones, period. Bec
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by bdunbar 14y ago
I might be missing something. J. Random Hacker from Waziristan hacks your account at the lock company. So? He is _there_ and you are _here_. Annoying but not fatal. Unless you're worried that he has a cousin in town?
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by bdunbar 14y ago
waste all that energy to move trillions of tons soil into space. Nobody plans on doing that. There are already trillions of tons of material _in_ space - it merely needs to be moved to where you want the habitat to be.
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by bdunbar 14y ago
I should have remembered 'Mote', thank you. The first one to overload the others' shield won. Lasers, nuclear-tipped torpedos, all add to the energy budget. Pent up energy cascades _in_ when your field collapses. 'Brenda' by Larry Niven,
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by bdunbar 14y ago
However, in scifi space battles Not all scifi space battles. Just the battles in bad scifi. Movies seem prone to this. I suspect because making what we think will be realistic space combat visually appealing and easy to follow would be
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by bdunbar 14y ago
I had a room mate who could reproduce the flying car noise with his mouth. Always assumed the noise came from a person, recorded and looped.
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by bdunbar 14y ago
It's not _having_ a big brain that matters, it's what one does with it.
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by bdunbar 14y ago
How in the unholy fuck do you think a Ramada Inn is going to roll out hundreds of modded door locks? 'Internet' isn't their business - providing rooms, is. But, really, this isn't a problem. The available maintenance staff takes care of
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by bdunbar 14y ago
Supposedly most cops will go through their careers never drawing their weapons on duty. Don't know if it's true, but I've read it. I've had 'most' cops beat by the time I was 21 and I wasn't even trying.
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by bdunbar 14y ago
'Needed' might be the wrong word. Three times in 2 3/4 years I had a weapon drawn, round in the chamber. Twice I did not have a target. Once, I did but he obligingly put his hands up when ordered. how far away was your nearest armed suppor

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