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by bsiemon 15y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_sprawl
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by bsiemon 15y ago
Wouldn't most of these ip addresses be in a bot net?
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by bsiemon 15y ago
My understanding is that one of the jobs of congressional staffers involves sorting and analyzing these sorts of messages.
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by bsiemon 15y ago
Meanwhile an actual crime was committed two blocks away.
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by bsiemon 15y ago
In the golden days of media distribution (the 90s?) X amount if money was made. They will do anything to make X again and then after that anything to make more than X.
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by bsiemon 15y ago
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2010-Augu...
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by bsiemon 15y ago
Can you stop a website that wants to save your password?
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by bsiemon 15y ago
Every profession does not grant you the ability to send people to jail based on your word.
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by bsiemon 15y ago
Police have a great deal of latitude in how they enforce the law. Ever been to court when it was your word against a police officer? Who would you imagine the court, jury or your peers will believe?
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by bsiemon 15y ago
It seems like this is a war whose outcome rest solely in the minds of the readers.
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by bsiemon 15y ago
Is it feasible that facebook et al could detect an anomaly in the frequency and scattered source of the successful logins?
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by bsiemon 15y ago
This sorta reminds me of the silly things people do with JavaScript.
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by bsiemon 15y ago
It seems like teaching how to research and read about history would be better than short narratives about various periods.
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by bsiemon 15y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiku_(operating_system) seems to have a fair amount of docs on how their API works. Since it is an open source implementation of BeOS it might have some good information. BeOS was made with SMP in mind from w
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by bsiemon 15y ago
One thing that might help is moving away from event loop based UI interaction, like we see in Windows. One effort in this direction was http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeOS .
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by bsiemon 15y ago
Rock climbing is the best thing I have found to both prevent and relieve the various problems created by long hours spent coding.
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by bsiemon 15y ago
Is Osama bin Laden really in the same league as the Nazis?
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by bsiemon 15y ago
Do these companies host and maintain their own DRM systems? If they do it seems like they would fall in love with anyone ready to provide a bullet proof 99.99999% uptime DRM solution.
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by bsiemon 16y ago
I believe they might have used the same stuff the Washington Post used[1]. The post quoted a lower ( 7 million ) but still unreal figure in another paywall related article [2]. [1] http://www.eidosmedia.com/EN/Page/Uuid/83c5a8b2-ae9f-11de-
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by bsiemon 16y ago
Think of all the first person shooters you have ever played. Now imagine the groups in those games that had secret prisons.
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by bsiemon 16y ago
Creating and/or controlling things that are scarce is an easy way to make money. It is interesting too see how technology constantly erodes business models based on this concept.
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by bsiemon 16y ago
You might like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deltron_3030 .
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by bsiemon 16y ago
Look out for the bus!
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by bsiemon 16y ago
Other outlets, such as many supermarkets, may be unwilling to stock the products because they make enormous profits from cleaning products that need to be replaced regularly, and liquid glass would make virtually all of them obsolete Likely
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by bsiemon 16y ago
They implied he would only get a summer internship when he was going for a real job.
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by bsiemon 16y ago
Catching criminals is too difficult with civil liberties.
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by bsiemon 16y ago
You are correct. The author did not correctly read the graphs. The time shift was done on tumblr's US numbers vs. The global numbers. The posterous data was ignored at the bottom.
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by bsiemon 16y ago
I feel a funeral for a distant but important relative approaching.
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by bsiemon 16y ago
I think all the math is based on the known costs of EC2 services at various rate plans. All the people posting dollar figures here and on reddit are drawing from these know costs.
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by bsiemon 16y ago
What is wrong with mainframes? The problems banks solve are the reason mainframes exist. Billions of data points that must be processed 100% correct 100% percent of the time. It seems wrong to demonize mainframes as old and outmoded.

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