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by drcube 14y ago
I've noticed lots of SSIDs designed to scare people away. "NSA", "Viruses", "SpyNet", etc.
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by drcube 14y ago
"If you think the Internet is valuable, then you implicitly think porn is valuable, too". Porn has to be at least 20% of the Internet, right?
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by drcube 14y ago
I hate to disagree with the inventor of the internet, but TLDs are not necessary. Not new ones, not the old ones. (While I'm at it -- Mr. Gates, file name extensions should not be necessary either.) A domain name should be composed of a str
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by drcube 14y ago
"Cloud" is not the future, with governments like these. All you entrepeneurs better take note. Also, it's probably just a matter of time before PaaS and SaaS servers are taken down because the political winds shift against a few apps locate
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by drcube 14y ago
I was surprised to read that Facebook has its own operating system. Does anybody know anything about this? Count me in as someone who would never use a Facebook phone. Might as well use a CIA phone. I'm all for watching the competition thou
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by drcube 14y ago
Yeah, the name is unfortunate. There's actually another programming language called Go! as well. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go!_%28programming_language%29 It's not the only one. Try Googling for "Processing" and getting relevant program
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by drcube 14y ago
I think Facebook needs to get into the business of selling my data to companies I personally trust to have it. Imagine letting me auction off my corner of the Facebook graph to companies that bid for it and I trust to sell it to. I get paid
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by drcube 14y ago
I would go further: Any intellectual property funded with taxpayer money should be put in the public domain.
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by drcube 14y ago
The problem with eugenics is that it necessitates a central authority over the human genome. No unified standard will fit all people, and human rights and reproductive freedom must be pushed aside in order to accomplish such a goal. This is
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by drcube 14y ago
Democracy itself is supposed to be a method of experimenting with governance. Try making a law; if it doesn't work, repeal it and try another, or else tweak it until it is right. The federal system is the same way; try one set of laws in Ca
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by drcube 14y ago
This Straight Dope article[1] from twenty-five years ago attempts to answer the same question, with the answer being mostly "we don't know". However, some of the "maybes" in this article are cited in the video as fact. One thing the article
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by drcube 14y ago
That is some pretty lame graffiti. Check out Style Wars, or just watch a train next time one goes by. Three monochrome letters in a shaky script is extremely underwhelming compared to real graffiti art. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Style_W
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by drcube 14y ago
Flinging pigment against a flat surface made Jackson Pollack an artist. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson_Pollack
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by drcube 14y ago
I thought this was going to be about a wiki-style government. But this is cool too.
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by drcube 14y ago
He said it was remote desktop software.
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by drcube 14y ago
I'd argue yes. Microsoft Word is a domain specific language for formatting documents. Just because you can't create an OS with it doesn't mean you aren't telling a computer what to do using gestures and keystrokes that you had to learn firs
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by drcube 14y ago
What do you think the "W" stands for in WASP?
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by drcube 14y ago
Well he told the boss to hire me. He didn't hire me personally. I think there's a fine line between networking and cronyism. Someone off the street ought to be able to get a job without knowing any of the employees. In my experience, that's
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by drcube 14y ago
How much is a Windows license these days? It seems to me it would be cheaper, or at least equal in price, to install a clean copy of Windows rather than go to the trouble of "decrapifying" your computer. I realize a lot of Windows users don
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by drcube 14y ago
You're right, a lot of times studio costs come out of the artist's advance. And there are plenty of local studios that musicians can pay to record in. But still, one of the big things (in my mind) labels have going for them is state of the
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by drcube 14y ago
How can this be true? When companies are hiring, do young people suddenly get better at finding work? Or is it more like the bottom X% of job seekers will be under- or unemployed, and sometimes X is 5%, sometimes it's 40%? A lot of people g
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by drcube 14y ago
Anecdote time: I was in the Army before I went to college, so I didn't graduate until I was 27. I got a 3.8 GPA in electrical engineering, but I was still unemployed for over a year before I got hired as an engineer. It was a pretty dishea
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by drcube 14y ago
Where's the recording studio? That seems to be a big part of what makes a record label a record label. Will musicians still have to pay for studio time, production, etc? If so, this seems more like music promotion in the cloud, rather tha
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by drcube 14y ago
"Glenn A. Britt, the company’s chief executive, said in a group interview on Friday that the challenge for digital video was that there was no simple way to get Internet-based video onto the television screen." The CEO has never heard of HD
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by drcube 15y ago
dwm: http://dwm.suckless.org/ xmonad: http://xmonad.org/ awesome: http://awesome.naquadah.org/
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by drcube 15y ago
I just downloaded this game the other day. It was fun for awhile (it still kinda is), but there are only so many words. I get repeats every day. And some words are just bizarre. How am I supposed to draw iCarly (some Nickelodeon show), when
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by drcube 15y ago
What that actually means is that you have to claim a birth date of over 13 years ago. There are certainly plenty of children younger than that on Facebook.
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by drcube 15y ago
Personally, I'm looking forward to cheaper and cheaper computing, rather than more and more powerful. Raspberry Pi is just the beginning. Wait until Sandy Bridges are as cheap and plentiful as 555 timers. I'd also like to see some sort of w
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by drcube 15y ago
Can somebody tell me who is considered "Gen X"? I thought I was, as a kid, but I believe I might even be too young. Kurt Cobain was in Generation X, right? I was 11 when he died. Where does that put me? What about my 5 year old? The whole i
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by drcube 15y ago
>...unless you subscribe to an extremely simplistic ideology. Politicians with these ideologies don't generally get elected... Only politicians with simplistic ideologies get elected. What world have you been living in? "Soundbite phi

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