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by dotBen 15y ago
Is this just a QR scanner that has a history feature? Keeping the photo makes sense in theory, but most of the time the code itself takes up the entire photo and so the context (magazine page, advert, etc) is out of the picture.
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by dotBen 15y ago
I've been a happy homebrew user since it launched - anyone care to comment on the benefits/improvements of MacPorts V2 over homebrew?
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Google Plus Deleting Accounts En Masse: No Clear Answers(zdnet.com)
174 points by dotBen 15y ago|111 comments
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by dotBen 15y ago
The spi.dod.mil server is clearly overloaded and downloading this is difficult. Can anyone who's downloaded this give us an MD5 hash on the files as I'm going to try to download this from a mirror (why the DoD hasn't published an official
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by dotBen 15y ago
I'm really curious to know what this was originally designed for. It has consumer-friendly "Windows XP" style UX and the user it logs into isn't root/sudo. This all leads me to conclude the original purpose of this tool was for "normal peop
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by dotBen 15y ago
I agree. I totally agree that corporations need to be paying these taxes. Totally agree. But let's be clear what will happen. Their profits will immediately drop. They will put up prices in order to stem the decrease in profit. We will al
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by dotBen 15y ago
"I live in a beautiful place, by the beach, in a safe neighborhood. Someone has to pay for the lifeguards, police, fire department, sanitation, libraries." I tend to agree with the concept we should all be paying more taxes here in the US
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by dotBen 15y ago
I think it's really strange how the father of the minor went onto Reddit to discuss what happened. And somewhat naive if this is a significant FBI investigation.
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by dotBen 15y ago
Given that anyone donating is presumably using nginx somewhere would be very easy for them to restructure this as "paying a voluntary license for the use of nginx at a $ amount to be decided by the customer"
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by dotBen 15y ago
Unless they're hiring a bajillion people, I'd have thought they would just hire from their own network. In fact, they could probably hire a bajillion good people from their network anyway. Seems strange.
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by dotBen 15y ago
It's kinda crazy to think that many tents at REI sell for more than $700/300€ eg http://www.rei.com/product/779454/mountain-hardwear-trango-4...
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by dotBen 15y ago
In China, when the CPC decides to do something, it happens, no matter how many heads roll in the process. Sadly, 'heads rolling' is closer to the truth than you probably meant. Human rights abuses of workers working on state-sponsored pu
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by dotBen 15y ago
Did anyone else think this was something completely different? For those of us with a British education "bundling" in education means something very different... Best demonstrated via video I think: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJ6lsa3V5
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by dotBen 15y ago
Sure but that has conflict of interest all over it, and while Arrington can be as conflicted as he likes... ...a) people don't have to read TC and as the level of conflictedness for that site increases more and more people will stop reading
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by dotBen 15y ago
Ok but this isn't my biggest peeve with recruiters. My biggest peeve is when they ask me to refer them potential candidates - either specifically ( "can you intro me to <person x>" ) or generally ( "do you know anyone that would fit
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by dotBen 15y ago
i've lived in SF for 6 years. I have no idea where you can get nice 1BR place with GG Bridge and Bay Views for $2k! Let us know!
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by dotBen 15y ago
While I’m not in the position of my good friend Rand, who’s gone on the record saying that his life savings is $25,000, I was not previously wealthy I continue to be of mixed minds as to whether having personal wealth (or not) leads to a
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by dotBen 15y ago
Back in April GoGrid had their entire customer database - including credit cards - hacked ( http://blog.liox.eu/2011/04/20/security-breach-at-gogrid/ ). It was a pretty serious breach. I'm not sure if this person's hack is related (eg an a
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by dotBen 15y ago
BTW: I just discovered that Airport Extreme is SNMP compatible so you can get the bandwidth passing over the wan port that way. If you have a Mac always running on the network, you can try freeware app http://www.thotzy.com/THOTZY/Thotz/En
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by dotBen 15y ago
How did you check, I couldn't see anywhere on Comcast's site that gave this info. I used to have a DD-WRT router with bandwidth monitoring but we're now using an Apple Airport Extreme, and I don't think it has such capability :/
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by dotBen 15y ago
When I've needed to do this, I've used a spreadsheet (with some sophisticated conditionals to get a net "you owe" matrix for each person in the group based on a list of shared expenses paid for by different people. In other words, it isn't
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by dotBen 15y ago
What's the purpose of these patents? To stop other people doing it, would be my guess. If someone were to patent troll you (other than IBM, I guess) you could say that they were performing a practice that they didn't have the rights to pr
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Amazing invention: using a water bottle to provide sunlight into slum housing(reut.rs)
13 points by dotBen 15y ago|2 comments
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The future of vanity TLDs: Porn’s .XXX business plan(zdnet.com)
2 points by dotBen 15y ago|0 comments
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by dotBen 15y ago
It all comes down to how much risk you want to take. (In general:) Consumer orientated startups have the potential to become ridiculously valuable companies - lets just define that as a valuation of $1bn+. Facebook, Twitter, FourSquare (so
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by dotBen 15y ago
There already exists a minimal DHCP client implementation in the Linux kernel, but it lacks certain features such as configuring the DNS nameservers. I wonder if it is possible to use the kernel-level DHCP client to instantly request the
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by dotBen 15y ago
I'm not clear how this is better than a given startup using Printfection (or similar company) to offer print-on-demand tshirts that are fulfilled and shipped directly to the buyer. Looks like prices on Printfection would be same or even sl
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by dotBen 15y ago
$10/hr - clearly they don't know the going rate for security researchers and pen-testers. Or perhaps I should circulate this to the guys I use, to get them down a bit :)
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by dotBen 15y ago
Since when is forking open source code 'stealing' it? Oh boy, what can of worms am I opening here...
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by dotBen 15y ago
[I] had no idea this was something that would be interpreted this negatively. So perhaps the authors didn't either. The original author, when challenged, renamed the package to 'Misaka', an Anime character portrayed as an 11-year old who

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