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by hcurtiss 14y ago
What Shell may have done -- namely, claiming jobs creation and downplaying environmental cost -- is something very different than what Greenpeace did here.
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by hcurtiss 14y ago
I guess the interesting part to me is that, with the advent of news aggregators and social networks, the internet kind of removes the filter. A blatant lie can take off like wildfire and burn a lot of people before anyone can mobilize to p
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by hcurtiss 14y ago
What's shocking to me is the blatant manipulation of the mob. Maybe this has gone on forever, but seeing it happen in real time on sites like Reddit is tripping me out. While I think my BS filter is more sophisticated than most, on the mo
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by hcurtiss 14y ago
What makes you think that, if their pricing proves low, they won't simply increase prices? And marginally so? They'd have to more than quadruple prices before DropBox is the better backup solution.
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by hcurtiss 14y ago
I can't say my knowledge is global, but in the US I'm fairly comfortable saying no law firm of any consequence still uses WordPerfect.
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by hcurtiss 14y ago
I'm a lawyer, not IT, so my answer may not be all that useful. That said, there are two major hurdles at law firms. First, the management structure is ridiculously flat, and the people running the show are usually the most senior attorney
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by hcurtiss 14y ago
Exactly. Our law firm is almost -- almost -- ready to roll out our Windows 7 build. And we only have about 650 users.
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by hcurtiss 14y ago
What's wrong with wired docking stations?
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by hcurtiss 14y ago
This post was awesome. Thank you. I've often wondered whether every human uptakes calories from food in the same way. In the same vein, and at the risk of being too graphic, is it true that all human excrement is non-caloric? That is to
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by hcurtiss 14y ago
Onenote is a really great compromise. The handwriting remains, and it converts to text in the background. It's not perfect, but it doesn't have to be. As a TabletPC user and a lawyer, I've been waiting for this form factor for years. IMH
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by hcurtiss 14y ago
I think I get it. Using a unique salt, they'd have to completely rebuild their entire rainbow table for each password (given a unique salt for each). Is that right? Even then, it seems like they might want to use a smaller dictionary, bu
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by hcurtiss 14y ago
Where do you store the individual salts, or the rules for creating the salts? Do you hash those too? It seems like they'd have to be sitting somewhere so that you could salt the input password before hashing to compare with the salted/has
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by hcurtiss 14y ago
amphetamines.
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by hcurtiss 14y ago
No, skiing was awesome, and we were, frankly, some of the pioneers (it only worked on some keyboards, I had to buy a new one). I'm talking about the aiming scripts and when guys started walking through walls. Most of the base servers were l
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by hcurtiss 14y ago
Two points: 1. Notwithstanding that language, it's an individual right. See Heller. 2. Militias were, almost exclusively, the province Of the individual states. There was not until relatively recently a standing federal army. The point wa
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by hcurtiss 14y ago
It's an elegant solution. In 1998, as a freshman in college, we kicked a lot of ass on Tribes. By my sophomore year, the hacks had completely ruined the game. Frankly, it inspired one of my teammates to go into CS so that he could "hack
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by hcurtiss 14y ago
Liberty creates risk. Yes, the terr'ists may get a few of us from time to time. It's not, IMHO, worth giving up our civil liberties to prevent that.
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by hcurtiss 14y ago
You're close here, but you're missing the big picture. It's not that the constitution assumes we're good people. It's that many of the founders were suspicious of large central governments. The anti-federalists insisted upon a bill of ri
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Which iOS 6 features can my device run? (fragmentation?)(engadget.com)
2 points by hcurtiss 14y ago|0 comments
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by hcurtiss 14y ago
"Sure, it was a more polished product * * * ." That's exactly his point. Even if others offered the feature first, it's what's behind the bullet list that makes it a successful product (polish, if you will).
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by hcurtiss 14y ago
The bleeding has slowed, but still bleeding. Difficult to gauge whether the patient will survive. That people pour(ed) so much money into this continues to astound me. Also surprised by the upbeat comments here.
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by hcurtiss 15y ago
The editors at the Times know what they're doing. This pretty much makes him untouchable.
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by hcurtiss 15y ago
Frankly, in my experience, it's all about perceived security. That and the utility of setting permissions for third party access with read/modify logs. It's kind of like Merrill's data room, but web 2.0'y and faster/more user friendly. Dr
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by hcurtiss 15y ago
Agreed. I would not have believed it if you told me three years ago, but box.com is positioning to significantly outpace dropbox in the enterprise space (i.e., the pay for service space). I work with banks and law firms. Dropbox is perce
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by hcurtiss 15y ago
China will: http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2011/07/21/china%E2%80%99... See also: http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/inf17.html At a very fundamental level, when they're willing to displace 1.4 million people for a dam, http://water
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by hcurtiss 15y ago
I, for one, will get nothing out of Cameron traveling to the bottom of the ocean that drop cameras have not already produced. I feel the same way about sending humans to Mars. Of course, I'm also the guy who went to the Grand Canyon and th
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by hcurtiss 15y ago
I find this comment really unfortunate. I suspect you'll find that, notwithstanding their love of the trade, musicians are just as interested in getting paid as the rest of us. Unfortunately, given high transaction costs (in the econ 101
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by hcurtiss 15y ago
Good call, man. We posted the same picture only seconds apart. Really something to see the influence he's had on this community.
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Jobs News(i.imgur.com)
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by hcurtiss 15y ago
How I wish it was 4:3. Looks like Lenovo does too. To my eye, those images are not 16:9. Oh, Lenovo, why do you frustrate me so?

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