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by dessimus 5mo ago
>Barnes & Noble has been plundering the public domain using a book composition/keying house in the Philippines to make their public domain books which they make available in their stores Why is it 'plundering' for B&am
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by dessimus 5mo ago
At least those are mainly going to be adults. In the case of Instructure, there are many K12 school districts using Canvas as well. They are potentially selling lists of underage children along with where they live, and contact info like em
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by dessimus 5mo ago
Or more likely, using this as a distraction from failing military operations that were claimed to have been "won" repeatedly for 2 months, continued raising energy prices while campaigning he would lower them, and the Epstein file
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by dessimus 5mo ago
I mean, if you think about all the motherboard does, and how many layers the PCB has to support all the features such that for a vast majority of users, the only things you need besides the motherboard is a CPU, some RAM, storage (either in
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by dessimus 5mo ago
More like Carl's Jr.: Fuck you! We're eating.
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by dessimus 5mo ago
I'm not familiar with Ruf beyond their inclusion in the Gran Turismo series, but are they actually distinct replicas of 911s, or are they purchased 911s (or sub-assemblies) that are have aftermarket parts swapped, like Shelby-editions
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by dessimus 6mo ago
...implying that's a decision that IT makes of its own volition, and not because every other department has some one-off piece of software from 20 years ago that's no longer supported because the vendor is out of business but its
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by dessimus 6mo ago
That's what I'd expect Big Toast to say!
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by dessimus 6mo ago
Probably thought "Total Surveillance" was too on-the-nose when starting up.
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by dessimus 6mo ago
>Why didn't you put two locks on your door? Clearly you deserved to get burgled if you only used one. I can reasonably test that the bolt is in a locked position every time I close the door and turn handle on the lock. But a single
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by dessimus 6mo ago
Covid doesn't explain the drop from 2012 to 2020 though, as the tests were administered Fall of 2019 and therefore pre-Covid.
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by dessimus 6mo ago
It's been on Project Gutenburg for over 20 years: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13600 They only release books that are in the public domain.
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by dessimus 6mo ago
Could go Greek-Vietnamese fusion with lamb and call it: "φ Faux Phở"
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by dessimus 6mo ago
>The insight here is, that in current warfare, quantity is the quality that matters. And with quantity, cost of replacement needs to be low, platforms expendable, cheap to maintain and resupply. It, and it's support infrastructure T
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by dessimus 6mo ago
Why would they care? They are quite literally the: "No one ever got fired for buying IBM." of their market segment.
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by dessimus 6mo ago
Depending upon the nature of the data, they may need to keep it within the US.
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by dessimus 6mo ago
The article says they returned after that long having forgotten about the experiment. I think they would have recognized there were positive results long before that if someone happened to be checking in at say Year 2, 5 or 10. It not like
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by dessimus 7mo ago
>That site should be taken out back and put out of its misery. With it gone, a large portion of it's users would come here, reducing the signal-to-noise ratio of HN.
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by dessimus 7mo ago
>well by that logic, you can argue every top gov officials who didn't sign up for https://landing.google.com/intl/en_in/advancedprotection/ is incompetent I would, yes. Maybe a director in the Small B
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by dessimus 7mo ago
What are you talking about? There's literally a Cyber Crimes[0] division of the FBI, and they run the National Cyber Investigative Joint Task Force (NCIJTF). They probably know a thing or two about cyber security for high-ranked govern
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by dessimus 7mo ago
If only the Director of the FBI had access to some sort of investigative team, maybe more than one, maybe even enough that they use a collective term for it, something like, I don't know: bureau?
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by dessimus 7mo ago
By that logic, the Taggart Baking Co. should have been one of the richest companies ever, since everyone compares their product to it as the greatest thing since.
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by dessimus 7mo ago
I highly doubt that a consumer would see any financial benefit from this. Sure different grocery stores use different products as loss leaders, but the trade off is time, so rather than the cost of having one person go to one store and by X
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by dessimus 7mo ago
>The US is a huge economy with a massive military infrastructure. Yeah, because famously neither Rome nor Spain nor England had massive military infrastructures for their times.
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by dessimus 7mo ago
"Another Slot A motherboard :(, maybe the 4th one I buy from AliExpress will finally be that X870 motherboard I want!"
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by dessimus 7mo ago
Equally important, it was of a US government official speaking, not content Bloomberg specifically created, such as one of their employees giving analysis.
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by dessimus 7mo ago
I don't know that I'd trust the words of a President that "starts a war with Iran because he has absolutely no ability to negotiate." https://youtu.be/5KV_nIgg008
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by dessimus 7mo ago
Is it? Haven't seen POTUS on a carrier flight deck with a "Mission Accomplished" banner yet, so we got at least 15 years of war ahead.
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by dessimus 7mo ago
It's only fraud if one doesn't keep enough cash on hand to b̵u̵y̵ ̵a̵ ̵p̵a̵r̵d̵o̵n̵ make a campaign contribution.
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by dessimus 7mo ago
Except just legalization is no guarantee of safety or purity. Look at the Vitamin Industry as an example. The general public thinks that manufacturers of those bottles in the vitamin aisle are required to follow the same standards set by th

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