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by eksith 13y ago
It's not exactly a basement operation. I mean WikiMedia is basically one of the busiest destinations on the web running on donations alone, so even if the majority of sites aren't affected that much by switching to HTTPS, at the v
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by eksith 13y ago
This was pretty much my experience as well. Also, a lot of the time, these TSA folks were just kids. I wouldn't be surprised if most of them are still barely out of high school.
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by eksith 13y ago
I don't get this at all. The regulation is to keep "taxis" "safe"? Then if these are inspected and insured vehicles, the drivers have proper drivers' licenses and passengers are wearing seat belts, then what mo
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by eksith 13y ago
I think maybe this idea has floated around (no pun intended). There's a nice demo for teachers here : http://www.cmu.edu/gelfand/k12-teachers/polymers/polymer-and... Ironically the plastic was polypropyl
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by eksith 13y ago
Remember when the AACS crypto key was leaked a few years back and everyone was getting cease & desist letters? People began taking it down, Digg was scrubbed, no one paid any attention to it whatsoever. It totally worked and every one f
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by eksith 13y ago
He should put it on a t-shirt and call it free speech. http://www.cypherspace.org/adam/shirt/uk-shirt.html Or turn some portion of it into a flag? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Free-speech
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by eksith 13y ago
The article is listed under the Technology & Science heading and deals with exactly those fields and the environment. In addition, the following key trigger words are present : pollution, plastic, research, science, scientists, PCBs,
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by eksith 13y ago
There's an interview of Jeremy Paxman with Parkinson that touches on the responsibilities of a newly elected PM which include writing (in their own handwriting) orders for the commanders of the nuclear subs. These are to be read in the
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by eksith 13y ago
You can do something with Twitter instead. No reason to completely drop a project if the first place you look to host it doesn't seem appealing. Twitter has their share of warts, but they're markedly different when it comes to the
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Performance preview: The Moto X sports a great GPU, respectable CPU(arstechnica.com)
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by eksith 13y ago
That wasn't the linked story on this thread, but I found this bit interesting : A spokesman for the FBI told to the Guardian on Thursday that its investigators were not involved in the visit, but that "she was visited by
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by eksith 13y ago
That's just an indication of how much TAW is milking this story for all of its shock effect before the facts are fully established. Besides, in the original article, she said the guns were holstered when they were talking to her husban
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Wait a moment. Before you get carried away, we still only have her word. Also on the piece : In a conversation with The Atlantic Wire, FBI spokesperson Peter Donald confirmed The Guardian's report that the FBI was not involved i
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by eksith 13y ago
This isn't from HN, but I've noticed an implicit bias against devs from South and Southeast Asia (can't speak for China). On my resume, I go by the shortened form of my first name, not "eksith" and that was a consci
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Tough and Tasty: Recasting a Resilient Weed as a Wild Edible(science.kqed.org)
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by eksith 13y ago
Not sarcasm. Yes, supplies are one of those first things as well, but I've been to plenty of charities to note that when things get overwhelming (and it's very easy to get to that point, even before they realize that's what
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by eksith 13y ago
It mentions fairly extensive fraud protection, which other pre-paid solutions don't offer. I've used a few pre-paid cards while travelling and companies pretty much treat them as cash. If you lose it or get scammed, you've ju
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by eksith 13y ago
I'm certain I've come across these incidents, but the one thing they and the SO recruits will have in common is that they don't understand what makes a community[1]. That is still their biggest weakness. Also, from what I&#x2
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by eksith 13y ago
But among which parties? Blind allegiance and antipathy tend to bump into things frequently. The noise they cause makes them easy to spot. There's noise in any community, but if it's the same alley cats, you learn to ignore them.
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by eksith 13y ago
Especially since expertise is usually one of the first things bought with donated money.
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by eksith 13y ago
I'll bite. "And let's not have the illusion that HN an pg are too smart to be manipulated by people..." You're vastly underestimating how many people are interconnected in this hodgepodge of gray matter we call HN.
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I knew that sounded familiar! "In The Dark Knight and the follow up The Dark Knight Rises a Shepard tone was used to create the sound of the 'Batpod' - a motorcycle that the filmmakers didn't want to change gear and to
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by eksith 13y ago
They may have used an existing public profile since he's already displayed it openly. He's a realestate broker after all so, presumably, he's got "nothing to hide".
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by eksith 13y ago
That UI looks awfully similar to a theme I've seen used in SharePoint Portal Server. I hope that's not what they use for the front end, but I wouldn't put it past them.
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Two years later, Senator’s criticism of NSA spying sinks in(arstechnica.com)
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"once you've made that choice you are within my domain" Often, I haven't made that decision; an ad/tracking/analytic company has made the decision for me and often not for my benefit. If I'm visi
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by eksith 13y ago
There's one hiccup in this line of thought: You can't always predict how the flashy toy tech will turn out to be a benefit later on. Case in point, Kinect. It should have been just a play accessory, but it's being used to hel
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The Human Clock(humanclock.com)
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"...so is actually finishing what you're working on and having it run efficiently." A "finished" product is usually a dead one and efficiency is relative. You've seen that incremental improvements to the entire
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That would only work if it had a really silly default similar in a way to "automatically connect to available Wi-Fi network" even when it's unsecured. It's possible the manufacturer may have overlooked something like tha

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