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   by dmoney 17y ago

   Which ISO is that?
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   by dmoney 17y ago

   Does Github offer the assurance that customers can build their businesses on it? If you want an SLA you will probably pay more than $9 per month (beyond the implicit SLA of "I'll take my business elsewhere if somebody else has better uptim
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   by dmoney 17y ago

   They could block whatever location the fake account was accessed from, but the attacker could try one account each from lots of different locations (perhaps through a botnet). For this to be useful the bank would have to lock all account a
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   by dmoney 17y ago

   Except clay tablets and this: http://rosettaproject.org/disk/concept/
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   by dmoney 17y ago

   So this seems to make open-source software aboard a spacecraft illegal. At least the software specifically intended for spacecraft operation. That's a shame.
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   A way to determine dinosaurs' colors(m.npr.org)

   27 points by dmoney 17y ago|2 comments
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   by dmoney 17y ago

   Even if he needed to invoke Greenspun's Law in the process... The question is whether that always happens for a complex system. Because if it does, then every sufficiently advanced programmer is a lisp programmer.
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   by dmoney 17y ago

   A tl;dr summary helps to figure out which 10 page essays to read, and which would just waste of 30 minutes of your life.
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   by dmoney 17y ago

   I think a better word would be "outfix".
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    by dmoney 17y ago

    It should also be bad PR if they give out their customers' information when they don't legally have to. It's also possible they didn't realize the subpoena wasn't legally binding. Edit: They didn't just give out his info to the police: some
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    by dmoney 17y ago

    I recommend reading the full speech: http://thevarsity.ca/articles/23855
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    by dmoney 17y ago

    What's a v-team?
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    by dmoney 17y ago

    AOL may be thought of as a loser, insofar as their business model no longer continues to be profitable. But they brought millions of people onto the Internet, myself included, and even if those users no longer use AOL, nothing can take tha
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    Space Suits(projectrho.com)

    1 points by dmoney 17y ago|0 comments
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    by dmoney 17y ago

    One reason to share: all that juicy knowledge in your brain will otherwise be gone when you die.
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    by dmoney 17y ago

    Not really the same ground. Hilarious and insightful though.
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    by dmoney 17y ago

    All the big words hurt my head. Well, my finger from going back and forth from dictionary.com. From the petition he links ( http://www.oism.org/pproject/ ) signed by "thirty-one thousand scientists": > The proposed limits on greenhous
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    Clearest sign yet of dark matter detected(newscientist.com)

    8 points by dmoney 17y ago|2 comments
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    by dmoney 17y ago

    From the disposable paper laptop article: I kno eventually someone will figure out the tech bit, so let’s see who will take the bait. Well that's the real trick, isn't it? But it seems to me that if we could have games like this for $20
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    by dmoney 17y ago

    That's still about 100 million people.
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    by dmoney 17y ago

    I only see one actual post, some 875 days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37824
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    by dmoney 17y ago

    And if your users play it anyway, you know you have a real winner.
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    by dmoney 17y ago

    Previously mentioned in Doctor Dobb's: http://www.ddj.com/hpc-high-performance-computing/184406478
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    by dmoney 17y ago

    I hope it does. What would the next level be?
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    by dmoney 17y ago

    Am I wrong for thinking this is lame for being suborbital? Would orbital designs based on the same principle be feasible?
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    by dmoney 17y ago

    Here's an idea for an open source search engine: If you could make the search index small enough, only the crawler would have to be hosted. The actual search engine would run on each user's machine and download the diffs to the index regu
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    by dmoney 17y ago

    From number 33: Mankind constantly analyzes radio waves from outer space in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. Since this analysis started, almost all of the signal sources have been identified. 37 signals, however, remain unexp
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    by dmoney 17y ago

    This is impressive, but I think there's a point where something is no longer a "model plane" but a "UAV". And I think that point might be when it has autopilot. A really cheap UAV, which is a pretty cool idea IMO.
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    by dmoney 17y ago

    Maybe people tend to choose harder or riskier ventures the second time around.
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    by dmoney 17y ago

    I wonder how many humans you lose that way.