fl3tch

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by fl3tch 14y ago
The stuff about arresting protesters was really ironic.
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by fl3tch 14y ago
It's a real currency market, it's just at the Bonnie and Clyde stage of its evolution. Consider how lax bank security was in the 1930s that a single couple could rob banks for years with a fraction of the sophistication of modern day bank r
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by fl3tch 14y ago
And imagine the wide variety of people that he interviews. Being a good interviewer like that takes talent and intelligent because he has to become a quasi-expert in pretty much everything, within a week.
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by fl3tch 14y ago
> I decide to view the profiles of all those who clicked the ads What? I thought advertisers didn't have access to that info. That's pretty creepy. And while he's talking about them in the article, he should have thrown in their names a
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by fl3tch 14y ago
When you rent a car, you usually pay for insurance specifically for that car, for the few days you drive it. Why would this be different?
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by fl3tch 14y ago
What great world we would live in if all stocks increased that linearly.
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by fl3tch 14y ago
> I think it's also worth noting that the US already gets 70% of all its taxes from the top 10% Yes, but they also own 70% of all the wealth[1], according to 2007 numbers (the percentage is almost certainly a little higher today), so th
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by fl3tch 14y ago
While this is true, browsers could benefit from a "bittorrent-lite" implementation. You get the files from a server, but they come with metadata like a .torrent file, which includes hashes for small chunks of the file. Downloads are automat
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by fl3tch 14y ago
Couldn't they stamp RST packets with the IP addresses of other file sharers? That would reset the connections with those nodes.
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by fl3tch 14y ago
Thank you. Finally some common sense to counter the libertarian anti-government sentiment. Whenever they tell you that government run schools are failing, ask them why the government run schools in other countries are performing so much bet
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by fl3tch 14y ago
10 minutes browsing through the handbook and I already found great info that I did not know: The Debian package format is designed so that its content may be extracted on any Unix system that has the classic commands ar, tar, and gzip. This
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by fl3tch 14y ago
This is actually up to the client. In Firefox about:config, network.http.sendSecureXSiteReferrer is set to true by default, so it does send it, but you can turn it off.
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by fl3tch 14y ago
At least you get a choice among hundreds of VPN providers and can choose a privacy-respecting one, whereas most of us are stuck with a monopoly or duopoloy in ISPs.
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by fl3tch 14y ago
I agree with a lot of what you said, but this: > People can today do useful and novel life science work for a few tens of thousands of dollars makes me wonder if you've ever done bench work or furnished a lab. Sure, you can do a few wee
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Google releases FCC report on Street View probe(documents.latimes.com)
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by fl3tch 14y ago
Having a record implies that you were present at X Clinic. If it's a specialist clinic, then confirming the existence of patient record could allow someone to infer the condition or a range of conditions. Most clinics won't confirm or deny
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by fl3tch 14y ago
What? Ctrl + Alt + cursor key works exactly as described. Also, sudo apt-get install python-virtualenv works like a charm. Maybe you tried while their repos were being slammed on release day. Perhaps you should give it more than a
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by fl3tch 14y ago
If you were coming from 11.04, you'd have to upgrade to 11.10 anyway, since you can only upgrade from one release directly to the next one, or one LTS to the next. That's why I suspect you were on 11.04 and not 10.04 (it's not possible to u
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by fl3tch 14y ago
I believe some European governments, because of mandates to use open source, want to fund the Document Foundation to get much better support for Office formats. Maybe in 5 years that argument will be moot too. Well, a boy can dream.
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by fl3tch 14y ago
> But, from what I've read, those high-paying law school jobs are very few, only for the elite of the elite, and requires the new employee to work insane hours. Same for those MBAs. My sister got a law degree and then did an internship
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by fl3tch 14y ago
Very few (although it does happen), because generally law enforcement takes a lot of time and great care to build a case. They may allow a drug gang to operate for months or years before busting them. This case seems rather rushed.
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by fl3tch 14y ago
Do you have cookies disabled? The page won't load unless you allow cookies for blogspot.com. Annoying, I know.
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by fl3tch 14y ago
Or at least offer something in between $0 and $100/yr, like 10 GB for $20/yr and 20 GB for $40/yr (same price per GB as the 50 GB plan).
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by fl3tch 14y ago
> Many VPN services claim that they do not maintain connection logs If you're paying for the service, then you need to authenticate to it either with a password or certificate. Either way, the VPN provider knows when you're connected. A
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by fl3tch 14y ago
> "When anonymity is a factor, pay with an un-trackable currency," explains Andrew from PrivateInternetAccess. > "For example, signup for an anonymous e-mail account using Tor and use a Bitcoin Mixer to send Bitcoins to a newly gene
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by fl3tch 15y ago
One problem with the privacy-protectionist view is that half of my email recipients use one of the three major email services (Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo Mail), so even if I decided not to use them, half of my email would end up on their servers
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by fl3tch 15y ago
My God, you're right. I was never able to contact anybody before Facebook. It's a wonder I know other people at all. Seriously, though, the biggest argument in favor of it that I hear is event invitations. But think about it, if the most ef
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by fl3tch 15y ago
> your friends can volunteer information about you indirectly by using "smart lists" I didn't even know about this, but it illustrates that merely signing up exposes you to potential privacy violations. We recently became aware of how m
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by fl3tch 15y ago
To be fair, that data is distributed across many entities. What people worry about is any single company aggregating too much data. Google can get all your searches, email, some purchases (through Wallet), social connections and interests,
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by fl3tch 15y ago
If a HUD could focus it, then why couldn't corrective glasses?

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