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by donarb 9y ago
Having one's email forwarded to another address can also be subject to fraud. Haven't done it in awhile, possibly you now have to go to the counter and show some id, but it used to be far too easy to fill out the little card and h
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Intellectual Ventures ramps up push to commercialize inventions(seattletimes.com)
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Virtual environments are not just for conflicting requirements. I write code for clients on my laptop and don't want to clog up my packages directory with project specific libraries that I'll never use myself. Once the project is
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And if you reboot your phone you must enter the passcode in order to enable TouchID after that.
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Not just bankruptcy. Banks and businesses contract with check verification companies such as ChexSystems. I had a friend who bounced a check and it took him a few weeks to reimburse the bank. By then the bank closed his account and reported
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by donarb 9y ago
When talking about outfielder, the article was talking about a player who was passed info from a trainer while they were on the bench. His position was just mentioned for information.
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They may have been thinking about the transaction code. Every purchase generates a unique one-time transaction code for that vendor for a specific amount. That along with the Device Account Number is transmitted to the payment processor for
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The inner envelope is essentially a safety mechanism to ensure that the person who might have read the name on the outer envelope does not accidentally see one of the voter's choices on the ballot.
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Mark Cuban's Blockchain Project MercuryProtocol Arrives(fortune.com)
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Although in 2008 the SC upheld Washington state's modified primary system, called the top-two primary. In the top-two primary the two candidates who receive the most votes go head to head in the general election. Candidates no longer a
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by donarb 9y ago
Note that this is used by campaigns prior to the election to be able to target voters that have not yet voted. Here in Washington state, you receive your mail-in ballot 3-4 weeks before Election Day. I usually return mine as soon as I get i
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by donarb 9y ago
You do know that Apple makes mobile devices, right? And so it would make sense that Apple is part of the group the supports hardware standards in the mobile device industry, they're not just a lobbying group.
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Or the ever popular habit of deleting large unknown files to free up space on disk.
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My favorite Lincoln quote is "Don't believe everything you read on the internet".
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On the Mac, the escape key has been used forever in dialogs as a surrogate for the Cancel button or for dismissing dialogs where the results are non-destructive.
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Could be one of two different strategies there. The first is that the product is of high quality, and so the manufacturer can afford to replace the item since the failure rate is so low. The other is that the product is low quality, so the
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by donarb 9y ago
Are you saying that patent examiners are paid for each application that is filed?
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by donarb 9y ago
You can download/store your email to a medium that you control, like a portable hard drive. Storing email online invites theft and can provide hackers with personal information that can be mined for personal info.
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by donarb 9y ago
There is no optimal picking. Apples you buy in the store can be up to a year old. Washington apples are picked at harvest time and stored in refrigerated warehouses to be distributed nationwide throughout the year.
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by donarb 9y ago
It's not change that is alarming, it's the rate of change. In the past, you'd have something like 1 degree C of change over the course of tens of thousands of years. Now you have that same change in less than a few hundred ye
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by donarb 9y ago
But those other people who can't cycle can do other things. Rural people may not be able to cycle, but they can probably grow some or most of their own food. Everyone can contribute in their own way.
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by donarb 10y ago
When defining fields in COBOL, you use a series of 'X' or '9' to denote the field type (alpha or numeric) and the length.
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It's called Braeburn, a type of apple.
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Where in the article does it say that Flattr is going to be integrated into the AdBlock software?
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Here in Seattle, it's been said that developers can afford to keep ground floor space empty in apartment developments as the apartment rents adequately cover the financing. You see lots of ground floor window covers (pictures of happy
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It is Mac only, but it is open source (Obj-C). Some enterprising developer could port it to Windows or Linux. https://github.com/git-up/GitUp
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And before that, women were poisoned with radium, which was used to mark watch dials with luminous paint. What's remarkable was that executives and scientists were aware of the toxic nature of the radioactive paint, yet the women were
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Couples' dad also worked for the city at the golf course and so provided his kid with many free opportunities to play golf.
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Apple was started on April 1, 1976.
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What person goes and reads all applicable laws before taking a job? You've got federal/state/local laws to sift through. And who's to say that a company can't hire lawyers to comb through old laws looking for loopho

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