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Behind the Scenes Personal Data Sharing to Third Parties by Mobile Apps(jots.pub)
1 points by dmckeon 11y ago|1 comments
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by dmckeon 11y ago
Note that the 1944 90% silver Washington quarters pictured would weigh 6.25 grams each, while the 1965+ cupro-nickel sandwich quarters weigh 5.67g each.
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by dmckeon 11y ago
The researchers report on their tests for memorability in section 3, and for the rhyming method use an FSA of 79 bits.
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by dmckeon 11y ago
Using generated iambic tetrameter to memorize long passwords. Also presented for a more general audience in: http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonkblog/wp/2015/10/22/th...
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How to Memorize a Random 60-Bit String [pdf](isi.edu)
21 points by dmckeon 11y ago|6 comments
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How to Memorize a Random 60-Bit String [pdf](isi.edu)
10 points by dmckeon 11y ago|0 comments
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"Data Science Machine" finds patterns more effectively than most humans(csail.mit.edu)
24 points by dmckeon 11y ago|4 comments
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by dmckeon 11y ago
> The state authorizing religious ministers of scores of denominations to officiate marriages in addition to justices of the peace is not, in any sense, an "establishment of religion." Let's consider that a state (nation-s
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by dmckeon 11y ago
What bbanyc said, for details see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incorporation_of_the_Bill_of_R... and http://leg.wa.gov/LawsAndAgencyRules/pages/constitution.aspx
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by dmckeon 11y ago
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, ..."[0] Why would the state be deciding who is qualified to be an officiant? For civil purposes, think of the officiant as an additional witness or co-signer of
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by dmckeon 11y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Building_Harlequin%27s_Moon suspended animation interspersed with patiently building a habitable environment out of asteroids & comets.
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by dmckeon 11y ago
Try: lynx -nolist -dump -dump dumps the formatted output of the default document or those specified on the command line to standard output. -nolist disable the link list feature in dumps. See also -crawl and -traversal
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by dmckeon 11y ago
To make `info cmd` more like `man cmd` do: info --subnodes "$@" | less
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by dmckeon 11y ago
> Asked if he's tried to rent a second lot for his empty cabs, Kodogiannis said he hasn't been able to find one within walking distance. If only there were some technology by which he could travel a greater distance quickly - p
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by dmckeon 11y ago
> fast terminal lines The speeds mentioned in that time and context are more likely for hard-wired terminals rather than for modems.
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by dmckeon 11y ago
Also similar to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biosphere_2 which local folks referred to by its initials.
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by dmckeon 11y ago
Also only eight minutes away, for the last four billion years. Gravitic containment works.
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by dmckeon 11y ago
It turns out that the 89% relates to the total of taxes uncollected over previous years, which most other countries would have written off as uncollectable debt. As of 2010, Greece collected annual taxes equal to about "34% of the coun
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by dmckeon 11y ago
Showing the top 5 would just move the gaming to a different playing field. Perhaps add 1 item at random (or a per-user configurable N items) from the last few hours of 'new' to the bottom of the front page?
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by dmckeon 11y ago
First, nice work - this is the kind of user interface and lookup tool that could serve as an great example. Next, great job of taking the comments constructively. Last, lest anyone think that the next Silicon Valley is on the King River eas
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by dmckeon 11y ago
Here is a fairly detailed rundown of the situation: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/07/05/7...
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by dmckeon 11y ago
Proposal for the US: shift teens from cars to smaller vehicles: mopeds, scooters, and very small displacement motorcycles - 50, 100, 150 cc engines - and tie advancement in license class/engine size to both age and other achievements:
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by dmckeon 11y ago
>There was also a very surprising artifact brought by one of the veterans: a lucite hemisphere with pieces of Trinitite embedded in it. The Trinitite is not so rare, but the lucite was cast in the same mold that made the plutonium pits
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by dmckeon 11y ago
For a dark perspective on this sort of issue (UK, not SA): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Among_the_Thugs
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by dmckeon 11y ago
Fashion and style have their own internal logic. Extreme example: "pointy boots" in Mexico. http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2015/03/26/395391623/...
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by dmckeon 11y ago
Try exploiting find(1) with -printf, with formats like: find "$@" -printf "%TY %Tm %Td %TT %1y %4m %3n %4U:%-3G %8s %p\t%l\n" and flavor the output elements and format to suit. (this sorts by date well, but wo
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by dmckeon 11y ago
> If someone tries to sell you the Mona Lisa, there’s a pretty easy way to check if it’s real: Just go to the Louvre to see if the original’s still there. Around 1911, this approach was supposedly reversed - the work was stolen, and f
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by dmckeon 11y ago
Not OP, but for more, see: http://truthonthemarket.com/2009/12/29/the-collected-works-o... As a thought experiment, in an environment where for-profit entities will tend to try to increase their profits, cons
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by dmckeon 11y ago
I saw the bidet seat attachments being hawked in the aisle of a CostCo recently, so that may be a sign that people in the US are willing to consider the purchase. http://www.costco.com/toilets-washlets.html Re the "flu
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by dmckeon 11y ago
Some heavily male counties in some decades may be military bases - look for Fort Hood in Texas, Fort Leonard Wood in Missouri, and Cannon AFB in Clovis, New Mexico.

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