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by excitom 8y ago
You won't believe what happened next! Cell phone companies hate him.
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by excitom 9y ago
It's kind of sad this task has mostly gone away for large datacenters, where choosing names for the thousands of servers is impractical. h223-16-32a just doesn't have same cachet as the carefully selected names.
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by excitom 9y ago
Entertaining article. My favorite line: Describing the cover model's smile as a "rictus of high-octane enthusiasm".
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by excitom 9y ago
Not a big Facebook fan here, but I do use it to keep track of and keep in touch with old friends and distant family. That said, I've never clicked an add nor engaged with some silly quiz.
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by excitom 9y ago
Pedantic comment: The word is "moot"
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by excitom 9y ago
Kaspersky? The people accused of espionage with their anti-virus software? http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-42202191 https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/10/technology/kaspersky-lab-... https
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by excitom 9y ago
I recorded a video once and added ocean wave sounds to it. I googled "ocean wave sounds" and used part of someone's recording of the ocean. When I posted it to Facebook it got taken down for copyright infringement. I appealed
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by excitom 9y ago
"Cryptography is the silver bullet by which we can hope to reclaim our privacy. The solution, however, has one drawback: cryptography shields the law abiding and the lawless equally. Law-enforcement and intelligence agencies contend th
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by excitom 9y ago
Back in the day a Royal Navy sailor's daily ration of beer was a gallon, or a half pint of 115 proof rum. I don't think the dainty wineglasses are a good indication of volume consumed.
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by excitom 9y ago
I care. It seems that bleeding edge changes to Chrome are breaking things. Example: I use the Chase Bank website. Parts of it stopped working with Chrome. I'm back to using Firefox now. *Edit: Someone downvoted this? What is this, redd
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by excitom 9y ago
In my personal experience, as someone who has been taking credit card payments on the web for over 20 years, no. Charges to expired cards are not accepted.
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by excitom 9y ago
Growing up in the NYC area I saw many 4 to 6 story apartments, built mostly before elevators became common and practical. The upper floors were considered undesirable due to all the stairs. Eight stories seems like quite a lot.
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by excitom 9y ago
Well, there are lots of pictures and film of the event, so unless someone is hiding in the trunk I'd say that's fake.
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by excitom 9y ago
>Levandowski sold 510 Systems and Anthony’s Robots to Google – for $20 million, the exact cutoff before the wealth would be shared. Rank and file engineers did not see a penny, and some were even let go before the acquisition was complet
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by excitom 9y ago
Isn't it interesting that such a minor (and misconstrued) comment could have such a lasting effect on the man's career while the guy now in power spews far more outrageous falsehoods daily and it just doesn't seem to matter.
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by excitom 9y ago
This is a great article and I've bookmarked it for future reference. I observe, though, that if you are tuning a system to this level of detail you likely have a number of web servers behind a load balancer. To be complete, the discuss
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by excitom 9y ago
>To annoy X fanatics, Don specifically asked that we include the hyphen after the letter "X,", as well as the plural of the word "Windows," in his chapter title. Of course :-)
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by excitom 9y ago
>In 2015, the US Census found that about 80,000 people left the SF-Oakland area over the course of a year. But then about 100,000 new people moved in to replace them. The sentence that explains it all.
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by excitom 9y ago
I hope this signals the demise of patents that are basically "take something people have been doing since forever, but do it with a computer." In this case, publishing a sequence of stories.
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by excitom 9y ago
>If a password is not found in the Pwned Passwords set, it'll result in a response like this: Wait, so I test my password to see if it's "good" and now you have a copy of a password I will be using. Am I just being pa
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by excitom 9y ago
No, it's saying "this source is known for biased corporate propaganda so take that into account when evaluating the content".
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by excitom 9y ago
As a CS student at Michigan State in the late 70s I have fond memories of FORTRAN, COBOL, and assembler programming on the 6500. It was interesting to see many of the design principles from that mid-60s system show up in RISC designs in the
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by excitom 10y ago
The site is down. I wonder which paradigm covers "build for scale"?
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by excitom 10y ago
"Substantial similarity" can result in a copyright violation? How is it possible there is more than one cookbook describing how to make a peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwich without "substantial similarity"?
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by excitom 10y ago
Few to none? And I'm not being facetious. All investigations to date into such "fraud" find negligible evidence.
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by excitom 10y ago
I received several of these annoying calls. I knew it was a scam but I was amazed at their brazenness; how can they get away with claiming to be from the IRS and demand money? Good to hear they have been charged.
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by excitom 10y ago
Highly uninformative article.
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by excitom 10y ago
> the first rule for any publicly traded company is to maximize shareholder value. It always bothers me to see this, as I feel it is the reason many companies decline. The first rule should be "make the customers happy" and th
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by excitom 10y ago
> We stand today on the brink of a revolution in cryptography. Wow, to be able to make that the lead sentence and it turns out not to be hyperbole!
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by excitom 10y ago
It feels like 1994 again! Just rcp an HTML file from my workstation to the web server!

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