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by furyg3 16y ago
What's up with the whacky accent? I hear this in demonstration / marketing videos from big industrial companies all the time, and I can't figure out why you'd want someone who speaks so oddly. "We need a professional sounding English narra
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by furyg3 16y ago
As an American living abroad, I've come across this several times. But how on earth do they enforce this? If you live in Europe, (presumably) have EU citizenship, and have renounced your US citizenship, what jurisdiction does the US have o
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by furyg3 16y ago
Very true, but I'm terrified of these Facebook features :)
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by furyg3 16y ago
100% correct, at least as it pertains to me. The concept of "owning" music has been dead to my generation since Napster. I'm not even sure what that concept means, nowadays. Music is like water, you can get it from a million sources, pai
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by furyg3 16y ago
American living in NL
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by furyg3 16y ago
Can we all just have a 24 hour clock based on GMT, no other timezones, and no daylight savings time? It seems a whole lot easier to change our time format just once and get used to it... instead of half of us changing the clocks twice a yea
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by furyg3 16y ago
Honestly, this is a problem for a) The transit authority which implemented a broken system and b) the person who gets caught counterfeiting a card / riding for free. It doesn't take much of a security expert to warn you that the system is i
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by furyg3 16y ago
Such a flag would be reallllllly handy. I constantly switch between google's .com/.nl sites based on what language i'm searching in and what I'm looking for.
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by furyg3 16y ago
Good job getting in contact with the police. Anytime anyone makes such statements (credible or not), it's the right thing to do. I hope he is found and gets the help he needs.
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by furyg3 16y ago
They also had this little fiasco: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2029052
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by furyg3 16y ago
And if you love doing something, you'll certainly love it more if you do it 24/7! The world isn't this black and white. Some people are sprinters, and some are marathon runners, and even more people are some combination of the two at diffe
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by furyg3 16y ago
Visiting India is a mental game. I'm calm, even-tempered, have traveled quite a bit, and was prepared with stories from Indian and non-Indian friends.* The first 2-3 days in Mumbai were killer. You're assaulted by humidity, heat, smells,
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by furyg3 16y ago
It's amazing how far a child's mind will go toward believing something they want to believe. I don't think you need a lot of help from technology in this area. I'm living in Holland now, where "Sinterklaas" (forerunner of our Santa Claus)
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by furyg3 16y ago
Interesting that FB notified a 'pending' friend (someone who's friend request I have not yet accepted) that I have switched to the new profile. Seems strange...
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by furyg3 16y ago
What kind of network do you have at home? What you don’t want to hear is, I get enough computers when I’m at work.. I’ve yet to meet a serious security guy who doesn’t have a considerable home network. Ehrm... sorry. At various times i
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by furyg3 16y ago
I work for a non-profit as an IT manager (35 paid employees, ~50 unpaid employees) for an organization that tries to reduce poverty in the world. I've worked as an IT manager at "for-profits" for a while now, and this job is by far the mos
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by furyg3 16y ago
Unfortunately, that doesn't really counteract the new skills he will learn while in jail. :/
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by furyg3 16y ago
The question isn't whether or not it's an acceptable way of terminating an agreement, the question is how does a merchant act properly in handling such a situation. Calling the creditors when a) the missed payment is for a pre-paid service;
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by furyg3 16y ago
But you can't guarantee that you can wipe it. What if it's not connected to the 3G network? What if the data has already been pulled off? What if it's been copied to a memory card on the phone? What if the phone doesn't properly impleme
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by furyg3 16y ago
This is crazy talk. If it's a major security risk, don't sync it to someone's pocket. By syncing it to someone's pocket... it's out. Especially if it's on their personal phone, you can't control what they (or an attacker) will do. Either
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by furyg3 16y ago
I like responding with questions (or completely off topic statements) in a polite manner. This way police think that you're being cooperative and chatty, as well as bowing to their authority, when you're really not. "Was your trip business
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by furyg3 16y ago
There is very nice piece of mac software which does what you're doing... and unfortunately has the same name :(
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by furyg3 16y ago
"What year did you move-in" is a good question to add to this page.
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by furyg3 16y ago
For a really good primer in basic negotiations, take a look at Fisher & Ury's Getting to Yes ( http://www.amazon.com/Getting-Yes-Negotiating-Agreement-With... ). It's a quick read but very useful, and these guys are respected in the f
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by furyg3 16y ago
Indeed it's still a big difference, but it's not "off the charts!" as the graph would have you believe. Plus, it's fairly reasonable that there would be such a difference between private / public job loss rates. Employment rates in the oper
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by furyg3 16y ago
The "job losses" graph is basically trash, since there are far more private sector workers than public sector workers. Better would be to rate it by percentage. I'm slightly shocked that the WSJ would print it (the graph, not the article).
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by furyg3 16y ago
While this story certainly isn't great for discussion (for the points you mentioned) I disagree with your last statement. Comparisons are useful, especially when they're disentangled from the politics. I don't really care about how Swedes
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by furyg3 16y ago
This is most certainly a sidetrack, but a worthwhile one.
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by furyg3 16y ago
Spamhaus is the most rabid group of extreme anti-spammer teenagers out there (or at least they act like teenagers). I've had various SMTP servers (for various companies) blocked by them, usually for very questionable reasons. You used to h
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by furyg3 16y ago
The thing which communicates to governments "what the people want" is not how they pay taxes, but how they elect officials and vote on policies. Nobody wants to pay taxes, and nobody wants social programs cut. Therein lies the problem.

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