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High school changes every student’s password to ‘Ch ngeme ’(techcrunch.com)
21 points by c5karl 3y ago|7 comments
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FTC prepares “the big one,” a major lawsuit targeting Amazon’s core business(arstechnica.com)
37 points by c5karl 3y ago|5 comments
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AT&T Switches to Google's RCS Platform for Advanced Texting Features(cnet.com)
2 points by c5karl 3y ago|0 comments
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Modded Minecraft Malware “Fractureiser” – What We Know(hackmd.io)
2 points by c5karl 3y ago|0 comments
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Google no longer automatically indexes websites?(natehoffelder.com)
599 points by c5karl 3y ago|503 comments
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by c5karl 3y ago
Those keyboard shortcuts (the ones that begin with a slash, at least) date back to Lotus 123.
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by c5karl 3y ago
Credit unions are not-for-profit companies that operate like a co-op or a mutual insurance company. The depositors are the owners. S&Ls were for-profit businesses.
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by c5karl 4y ago
Circuit City stores, back when they had entire walls of VCRs and tape decks and receivers, all of which were "on sale" (ahem), instructed their salespeople to always give customers definitive advice in their price range. "Oh,
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by c5karl 4y ago
Or a Chromebook. If you don't need rich client Windows software, a cheapie Chromebook will meet all your needs. It will be fast out of the box and will stay fast.
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by c5karl 4y ago
Test your skill: Try to keep Tom Bombadil from boring you to death.
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by c5karl 4y ago
For this reason my grandfather wouldn't pick the corn from his backyard garden until my grandmother had the water boiling.
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Elon Musk Trolls Twitter(bloomberg.com)
2 points by c5karl 4y ago|0 comments
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Colonial shutdown shows how Americans pay the price of efficiency(washingtonpost.com)
1 points by c5karl 5y ago|0 comments
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Recycle Your Phone, Sure, but Maybe Not Your Number(krebsonsecurity.com)
2 points by c5karl 5y ago|0 comments
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by c5karl 6y ago
Compact Disc audio is uncompressed.
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Fit to Eat? Algae, Insects, and Cultured Meat(sciline.org)
1 points by c5karl 7y ago|0 comments
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by c5karl 7y ago
> and that was achieved through marketing To elaborate: The "tradition" of diamond engagement rings only dates back to the 1930s, invented almost whole cloth by the DeBeers cartel to sell diamonds. For that reason, I think sayi
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Kathryn Murdoch Steps Out of the Family Shadow to Fight Climate Change(nytimes.com)
3 points by c5karl 7y ago|0 comments
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Ford shows off electric F-150 truck by towing a million pounds of train(arstechnica.com)
3 points by c5karl 7y ago|0 comments
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by c5karl 7y ago
I had a similar but even worse thought: I assumed they were selling out to GoDaddy.
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by c5karl 8y ago
> Wouldn't surprise me to find out that Office had their own browser rendering engine that didn't rely on anything in IE. I'm not sure what the situation is now, but for a long time Outlook used MS Word, not MSIE, to rende
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by c5karl 8y ago
Libraries are far from fading into obscurity. http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/06/21/millennials-...
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Elon Musk hung up on NTSB chief during call about Tesla crash probe(arstechnica.com)
8 points by c5karl 8y ago|2 comments
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Facts about gene drives(sciline.org)
2 points by c5karl 8y ago|0 comments
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by c5karl 8y ago
Even in DC, there is a lot of public transit not managed by WMATA. While WMATA runs the MetroBus system, each jurisdiction also has its own bus system beyond that, in part because none of the jurisdictions wants to have to negotiate with al
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by c5karl 9y ago
This is a company that wants to be the default medium for private communications among friends and loved ones, yet deliberately makes security settings opaque and actively encourages oversharing. Anyone who doesn't see that analogy --
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The Tale of Theranos and the Mysterious Fire Alarm(khn.org)
292 points by c5karl 9y ago|86 comments
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by c5karl 9y ago
I've been using disposable Pilot Varsity fountain pens. They're perfectly decent, medium nib pens that write smoothly. I've never had one leak or stain my fingers, and you don't have to mess with refills. I had given up
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by c5karl 9y ago
The Washington Monument will be there a very long time. It's all load-bearing stone masonry, 15 feet thick at the base. It's not far above sea level, so I guess its foundations could be threatened by rising seas, but stone foundat
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by c5karl 10y ago
Or either of the last two generation Moto G phones, starting at $180.

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