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by erbo 12y ago
This should outrage any thinking citizen. We need a new policy for instances of excessive use of force by police: if any such is suspected, all officers involved must be immediately suspended, without pay, while an impartial judge, n
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by erbo 12y ago
Of course, SafeTrek is intended to contact the police. The "Panic Button" app seems to be intended for those for whom the police may be the people they need to be rescued from.
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by erbo 12y ago
"Okay, okay, you figured us out. I'll give you a free bag of diamonds if you'll go away and keep quiet." "Great...now I'm a party to this ugly little secret." http://dilbert.com/strips&#x2F
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by erbo 12y ago
I'm told that, ideally, you should use the same water that the whisky was made from in the first place. But that may be apocryphal.
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by erbo 12y ago
Cairo got one in 2013; they're getting there. Perhaps somewhere in South Africa next?
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by erbo 12y ago
And, from the Jargon File, the joke was that this is what happened to jobs at the end of the day because the operators would shut off the computer before they went home at night, so it originates from the German Abend (evening).
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by erbo 12y ago
‘You mentioned making the service better for our customers; but the American citizens aren’t our customers—about 400 junk mailers are our customers. Your service hurts our ability to serve those customers.‘ That, in my opinion, is the k
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by erbo 12y ago
Indeed. My response to "US-CERT recommends not using IE until use-after-free vulnerability is fixed" is something like: Erbo recommends not using IE, end of message and off.
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by erbo 13y ago
+1 to SoftEther. I've been using it as a replacement for Hamachi (which recently went pay-only), allowing my godsons to log into my Minecraft server. I have it set up with a server running on a DigitalOcean VPS and the bridge to my i
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by erbo 13y ago
From the announcement: "We are also aware that there are a very significant number of users out there who are embedding the Raspberry Pi into systems and even commercial products. We think there needs to be a better way to allow people
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by erbo 13y ago
Are the users' opinions even relevant to Facebook? Remember, the users aren't their "customers," they're their product. Their actual "customers" are the advertisers. If the new news feed is making th
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by erbo 13y ago
"...and now you have two problems."
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by erbo 13y ago
There's also an SR-71 on display in the foyer of the Kansas Cosmosphere in Hutchinson, KS: http://www.cosmo.org The Cosmosphere is one of my favorite places. It has the largest collection of American space hardware outside
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by erbo 13y ago
I moved my personal Web hosting from another provider to DO a couple of months ago. I'm spending the same amount I was paying the other provider, and I'm getting a hell of a lot more for my money. (I have two droplets running
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by erbo 13y ago
I HAVE DETAILED FILES - Something related to file I/O maybe? FUCK YOU ASSHOLE - Equivalent of Perl die()? Other suggestions for future expansion: COME WITH ME IF YOU WANT TO LIVE TRUST ME (An assert()?) I NEED A VACATION
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by erbo 13y ago
In actual practice, no single player will construct all the components for a titan. An alliance will spread the work of building the components around, especially since some of the same components used in titans are used in other capital s
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by erbo 13y ago
This is true. Bear in mind, my experience in EVE doesn't extend quite that far. My own character is capable of flying battleships (the largest sub-capital class of ship) and freighters (a special type of capital ship), but I&#x27
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by erbo 13y ago
Just to point out something about this whole battle that may not be readily apparent... The article quotes the figure that a titan (the largest type of ship in EVE Online ) costs the equivalent of $1500 to produce. But that doesn't
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by erbo 13y ago
I have long assumed that, whenever someone posts any good mention of any Microsoft product or service, the standard response should be, "How much did Microsoft pay you to say that?"
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by erbo 13y ago
To paraphrase Joseph Stalin, how many divisions has Google got?
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by erbo 13y ago
Would you take that contract? I sure wouldn't. Something this big, and this failure prone, and which is being used as a political football besides...no amount of money is worth that.
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by erbo 13y ago
If there was ever proof of Karl Denninger's statement[0] that "one man's waste, fraud, abuse, scam, and theft is another man's paycheck," this is it. The law will never be changed, thanks to the influence of the
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by erbo 13y ago
I'm in the process of switching over to DO from another provider, where I'd been paying more per month and getting vastly less (less disk space, less transfer, shared server instance instead of a full VPS). I'm beginning to w
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by erbo 13y ago
Interesting thought: Since those bitcoins were part of the first transaction, and since the transaction history for those coins would be saved and hence documentable, is it possible that those particular coins might become "collector
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by erbo 13y ago
I guess the moral to take here is "people have different working styles, and should seek out the conditions they need to do the best work they can in their environment." I do some of my better work with symphonic metal[1] blasting
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by erbo 13y ago
Google's Boulder office definitely has a more open plan. Fairly large cubicle areas, but still not private offices.
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by erbo 13y ago
I got "Service Unavailable" on that link. I guess we'll never know the secrets...
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by erbo 13y ago
I'll put in a good word for the Denver-Boulder area. :-) Seriously, I read things like this: "Cohen said one concrete way the tech industry could ease the affordability crisis would be to cut big checks. He notes that San Francis
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by erbo 13y ago
That's a truism of orbital mechanics: to speed up, you slow down, thereby dropping into a lower orbit where you go faster. This was used as an effective metaphor (along your lines) by John Brunner in The Shockwave Rider.
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by erbo 13y ago
The author laments "all the waste that one stupid government policy can generate." But there seems to be little hope that any of it will go away any time soon. Why? Because of a statement I've seen attributed to Karl Dennin

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