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Pokerstars, the biggest company offering online poker, has an optional RSA token you can use to login. This way, the users can pick their own solution
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I've wondered a lot whether ads don't actually add value. Seeing as the ads get more and more directed to you personally, knowing about something might actually be good for you. For example: let's say I'm looking for "Animal Farm" online. A
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There are lots of problems in computational Biology. Some can be solved by more processing time, for some you need to have better software, and for others more experimental data is necessary.
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The author makes several comparisons with the game of chicken http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_of_chicken
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This makes me feel a lot better about my 15500 as someone from Holland who has been studying in England for 4 months.
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Five biggest Ubuntu complaints from a new user
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The higher salary is just the price they have to pay for your soul
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High power usage new linux-kernels (2.6.37+)
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Looks good. A nice-to have addition would be price per compute unit.
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xkcd has something to say about that too http://xkcd.com/541/
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One belief that wasn't mentioned is the idea of phlogiston. It's the idea that flammable material contains a substance called phlogiston and that the escaping of that substance is equivalent to burning. This believe was held for around a hu
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In fact, just a few days ago, I discovered this law while working on my master's thesis. I'm modelling cells in a Monte Carlo model on a square grid, and I needed the contact area with other cells. The contact area seemed to be to large on
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The author conveniently forgets the farmaceutic industry. There, billions need to be invested to find a drug and thoroughly document it's effects and how to make it. The production cost of the drug is only a fraction of the research. This w
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Especially for driving, I think most people are above average. This is because the distribution of driving ability is negatively skewed, meaning the tail on the left is longer than the tail on the right. If you were to put a number on drivi