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by feralchimp 15y ago
Sex! Drugs? Maybe. Rock and roll? We'll find out!
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by feralchimp 15y ago
I'm not a Ruby or Rails guy, so I can't comment on how likely a typical (or atypically good) Rails dev might be to code this sort of bug into their app. But as a security guy, given the power of Public Key assignment in the context of a sys
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by feralchimp 15y ago
I very much doubt that a defense and indemnity clause, with no signature attached, would hold up in court to the point where a Pinterest user would actually pay to defend Pinterest. With that said, the only real way to fight back against cr
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by feralchimp 15y ago
> NITEC is responsible for maintaining a list of sites which they want to be made unavailable to Danish citizens. Each day the country’s Internet service providers retrieve the list and then apply DNS blockades across their infrastructu
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by feralchimp 15y ago
Giving $3M to employees is cool. But maybe next time, let them tweet it.
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by feralchimp 15y ago
In other dubious class action news: http://centerforclassactionfairness.blogspot.com/
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by feralchimp 15y ago
One buyer arguing with one seller about the pricing of one application does not an interesting article make.
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by feralchimp 15y ago
> To better analyze your objection, let us remove the taxpayer part first: Should art projects be funded (by whatever means) that the general public sees no value in, i.e. this is how I parsed your "no one would pay for". The fact that
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by feralchimp 15y ago
> How can it be a public disservice to fund this stuff if it's never possible to know if it's unwanted? Because the funding comes from people who pay it under threat of force. Therefore, "not provably unwanted" shouldn't be the bar.
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by feralchimp 15y ago
> You don't mean "no one would pay", you mean "no one would pay enough" Fair enough, but that distinction only makes a real difference if the NEA commonly does "last mile" funding (the last 5-20% to reach a threshold of viability, say).
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by feralchimp 15y ago
Could not agree more. No-frills styling (i.e. kinda fug but durable plastic), extremely comfortable for long periods of time, over-ear doesn't leak a lot of sound into your surroundings, nice low-end punch, and otherwise flat enough for ba
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by feralchimp 15y ago
> NEA is doing this as a public service, funding people who wouldn't have been funded otherwise. Many would argue that "taking taxpayer money to fund something that no one would pay for" is a coherent definition for "public disservice
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by feralchimp 15y ago
Fair enough. I admit that $40k is mad spicy for a repair resulting from some basic user error, and even if the incidence for this problem is 10% (much higher than Tesla would claim, I'm sure), we're talking about raising the price of a Roa
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by feralchimp 15y ago
I'm saying I put the same level of effort, as a consumer, into avoiding a $7k repair as I would a $40k repair. That is: maximum effort.
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by feralchimp 15y ago
Was hoping this was the video, which isn't showing up on iOS.
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by feralchimp 15y ago
I stated an opinion and my reasons for holding it. I don't owe you a disclaimer about whether the linked article (which I didn't reference, btw) happens to be full of shit. If you form all of your opinions worrying about all the idiots or
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by feralchimp 15y ago
> Replacing the engine in the car was something like $7,000. Which, for many drivers, may as well be $40k. > the solution is a combination of educating/warning owners & notifying them by phone or email if the car starts to get t
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by feralchimp 15y ago
From a marketing and CRM perspective, the messages are identical : "Here is a simple and cheap routine maintenance behavior that will prevent a catastrophic repair bill: X". In the ICE case, X is "maintain a minimum oil level while the eng
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by feralchimp 15y ago
"If you leave your $40k battery pack alone for months without a trickle charger, you will kill it" is no more challenging to communicate or implement than "if you run your ICE without oil, you will kill it."
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by feralchimp 15y ago
> a coalition of mining industry groups are legally entitled to review data from the study before publication You can't blame the lobbyists' lawyers for trying to enforce a provision that their clients successfully negotiated. You shou
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by feralchimp 15y ago
This whole bricking story is a little ridiculous. There are any number of easy ways to 'brick' an internal combustion engine, and yet we're not all torches 'n' pitchforks over them. Partially because ICEs have been around so long that the
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by feralchimp 15y ago
So...source code then?
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by feralchimp 15y ago
Amazon follows a long line of huge-volume retailers into "not afraid to be the asshole" territory. Unless it's the case that it actually costs Amazon money to offer books at the prices that IPG wants, this is a pure power/spite/warning pl
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by feralchimp 15y ago
Nice web-based UI for capture files, BUT: They need a Security story other than "run it on an appliance inside your network." I would also appreciate a single page (unless I missed it) that explains the Analysis value-adds.
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by feralchimp 15y ago
The best advice I received about understanding C pointer (usage) syntax was to translate to English via the following substitutions: * == "at location" & == "the address of" There are cases where this doesn't work well (or at all), but
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by feralchimp 15y ago
Boo and/or hiss. If you hate splash screens, use simpler tools or get more RAM. When Photoshop finishes loading, it's ready to kick ass. The Finder, on the other hand, taunts with its almost-readiness. Faking readiness is far worse than s
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by feralchimp 15y ago
This is mildly depressing but highly informative. Thanks for the link.
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by feralchimp 15y ago
I really do not understand why any of the Mac Pros would lack the horsepower to run Mountain Lion. The GPU in mine is pretty weak, but it would be cheap to upgrade the GPU. Here's hoping the installer either a) checks actual machine specs
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by feralchimp 15y ago
I need to buy shoes on Facebook like I need to share photos with other shoppers at the mall.
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by feralchimp 15y ago
If you could create good software engineers without teaching CS, someone would be getting rich doing that. There are many people who know CS and are not good software engineers, but I have never met a good software engineer who didn't know

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