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by dsuth 13y ago
Having seen this happen in a number of internet communities, where women have described the reasons they would no longer visit, and having watched these communities change from reasonably well represented by both sexes to almost exclusively
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by dsuth 13y ago
Thanks for your posts, primitivesuave. I have to say I was surprised and extremely disappointed with the ridiculously defensive (of mostly strawman arguments) and needlessly accusatory posts in response to yours. Needless to say this is an
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by dsuth 13y ago
Thermodynamics was never my favourite subject, but I suspect what happens is that the water boiling at the lower temperature created a higher pressure within the kettle (hence the screaming noise as pressure escapes the small nozzle), allow
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by dsuth 13y ago
Last line of the post: > I also believe this change is actually a much better example of leadership than the one I was exuding. When a leader shows the way toward getting things done and balancing their life, it sets a much better exampl
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by dsuth 13y ago
It would be wrong to suggest that they're 'on our side', whatever that means, just because they met with Schneier. This could be a publicity stunt, a fact-hunting exercise (What exactly do you know, Mr. Schneier?), or just a
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by dsuth 13y ago
Agree with this. The best manager I have had (in an engineering consultancy) used to be on the tools, but refused to do any more 'real work'. Instead he spent all of his time managing the team of ~30. Eventually upper management d
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by dsuth 13y ago
Much like every other paginated site with constantly updating content in existence. Just link to the next page with whatever the current content for that page is. People can figure out that items they're looking for get bumped from one
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by dsuth 13y ago
That seems like a narrow definition of software freedom , but in that case I'd argue that the utility gained from software freedom is not as valuable to users as the incentive gained by developers for being able to distribute their sof
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by dsuth 13y ago
Their freedom has not been reduced, as they are still free to choose an alternate, FOSS operating system if they prefer. Instead, they have access to more options than they otherwise would have, because it's highly unlikely that Apple
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by dsuth 13y ago
If you're using an unsupported hackintosh in a workstation role (presumably at work) I really don't know what to say.
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by dsuth 13y ago
Which Apple is fixing with a free replacement policy. There was a similar glitch with 2010-era MacBook Pros, which was uncovered in a new OS or firmware version in 2013 - 3 years later. They fixed mine (complete replacement of the main logi
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by dsuth 13y ago
In... a library?
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by dsuth 13y ago
I clicked the link expecting to see this book. It's pretty impressive (and beautifully finished besides).
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by dsuth 13y ago
That is not the entire debate. Pacifism and non-violence are not the same as inaction. It's a question of intent. It's indisputable that yanking a child's arm to remove them from danger is NOT violence, because the intent is
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by dsuth 13y ago
Do you have any kind of source for that?
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by dsuth 13y ago
Yeh, what a ridiculous beat-up piece. Nothing of substance. Thanks for the heads up, I'll know to avoid in future.
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by dsuth 13y ago
You want to talk about shitty targeting, I pull up a Radiohead clip and the entire background becomes an ad for Rihanna. Great work YouTube.
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by dsuth 13y ago
I was really expecting the former when I clicked the link. Pity, that would have made a better, more directed post IMO
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by dsuth 13y ago
Honestly the thing that caused me the most concern was that the "which way does the rock on the moon drop" question was considered of average difficulty, in a University course. And only ~half of the students got it right. That&#x
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by dsuth 13y ago
Not really, since the control system wasn't connected to the internet. They did, however, rely on "air gap" security, as you appear to be proposing. Defense in depth is the only valid model of protection, but this requires in
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by dsuth 13y ago
It's a great question, and as someone heavily involved in industrial control systems, I ask myself and others that a lot. The only real reason I've heard comes down to cost and support. It's easy to develop software for Windo
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by dsuth 13y ago
So basically you have to micro-manage the project in extreme detail, which: a) takes up a lot of your time; and b) requires in-depth knowledge of programming tasks. That doesn't strike me as a very useful arrangement. If the guy
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by dsuth 13y ago
Who would set up a contract releasing a developer from all obligations, prior to app acceptance, on the handwavy notion that the dev would fix it for free outside of contract? That's just... not how business works. Milestones are organ
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by dsuth 13y ago
Yeah, that's a serious problem for me, essentially using their leverage with the Google platform to keep competitors out of the market. Not cool Google.
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by dsuth 13y ago
Original artworks have greater value due to scarcity. It's pretty simple supply/demand - if everyone wants artwork from a certain artist, those pieces become more valuable. The same reason the value of artwork tends to spike after
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by dsuth 13y ago
The Streisand effect in this case would be Mayor Bloomberg's reaction, threatening to destroy any of Banksy's artwork found and arrest him if possible. Honestly, he couldn't pay for that kind of publicity, and unless the good
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by dsuth 13y ago
While that is useful, in Windows-land the result would only be another message box to click-through, asking if you wanted to make the file executable, which no average user would understand, and therefore just click OK. If they even took th
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by dsuth 13y ago
> the US still has a fairly strong "fruit of the poison tree" doctrine: any information the government happened to obtain on other users would be invalid for prosecution because it wouldn't be covered by their search warra
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by dsuth 13y ago
15 minutes per day is not long enough for effective learning. I think you'd be better off with 1 hour 3x per week for a similar time investment - especially when you take into account setup time and context switching.
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by dsuth 13y ago
As do engineers, for that matter.

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