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by fl0wenol 6y ago
It was probably iGware's or Acer's CVS when it was hacked, if I'd have to guess. RouteFree->BroadOn->iGWare->Acer Cloud Technology (as of 2011, now just a business unit)
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by fl0wenol 6y ago
That's not a blog post, that's just marketing material.
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by fl0wenol 6y ago
I've never seen a system set up where root's home folder is encrypted. But also you wouldn't run the system as root normally, so there shouldn't be anything in the root folder to be lost even if that was the case. Gettin
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by fl0wenol 6y ago
That sounds awfully like a nod towards developers and REITs that you'd get property tax breaks and/or credits if you hit LEED certification levels. What is the problem with that? It's already a thing, just not nationally. You
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by fl0wenol 6y ago
Very interesting, while I do not like the flavor of Pepsi, I do crave Diet Pepsi every once in awhile, even though I normally prefer Coke products. I thought maybe I was the only one. As far as colas go, Diet Pepsi has a decent flavor profi
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by fl0wenol 7y ago
That was because there wasn't enough supply for medical personnel because everyone was buying them up like toilet paper. And while it "worked", it wasn't enough. Also, we didn't know enough about asymptomatic carrie
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by fl0wenol 7y ago
Because it's the shell itself that gets the focus for the interactivity. You use generic suggestions (as listed elsewhere in this thread) to do things like tab-completion, substituting in previously used arguments, copying the last thi
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by fl0wenol 7y ago
Some Americans have CACs, which will do the trick. But that's a narrow circumstance.
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by fl0wenol 7y ago
Your post made it click for me that Nintendo's platforms make it where there's legitimate reasons to use different controllers regularly. I use the Pro controller, a Gamecube controller, and the joycons/wiimote all for diffe
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by fl0wenol 7y ago
15 years old. Admins grip the banhammer tight on raiding threads, comply with warrants, so it stays up. That activity was driven to other sites set up for that purpose.
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by fl0wenol 7y ago
Not quite, but within a margin of error as described. Are you a glass half empty or half full person?
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by fl0wenol 7y ago
Count and Data. B is Base.
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by fl0wenol 7y ago
That kind of thinking made sense twenty years ago where you could assume Moore's law was going to hold into the next decades.
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by fl0wenol 7y ago
It's because normalization of "cloud" brought into clear focus you're running your business critical code on other people's computers, along with other customers' code. And now that code can adversarial effect
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by fl0wenol 7y ago
You've got it backwards. Because OSS is successful, unless you're in college, the majority of people contributing are those who are being paid to or are independent consultants, as that's possible now. It's no longer a h
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by fl0wenol 7y ago
Please let's not use weev as a cautionary tale. The guy had been baiting people to clock him in the face for his anti-social behavior on the internet since forever. I don't think it was what he did to AT&T that got him sent up
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by fl0wenol 7y ago
I feel like there's a lot of parallels in tech, with the exception maybe being consultants <-> session musicians, in that they are often hired based on checklist criteria and ability to sell themselves.
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by fl0wenol 7y ago
>but it wasn't about hating on women in video games. Are you saying it was about integrity in video games journalism? I wish I could express a figurative glance over the top of my reading glasses without an image macro.
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by fl0wenol 7y ago
Thanks for explaining the background, Sauod. But don't you need to say that? What policies or strategies are you using to prevent this from happening beyond the shared experience of being burned and avoiding a deep sense of shame if on
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by fl0wenol 7y ago
As a user, even if you're up about these things and why they're important for product development, my answer is still "No." Because I will only say "Yes" if I'm being paid or otherwise compensated specific
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by fl0wenol 7y ago
But because there's a race to the bottom, and information is duplicated with marginal values near zero, sites which were free and didn't require monetization would squash sites that did over time. I see convergent evolution toward
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by fl0wenol 7y ago
I prefer beige/amber and black because I don't like too much color saturation and I feel it's a wee bit easier on the eyes. Like the default colors in CDE on Solaris.
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by fl0wenol 7y ago
Mele Kalikimaka me ka Hauoli Makahiki Hou!
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by fl0wenol 7y ago
Happy Chrimas
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by fl0wenol 7y ago
All he was accomplishing was thinning the herd of the dumb ones. He's going to be responsible one day for The Incident.
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by fl0wenol 7y ago
It's not an exclusive club.
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by fl0wenol 7y ago
The American Fritessaus is similar to Big Mac sauce because they're both milder takes on Louisiana style remoulade. Which was a spicier version of the traditional topping for fried potatoes in France so it's like it went in a circ
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by fl0wenol 7y ago
https://www.engadget.com/2019/10/17/samsung-patch-fingerprin... What is suspected here is that registering the finger with the screen protector on is masking the shape of the finger while still registering th
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by fl0wenol 7y ago
Don't forget metros/subways. You see a lot of luggage pass through without inspection (unlike airports or stadiums) but the potential for a terrorist attack is real and they've been used for exactly this. So transit police in
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by fl0wenol 7y ago
I like the conclusions they come to in their letter to social media, where they are requesting allowing researchers more insight and control, essentially enabling them to sample/simulate the recommendation engine and get more insight i

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