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by epo 16y ago
Lots of people, lots of motivations. The motivation behind this leak was petty revenge, "we do it because we can", no good can come of it and it was literally senseless.
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by epo 16y ago
Ooh! downvoting, there's a compelling counterargument.
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by epo 16y ago
This is ill judged and shows Wikileaks to be immature as the motivation could only have been some form of juvenile revenge, this has probably damaged their credibility beyond repair. Little or no public good comes from this, any more than d
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by epo 16y ago
You didn't begin in column 7 but wisely avoided the continuation character.
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by epo 16y ago
Remember your eyes degrade with age regardless of surgery and at some point you will need glasses again. The nearer you are to your mid 40s the less time you will have free of specs. The procedure is a cosmetic one and the potential downsid
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by epo 16y ago
"If I knew then what I know now?", but that would have spoiled the fun. You are a product of what you did and read at the time, different influences would have produced a different person.
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by epo 16y ago
IMHO it's really best as a lo-fi paper based system. The act of having to rewrite re-entered tasks lets you revise the description as you go.
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by epo 16y ago
Be aware there at least 5 variants of this system. His latest is called Super Focus and tries to account for the arrival of unscheduled urgent tasks, see the discussion forum for the most recent description.
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by epo 16y ago
Just curious, if you already have decent hosting couldn't you just implement this by installing openvpn on your existing virtual machine (or whatever)? Is there anything which specifically requires EC2?
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by epo 16y ago
I'm not logged in and it worked for me (I am a subscriber though), does this work? http://www.economist.com/node/17626972/print
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by epo 16y ago
How did this get voted for? The doctor is far more knowledgeable about a VERY complex engineering system (the female reproductive system) than you or your brother are ever likely to be in any sphere of knowledge. She probably hadn't, as you
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by epo 16y ago
The trouble with the law is that it generally requires proof and a victim.
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by epo 16y ago
The big impact on humanity will come from the seemingly small things. E.g. clean water for all and better health education. These are not 'sexy' and so don't seem like BIG ideas but most of humanity doesn't give a toss about a Mars mission
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Economist books of the year (science and technology picks)(economist.com)
50 points by epo 16y ago|17 comments
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FTC says Consumers should have 'do not track' option for behavioural ads(out-law.com)
1 points by epo 16y ago|0 comments
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by epo 16y ago
Perhaps all this denotes is the times when people get up abnormally early hence require a wakeup service. And what is a snoo-zester anyway?
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by epo 16y ago
spam
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by epo 16y ago
Hmm, the title isn't quite the wording on Adobe's page, and from the reactions so far should be qualified "for small values of decent"
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by epo 16y ago
What makes you think he was talking about Javascript's performance?
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Wordpress 3.0.2 security update ...(wordpress.org)
26 points by epo 16y ago|12 comments
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by epo 16y ago
spam
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by epo 16y ago
As With Stephen Hawking's "A Brief History of Time", TAOCP is often bought, always lauded, seldom read. Shame because the few bits I have read are actually very good indeed.
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by epo 16y ago
Self selected respondents so a balance between fanboys and those with an axe to grind. That said, first and last in laptops matches my experience.
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The Tech Brands You Can Trust(pcworld.com)
1 points by epo 16y ago|1 comments
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by epo 16y ago
Wikipedia bio http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Wilkes Sir Maurice was one of the giants. Also prescient, from his memoirs "It was on one of my journeys between the EDSAC room and the punching equipment that 'hesitating at the angle of
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by epo 16y ago
The broken window fallacy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window as a parable was new to me. A good debunking of the justification that all this security activity is a net economic benefit to the US.
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'Father' of British computing dies(bbc.co.uk)
31 points by epo 16y ago|6 comments
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Treat Warnings as Broken Windows(inessential.com)
3 points by epo 16y ago|0 comments
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by epo 16y ago
So 22% of facebook users either have no "friends" or welcome any interaction, regardless of its source?
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O'Reilly - 60% off all ebooks and videos (29 Nov)(oreilly.com)
2 points by epo 16y ago|0 comments

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