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by cynwoody 14y ago
> He could also order due process to start tomorrow. The correct course of action, obviously. > Maybe there are a few issues with sending people back to their countries, but certainly not in all cases. Well, as Commander in Chief, h
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> generating pronounceable passwords Prior art! That program was written by thvv in 1994[1], based on much earlier work[2]. [1] http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/quantal/en/man1/gpw.1.ht... [2] http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?
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> Patent trolls suck. But with out patents there is no incentive for innovation. Tell it to Larry and Sergei. Without patents, where would they be? My guess is, just about where they are now. Plus a compounded increment for not having t
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Truth is an absolute defense to a charge of snark. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/27/opinion/a-failed-earthquak...
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>Bear in mind that about half the users under 10 are also over 90 It's called second childhood. May you someday be eligible, but yet escape achieving it. As for the fonts, you can be sure the octo- and nona- hackers will have long sinc
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Let me guess ... You are either an aging gopher, born 9 April 1981, or you are an eleven-year-old.
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Quantcast thinks [1] the top three age groups for this site are 35-44 (37%), 45-65 (24%), and 25-34 (15%). Of course, Quantcast also estimates the gender ratio at 53/47 M/F. To be sure, Quantcast is measuring lurkers + members, whereas this
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I'm sure Larry and Sergey would agree. The what-to-build skill trumps the how-to-build-it skill every time!
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After both his parents had died, Howard Hughes got himself emancipated at age 19 (in 1924) so that he could take over the family business.
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How does it help vendors of tax preparation software and services if Norquist and his group succeed in getting taxes reformed, simplified, and lowered? I think the reason Norquist opposes measures to make the existing tax system easier to l
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> I don't know if you are US citizen or from other American continent citizenship LOL! Although the Western Hemisphere is a big place, and North and South America comprise a lot of countries, I can assure you, in standard English, and f
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An established pattern of action, indeed! That Adria would object publicly[1] to a fun little talk by Danielle Morrill on Getting the Money Shot[2] is what we need to know to understand this case. [1] http://butyoureagirl.com/5004/wordcamp-
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The acronym expansion is to be found right in TFA's title. Sometimes going right to Google isn't the fastest way.
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From your link, it's quite clear they intend a political statement — about privacy in the age of search engines and social networks and the economic underpinnings of same. Why is Google free? Because you are only the user, not the custome
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> You can change the operation of instructions after the hardware is made, make custom sequences of instructions, or even fix microcode bugs (while uncommon, there have been cases in the past). I am reminded of the famous Intel Pentium
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>Refusing to ship a physical product to a first-time customer at anything other than the address where their card is registered seems a sensible practice Knowledge of the billing address is a means of authentication, as is knowledge of
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A few years ago, gas stations around here starting asking customers to enter their ZIP at the pump. Not long after they started doing that, many added a clarification: billing address ZIP, not residence ZIP. Apparently, some customers tho
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> Now you also have some vendors who make sure the billing address == shipping address as that's a cheap way to prevent fraud (or at least reduce it). I use a PO box as my billing address. I never have anything shipped to my billing add
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> The mercury is elemental mercury which isn't very toxic, and extremely poorly absorbed on top of that. That's fortunate. When I was a kid, we used to amuse ourselves by coating pennies with elemental mercury. Very shiny! Of course, so
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From a Verizon FiOS connection in Massachusetts, I get: $ traceroute thepiratebay.se traceroute to thepiratebay.se (194.71.107.15), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets ... snip ... 3 ae0-0.bos-bb-rtr2.verizon-gni.net (130.81.20
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I used to have an account with New England Merchants Bank. My ATM PIN was seven digits. But I noticed that the ATM screen would flash after the first four. A little trial and error revealed that that was all I needed to enter! Comparing not
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Interesting. xyzzy scores 'instant'. My B of A pass phrase, Jer1m1ah Cl4rke, scores 31 years. Should I change it? https://dl.dropbox.com/u/209/zxcvbn/test/index.html Edit: I just checked 9223372036854775808L, and it answered 'centuries' w
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Quite moronic of Evernote. HTH is J. Random User supposed to figure out that mkt5371.com is a service hired by evernote.com? A minimally alert user would click the Report Phishing button upon mousing over. By including a link that happens t
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Must have been slow work. > (+ 2 2) ... Wait 18 minutes ... => 4
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She should have figured out right away that he was confusing his log-in password with the billing password and explained the difference. Reading the chat log, I failed to pick up the problem, and I am a Verizon customer. A few times talking
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So, he's lazy. Or maybe he was lying to Crystal in an effort to underscore the hazards of Verizon's procedure. However, that doesn't affect the validity of his article. I personally would never use a banking, brokerage, or charge card [edit
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The fact that he had successfully logged in should have been good enough for that purpose. At most, a paranoid system might be designed to require a second login before a sensitive change, on the theory that a screen might have gone unatten
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On what grounds can they delete discussions of illegal content?
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Nothing silent about it, in my experience, at least. I was trying to send a self-extracting encrypted archive (full of documents) to my tax guy. Google wouldn't accept the .exe attachment until I added .remove to the end of the name. The in
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Interesting. According to the Wikipedia[1], the 1318 km Chinese Jinghu High Speed Railway (350 km/h) came in at about $27m/km. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-speed_rail_in_China

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