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by drcube 14y ago
Dude, poor people don't fly. It absolutely has to do with class. The systems set up to serve the poor are significantly worse than the TSA in every way, and I say this as someone who hates the TSA with a white hot passion. But the blogosphe
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by drcube 14y ago
I think in general, more realism is a challenge for the director. I've seen many HD movies and television shows where it feels like I'm really on the set, rather than really in the place the movie is set in. Anyway, I haven't seen the H
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by drcube 14y ago
I don't see why other people can't test his software for him. I'd do it. FB Purity is the only thing keeping me on Facebook, so I have no qualms about risking my account for it. I'm gone as soon as it stops working anyway.
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by drcube 14y ago
This is actually the solution Facebook has taken. I'm an avid FB Purity user and almost every single update is a workaround for minor code changes on the site that serve no purpose except to break FB Purity. Maybe there wasn't one guy who
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by drcube 14y ago
That's up to the browser, too. Doesn't Firefox already block Flash from auto playing, or is that one of my add ons that I forgot about? Every time I go to a site with Flash, there's a big gray square with a play button in the middle of it.
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by drcube 14y ago
No, it doesn't.
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by drcube 14y ago
No. It used to be that you didn't get ads on cable TV because you already paid for the channels. Then the ads came anyway. Just because you pay for an internet service doesn't mean you avoided the privacy concerns that plague free services.
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by drcube 14y ago
I only knew him from Stand By Me. He stopped being "that minor character from Star Trek" long ago. He's "internet famous" due to his blog and tech advocacy, with a boost from the occasional appearance on Big Bang Theory.
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by drcube 14y ago
Is Wiki server space scarce? I should be able to post an article about the tree in my back yard if I want. "Notability" is simply not something an online encyclopedia should be worried about. Not that BBS history isn't notable. I'm just say
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The Quiet Wikideath of BBS History(ascii.textfiles.com)
115 points by drcube 14y ago|174 comments
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by drcube 14y ago
http://www.slackware.com/ Slackware is simple, easy to use, and "it just works". It's free software so of course it's hackable. It's not as GUI-y as an OSX fan might like, but otherwise, it fits your requirements. It even has the "top dol
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by drcube 14y ago
So the MPG rating is based on the power plant emissions per mile's worth of energy consumed by the vehicle and comparing that with gasoline emissions? That's great, but like most consumers I want the MPG based on miles per dollars. For exam
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by drcube 14y ago
Cool. You could use this to set up a "Random Amazon Purchase of the Month Club" and have a decent side business.
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by drcube 14y ago
194.71.107.15 Who needs DNS?
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by drcube 14y ago
Synchrophasors are timestamped data from individual measuring devices on the power grid, such as relays. If you can control those devices on a live system you absolutely can do a lot of damage. However, there are often several layers betwee
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by drcube 14y ago
No, you only expect it to send the URL when you hit "enter". For instant results, however, it must send each character typed to Google. Also, when I type a non-google URL into my address bar, I don't expect Google to be notified. As it is,
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by drcube 14y ago
There are hundreds of distros, and Ubuntu is the only one that does this. Ubuntu != Linux. Who is using the rhetorical trick, again?
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by drcube 14y ago
Because utilities are connected across vast geographical areas. Usually, you can get by with local control in isolated stations, but some applications (such as synchrophasors on the power grid) need wide area networks for control. And it is
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by drcube 14y ago
They're on it. :) https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-terminal/+bu...
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by drcube 14y ago
It is clear when you're on a browser that your search terms and text inputs go to a server somewhere. And RMS has plenty of warnings about such things as Google Instant, Facebook "likes" and other sneaky ways websites spy on you. But at lea
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by drcube 14y ago
I came back to Ubuntu when I got a System 76 laptop earlier this year with it preinstalled. I was actually impressed. It was pretty good, with some tiling features I liked and lots of keyboard shortcuts. But the prospects of 12.10 spyware m
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by drcube 14y ago
"Scroogled"? Wasn't that an FSF campaign or Cory Doctorow story or something? Pretty sneaky of MS to co-opt it. Perhaps we've been Microscrewed?
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by drcube 14y ago
For N <= 8, making allowances for lunch hours and breaks. Short periods of time (measured in days, not weeks) can be spent working for N > 8 hours per day, but it becomes counterproductive (from the employer's business standpoint, n
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by drcube 14y ago
"I always wonder why so many programmers act like we are all just drug dealers or gun runners, immorally making money from software we write. Do you think carpenters feel this way?" The problem isn't making money. It's the corrupt and user-
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by drcube 14y ago
"IN PRIMARY school Babbage learned that there were nine planets in the solar system. None were known to exist outside it." There were only 7 planets known when Charles Babbage was a youth. Neptune was discovered when he was an old man, and
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by drcube 14y ago
"Of course cheap and accessible software would be a lot better, but there’s so little of that going around." GNU. I have no problem with pirating (except for the word). But why illegally download an expensive OS when better, free versions a
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by drcube 14y ago
"Bill's Shoe Store on Main Street. We sell shoes!" -- not a lie. The very definition of advertising, to me, entails dishonesty and lying. Otherwise it's like the sign for Bill's Shoes, plain old information. Can you point me towards any adv
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by drcube 14y ago
This seems to be about value to the advertiser . There is no value in advertising for most of its victims, or for the world in general.
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by drcube 14y ago
It wouldn't be that big of a deal if the cops just searched his computers/hard drives, concluded he wasn't involved in the child porn, and gave him his hardware back with a "sorry for the inconvenience". But it doesn't happen that way. If A
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by drcube 14y ago
They've been stepping in this direction for about ten years now. Nothing has come of it yet.

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