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by bumblebeard 10y ago
I think you're both right. Once trained, someone who can fly a 747 can also fly an A320 or an L-1011 since they know how to fly a multi-engine plane. Programming is similar in that once you "get it" the skills transfer easily
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by bumblebeard 10y ago
What bank? I wouldn't want to do business with them if that's how they handle security.
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by bumblebeard 10y ago
The data still has to get out though. If LibreOffice doesn't have network access then that can't happen, at least not without an attack on some other systems as well. This protects against generic sort of "drive-by" atta
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by bumblebeard 10y ago
>Cute snake oil, but you might want to peddle it somewhere other than Hacker News. People here place too much importance on facts and knowledge to really go for this stuff. Actually I think this is exactly the kind of pseudo-scientific n
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by bumblebeard 10y ago
I imagine AppArmor is configured to minimize the access that LibreOffice has to the rest of the system. Otherwise yeah, vanilla LO is probably not any better than MS Office. VServer or similar could also work well but might be harder to con
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by bumblebeard 10y ago
Midland county. Here's a similar document for an area near me; the city doesn't seem to have a fee schedule online anywhere. http://www.lincoln-twp.org/forms%20policies/New%20Water%20Co... $2,520 is what they
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by bumblebeard 10y ago
$30,000 seems like a lot unless you live in a very rural area. Where I live in Michigan it's $1,410 for a hookup within 500 feet of a road. Why is it so expensive where you are? Also, fiber would probably be pretty cheap once the infra
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by bumblebeard 10y ago
The Soviet Union had a bunch of engineers in their government too and they made all kinds of stupid decisions anyway. I don't think the composition of the government matters as much as its structure and as governments go I think the US
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by bumblebeard 10y ago
I guess I'm cheap then. I have no interest in paying any amount of money to read most of the things I read online. It seems to me that it's not so much that people are demanding this content for free as it is that people don'
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by bumblebeard 10y ago
>Our wedding consisted of signing some paperwork at city Hall. They are constantly checking public records like this and that's how they would have found out. Still a little creepy though.
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by bumblebeard 10y ago
> Even without getting into the result that not interacting with Elsevier has on careers in the biomedical sciences... The author of the article addresses this concern in the "What you can do" section. He says he's noticed
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by bumblebeard 10y ago
There doesn't need to be a "function;" the conclusion of the paper puts it pretty well: "In summary, compared to nondepressed indi- viduals, depressives are “nay-sayers”. Depressives may be sadder but they are not wiser;
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by bumblebeard 10y ago
Agreed, although maybe this is what they want to happen. If you use their bandwidth and they don't make any money off your visit, then they probably don't care if you never come back. I'm like you though; I actively avoid rea
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by bumblebeard 10y ago
I was wondering about the price too. If the bandwidth is actually going to be as limited as the numbers in this article imply then it'll probably be out of reach for most of the people who need it.
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by bumblebeard 10y ago
"Once fully optimized through the Final Deployment, the system will be able to provide high bandwidth (up to 1Gbps per user), low-latency broadband services for consumers and businesses in the US and globally,” SpaceX told the FCC. “Su
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by bumblebeard 10y ago
For those not familiar with Clippy: https://github.com/Manishearth/rust-clippy It's a very useful tool; the main thing about it that annoys me is that it only works with nightly.
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by bumblebeard 10y ago
They mean Mandarin. There have been rumblings in the past that Cantonese support might be coming though.
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by bumblebeard 10y ago
Why isn't free software a net good?
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by bumblebeard 10y ago
I think people are hopeless because while we are starting to move in the right direction, it's probably too little and too late. Moderation of CO2 emissions might have been enough 20-30 years ago, but now we need immediate radical acti
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by bumblebeard 10y ago
Unless you swallow your food whole I imagine that your teeth might break down cell walls too.
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by bumblebeard 10y ago
This annoyed me too. I think it's fair to expect to be able to see something without JavaScript, even if it's not formatted correctly or missing fonts or whatever. I disable JS by default for performance reasons, not just becaus
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by bumblebeard 10y ago
What French TV shows did you enjoy? I've been looking for some to watch to improve my listening skills.
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by bumblebeard 10y ago
By using a CA they control to generate a fake certificate for Google like they've already "accidentally" done: http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/01/turkish-government-a...
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by bumblebeard 10y ago
I would probably start looking for somewhere else to work if I had to use special hand signals during meetings.
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by bumblebeard 10y ago
Steam Play is their one license = all platforms thing. I think the little Steam icon means SteamOS and therefore Linux.
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by bumblebeard 10y ago
Nothing looks wrong to me (Firefox/Debian). Are you sure it's a problem with the font?
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by bumblebeard 10y ago
A house can still be an eyesore even if you don't live in it.
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by bumblebeard 10y ago
Effect is usually a noun and affect is usually a verb.
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by bumblebeard 11y ago
This isn't actually a new law but the overturning of a new law passed last year that explicitly legalized these things. The law now is as it was when iTunes was originally introduced. Story about the passage of the now-overturned law:
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by bumblebeard 12y ago
Is the source code actually free though? For example, could I redistribute the source code myself and not take any revenue from the people I distributed it to? Could I make some changes to the engine and redistribute it? How would the reven

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