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by furyg3 15y ago
Systems exist (just not in the US). My provider (ABN Amro in Holland) works like this: 1. Login is your account number and card number (1234567 + 004, located on card) 2. Password is generated by putting your 'smart' card into a little devi
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by furyg3 15y ago
Can't LinkedIn clarify this in their terms of service? As in, only individuals (not organizations) are allowed to create personal accounts, and LinkedIn will treat the person who crated the account as the owner, it is non-transferable, and
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by furyg3 15y ago
One-time purchases are a bit different than ongoing contracts in this way. At the moment it's pretty difficult to conceive of signing an EULA for those new shoes or a washing machine.
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by furyg3 15y ago
Natural satellites of all size are commonly referred to as "moons", so I'm not sure how arbitrary it is. The only exception I can think of at the moment are natural satellites which are part of a greater planetary ring...
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by furyg3 15y ago
Who makes these devices?
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by furyg3 15y ago
I really think people need to change their perspective on sleep. People wake up, do thing A,B,C,D,E ... "shit... I really wanted to do F-J today too, but I have to sleep!" Sleep is not the enemy. Sleep is fantastic. I'm no expert on sleep i
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by furyg3 15y ago
Correct approach: display a warning that says something like "We think you've mistyped your email address. Please re-enter it, otherwise click 'submit' if you think we're wrong :)" I'm tired of sites not accepting perfectly valid symbols l
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by furyg3 15y ago
I was shocked that new airplanes use joysticks are just simple inputs and don't give (some) feedback on the current state of the current control surfaces or the state of the other joystick. This seems like a "feature" of analog controls tha
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by furyg3 15y ago
Just wanted to chime in, thanks a lot for making the guide with this approach. Sysadmins, specifically, will find this to be a great resource. Many people start out tweaking config files, editing other's scripts, manipulating logs and outp
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by furyg3 15y ago
You might also go through a slightly different polygraph with highly personal questions about your sex habits. Why do they do this? For blackmail purposes later?
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by furyg3 15y ago
Making these useful is what will help adoption. Right now, they're only being used for marketing purposes. I really like coffee, but I'm not so passionate about it that I will take out my phone, perform seven taps, and watch a bad marketi
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by furyg3 15y ago
[...] by deleting your files/data without any notice they may have violated several laws. We also advice you to get legal help in case you suffered losses due to this sudden termination of service by LiveDrive. Wow. "They broke the law,
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by furyg3 15y ago
At Amsterdam Schipol they are used for many flights (especially to the US). There is no opt-out, as there is in the US. I don't know if these are X-Ray or millimeter wave scanners, though.
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by furyg3 15y ago
8) Strange full screen behavior. I get where they're going with this (iOS-y) but this is just a horrible neither-here-nor-there solution. Dual monitors makes it a true joke.
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by furyg3 15y ago
If a person has trouble getting a US work visa, wouldn't that person also have trouble freely travelling in and out of the USA? No. Getting an immigrant visa for purposes of employment (E) is different than getting a temporary visa for pu
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by furyg3 15y ago
I din't pull out a microscope, but I did wonder why they didn't implement this for all the lights (battery-level indicators on the side, charging indicators on the power supply connector).
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by furyg3 15y ago
I'm an American expat and I really want Google Voice to work for me, but sadly it just doesn't. - International Call Forwarding - I can't grasp why they don't do this. I work around it by having my GV number forward to a US Twilio number,
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by furyg3 15y ago
Clueless people use lots of stupid things for hiring decisions. Which is great, because I don't want to work for clueless people...
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by furyg3 15y ago
Just wanted to echo the thoughts of mtkd. I have my own personal domain mostly because I want to maintain control of my own email address. I connected it to Google Apps (and am willing to pay for this feature), because Gmail is great. But
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by furyg3 15y ago
More like: German banks made a dumb loan to Greece, and now they have agreed to let Greece declare bankruptcy on 50% of those loans.
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by furyg3 15y ago
About the charges, you're correct. I originally thought that this practice was a violation of the merchant's agreement... but I was wrong: http://www.pin.nl/en-US/Zakelijk/Pages/Veelgesteldevragen.as... Still, it occurs infrequently. Abo
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by furyg3 15y ago
Great guys, welcome to this side of the pond! Does this mean that outbound rates to EU countries (e.g. Holland) will drop sometime soon?
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by furyg3 15y ago
Just because you're not seeing ads for a particular use case, doesn't mean that the data is not valuable for some use case in the future where you will be seeing ads. It's Google's interest to make the best, easiest way for you to get you
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by furyg3 15y ago
As an American who moved to the Netherlands, I can vouch for this. My fellow countrymen don't know what they're missing: * There are no ATM fees levied by another bank's ATMs. * There are no ATM fees levied by your bank for using another
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by furyg3 15y ago
Throwing out hypothetical "what if" scenarios that would affect 0.1% of your readership isn't a very useful thing to do. Indeed. The people who use my production systems are people who are logging transactions which they have made (in the
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by furyg3 15y ago
It's sad to think that the organizers of this will probably be arrested for "conspiracy to deface government property" or something. Or, since they're also advancing a political message of 'fear', maybe it will be terrorism?
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by furyg3 15y ago
I have a developer license, and I was expecting to see a few more Apple apps in the iCloud homepage. Specifically Reminders, Notes, & Photos.
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by furyg3 15y ago
The person with the US SSN has to be listed as an owner of the company. So some (relatively large) degree of trust is involved...
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by furyg3 15y ago
If you have open wifi, and your hard drive is encrypted, how can they possibly make the link at discovery?
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by furyg3 15y ago
So would your advice to someone wishing to learn Arabic (for the purposes of understanding / being understood by as wide of an area as possible) to learn Egyptian Arabic or to learn classical Arabic?

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