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by glurgh 13y ago
I didn't know either! Makes sense geometrically but I wondered is it really the case that when you read something like 'image of the North pole of Venus', it's really the opposite pole. It looks like astronomers rely on the 'convenient' con
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by glurgh 13y ago
This is only for minor bodies, not planets. The poles of planets are pretty much defined to be 'pointed the same way as the Earth's'. The north pole of Venus is roughly aligned with the north pole of the Earth despite the fact that Venus's
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by glurgh 13y ago
Saturn is about ten times larger than the Earth in diameter while spinning more than two times faster. Additionally, Saturn is 'self-luminous', it generates more energy than it receives from the Sun. "Saturn has a very hot interior, reachin
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by glurgh 13y ago
> Edis is a protocol-compatable Server replacement for Redis, written in Erlang. Edis's goal is to be a drop-in replacement for Redis when persistence is more important than holding the dataset in-memory. Isn't the entire point of Red
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by glurgh 13y ago
Fortunately, someone put on a turtleneck and got this covered. On PBS, in 1980. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aOVItJHZEM
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by glurgh 13y ago
There will be no complex digital technology in 2038. Unix time will have ended. If you are particularly well-prepared, you may be able to trade 37 bushels of unhulled oats for a hand-cranked shortwave radio receiver. An even, disembodied vo
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by glurgh 13y ago
The scenario presented starts with a stolen db. Also it's about recording successful, rather than unsuccessful logins. Gmail is a good counter-example - it does tell you of your last login but who keeps track of these? You log in from home,
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by glurgh 13y ago
Wouldn't an attacker who's gained enough access to a system to get db dumps or modify serverside code to the point where they can capture incoming passwords simply turn off the audit calls? Wouldn't an attacker who's gained access to a seco
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by glurgh 13y ago
128 bits is a big number/keyspace but the solar system is no lightweight, either. 2^128 = 3.4028E38 solar mass = 1.9884E30 kg or about 9E56 atoms. You don't need to get down to atoms, you could be crunching 128 bit keys on a
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by glurgh 13y ago
'advanced' belies the sort of casual sentientism that is an embarrassment and a blight on this site, the technology industry and entrepreneurship. It's also irrational since it ignores a massive yet underserved market. Opening line of the e
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by glurgh 14y ago
Mainly because those were not adventure games, which is what the article/retrospective is about.
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by glurgh 14y ago
I haven't seen the video but generally he's been very complimentary of BK: http://marc.info/?l=git&m=114685143200012 http://marc.info/?l=git&m=116129092117475 And two basic verbs 'pull' and 'push' are straight from BK. My impres
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by glurgh 14y ago
>no matter how proud Torvalds is of the fact that he >never looked at another version control system for >inspiration What gave you that impression? Git was strongly influenced by BitKeeper and to a much lesser exten
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by glurgh 14y ago
Not really. The DEA is perfectly aware that such an article would be trivially identified as an inept ruse by anyone wearing cheap and easy-to-construct tinfoil headgear.
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by glurgh 14y ago
Right now. Both games with their full assets are available for OS X on Steam. It will be a while (if ever) these source releases become get free, re-distributable assets and platform-specific ports.
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by glurgh 14y ago
Pretty sure they meant Depleted Uranium by DU. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depleted_uranium Has a lower density than Tungsten, though so would make a poor counterfeiting material in both cost and physical properties.
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by glurgh 14y ago
Definition which? Let's take a look at the relevant one from the OED. 1.1 That is of concern, that gives cause for consideration; important, weighty. arch. Note the annotation 'archaic' - as in, not actually in current use. Words do, indee
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by glurgh 14y ago
The trouble is, that's not what 'concerning' means. It does not mean 'causes concern' http://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/concerning The usage you're describing might as well be met with the question 'Concerning what?'.
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by glurgh 14y ago
It's an NYT blog, not an article. And you probably mean 'disconcerting'.
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by glurgh 14y ago
I think the difference is that Monopoly, Nethack and Mario are intended to be played short term. Of course you can lose terribly in Monopoly and Nethack elevates dying to part of the gameplay. The stakes are a little different in a long-ter
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by glurgh 14y ago
Really, permanent death? PvP corpse looting? These are profoundly user-hating mechanics and their removal is likely among the factors that made WoW successful. There are other ways to allow newbies to catch up and to incentivize or disincen
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by glurgh 14y ago
http://www.freeprintshop.org/download/eats_english.pdf
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by glurgh 14y ago
I think you might mean 'evoke'.
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by glurgh 14y ago
'Atomic bomb' for any kind of nuclear weapon is historically inaccurate but it's a (relatively harmless) generalization - after all, in a more technical context one can still avail oneself of 'fission' and 'thermonuclear' and 'implosion dev
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by glurgh 14y ago
"atomic bomb" is often used generically as a stand-in for 'nuclear weapon'. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/atomic%20bomb
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by glurgh 14y ago
"Despite this aggregation of martial thought, the best book on maneuver warfare is in fact a 30 year old science fiction novel. Although incomplete in addressing all aspects of theory, Ender’s Game is one of the best books on maneuver warfa
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by glurgh 14y ago
Actually, not only have 'humans been fighting wars for a long time', the entire idea of maneuver warfare predates both Ender's game _and_ it making its way into US army literature. And this you can surmise not by digging up some obscure w
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by glurgh 14y ago
Richard Garriot was a paid space tourist, not a NASA astronaut, regulations about eye surgery notwithstanding.
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by glurgh 14y ago
The cases the Innocence Project deals with are invariably state cases, the quality of federal public defenders is significantly higher.
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by glurgh 14y ago
possibly because he existed "before PC" Or more likely because the situation, context and Feynman's actions were highly dissimilar. If you haven't had a chance, take a look at the story in the original source, it's a lot more detailed tha

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