giantrobothead

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by giantrobothead 13y ago
Or destroying small rodents, perhaps?
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by giantrobothead 13y ago
...if you have a leafblower, you have no need for a chainsaw... Yes, but a leafblower combined with a chainsaw... I don't know about you, but that's a tool I could find some uses for.
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Facebook, Google, and Deep Learning(npr.org)
1 points by giantrobothead 13y ago|0 comments
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Map of Conflict Lines in Kiev(bigthink.com)
1 points by giantrobothead 13y ago|0 comments
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by giantrobothead 13y ago
I don't support the merger, but I do support your coinage of the title TimeCast. Make it so!
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by giantrobothead 13y ago
Now, that is fun. Made the morning a bit more thoughtful.
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The Persistence of Memory?(northwestern.edu)
1 points by giantrobothead 13y ago|0 comments
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by giantrobothead 13y ago
I'm a Slackware man in everyday life, but I do use Debian to run our NAS at my workplace. Stable, easy to use, and dependable; I have no complaints about its performance.
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by giantrobothead 13y ago
It's not the failure that matters in the long run, but what you take from the experience to respond to it. Good luck.
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by giantrobothead 13y ago
I can see the utility of the tablet as a browsing/reading/listening device. However, I am a bit of a curmudgeon and will clutch my laptop to myself as long as possible.
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by giantrobothead 13y ago
Agreed. Any device that limits my ability to communicate effectively is not for me. Also, as an avid CLI user, a tablet is next to useless for me. I don't really feel like buying a bluetooth keyboard for a tablet just to optimize text
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by giantrobothead 13y ago
Also, Alexis Madrigal brings up the Pynchonian aspect of the attack at http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/02/sniper...
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Sniper Attack on San Jose power substation(mercurynews.com)
18 points by giantrobothead 13y ago|10 comments
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by giantrobothead 13y ago
Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea wrote a character into their Illuminatus! trilogy who employed a very similar strategy. He would leave cryptic messages and commands strewn about various businesses and locations (such as "no spitti
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by giantrobothead 13y ago
Indeed.
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by giantrobothead 13y ago
Jorge Luis Borges would have loved this article.
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by giantrobothead 13y ago
I greatly admire Kubrick's use of typography in his films, and share his love for Futura, the only typeface on the moon. This is an excellent article, thank you for sharing.
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by giantrobothead 13y ago
No, but that link is definitely intriguing.
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by giantrobothead 13y ago
I would like to see some numbers on that. Is it as pervasive as it seems, or are the ones that get through just dramatic enough to set people on edge?
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by giantrobothead 13y ago
You say "were" as though that has somehow changed.
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by giantrobothead 13y ago
It couldn't hurt. At least the general populace's purchasing power would increase.
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by giantrobothead 13y ago
Tremendous. I love how the simulation threw its hands up at the end and gave up in such spectacular fashion. Mathematical abomination, indeed.
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by giantrobothead 13y ago
Perhaps. Unfortunately, that's probably a pretty big "if".
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by giantrobothead 13y ago
Pass phrases are more memorable and at least appear more resistant to password cracking attempts, but as Mat Honan's experience and this recent post here on HN ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7142916 ) both show,
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by giantrobothead 13y ago
Unfortunately, those opportunities appear to be as boundless as human stupidity.
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by giantrobothead 13y ago
Ah yes, I hadn't thought of that. Probably because I have around two years worth of service built up on mine.
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by giantrobothead 13y ago
Definitely. While it's not a perfect solution, it provides an extra layer of protection for your accounts by making an extra hurdle for any attacker to clear. Needing two components to access/change your accounts is elegant and ef
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by giantrobothead 13y ago
>MR. SEEGER: I continued singing, and I expect I always will. May you always. By far the most meaningful line of the exchange.
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by giantrobothead 13y ago
Other than hand-delivered letters and face-to-face conversation in a secluded space, but then again, how can you trust the person you're communicating with to keep those communiques private? Argh...paranoia...all consuming!
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by giantrobothead 13y ago
Yes, but what about those of us that enjoy playing NetHack?

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