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   by drinian 16y ago

   What's preventing Amtrak from electrifying Richmond-DC and NH-Springfield?
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   by drinian 16y ago

   It's much easier for an attacker with few resources to go fishing for passwords, etc. over an open WiFi connection than it is for that person to somehow gain physical access to an ISP and install a packet sniffer. So, the number of people w
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   by drinian 16y ago

   Thanks -- I've been looking for one of these ever since APC stopped making theirs about four years ago.
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   by drinian 16y ago

   Food. Not too much. Mostly plants.
5. 125.▲
   by drinian 16y ago

   Upvoted solely because one of the authors is named "Axel Rose."
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   by drinian 16y ago

   It's highly likely that there is a genetic component to addiction. This sounds like eugenics -- and the Wikipedia entry on the charity [0] is also somewhat disturbing. However, is this really any different from handing out free condoms? I'm
7. 127.▲
   by drinian 16y ago

   Right, probably misdirected government aid.
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   by drinian 16y ago

   And, of course, with the free PDFCreator virtual printer on Windows, or the PDF generation builtins on Linux and OS X, there's no reason you can't use PDF from any app... Not to mention that PDF generation was probably added to word as a re
9. 129.▲
   by drinian 16y ago

   Stroustroup's comment on his intended audience seems common among successful software: It was done for me and my friends and colleagues.
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    by drinian 16y ago

    How many people use the features in Excel that are missing from OO? Surely it's a small percentage of the total number of Office licenses out there.
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    by drinian 16y ago

    To be fair, my understanding is that different versions of Word will display the same .doc file differently. Also, you should really do that sort of thing as PDF. Quite easy, considering that OO has PDF export built in.
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    by drinian 16y ago

    A good model, perhaps, for the Beijing government?
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    by drinian 16y ago

    I think that Pa Chin's classic novel Family is a pretty good exposition of the cruelties of Confucianism, as practiced in the Chinese middle class last century. Highly recommended.
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    by drinian 16y ago

    I would argue that Singapore espouses democratic ideals like transparency, tolerance, a fair court system, etc., even if their government has effectively gerrymandered the city's population to ensure the ruling party stays in place. The ele
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    by drinian 16y ago

    Regardless, it's almost certainly within the purview of individual states to regulate this.
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    by drinian 16y ago

    China is not a Communist country, and is not following a "communist model." Not to mention Singapore -- who on earth are you? Moreover, China's growth is nothing compared to Japan's economic miracle. The fact of the matter is that China has
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    by drinian 16y ago

    Carter was also a nuclear engineer in the Navy.
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    by drinian 16y ago

    I had the pleasure of downing a few pints with Mahmud at a HN meet last year, and will second that request in an instant.
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    by drinian 16y ago

    Wait, ARM support? Can someone explain how this is possible? The changelog isn't very forthcoming. Are they saying that they support Windows apps that have been compiled to work on ARM?
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    by drinian 16y ago

    While this is really awesome news, the most astonishing thing is trying to contemplate how much archival storage space is going to be required to keep video at this resolution.
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    by drinian 16y ago

    -um would generally be a neutral-gendered noun in Latin. (You're thinking of -us as a masculine ending). Thus, Pentia is the correct pluralization. However, Pentium was at best a pseudo-Latin brand name to begin with, and Pentiums is likely
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    by drinian 16y ago

    Akihabara is more interesting if you're an anime geek as well as an electronics shopper. It's also really nice, coming from a part of the US that has essentially no electronics retail specialists left (Newegg.com is really good, let's face
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    by drinian 16y ago

    Fusion Garage has also failed to provide source code as required by the GPL: http://lwn.net/Articles/404450/
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    by drinian 16y ago

    I'm not a heavy video watcher, so -- YouTube: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/62634 Vimeo: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/56677 Neither of these scripts requires a third-party site.
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    Can you trick your ageing body into feeling younger?(bbc.co.uk)

    33 points by drinian 16y ago|21 comments
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    by drinian 16y ago

    I uninstalled Flash three months ago, and haven't encountered any serious problems. I have Greasemonkey scripts to let me download video from most of the YouTube-like sites.
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    by drinian 16y ago

    Please enumerate some of these "other platforms." Cannot cite IE (too obvious), or Reader (also Adobe).
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    by drinian 16y ago

    One hopes that most university students are living. Degrees are absolutely required, for some people and some vocations.
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    by drinian 16y ago

    It's not a perpetual-motion machine; it uses a "kinetic energy" input. Could be an electric motor, or a hand-crank. But, then, that technology's been around for quite a while: http://www.cleanairgardening.com/portable-washing-machine.ht...
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    by drinian 16y ago

    The most incredible part is that they developed two mobile phone games, "Big Lebowski Bowling" and "Men in Black: Alien Assault"... for a company that later became part of News Corp. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-09-06/kim-jong-il-bow