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by drinian 17y ago
Clever, and more practical than two-factor for a lot of situations without sacrificing security. Doesn't necessarily preclude using SSH key exchange on your trusted (encrypted hard disk) personal computer, either. If you're REALLY paranoid,
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by drinian 17y ago
How troubling is it that Tor Project hasn't revealed an attack vector yet (maybe they don't know)? The source message indicates that they don't think the hackers knew that they had compromised Tor servers. How likely is that?
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by drinian 17y ago
Careful; that sort of wish lead to ActiveX and the disaster that is Korean online banking.
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by drinian 17y ago
"Good ratings" for Cartoon Network are different than "good ratings for Fox. There's a reason Fox passed up on the Futurama revival (and this is coming from a Futurama loyalist).
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by drinian 17y ago
Even a standing desk arrangement can totally change your attitude (pun intended). Just make sure to have comfortable shoes or a good floor.
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by drinian 17y ago
Not to mention that I'm not really aware of all that many open Wifi networks just hanging around these days. In fact, I'm currently in Italy, where it's actually illegal to leave your access point unencrypted and open to everyone. (It's a r
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by drinian 17y ago
Nothing like psychological diagnosis via Rolling Stone article commenters... People need to realize that many of these psychological disorders are descriptive of symptoms rather than fundamental physical changes. So what if she's an Aspie?
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by drinian 17y ago
True. I suppose that I would consider it a good thing, taking as a given that 1) a smaller global population is important in the long run, and 2) eventually we will find a way to allow most people to live without having to work 40 hours a w
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by drinian 17y ago
It might be desirable in the short-term, but as an expanding middle class and the one-child policy begin to shrink the population (and that is a very good thing, the world can't support a billion Chinese forever), then China's going to ha
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by drinian 17y ago
Unfortunately, the other two recent American protectorates, Iraq and Afghanistan, have had mixed results. Iraq seems to be doing better because it had pre-existing infrastructure. Afghanistan might be a better analogy. At least it's geograp
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by drinian 17y ago
While traveling in China, I realized that nearly everything about the way they do business, produce goods, etc. is far less efficient than in the US. Many activities that would be automated in the US require the interaction of many people;
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by drinian 17y ago
Bir Tawil would be a nice place for a data haven, were it not landlocked.
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by drinian 17y ago
Mr. Irish moved to Japan in the 1980s after studying the language and history at Yale. He landed a job at Japanese construction firm Shimizu Corp. in Tokyo, rising through the ranks to become a vice president in the New York office. But he
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by drinian 17y ago
Upvoted for clarification; remember that sarcasm and the Internet work great together.
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by drinian 17y ago
The plot description still sounds like "Dances with Smurfs," as South Park put it, but Ebert's endorsement sounds like it could be a really, really well-executed "Dances with Smurfs."
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by drinian 17y ago
quaint expectations of rights and basic human respect. I would wager that someone who had spent serious time in prison would do much better in these situations. This is America. We shouldn't be expected to act like guilty slaves when inte
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by drinian 17y ago
Details now available: http://www.virgingalactic.com/ The unveiling itself is apparently scheduled to take place at sunset for dramatic effect.
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by drinian 17y ago
Level 5 is when you either give up and quit, or get fired for rocking the boat and trying to raise standards (while implicitly making other people look bad because you do better work than them). Sometimes, those two events are temporally co
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by drinian 17y ago
According to the article, it's not illegal for North Koreans to hold foreign currency. I was in North Korea back in August, and bought one of each denomination as a souvenir. Guess they're going to be more valuable now. Foreigners are not a
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by drinian 17y ago
I often find getting organized and clean to be intrinsically pleasurable, and I'm sure I'm not the only one. The larger problem is the rigid work/play dichotomy that many people feel obligated to stick to.
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by drinian 17y ago
Actually, any of a long list of South Park episodes. Although, for the most part, SP tends to be far more blunt and direct with its message.
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by drinian 17y ago
The script was then rejected by every major movie studio before Idle and producer John Goldstone turned to former Beatle George Harrison, who quickly secured the required $4 million. Right, but besides Sgt. Pepper , Life of Brian , and
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by drinian 17y ago
Have you read Cory Doctorow's "Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom?" I think you'd like it.
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by drinian 17y ago
Why are my posts in this thread being downmodded for asking questions about OpenID usability?
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by drinian 17y ago
How is picking the wrong OpenID provider any different than entering an incorrect email and password, because you have multiple email addresses and you couldn't remember which one you used? Were you aware that you can associate multiple Ope
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by drinian 17y ago
I assume that you also operate your own mail daemon, and therefore won't use delegation to MyOpenID for the same reason? Also, were you aware that, for instance, on Facebook, you are automatically logged in whenever you are also logged in t
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by drinian 17y ago
I keep seeing all these comments from folks here that they "can't be bothered," that "it's too much trouble," and so on, and I really want to hear an explanation of why. I mean, if I'm registering at a new website, it seems considerably eas
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by drinian 17y ago
I wouldn't call it "placebo;" more like "social status." Which makes me wonder what studies on males of varying social status would indicate about long-term testosterone levels.
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by drinian 17y ago
Most likely, they were taking the testosterone samples through cheek scrapes or something similar, I suppose.
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by drinian 17y ago
This was eight years ago...

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