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by chakalakasp 14y ago
Son, I hate to tell you this, but I invented the Internet to keep you preoccupied as a child. It took me a good half year of coding in my off time, but I finally got it right and, well, your posts and this response are the only human-input
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by chakalakasp 14y ago
The thing is, there actually are cloud services that let you cheaply back up and restore terabytes. Crashplan is one of them, and they have a Linux client.
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by chakalakasp 14y ago
The bummer is that, depending where you live, there is a good chance that even if you preserved your electronics, you wouldn't have any mains current to run them for a long, long time. I would be more worried about rushing to Walmart and s
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by chakalakasp 14y ago
This has actually been discussed in great detail by scientists and engineers at a conference. The resulting PDF is here: http://lasp.colorado.edu/home/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/low... The TLDR is that it'd be really bad, but I encourage
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How real people will use Windows 8(youtube.com)
3 points by chakalakasp 15y ago|1 comments
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A missive on the catastrophic vulnerabilities of the modern electric grid(spectrum.ieee.org)
2 points by chakalakasp 15y ago|0 comments
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by chakalakasp 15y ago
Every time I hear arguments like the one linked to in this article, I counterlink to this: http://thepiratebay.se/search/terraria/0/7/400 Great game, indie developer, easy download (steam), quick install, cheap price, available for sale
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by chakalakasp 15y ago
BTW, this came off as snarky and I didn't mean it to sound that way. Apologies in advance.
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by chakalakasp 15y ago
Way to answer a question without answering the question, or even knowing the answer. :) http://blogs.denverpost.com/crime/2012/01/05/why-criminals-s...
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by chakalakasp 15y ago
No, that's not crazy, it's just crazy to think that anyone is going to notice someone doing stego in an internet cafe, since anyone doing stego is already going through huge efforts to hide what they are doing. The idea behind good stego i
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by chakalakasp 15y ago
Another fun question would be to figure out what the terminal velocity is. It's reached pretty quickly when you jump off of things in Minecraft.
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by chakalakasp 15y ago
Unlike with most torrent programs, Tor by default sets up as a client but not as an exit node. I don't know that I'd want to be an exit node for Tor, given some of the things that people use Tor for.
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by chakalakasp 15y ago
This happens in Canada, too. There was a thread on a popular storm chasing forum in 2007 in which a chaser driving from Florida to Canada was stopped by the Canadian border patrol and had his car randomly searched. The post is also here o