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by cynwoody 13y ago
HtmlUnit† is also effective in such cases. HtmlUnit is intended to automate testing of websites. However, the very facilities that enable it to be useful for that purpose also make it useful for scraping. A few years ago, I wanted to analyz
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The original link is now working. He flipped the date in the URL from the 28th to the 29th, then back again.
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http://tubes.io/blog/2013/08/29/web-scraping-javascript-heav...
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Actually, it's Latin for "thus so", derived from sic erat scriptem , or "thus was it written". Used by a quoter to assure the reader that errors or irregulaties in the quote are indeed the fault of the quotee.
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I care about the magnitude of my net worth, not the ratio of Mr Bill's net worth to mine.
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Religious objections were raised when they got around to naming a nuclear fast attack submarine after Corpus Christi. That's why SSN-705 was christened† the City of Corpus Christi, rather than just the Corpus Christi. † http:/
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Gold is quite close to tungsten in density (19320 kg/m^3 for gold vs 19300 kg/m^3 for tungsten). The criminal mind has found use for that factoid: they coat tungsten bars with gold and pass them off all gold (after all, they come
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16 hours makes quite a difference, evidently ... Now Google's entire first page is results about the Samuru search engine, starting with a press release by Stremor announcing their new search engine and touting its use of "languag
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When Google first appeared on the scene, I remember being disappointed in its lack of tweaks, compared to AltaVista. However, the quality of Google's results quickly won me over.
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The old mode was, you put a + before a required term, and you quoted exact (multi-word) phrases. That worked reasonably well and was easy to understand. A + could apply to a single word or to a single phrase, as could a -. Verbatim was a re
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Same here. My first thought was, yet another site succumbing to the NSA. My impression was reinforced by the name, "Alice" being one of three first names (Paul, Alice, Eve) often used when discussing cryptographic scenarios. So, s
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PNG isn't being subverted. The lossage happens before PNG is applied. What you are getting is a lossless copy of an image that has been cleverly preprocessed to be easier for the PNG algorithm to compress while not losing noticeable vi
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The burglar's phone's MAC address in your router's nicely timestamped log would be evidence, I would think, albeit less iron-clad than surveillance video of him taking your stuff. It would serve to bolster the prosecution&#x2
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http://www.mnn.ch/hyph/hyphenation2.html
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Some fodder may perhaps be found here: http://www.dsld.nlm.nih.gov/dsld/index.jsp
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Voting an article up implies interest, not agreement. People vote an article up to see it discussed more thoroughly. And, if they disagree with it, to have it get slapped down roundly.
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Young was indeed back to committing burglaries[0] and even had his son tag along to help load the loot into his vehicle. So, Kristof lies. It's obvious the state charges against Young were dropped only because his federal conviction an
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You box up the item using the original packaging, slap on a return label printed off Amazon's website, and drop it off at UPS (a box or a store). Item arrives back at Amazon, and your account is credited. I've only done it once. I
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Surreal indeed. The subway video looked remarkably similar to what you would see today. Folks were overdressed, but that's about it. However, that San Francisco street cruise was a different world!
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Almost eleven years ago, one Stana Claus contributed† the following factoid to history: Just so you know, some varieties of corn have a dark reddish cob while others have more of a whitish colored cob. When I was but a wee chi
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Sugar is artificially expensive. It's the government's fault, via tariffs and production caps. It's time to make the sugar barons eat dirt (but free of tiny plastic beads — that would be cruel and unusual).
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Probably. But only a small stockpile. A large, multi-year stockpile would be financially suboptimal.
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I dare you to fetch this link (see page 39 — "So you may use iron pipes, pressure cookers, fire extinguishers, or empty propane canisters. The point is that the inflammable substance needs to be contained in a strong container that wou
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I just tried https://www.google.com/search?q=site:tumblr.com+blowjob and got 795,000 hits. Adding a 24-hour recency restriction still shows results past the tenth SERP. I'll have to check back later and see if anything
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Some of those passwords appear not to need to be shuffled. I mean, how about your name and congressional district? Yeah, that would make an excellent password! Or the name of your last campaign! Wow! Name and CD appears to be a common patte
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Yes. There is a reason why we fiddle with stuff like leap-seconds instead of simply letting the second dilate ever so slightly, as Earth's rotation slows down ever so slightly, so that there are still exactly 86,400 seconds in a day. S
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It seems to me, you'd need to redefine the second such that there is a nice round number of them in a day. Say 100,000 to the day. They you could subdivide into hectoseconds (new minute, 86.4 old seconds), kiloseconds (14.4 old minutes
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This is the principle of the air curtain†. The local Whole Foods Market operates air curtains as invisible exterior doors. When you walk through, you feel a strong down-rushing air current. Flying insects can't negotiate it. † http:&#x
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I don't think I've encrypted an actual email even once. However, I do encrypt attachments or drop-box blobs from time to time. E.g., I might make a self-extracting PGP archive of a directory of tax info encrypted with a symmetric
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cusinemakaty also dropped a comment[1] 11 hours ago on Glenn Beck's site, consisting of the unicode-disguised spam followed by a normal comment. The normal comment text turns out to be lifted from a post[2] 15 hours ago by another comm

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