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by drinian 16y ago
Not Jewish, but I went to school with a lot of kids from successful Jewish families of varying levels of religiosity. I think at this point that the whole "overbearing Jewish parents" thing is more of a self-conscious joke than anything els
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by drinian 16y ago
Hacker News is a good example of how to make a site "bland" and yet instantly recognizable, I think.
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by drinian 16y ago
Most South Korean discussion sites and forums more or less require you to supply your national ID number before you can register. Until recently, a lot of SK banks also used ActiveX plugins for "security" instead of SSL, making it basically
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by drinian 16y ago
(Disclaimer; I am not a lawyer, but I have studied the history of Constitutional rights). As far as I know, there's no specific right to international travel in the US Constitution, but the law and the courts have generally held that with
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by drinian 16y ago
This is a fine exposition on the state of the world today -- and the hope that these hard-working global citizens will help create a more equitable world -- but it's worth remembering that there's nothing new under the sun. After all, the B
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by drinian 16y ago
Almost certainly a response to the 600 gigabyte Intel SSDs that should be on sale any day now. http://www.anandtech.com/show/3965/intels-3rd-generation-x25...
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by drinian 16y ago
If it can track updates to packages, it'll be great news.
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by drinian 16y ago
I do remember a pretty good computing column in Boys Life magazine, actually.
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by drinian 16y ago
You're probably right, although that's another problem. I've heard (this is not my area) that most of the big, expensive machines all use their own proprietary image formats. Although I once had some emergency dental work done in New Zealan
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by drinian 16y ago
That's not the best comparison if we're talking about digital books, which take up nothing but a tiny amount of hard-disk space to "stock." I seem to remember that Amazon was named after the river with the most volume in the world, a pun
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by drinian 16y ago
All of Moosejaw's marketing is like this -- their boxes ship to you with a stamp saying something like "Sealed with a kiss by JOE," and they hand out Moosejaw bumper stickers that say something like "Camping * Kayaking * Hiking * French Kis
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by drinian 16y ago
1,000 characters? What, are they paying for storage by the byte? Was this system designed in 1960? For that matter, were any doctors involved in the design of the system? How on earth do they store medical imaging, compress it down to 128
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by drinian 16y ago
I've heard a lot of speculation, including the "someone else's house" explanation, but never anything definite. Are you certain about SDF Macross originating the term? Also, Patton Oswalt's true sin here is grammatical, by pluralizing "otak
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by drinian 16y ago
I used to know several people who subscribed to HBO/Showtime/Cinemax/etc. and had built up enormous VHS tape libraries off those networks. Naturally, the DRM necessary to stop this hadn't been invented yet. And yet all of those companies ha
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by drinian 16y ago
If they're only checking up on him when he appears to be hiding something, that's nothing. You see, a former co-worker of mine spent about a month (spread out over many weekends!) in the infamous "Tent City" jail in Phoenix, AZ after a DUI
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by drinian 16y ago
The issue isn't the market, it's DRM. I'm only aware of one unbroken DRM scheme on Linux, and that's Hulu's proprietary Flash plugin usage. Binary-only Flash is a performance nightmare on Linux, regardless. Netflix will support Linux the da
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by drinian 16y ago
As a counterpoint, I think that it is possible to have Wal-Mart, privacy, consistency, etc. without the isolating effects of sprawl. For example, imagine if stores were forced to internalize the true environmental and traffic costs of large
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by drinian 16y ago
No bank should be storing passwords as plaintext, therefore the content of your password should not be their concern.
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by drinian 16y ago
Who is protesting for [other marine species]? https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Pacific_bluef...
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by drinian 16y ago
Er, isn't that an excellent use-case for hiring more beekeepers?
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by drinian 16y ago
Although the rhetoric coming out of China still hearkens back to the bad old days of Mao, I can guarantee you that North Korea is a completely different world from China. I've been to both countries. Let me put it this way: choco pies [0] a
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by drinian 16y ago
Not a commune, exactly, but you can go live on a tropical beach with other American hackers with CocoVivo -- http://www.cocovivo.com/
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by drinian 16y ago
I agree -- Dilbert shows that the US is just as prone to these problems.
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by drinian 16y ago
Still, presumably he had a choice not to support the war effort with his full technical abilities.
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by drinian 16y ago
Can someone explain the advantage of this over a magstripe credit card, from a consumer standpoint? The card companies charge high fees, yes, but I would bet it's a lot faster to swipe a card than get a barcode on your phone, scan it, etc.
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by drinian 16y ago
Can't wait to see that get abused.
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by drinian 16y ago
You're right, this is the same technology used for the Gorillaz tour a few years back. In that case, some very talented, real musicians were hiding their wrinkles and gray hair behind the screens.
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by drinian 16y ago
These tools would tend to damage the idea of an HTML document . Really nasty for accessibility.
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by drinian 16y ago
Someday, I'd like to try this. But right now, every day, I write the book.
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by drinian 16y ago
These are just poorly designed webpages, regardless of when they were made. After all, Craigslist is also "stuck in the 1990s."

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