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by gdee 18y ago
>It takes a lot of energy to spin platters that fast, and it all gets turned into heat in the end. Wrong. Just the wasted energy turns to heat. Wasted by means of mechanical/electric friction. The usefully used (to put it this way) get'
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by gdee 18y ago
I fully agree with the notion that (more) technology is not always a panacea but I think it should at least be given a fair chance. That includes implementing it properly. Given that this was not the case there (at that time) I would still
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by gdee 18y ago
Allegedly, the robbers walked with 100M euros without cleaning the vault. Price would have to be really steep for those additional security measures for their cost to be an issue I think. > A vault doesn't have to be impregnable, onl
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by gdee 18y ago
Old (2006) article but extremely intellectually gratifying. A leaf of a wikitrip of course.
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Unintelligent Design(discovermagazine.com)
19 points by gdee 18y ago|11 comments
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Second Genesis: Life, but not as we know it(newscientist.com)
3 points by gdee 18y ago|0 comments
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by gdee 18y ago
>As soon as I utter the word "programmer", I can see the light in their eyes begin to fade - but mentioning the iPhone brings them back and suddenly I'm a person with a cool job. I know just the situation. It's game consoles instead of
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by gdee 18y ago
:) What's European time? I imagine we (you and me) share Central European Time (CET) but ET?
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by gdee 18y ago
-2? Wow. For educational purposes, could those who down voted my comment provide an explanation. I mean... the linked article was about Google and a closed account... and someone seems to remember some Facebook thing and tossed it in, presu
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by gdee 18y ago
Is there any relevance to that tidbit in this context? ... thought not. Ad-hominem ftw.
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by gdee 18y ago
At least the third demo has better visual quality in FF3 than in Chrome though.
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by gdee 18y ago
A local transparent proxy could add that for you then your custom stylesheet could do what you want. Good OLD Proxomitron comes to mind :) for win boxes.
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by gdee 18y ago
Wow. Onion eyes inducing.
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by gdee 18y ago
>> In the EU telco's are required to retain information... Just meta information that is. When?, From where?, To where?, (if applicable) Who? but (so far) never What?.
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by gdee 18y ago
Care to cite some european law about that? If true, I thing the GPL would also be illegal. I don't think that's the case.
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by gdee 18y ago
>> It also says they do everything in accordance with the DMCA. The one thing people don't understand about the DMCA is that whilst it might be evil, it also protects individuals as much as companies because every single photo, sent
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by gdee 18y ago
Well... it could be worse you know... you could get the superior-browser-F-U. Not long ago, my main bank's website told me to upgrade my FF install to IE6.
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by gdee 18y ago
Is it the form or the substance of jrockway's comment that gets it downmoded? (pure curiosity)
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by gdee 18y ago
"If I'm constantly changing my mind about how best to do something" then you're finding /more/ not /best/ ways.
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by gdee 18y ago
2. "Joel is a dolt" - Neither on the lines nor between them have I seen this in Kent's post. 1. "Joel is neither stupid nor malicious" - Stupid + Malicious != AllThereCouldEverBe... Pompous and AttentionCraving are missing for example. Othe
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by gdee 18y ago
1. Fixed IPs are the exception nowadays in residential connections. 2. That extension goes more against profiling. Not the case of your example.
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by gdee 18y ago
I might be wrong, but I believe Winamp is still very much The King. Platform market share and all that...
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by gdee 18y ago
1. "...data mainframe..." what's that? 2. Wasn't Google running on commodity (x86 comp.) GNU/Linux clustered machines?
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by gdee 18y ago
Telefonica does satellite inet access in Spain. I remember prices to be quite high some years ago. You could check their site and see how they fare now.
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by gdee 18y ago
> All my emails tend to be formal in style even to people I know well Maybe you should queue this on your reading list: http://www.cluetrain.com
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by gdee 18y ago
It's not really recent (FWIW, this is ad blog not ad hominem).
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by gdee 18y ago
spin is charged in this context
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by gdee 18y ago
Could you, please, list some of them?
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by gdee 18y ago
I've no idea if they're common in Europe. They're not common here, and they're available. Common people couldn't be bothered even if they'd knew what they are, not to mention know how to use them. This is a good thing I believe. Hey, I know
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by gdee 18y ago
We already have government signed x509 (not 100% sure about this detail) certs here in Spain. They can be used to fill taxes online. Just like you said, "showing your ID documents to a public official will be part of proving who you are". T

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