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by furyg3 15y ago
I live in a small apartment, so arranging things around a TV would be a big pain in the ass. Instead, our table is on gliders and slides easily out of the way, and a small projector (next to the couch) projects onto the wall where the table
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by furyg3 15y ago
These IPXes were very cute... http://www.obsolyte.com/sun_ipx/ In 2000 one of my housemates found a few of these "lunchbox" systems, bought a big piece of glass, and made the IPXes the 'legs' of our coffee table 'cluster'. Trying to tra
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by furyg3 15y ago
I think it wasn't real (just a mockup): http://www.wired.com/autopia/2009/02/lightlanes-lase/
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by furyg3 15y ago
Hopefully he owns his apartment, and is looking forward to the value of his house tripling...
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by furyg3 15y ago
Not defending BitCoin (I won't be buying any soon), but I think the author doesn't realized that BitCoins are divisible down to eight decimal places. It's difficult for me to imagine a currency which is so divisible being "hoarded to death"
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by furyg3 15y ago
AFAIK you can't boot from a TimeMachine backup... in order to restore from TimeMachine in the event of an HDD crash, you need OS media. :/
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by furyg3 15y ago
Hmm... so what happens if my hard drive crashes and I replace it myself?
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by furyg3 15y ago
Credit card usage fees are a good way to a) make your customers mad and b) be blacklisted by your CC processor (possibly sued). Nearly every processor agreement stipulates that this is a no-no.
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by furyg3 15y ago
If you or your country did not follow established protocol and international law for killing your country's neighbors, you are both a "soldier" and a "murderer". Likewise, if MI6 defaces an online magazine without following established pr
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by furyg3 15y ago
Not really, it would very much depend on the length of stay. Someone requesting a visa to teach a course for a few weeks is perfectly reasonable, especially if they are coming from a country with reduced requirements (visa wavier countries)
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by furyg3 15y ago
I'm bit shocked that the Dutch American Friendship Treaty ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DAFT_(treaty) ) doesn't apply in reverse... The treaty allows Americans like myself to start a business in Holland easily and get around the notoriousl
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by furyg3 15y ago
Of course it's possible to be in possession of stolen goods without knowing they're stolen... but that does not remove the rights of the "owner" of the laptop to remotely control his equipment. If you buy a Blackberry for cheap off of Cra
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by furyg3 15y ago
Really excited about playing old NES games on a large HDTV with this technology. Or even on a small 'retina' display.
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by furyg3 15y ago
<sarcasm>I can't wait to have the PPC vs i386 arguments all over again... </sarcasm> Seriously though, what are the implications for virtualization software (Vmware, VirtualBox, etc) on an ARM platform? I'm all for innovatio
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by furyg3 15y ago
It's not really that hard, Windows support guys have been doing it forever. And, like almost everything else, it's easier on a mac (my mom got this malware... on mother's day) The problem is: naive user + attack vector (bad default Safari o
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by furyg3 15y ago
I don't know. I think that we're at a point where knowing the absolute time is more important to knowing the relative time (relative to daylight). If I'm in New York following the nuclear crisis in Japan, it's probably more important for m
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by furyg3 15y ago
Exactly. With international communication on the rise, it's best (IMHO) to do away with the timezone concept, and just use one time format everywhere. India is +5:30, Nepal is +5:45, California observes DST but Arizona doesn't... the EU do
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by furyg3 15y ago
Also: 24h time with no timezones.
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by furyg3 15y ago
This weekend I was interrupted during a shower (twice!) because an in-law couldn't get something on an iPad set up for mother's day. I had a good laugh about it, but it just goes to show that people expect you to know everything about eve
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by furyg3 16y ago
Ahh Liechtenstein. Random trivia: the Swiss once invaded the country by accident and nobody noticed. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/mar/02/markoliver http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/13/opinion/13iht-edstamm.4893...
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by furyg3 16y ago
I've recently come across this even in the non-profit world. The organization has grown rapidly, and had a large degree of success, primarily due to the entrepreneurship of the director. He dives in, get things done, and has an amazing ab
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by furyg3 16y ago
Google should, for giggles, just drop a good number of sites with these terms one day.
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by furyg3 16y ago
Income equality? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gini_Coefficient_World_CIA... If you already have about the same amount of stuff as everyone else, stealing seems silly.
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by furyg3 16y ago
I have my own filters/rules which do this ("social" for FB/LinkedIn/Twitter and "not-people"), but this google labs feature does a better job at catching these types of notifications than my rules did. I add one or two "not-people" rules a
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by furyg3 16y ago
But that point (that sites give away free content for advertising) doesn't have much to do with blub's point (that many sites use hostile, non-privacy friendly tactics for advertising). Basing your site revenue on advertising doesn't requir
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by furyg3 16y ago
This is a fallacy. A site's business model is it's own responsibility.
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by furyg3 16y ago
Replace the words with whatever country is 'scary' to you, and you've got probable cause! "His lawyers say Wing, who was born in the United States, was targeted because of his extensive ties to asia — he travels there frequently, helps sup
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by furyg3 16y ago
I'm kind of shocked that the eMate ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMate_300 ) wasn't mentioned. IMHO, it's somewhere between a laptop and a PDA/tablet.
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by furyg3 16y ago
Bringing the total number of affected users down to 38,660. Not nothing, but not a lot either. My company has an exchange server for 200 or so people, and at any one point there are probably one or two people who are waiting for a password
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by furyg3 16y ago
The "+" feature of gmail is great, but I hesitate to use it after some weird validation problems I've had. I've stopped asking that people validate properly, and started hoping that they a) don't validate or b) fail gracefully. One (very i

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