derobert

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by derobert 15y ago
When you say "all manufacturing is outside the US", you have a very interesting definition of all . You may want to check UNIDO's industrial statistics, for then you'd find that the largest manufacturer country is not China, Japan, Taiwan,
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by derobert 15y ago
Even worse than not obey them, they've been known to treat them as confirmation that their spam is being read, and send more spam in response. Or sell the email address to other spammers as a confirmed-good address. It used to actually cost
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by derobert 15y ago
The servers don't need to run X. X runs on your machine. The servers will need to have the X11 client libraries installed, but no X server.
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by derobert 15y ago
Ignoring for a moment the ethical question of if its OK to trade your convenience as a person benefiting from the transaction for an uninvolved person's: 1. Before the near-universal requirement for confirmed opt in, it was a reasonably com
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by derobert 15y ago
Well, Superuser, not Stack Overflow. Go to about:config and set browser.sessionstore.resume_from_crash to false. http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.sessionstore.resume_from_c...
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by derobert 15y ago
Quick research tells me that there ar about 45,000 cases of leukemia in the US per year. Equally quick research tells me traditional treatment easily comes to $400k, and comes with terrible side effects. So, if you had a fairly reliable (at
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by derobert 15y ago
Fonts increasingly venture outside of locales. Its very common for one font to have all western-European characters, or even all European (including Cyrillic) characters. This is especially true for the default system fonts. CJK fonts often
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by derobert 15y ago
Google Maps on Android uses the system TTS. The one that ships with Android (Pico TTS) is indeed pretty bad, but you can buy better ones in the Market (e.g., SVOX Classic).
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by derobert 15y ago
You should be able to use graphical tabs over ssh with either X11 forwarding (ssh -X user@host) or by using vim's remote file syntax: gvim sftp://user@host/path/to/file (see :help netrw)
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by derobert 15y ago
Yes, that's from the creditor's viewpoint. Its a statement of the economics accounting identity I=S. Actually, it's even more fundamental than that. If you wish to have (different, or perishable) goods/services tomorrow by forgoing them tod
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by derobert 15y ago
Only if you take a very liberal definition of memory. The following probably isn't an infinite loop, even though it'd look like one under normal definitions of memory (either RAM or RAM+disk): $ while ping -W 2 -q -c 1 www.google.com;
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by derobert 15y ago
Just like Yahoo (the established player at the time) bought Google out in the early 2000s, right? http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-6071461-7.html And then how Yahoo failed to compete with AdWords because of corporate politics, worries ab
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by derobert 15y ago
This is a great example of why you should use platform UI, and shouldn't try to re-invent them: 1. Click the mouse and hold. The button doesn't depress (huh?) 2. Release the mouse button. Now it depresses (wtf). And actives. 3. Hover th
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by derobert 15y ago
Sorting through them might be making a compilation, which has separate protection under copyright law. It wouldn't extend to the photos in the compilation, but only the compilation itself… I have no idea if sorting through monkey photos wou
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by derobert 15y ago
Copyright (under US law) is for creative acts. The creativity in a photograph is things like setting up the shot, framing it, choice of subjects, lighting, angle, aperture, focus, etc. If there is no creativity, there is no copyright. See
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by derobert 15y ago
NTPd does. However, in order the eliminate it, it assumes the RTT is symmetric, that is half is on the journey to the remote, half on the journey back. Asymmetric links do lead to systemic error in NTP. (It assumes symmetry because there is
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by derobert 15y ago
Possibly its a historical accident: UNIX was released before the first leap second, and before anyone could have known they were needed (back when seconds were defined in terms of Earth's movement). Around its release time, the definition o
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by derobert 15y ago
Actually, UTC isn't enough for storing a date, at least not a date in the future. If I schedule a single event for 3pm on October 1 (currently in the future), I expect it to stay at 3pm. Even if my city hosts the Olympics: http://support
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by derobert 15y ago
Currently, in my area, there are at least four different choices: FiOS, Comcast, DirecTV, DISH Network. At yet all four offer similar programming packages (big blocks of channels). This seems to be evidence against your hypothesis.
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by derobert 15y ago
No, bash doesn't and didn't have its own limit. On an ancient system (Debian Sarge), ARG_MAX=131072: $ bash --version GNU bash, version 2.05b.0(1)-release (i386-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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by derobert 15y ago
Additionally, not all mobile apps are the same; e.g., 7 days is certainly too long for games, but probably just fine for a calendar app. The Android market already lets you customize your trial duration, though in a second-best manner—you u
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by derobert 15y ago
On (modern, i.e. 2.6.23 and later) Linux at least, you won't hit them quickly: $ getconf ARG_MAX 2097152 and if you do hit them, they're very easy to raise: $ ulimit -s 32768 $ getconf ARG_MAX 8388608 xargs is
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by derobert 15y ago
The IRS generally allows rounding to the nearest dollar on tax forms (at least individual and small business; not sure if large corporate are allowed to round even more). In fact, all the common tax software does so automatically; the only
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by derobert 15y ago
The much more obvious way to implement this would be to have a tamper-proof hardware dongle that (a) accepts, as input, a passphrase; (b) uses that passphrase to derive a key; (c) used that derived key to decrypt some data stored, e.g., in
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by derobert 15y ago
The bars are different sizes and in different orders, this makes it much harder to compare by flipping between browser tabs.
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by derobert 15y ago
For another stark example, compare them to the damage done by properly-operating coal plants every year. Mining coal, just mining it, directly kills more people every year (on the order of 10k) than Chernobyl will. Then there are the variou
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by derobert 15y ago
Ignoring for a moment the objections of value (which a bunch of other commenters have already pointed out), your two scenarios don't line up at all: Piracy: A has bits X. A wants to give B copy of X. B wants copy of X. Third party C (record
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by derobert 15y ago
I don't think you understand how fast MD5 is. On the order of 10 billion MD5/sec is doable for very cheap. If you're going after millions, getting multiple graphics cards is a no-brainer. See, for example, http://www.golubev.com/gpuest.htm
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by derobert 15y ago
There unfortunately isn't a command to hardlink the file. ln will fail, because /proc is a different filesystem: anthony@Zia:/proc/28590/fd$ ln 4 /tmp/bar ln: creating hard link `/tmp/bar' => `4': Invalid cross-device link
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by derobert 15y ago
I may be missing something, but when you take 1000 lux and 0.1m², and come up with 100 lumen, the obvious way to put those numbers together is 1000lux × 0.1m² = 100 lumen. That's where I got evenly spread over a 30cm square (30 being the sq

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