chebucto

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by chebucto 9y ago
What happens to that energy, though? Energy is conserved, even with gravitational waves, correct? So, what happens to the energy - does some of it get converted into 'normal' potential energy by changing the (amount of gravity? gr
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by chebucto 10y ago
Sign microsoft drivers with the microsoft key. Give MS signed drivers a lower rank than all other drivers.
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by chebucto 10y ago
Your mention of how it was 'impossible with HTTPS' to inject ads into web traffic made me recall how, two years ago, Lenovo shipped laptops with software ('Superfish') that injected ads into encrypted webpages: http:&#x
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by chebucto 10y ago
This problem has been noted for some time. Past articles on the subject have shown how the various requirements for passwords come about through a combination of limitations imposed by the system they're being used on, or through misgu
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by chebucto 11y ago
Interstella 5555, an hour-long anime movie made to accompany Daft Punk's excellent album, 'Discovery', fits the bill: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hVFTUFSdIs
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by chebucto 11y ago
Your post was rude, misrepresented GP's argument, and did not contradict any assertion made in GP's post. GP correctly argued that artists have always created, whether or not they were granted rights under a system of copyright la
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by chebucto 12y ago
This same problem happened to the Ethiopian central bank. One batch, which had been bought from a trader, was discovered to be fake fairly quickly; another batch of faked gold, seized from smugglers, had been in their vaults for years. htt
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by chebucto 13y ago
As he said, 'more than Emacs is at stake here.'.[1] I presume this refers to Bazaar's status as part of the GNU project, and that RMS did not want to write off part of GNU without being certain he needed to. Regardless, he ha
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by chebucto 13y ago
examples, please
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by chebucto 13y ago
Slashdot wouldn't be slashdot if it had kept growing for the past ten years; there are only so many nerds in the world. Anyway, Slashdot's icon is still bigger than ycombinator.com's. :)
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by chebucto 13y ago
Race to Mars, a 4-part miniseries by the Discovery Channel, is also worth while. The spacecraft and lander are based on existing ideas for trips to Mars. The physics in it are depicted accurately, as far as I could tell. Problems that arise
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by chebucto 13y ago
It is close in pronunciation to 'wanker news'. Maybe 'Broker News' or 'Teller News'?
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by chebucto 13y ago
Hand written, with a little comment from the author at the top of each page. 'Model Rocketry is fun and educational.' ( http://www2.warnerbros.com/spacejam/movie/cmp/tunes/tunes.ht... ) 'Oy,
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by chebucto 13y ago
This: "In a negotiated settlement he again rejected any suggestion of licensing and went for a cash-out settlement. He repaid us for most of our legal bills and promised to stop selling his program sometime in 1988. Then he fiddled wit
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by chebucto 13y ago
I may have missed it, but I'm still waiting to hear whether the assumption about the 'five eyes' is true: whether the signals intelligence agencies of the US, UK, Canada, Australia & NZ spy on each others' citizens,
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by chebucto 13y ago
DDG defaults to HTTPS links wherever possible; its like having HTTPS-everywhere in your search engine.
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by chebucto 13y ago
I had the same question. I was eventually plopped here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_system-level_virtual... "Operating system-level virtualization is a server virtualization method where the kernel of
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by chebucto 13y ago
The UK has a similar privilege with postage stamps. They were the first to use stamps, and because of that they don't need to put the name of their country on their stamps: "... on May 6, the Penny Black became the world's fi
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by chebucto 13y ago
Good points, though there should be some steps manufacturers could take. They could check for unusual usage patterns, much like credit card companies do. The article doesn't specify but does imply that, in this case, the dealer in ques
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by chebucto 13y ago
FTFA: "“In 1973, the Internet [which at that time was basically the ARPANET] on a good day ran at 50 kb/s,” Metcalfe reflected in his oral history. “Ethernet ran at 2.94 megabits per second.” Over the years, people urged Metcalfe
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by chebucto 13y ago
Funny story, my grandfather was an engineering grad who joined the RCAF during WW2. He survived the war, and soon afterwards - I presume during the Gemini recruitment drive - heard that NASA was looking for people with, basically, his CV -
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by chebucto 13y ago
Ventilation is a major factor, at least on hot days. How does the outside air temperature affect the temperature of underground parking lots? Are they as hot or less hot during the winter? CO is deadly; air must be recycled very quickly. Al
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by chebucto 13y ago
Ack, you're right. My French teachers would not be impressed.
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by chebucto 13y ago
The headline of TFA says "Millions Of Trillions" The headline of TFA's TFA (the source article) says "La DGSE collecte ainsi des milliards de milliards de données". That translates to 'millions of millions&#x27
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by chebucto 13y ago
Easily solved with webrings and pages of links.
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by chebucto 13y ago
Many sites, including most home pages (remember those?) had a page of links, a small curated set of links[1]. Ooh, and guestbooks! Thousands and thousands of guestbooks! [1] http://web.archive.org/web/19991022011955&#x2
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by chebucto 13y ago
Similarly, self-citation is a known issue. http://www.rogerclarke.com/SOS/SCSP-09.html
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by chebucto 13y ago
He did not say "We only give data to the government in response legal requests about named individuals."
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by chebucto 13y ago
I love http://hakim.se/experiments/html5/keylight/03/
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by chebucto 13y ago
Or by size, though I strongly suspect that is by design, to better make you use up your quota.

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