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by eksith 13y ago
I presume he's already been to the U.S. by now. There are a number of people I know who have kept a new passport just to travel to places like Israel because of the restriction on allowing travelers from many Arab countries. Of course,
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Oh, it's a lot worse than that : http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/20/linkedin-sued-hacki...
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I was thinking the same exact thing. Also, I hope he kept detailed journals, at least, of all the time he spent dodging danger.
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“Some of the least travelled people I’ve ever met have been to 100 countries, or even as high as 170 countries — what they do is fly between major cities and especially capital cities, stop off in the airport or take a hotel for
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That's true. One of our neighbors used to take out the front wheel just for storage when he got out of the elevator. There's just no room and folding bikes are still a little expensive (unless you're lucky enough to score a u
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I live in New York and we have tons of bike shops. Actually the area I live in attract a fair number of tinkerers and it's not unusual to see some weird contraption affixed to a vehicle that was formerly a bike. And used bikes in prett
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Retrofitting avoids the problem of needless waste and cost when it comes to the vast quantity of existing bikes out there. I don't want to buy a new bike if I can avoid it so replacing a wheel is quite a bit more appealing. I can&#x2
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Secret court argues again that it’s not a rubber stamp for surveillance(arstechnica.com)
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Fleet of eBee drones capture the immensity of the Matterhorn(gizmag.com)
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by eksith 13y ago
Yep! That's the one. Thanks. A pretty unpleasant job no matter what angle you look at it. I remember this bit the most : "Google covered one session with a government-appointed therapist — and encouraged me to go out and get
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To this day, I believe the best method for picking out these images is a human censor (with appropriate, company provided, counseling afterward). Edit: No shortage of stock image reviewer jobs https://google.com/search?hl=en
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by eksith 13y ago
There's one overriding factor that's preventing Microsoft from holding on to its reins. The company doesn't really understand simplicity. I remember a post here about someone who worked at MS and how everyone just sorta waft
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The definition of "proper warrant" is rather shaky as it is these days. Besides that, there methods (short of shuttering your business in protest) to prevent access to data without denying access to law enforcement. You can't
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by eksith 13y ago
Correction: Facebook does use Nginx. As does Hulu, Zappos, Zynga and Dropbox. http://venturebeat.com/2012/06/18/nginx-the-web-server-tech-...
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by eksith 13y ago
I agree. Which is why I keep a single GPG encrypted text file with all the login stuff to things that matter. Only one password to remember and everything is backed up regularly.
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That's possible. WordPress and of course Yandex.ru use them, I think, almost exclusively (there may be a few edge cases where they need to use something else). That's a pretty sizable chunk of traffic right there.
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How LG and Samsung curved their phones differently(arstechnica.com)
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Not to mention, the poop.
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It could work better with residential buildings, I think. Our building doesn't have a helicopter landing pad or anything that fancy, but it's fairly clear and well-maintained (no debris or trees growing up there). There's no
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Much like the (re)discovery of Absinthe production, I believe a lot of these crafts will be rediscovered and preserved. The difference these days, rather than centuries past, is the exceptional amount of documentation and preservation of te
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I could have sworn I read that as "that works with Internet companies". Like I said...
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These days, zip code solves a lot of our location issues. In another product, we simply elected to request location data from the user's phone as a secondary option.
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"The change from the strong OpenSSL cipher list to a hardcoded one starting with weak ciphers is either a sign of horrible ignorance, security incompetence or a clever disguise for an NSA-influenced manipulation - you decide
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by eksith 13y ago
Biomass pellets (or similar compressed fuel) is probably closer to natural gas in exhaust than loose fuel like wood and sticks since they burn much hotter. There are tons of examples online on how to build rocket stoves out of old LPG cylin
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This has happened to me. It's definitely a risk, of course, and there's little you can do short of losing your friends and any semblance of a social life these days. You could have a chat with them and see if they're willing
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The internet is not delete-friendly at present. There are scrapers for every feed, every network and every keyboard has a print-screen button. Just as "the only winning move is to not play", the only way to ensure your informati
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One thing that struck me is that this layout is immediately intuitive. Unlike Dvorak and of course QWERTY or any other popular layout, I can already picture myself typing in it (of course I learned on QWERTY, so I wasn't in-tune with k
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by eksith 13y ago
I'm not a PHP-guru, but it's entirely possible that they're playing around with some background configurations that would make performance tweaks in some sections of the code difficult if they're defined variables. I gue
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What a great set of lists! I had a sudden flashback to the days of the "Beowulf Cluster of X" meme, but in all seriousness, my favorite used to be towns I've lived in or visited, but that too is a bit cumbersome to remember i
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I agree. It seems the biggest gripe with Ubuntu is Unity (and some of Gnome 3, but that's a whole 'nother can of worms). I've been on Linux Mint - Ubuntu / Debian based - and it's closer to Windows 7 than Ubuntu&#x2

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