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by cstross 11y ago
We're not talking about America . In case you've missed the context, the United States Constitution doesn't apply in the United Kingdom.
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by cstross 11y ago
His time served is actually twice as long as the average life sentence served for actual murder in the UK. (Some murderers are in for a "whole life" tariff -- ineligible for release on license -- but in general most are eligible
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by cstross 11y ago
Show me a State-directed gold digger and I might consider accepting your false equivalence. Hint: this wasn't just a relationship between two people, one of whom was deceiving the other about their intentions: it was a relationship t
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Dell shipping laptop with rogue self-signed root CA(np.reddit.com)
400 points by cstross 11y ago|105 comments
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by cstross 11y ago
I also do not understand why I should be expected to tolerate Islam when it stands against many things I'm for You're expected to tolerate it for the same reason they are expected to tolerate your beliefs. (Or those of Chris
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by cstross 11y ago
I read this article as quasi-racist fearmongering, jumping on the Trump bandwagon for circulation figures. Shameful yellow journalism, in other words. Imagine how this article would read if for "muslim" you substituted "hispa
547.
by cstross 11y ago
>(as far as I know, antibiotic and antibacterial are largely synonymous) Not really. Antimicrobial: an agent that kills bacteria or fungi. Antibiotic: an agent that kills bacteria or fungi in the body . This is a crucial distinction. Ph
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by cstross 11y ago
A landmark insofar as it was the first ARM-based computer. Planned as a successor to the Acorn BBC series of educational machines, it was a bit of a dead end in personal computing terms -- a British also-ran to the Amiga and Atari ST famili
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by cstross 11y ago
F14/Phoenix was a fleet defense weapon -- horribly expensive and intensive to operate, intended to stop long-range Soviet bombers from griefing the carrier battle groups (Tu-22Ms and Tu-160s with Moskit or similar supersonic anti-shipp
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by cstross 11y ago
Speaking as a novelist myself , I think she's exactly right. (And yes, I have a CS degree. Oddly, it didn't teach me anything useful about participation in civic life or how to understand the ethical implications of a proposed co
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by cstross 11y ago
200 years ago, we're talking about 1815. Universities were largely training schools for clergymen; surgeons were jumped-up barbers: medical doctors were a trade guild taught by apprenticeship -- only in 1815 in England with the passing
552.
by cstross 11y ago
Robinson's point about the shift towards vocational education (and student debt) inadequately preparing students for participation in democratic society deserves emphasis: this is what the parties responsible want to see happen. (Who
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by cstross 11y ago
Right now this is effectively an app program for cell/tissue cultures -- it's somewhat oversold, but as an MIT project spin-off there are signs that at least some thought has gone into it. It's a long way from being as gene
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by cstross 11y ago
Flagged because link attached to article points to a potential malware site (redirected from tcl.tk).
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by cstross 11y ago
This isn't new; it's been known about in the west for decades -- the outcome of Yuri Andropov's Operation RYaN, and the way it coincided with the Able Archer exercises and the shooting down of flight KAL 007. https:/&#x
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by cstross 11y ago
Note that a chunk of this can be laid at the feet of most pre-demographic transition cultures' expectations of female work roles -- "barefoot, pregnant, and in the kitchen". A necessary first step is female education and prov
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by cstross 11y ago
Nit-pick: the problem with the Z-machine fusing D-T is that the D-T reaction kicks out a ton of neutrons. Once you turn a plasma research experiment over to actual fusion, you end up with secondary activation of the machine's core comp
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by cstross 11y ago
Also GREAT if you're trying to identify untaken phishing domain names to register for your next scam!
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by cstross 11y ago
If they can come up with a variant on this that is specific to arsenic, the implications for Pakistan are huge . http://www.dawn.com/news/356241/lahore-high-arsenic-concentr...
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by cstross 11y ago
The foundation of Apple'a current success is based on this principle -- curation of a selection of best options from a wide possible range makes buying decisions easier for customers than giving them the whole phase space. Before Steve
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by cstross 11y ago
"Airliners are mostly aluminum. Aluminum has well-understood properties, including flight. So if an airliner stops flying we can fix it by filtering out whatever impurity was responsible." Sounds nonsensical to you? Good. Because
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by cstross 11y ago
So I'm expecting any successful civilisation to start colonising the spaces between the stars, rather than the star systems themselves. Before you start writing your book, you might want to familiarize yourself with the prior art in
563.
by cstross 11y ago
If this is life, in a life-as-we-know-it sense It's much weirder than that; after all, there's been life on Earth for at least 3Bn years, but space-going life for only the past 57 of them! Stack it all up: if this is some sort
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by cstross 11y ago
It's not practical to design everything in the world with the very slowest people in mind. The efficiency losses would be huge. Imagine if every pedestrian crossing light went for five minutes. Vehicular traffic would grind to a stand
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by cstross 11y ago
The BUK-M isn't something where "someone was drunk and decided to give a lesson" -- it's the Russian equivalent of a Patriot missile battery, with a platoon-sized crew and several support vehicles (radar and command truc
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by cstross 11y ago
These practices predate refrigeration, antibiotics, and -- believe it or not -- the stethoscope (which in its recognizable binaural modern form only dates to the 1850s, and took some years to catch on after being invented). With no easy way
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by cstross 11y ago
Put on your [hypothetical] black hat and consider all the myriad ways you could abuse a tool like this before you start selling it as a service. (Because abusers will flock to any new service as soon as it becomes available, in the hope t
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by cstross 11y ago
This is basically a spamming tool. Downvoted.
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It could be worse: China's citizenship scoring and the new totalitarianism(antipope.org)
6 points by cstross 11y ago|0 comments
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What will robocars actually be like?(singularityhub.com)
2 points by cstross 11y ago|0 comments

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