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by bediger 15y ago
Very honestly, how can tracking via GPS (or cellphone GPS) be anything other than a gross violation of the USA Constitution's 4th amendment? How can the US DoJ not feel a little shame at advocating a legal position that requires twisting l
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by bediger 16y ago
The article seems to say that the only extra control is over governmental "cybersecurity", whatever that is. Still, this seems like a mistake, given DHS' love of rules and procedures, coupled with its inability to perform any process more e
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by bediger 16y ago
I live in the USA. I'd really like to see this tried. First, if it were anything other than "The Internet", this would almost certainly be considered a price-fixing cartel. I'm guessing a unified paywall would trigger a lot of lawsuits
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by bediger 16y ago
Here in the middle of North America, we won't see this sort of thing on main stream media, which is interesting on two counts: 1. How does the BBC get away with this, when multiple US news organizations don't? 2. Why doesn't the US main str
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by bediger 16y ago
Thank you for noting that it's a Windows computer virus, not one of those menacing malware viruses the media tells everyone, even Mac and Linux users, are going to destroy their lives. Note that even though Macs and Linux boxes can cert
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by bediger 16y ago
Then it was worth the demerits! Thanks for having a sense of humor, unlike those bluenose downvoters.
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by bediger 16y ago
Are you a "cam girl"?
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by bediger 16y ago
The author has a good point in "Many high schools don't know how to teach CS", but that seems a truism based on what we read in "The Camel Has Two Humps" ( http://www.eis.mdx.ac.uk/research/PhDArea/saeed/paper1.pdf ). The author totally mis
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by bediger 16y ago
That's the mechanics of the "why", thank you for that. Let me clarify: Rushing or backdooring these things through has a cost, and a price. Both have to be higher than a normal legislative process, I believe. I guess I should say "what mo
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by bediger 16y ago
Why do police forces across the USA, and federal law enforcement too, do this? Such peeping seems to directly contradict the traditions and stated goals of USA government. That is, such peeping is anti-American. Individual law enforcemen
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by bediger 16y ago
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you. Roy Schestowitz does seem to have a point. He just beats it to death.
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by bediger 16y ago
These bills/laws/what-have-you always seem to get "rushed" through. Something un-democratic happens on each and every one of them. UK's Digital Millenium act gets passed without debate in the last minutes of a session. France's Hadopi la
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by bediger 16y ago
Tee Vee "helped to create entirely new products that could never have been sold without TV. " I'm not sure I buy that. Isn't the accepted wisdom about advertising kind of opposite that? I mean, as an adult residing in the USA, you're not
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by bediger 16y ago
Read close: the "horseshoe" is only relative to Earth itself. Encounters with Earth moves the new asteroid from an orbit inside that of Earth's to an orbit outside that of Earth's I'd be interested in seeing a heliocentric plot of the orbi
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by bediger 16y ago
Total spam.
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by bediger 16y ago
No exceptions to deal with: http://ptgmedia.pearsoncmg.com/images/020163371x/supplements... That's probably a really big one in terms of reliability. Also, the weird C++ behavior of calling copy constructors in the most unexpected places
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by bediger 16y ago
I don't believe it! What about abstinence education? Because that's all that's federally funded, and often all that's state funded, too.
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by bediger 16y ago
Why does this result surprise anyone? Traditional US schools exist not to cultivate individuality, and make people more expressive and creative, but rather for different reasons. Grade school is designed to teach people enough to read The
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by bediger 16y ago
I wonder what Warren Twoomey privately says about the SCO allegations? The Ctcompare program seems explicitly designed to deal with just such problems that SCO alleged had occurred.
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by bediger 16y ago
I think the "kicking a puppy" metaphor is wrong. MSFT still has some billions of dollars of cash reserves. No down-and-out puppy has power like that. And let's be clear, that power is outside the market place, but still has influence over
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by bediger 16y ago
Are these kind of structures buckling critical? I mean classic, Euler buckling of the whole column. If not, what physical factor determines the maximum height? Foundations? Motion from elastic vibrations, driven by vortex shedding? I can
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by bediger 16y ago
Good reference, thank you. But... Tell that to any software development manager, and you'll get a long lasting blank look. Too many people and corporations have lied to the managerial class for too long. I've had managers tell me that I
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by bediger 16y ago
Thanks for the tip on the Fred Cohen paper. I have seen arguments to the effect that since a virus doens't run with an infinite memory, you can indeed determine whether a disk file represents a virus or not. As Alfred North Whitehead once
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by bediger 16y ago
That's not a true Regular Expression: it uses back-tracking, and to the author's credit, he notes that in the article. True regular expressions can't recognize primes. It's important to keep these kind of distinctions in mind for two reaso
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by bediger 16y ago
Even a blind pig finds an acorn once in a while.
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by bediger 16y ago
As Stalin once said ( http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Joseph_Stalin ), "Quantity has a quality all its own".
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by bediger 16y ago
Fully half of these "Chennai" escorts are clearly European or American! What a ripoff!
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by bediger 16y ago
> The interesting point was his invention led to religious transformation by Luther and Calvin. I know that's the generally accepted viewpoint, and maybe I learn towards it, but I still think its arguable, given the existence pre-Gutenb
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by bediger 16y ago
I believe it's hard to push this particular idea too much. How much responsibility does a Cisco or Juniper bear for this? How much responsibility does a Cisco or Juniper employee bear for this? Also, how much should the Western Nation resi
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by bediger 16y ago
Apologetics ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apologetics ) anyone?

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