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by bmunro 15y ago
I think you mean principle - an accepted or professed rule of action or conduct. Principal means leader/most important.
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On the implausibility of the explosives plot (2006)(interesting-people.org)
3 points by bmunro 15y ago|0 comments
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by bmunro 15y ago
That was the first thing I tried. It doesn't work for me in Chromium 12
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by bmunro 15y ago
We/Our customers also use informix. We also use postgres a little bit too. The company was a startup about 15 years ago. Actually, looking at your past comments, looks like we may work at the same company.
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by bmunro 15y ago
Was War and Peace a side project or the main project? If it wasn't done as a side project then it isn't really relevant.
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by bmunro 15y ago
Taiwanese, to be precise.
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by bmunro 15y ago
'Square out of luck'?
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by bmunro 15y ago
Australia too
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Cheap, 'safe' drug kills most cancers(newscientist.com)
3 points by bmunro 15y ago|1 comments
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by bmunro 15y ago
Books
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by bmunro 15y ago
Yes, I should have said 'strangers' rather than Russians. It's just that much of this sort of internet crime comes from Russia and other former soviet countries, most likely due to more lax laws, law enforcement and an inability for western
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by bmunro 15y ago
So you give your username and password to some Russians. And you trust them to: - not spam your friends - not mine your details/friends details for data for phishing and other scams. - not attempt to use your password (or variations of) on
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by bmunro 15y ago
In Australia, Internode has made IPv6 available to its customers.
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by bmunro 15y ago
Whether you void the warranty or not may depend on the laws concerning warranties in your country/state.
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by bmunro 15y ago
Restrictions on liquids on international flights have been eased a bit, at least on Australian airlines. You can have a few small containers - up to 100mL in each. I was able to fly with toothpaste, deodorant, insect repellent and sunscreen
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by bmunro 15y ago
Why are people assuming that 'teleportation' means instantaneous travel? To me, teleporting has always meant transferring the information that describes an object to another location, where the object is reproduced. This transfer of informa
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by bmunro 16y ago
Where I work, we have to ssh tunnel. Our cvs, bug tracker, internal websites and other servers are all located on the other side of the world, and only accessible through a tunnel.
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by bmunro 16y ago
precipice
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by bmunro 16y ago
I think that this is a record for a car using silicon based solar cells. The car came first in the silicon section of the 2009 world solar challenge, and fourth overall.
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by bmunro 16y ago
But it doesn't take place entirely in London. The reservation is in New Mexico. Two of the characters go on a trip there and meet a white man that lives among the native americans, but is not fully accepted by them. TThe above is just anoth
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by bmunro 16y ago
The html5 side has a nice smooth movement for me. The flash is more jerky, and changes speed. This is on Chromium 9.
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by bmunro 16y ago
It's cornflour, not flower
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Laws of Physics Vary Throughout the Universe, New Study Suggests(sciencedaily.com)
2 points by bmunro 16y ago|0 comments
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Illusions: Colors Out of Space(scientificamerican.com)
1 points by bmunro 16y ago|0 comments
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by bmunro 16y ago
No, someone actually offered him a sysadmin job. He wasn't very impressed.
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by bmunro 16y ago
The Eloi are the more unthinking group.
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by bmunro 16y ago
To avoid the paywall, copy the title of the article and paste it into google. The google link will give you the full article.
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by bmunro 16y ago
The comments for this video are a lot more intelligent than usually found on Youtube.
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by bmunro 16y ago
Google's directions from Sydney to Hobart take you to Hobart, IN, USA via Japan and ask you to "Kayak across the Pacific Ocean", twice. http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&#38...
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by bmunro 16y ago
Everything except the VR seems to work in Chromium (daily build). VR requires hardware acceleration.

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