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by drinian 15y ago
What rights do you have as an employee? Vacation time, maternity leave, severance pay? In the US, these things are not mandatory. Good employers (like mine) are relatively generous, but not like what I've heard in Europe.
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by drinian 15y ago
Unfortunately, they left out part two of the TOS episode "The Menagerie." And I think I spotted a misspelling or two in the titles. Of all the titles to get wrong, this is a big one.
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by drinian 15y ago
Broadcast media (as compared with "narrowcast" grassroots media) still plays an enormous role in shaping the national narrative in the US. I would imagine it's the same in Peru.
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by drinian 15y ago
If it's so robust, then why were these hacked passwords being stored unsalted?
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by drinian 15y ago
I've noticed that the Roku box just doesn't have a power button (and doesn't deal all that transparently with being shut off; there's usually a few WiFi configuration screens where you have to hit "OK"). It doesn't draw very much power, tha
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by drinian 15y ago
Given the additional cost to the service provider, it's not that appealing to them. However, this has been done. There was a lawsuit about it, in fact: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2327137,00.asp
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by drinian 15y ago
Malaysia is pretty liberal, but there's still a lot of content, like pornography, that's illegal there. It's probably not just about protecting American content providers.
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by drinian 15y ago
Having observed "white flight" in the US, I agree; it's just that there's other side effects that are desirable for the ruling party.
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by drinian 15y ago
Yeah, I really wish someone would point out to the content providers that they provided DRM-free analog streams for decades (via HBO, Cinemax, etc.) and they didn't suffer because people were taping those for later. So long as Netflix is pu
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by drinian 15y ago
Fair enough, it is a very different situation from the US where most students are taught in the language they speak at home (English).
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by drinian 15y ago
Singapore's position on race is difficult to characterize. This is what I've heard: Most Singaporeans live in government-owned housing blocks. The distribution of the races within each housing block is roughly the same as in Singapore as a
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by drinian 15y ago
Right. I should clarify that in my own case, that meant getting the computer science degree, working for three years to pay off my debt, and then feeling quite comfortable taking a few years off to go backpacking around the world. I knew I
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by drinian 15y ago
It's a lot easier to go look for meaning once you have a solid financial base.
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by drinian 15y ago
Some bridge nodes are blocked in China as well.
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by drinian 15y ago
Upscale food trucks are starting to fill in this gap for many US cities.
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by drinian 15y ago
Interesting that they say most of those lost jobs will be outside Japan.
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by drinian 15y ago
Still, a death sentence?
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by drinian 16y ago
Now that we've got the resolution up to where it should be, can we start shooting at higher framerates, like 60 or 120 fps? I'm sick of flicker.
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by drinian 16y ago
Doesn't really seem responsible to post the vulnerability details to the public list like that, all necessary shaming on weak passwords aside. I wonder if the timing on this has anything to do with Oracle's continued dismantling of the usef
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by drinian 16y ago
In the nineteenth century, there were still many people who argued that certain organizations had a "right" to profit. An excellent read on this topic is Stanley Kutler's _Privilege and Creative Destruction: The Charles River Bridge Case_[0
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by drinian 16y ago
As mentioned in the article, all of these services use the OStatus protocol for interoperability. It's pretty great stuff -- I have a StatusNet instance on my website, and people can follow me from other StatusNet instances, I can follow th
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by drinian 16y ago
Considering how quickly the US military was able to deploy and utilize their flying intelligence drones in the area this week, I expect that extraordinary circumstances cut the amount of required paperwork extraordinarily. Also, these AR Dr
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by drinian 16y ago
Yeah, no mention of encryption, even. This doesn't smell right.
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by drinian 16y ago
You're right, RMS could carry a Free Software phone right now, the OpenMoko. I think that your comment is basically condensing his argument. This problem is bigger than a Free Software issue, but any solution would require a Free Software b
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by drinian 16y ago
It's worth noting that the Chinese government is in fact debuting a system to track the movements of every cell phone in Beijing right now: http://beta.sg.news.yahoo.com/beijing-trial-mobile-tracking-... This isn't a prediction, it's real
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by drinian 16y ago
Energy efficiency only goes so far when we're pushing to power more transportation off of the electrical grid as well.
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by drinian 16y ago
The real problem seems to be people who can't separate themselves from the mistakes they make and take everything as an affront to their person. Receiving criticism means that your idea or work is at least worth considering.
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by drinian 16y ago
I carry just about all that stuff (no chainsaw) in my round-the-world backpack, with space to spare for everyday items. Definitely not overkill.
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by drinian 16y ago
Considering Oracle's MO, I wouldn't be surprised if they try to wipe out the Internet Archive's backup of Sun webpages for copyright reasons. Sigh.
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by drinian 16y ago
It's a long-running Internet meme. I believe it began with IANAL (I am not a Lawyer).

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