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by blahedo 14y ago
Are you sure that's what that's for? When I go to that setting (which I'd already set to "no one" in an earlier privacy audit), the example it shows of what it controls is very different from the "related post" issue that's being complaine
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by blahedo 14y ago
His description of the public reviewing system---and the idea of a review as a versioned public document that might itself contain new ideas---made me think of the state of affairs in the infancy of modern science, where the forerunner of t
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by blahedo 14y ago
From TFA: "TSA has contracted with L-3, Smiths Group Plc (SMIN) and American Science & Engineering Inc. (ASEI) for new body-image scanners, all of which must have privacy software. L-3 and Smiths used millimeter-wave technology. America
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by blahedo 14y ago
Actually, the article does say it---just above the heading for "Privacy concerns". It also says, near the end, that of the new contracts, two are with companies that use millimeter-wave, and one is with a company that uses backscatter. So t
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by blahedo 14y ago
As much as I support marijuana legalisation, I'm always puzzled at the righteous anger summoned against the federal government for prosecutions like this---how dare they, when the states have said it's legal! The problem is, that argument
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by blahedo 14y ago
Meat (or rather, animals) also consume a lot more resources to produce the same amount of available-nutrient output. I'm a meat-eater too, and I agree with your assessment, but it's a little disingenuous to pretend that vegetarians have no
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by blahedo 14y ago
I agree, but see my comment from elsewhere in this thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4890445
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by blahedo 14y ago
Just personal experience. When I installed Xubuntu 12.10 (not an upgrade---it was on a machine previously running MacOS only), every time I started to type a URL into Firefox's location bar, the popdown list would include not only history
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by blahedo 14y ago
Relatedly, the default Ubuntu install of Firefox (including in the *ubuntus, like Xubuntu) ensure that everything you type into the location bar (even if you know exact URLs and don't plan to search!) is sent to Google, Wikipedia, and vario
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by blahedo 14y ago
The article is pretty clear about what the author considers to be the price: doctors are less able to give personal treatment and more likely to burn out and want to retire as early as they can. (Whether you agree is another question, but
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by blahedo 14y ago
Sci fi authors have, for decades now, envisioned a future with ubiquitous, pervasive advertising. That doesn't mean we shouldn't fight it, but we shouldn't really be surprised....
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by blahedo 14y ago
> All the FBI has to do is prove at least one of the files listed in the warrant is valid and was brought in good faith... Maybe, maybe not. If this is allowed to stand, it encourages a strategy of "throw everything against the wall
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by blahedo 14y ago
Is it a synonym for, or just a milder version of, what Americans refer to as "court-martial"?
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by blahedo 14y ago
This sounds nifty, but what I'd love to know is, what's the rate of filling, for an apparatus that's small enough to be roughly bottle-sized? Obviously many of the technical details (battery size, etc) are still being worked out, but I'm b
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by blahedo 14y ago
That's not a building, that's an arcology.
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by blahedo 14y ago
Aside from the content, this is a fantastic exposition of the techniques of UX design, and since I teach a unit on that I wanted to make sure I'd be able to give the link to my students. But I'm on my home computer right now, and I manag
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by blahedo 14y ago
I'm glad I read this post; I saw no storms load and assumed the site wasn't working for me! The link in the nav bar (which I now know to be a link) looked to me like it was just saying what it was (supposed to be) displaying. So I close
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by blahedo 14y ago
In fact, the text of the 2010 post appears to be almost entirely lifted (without attribution!) from this 2006 post you cite. The wood-inlay board is very nice but the design of the illustrations appears to be lifted from the earlier post a
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by blahedo 14y ago
Interesting that nearly all the affected phones seem to have been purchased and used in either Germany or Italy---that may point to a problem with a particular production run. (Also interesting, though unsurprising, that Google has not wei
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by blahedo 14y ago
Yes; as seen in the first footnote: Contributors GCSS had the original idea. JPP tried to talk him out of it. JPP did the first literature search but GCSS lost it. GCSS drafted the manuscript but JPP deleted all the best jokes. GCSS is the
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by blahedo 14y ago
For most of the article, I was wondering how the author could avoid using the words "vigilante" or "vigilantism". It did show up near the end, in quotes, sounding like a positive thing. It does sound from this article like flesh searches
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by blahedo 14y ago
The great thing about vi[m] is that even after twenty years of using it, as my primary editor for everything (paired with LaTeX for document generation, mutt for email, etc), and much of that time spent teaching students how to effectively
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by blahedo 14y ago
I'd be curious to hear this as well. There are many parts of the country (a vast majority by area, and a not-insignificant minority by population) where housing is way less than $100/sqft. In the (small) city I just moved from, $30-40/sqf
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by blahedo 14y ago
> I think many people who get frustrated in introductory computer science classes fall into this group. Which is often, to be fair, at least partially the fault of the professor, who structures the course in too much of a jump-straigh
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by blahedo 14y ago
Relevant, I think: http://www.ginandtacos.com/2012/09/24/tab-a-slot-b In it, the author speculates that one of the reasons that kids have such a hard time following directions is that they never learn to read them, because nothing comes w
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by blahedo 14y ago
They also hijacked your keyboard controls. Boo.
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by blahedo 14y ago
And this, from further down: grep --universe would be a good shortcut, except that i think we all agree this important functionality should be present by default. showing these results from places other than my local computer should be opt
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by blahedo 14y ago
> This seems to have been rumbling on for some time now - at least for the past five years or so. ... It's not like it's been an overnight thing. To say the least! This particular rumble ("we're out!") may be new-ish in the last few
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by blahedo 14y ago
Interesting code of ethics you're proposing there: that it's actually unethical not to take advantage of people, and your only ethical responsibility is to the people who pay you. Convenient, I'm sure.
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by blahedo 14y ago
It'd be unethical if you knew $500 was undervalued and you thought Ferrari didn't , i.e. if they were inexperienced and possibly accidentally undervaluing their own car. Then you would be taking advantage of them.

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