curiousdannii

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   Non-lethal rounds used to stop gunman in Queen Street mall siege(heraldsun.com.au)

   2 points by curiousdannii 14y ago|0 comments
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   by curiousdannii 14y ago

   Subsistence farmers in developing countries often have quite happy lives. I've lived in PNG, and the biggest thing they lack is health care, but that's getting better all the time. Farmers in developed western countries probably have it wor
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   by curiousdannii 14y ago

   I don't try to prevent Facebook from figuring out who I am or what I do. They should have a huge amount of info about me, but their ads are still entirely irrelevant.
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   by curiousdannii 14y ago

   The Chromium developers really dislike localStorage ( http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=58985#c7 ) They'll have to fix this bug, but I won't be surprised if they try to remove localStorage entirely soon.
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   by curiousdannii 14y ago

   I don't doubt what you say, but would that mean that once you've used up its ammunition an empty gun is no longer considered a firearm in US law?
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   by curiousdannii 14y ago

   I'm no expert, but compared to the Weimar Republic it looks like Nazi Germany relaxed gun control considerably, unless you were Jewish. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_politics_in_Germany
7. 67.▲
   by curiousdannii 14y ago

   Maybe because of the last three words?
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   by curiousdannii 14y ago

   I almost wonder if you should be liable for having a gun stolen, unless you can prove it was adequately secured.
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   by curiousdannii 14y ago

   So a silly question: does the constitution protect the right to own ammunition as well as weapons?
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    by curiousdannii 14y ago

    Well we in Australia are so very disadvantaged in that not only are guns hard to buy, but our banks are strongly regulated too. Oh, and don't forget about Medicare, all those doctors being paid by the government. It's depressing.
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    by curiousdannii 14y ago

    Got an example where guns which were allowed were then banned by a government which then turned tyrannical?
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    by curiousdannii 14y ago

    Don't miss the announcement that Firefox for Android now supports ARMv6! Many ~$100 Android phones now have the option of a better browser!
13. 73.▲
    by curiousdannii 14y ago

    2: Right next to your brain, the safest place for a radio transmitter to be!
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    by curiousdannii 14y ago

    Hmm, they look almost photoshopped. And if the "screen" was at the height of your eyebrows it would be completely unusable!
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    by curiousdannii 14y ago

    I really hope this includes QtWebKit!
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    App(xkcd.com)

    27 points by curiousdannii 14y ago|0 comments
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    by curiousdannii 14y ago

    The ligatures aren't especially creepy, but they're still bad. It is very odd to use the blatant st and ck ligatures and not use f or t ligatures. And maybe it's the fact that you're using slab serifs? I haven't considered this before, but
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    by curiousdannii 14y ago

    I thought the opposite -- the ligatures seem like they're supposed to make the company look fancy, but when combined with the photos of the founders I just felt creeped out.
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    by curiousdannii 14y ago

    When did the redefining of a KB from 1024 bytes to 1000 bytes happen? And has it truly happened? If you get 2GB RAM don't you get 2048 MB, not 2000 MB? I've always thought it was just the harddrive manufacturers being stingy, claiming their
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    by curiousdannii 14y ago

    I know a dev on the OLPC project who told me they found bugs in the firmware of the SD cards they were using for their laptop 'harddrive'. I imagine it'd be a whole lot of fun fixing them.
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    by curiousdannii 14y ago

    Apple have always managed to get good contracts with schools -- almost all the computers in my primary school were Apples. It doesn't feel right that tax payer money should go to a company which charges $110AUD for 16GB of disk space.
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    by curiousdannii 14y ago

    Very easy for all but MATTEL. For MATTEL I went with the one which was kerned better, and no surprise, it was Helvetica!
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    by curiousdannii 14y ago

    A popup preventing me from closing the page? Seriously? In 2013?
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    by curiousdannii 14y ago

    You're missing like, all the verbs! "switch on", "read" are the ones I came across in the first minute. Seriously think about implementing everything which the How to Play IF Postcard mentions: http://pr-if.org/doc/play-if-card/ For tha
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    by curiousdannii 14y ago

    Thank you! How had I not noticed that? In Windows GIMP refuses to show up in front of other windows. I must minimise everything else until it shows up. Single window mode works perfectly.
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    by curiousdannii 14y ago

    Cool, but the "highlighted" images are anything but.
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    by curiousdannii 14y ago

    Anyone else thought this would be a report on the number of moribund human languages in 2012?
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    by curiousdannii 14y ago

    Comments have been disabled long before this redesign.
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    by curiousdannii 14y ago

    That is how most attempts at humour come about...
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    by curiousdannii 14y ago

    Rebranding like this can work okay -- The University of Queensland introduce a new logo recently, which is quite similar to the UC one, and use it along side the tradition shield. I don't love UQ's logo or its colour scheme, but it's not te