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by dpifke 12y ago
...or they see the business of folks not bothering to cancel their AOL dialup account as complementary to folks not bothering to cancel their landline POTS.
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by dpifke 12y ago
This is an excellent suggestion; thank you. I don't think there would be room for a tablet (or "phablet") in the pockets of any of my current pants or jackets. I wonder how easy it is to identify the cellular antenna vs. the
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by dpifke 12y ago
Related question: does anyone know of any no-baseband devices? I've been unsuccessfully looking for a wifi-only phone, ideally a relatively modern one which comes with an unlocked bootloader and can easily run Cyanogenmod.
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by dpifke 13y ago
The SF Medical Examiner is particularly slow, per a recent article in the Chronicle: http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/S-F-medical-examiner-l...
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by dpifke 13y ago
I work at Google (in Mountain View) and all of the buildings I've worked in here have "nap pods" scattered around. They look kinda like dentist chairs, with a egg-shaped cone that comes down over your head and torso to shiel
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A Roster of TLS Cipher Suites Weaknesses(googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com)
43 points by dpifke 13y ago|19 comments
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by dpifke 13y ago
My personal theory: NSA has gotten in bed with the Hardware Security Module (HSM) vendors. There's essentially only two of them: SafeNet and Thales. SafeNet has bought up all the smaller players. All of the big guys use HSMs to prote
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by dpifke 14y ago
This story somewhat mirrors a similar RMA experience I had with Newegg a year or two ago. I bought several high-end Cisco access points. One needed to be RMA'd, so I boxed it up and sent it back. The problem was that I inadvertently used t
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by dpifke 14y ago
A description of the selection process (by someone who was in the courtroom when the jury was selected) can be found here: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20120416085550303#U... The judge specifically asked if anyone had software
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by dpifke 15y ago
Why does a comment about Apple's documentation need to turn into a holy war versus Android? The parent said that Apple "could improve" their documentation, not that it was worse than Google/Microsoft/IBM/whomever.
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by dpifke 15y ago
Software may be global, but patent licenses for things like codecs aren't.
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Stopping SOPA/PIPA isn't enough; some suggestions for real copyright reform(plus.google.com)
1 points by dpifke 15y ago|0 comments
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Firefox add-on to route around US Government domain seizures(torrentfreak.com)
1 points by dpifke 16y ago|0 comments
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by dpifke 16y ago
Someone came up with a Firefox add-on to automatically use alternate domain names when one tries to access one seized by the US Government: http://torrentfreak.com/firefox-add-on-undoes-u-s-government... I'm reminded of the John Gilmore q
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by dpifke 16y ago
At the the skydiving drop zone I used to help run, almost all of our jump pilots were hired with 500-1000 hours. They were all building time to "move up" to bigger aircraft, better paying jobs, etc. Most easily were able to accumulate 500
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by dpifke 16y ago
Practically nothing? Are there tier-1 providers charging for IP space now? I can confirm that neither Level3 nor Global Crossing charge for IP allocations as of a month ago. (The whole "charging for IP addresses" racket always left a ba
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by dpifke 16y ago
That screenshot was most definitely taken with Google as the HTTP referer. (I'm too lazy to cut-and-paste the URL from the search page into the browser, I just clicked the link.) Clicking the link again shows the additional content at the
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by dpifke 16y ago
That used to be the case, but the complete page as it appears in Firefox to me now: http://i.imgur.com/Lw0Mh.png . The indexed content is blurred out and there's a big ad overlaying it, with no close button or other method to display the
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by dpifke 16y ago
On a similar note, how is the expert sex change site still in your index? They very clearly are serving different content to the crawler (as evidenced by the "cached" link) than they are to people who click through on the SERPs. I though
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by dpifke 16y ago
More information about the vulnerability (which was fixed over a year ago) can be found here: http://www.exim.org/lurker/message/20101210.164935.385e04d0....
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by dpifke 16y ago
Minor nit: this is not the world's first flapless plane. The Wright Flyer used a technique called "wing warping," where instead of movable control surfaces, they flexed the wing to change its shape and lift properties. NASA has a neat simu
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Ask HN Angels: Did you register under the California Finance Lenders Law?
3 points by dpifke 16y ago|0 comments
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by dpifke 16y ago
Does YC have a standard template for the convertible notes being used this round? Would you mind making it public, as you did with the Series AA documents ( http://ycombinator.com/seriesaa.html )?
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by dpifke 16y ago
Even when broken down by industry group and job type (apples-to-apples), public-sector employees make significantly more than their private-sector counterparts, see this Department of Labor press release: http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pd
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by dpifke 16y ago
Even a startup can scrape together $469. But $469 per server is another story, especially in businesses that grow to require hundreds of machines. $469 is a significant percentage of the hardware cost. The last time I bought a bunch of
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by dpifke 16y ago
They can put forth any argument they want to the press, but they can't make an argument to the court that they know is frivolous or not true. It's Rule 11(b) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure: http://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/frcp/R
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by dpifke 16y ago
Exercising control over a given market ("video games for Xbox" or "software for iPhones") in which you have a monopoly is not illegal, it's when you use your monopoly to push out competitors in different markets (such as "development tools"
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by dpifke 17y ago
In my experience, `do-release-upgrade` works seamlessly and you shouldn't fear upgrading. It's part of the upgrade-manager-core package.
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by dpifke 17y ago
While I don't disagree with canceling the current tactical plan ("let's build Ares/Orion"), I wish he hadn't canceled the current vision ("let's return to the Moon/go to Mars"). Maybe the two were inextricably linked, but seems like whatev
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by dpifke 17y ago
That's a fairly insulting way to look at the art of system administration, database administration, and the like. Anyone who's ever been any good at those jobs would disagree that you can automate them any more than you can automate softwa

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