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by huxley 11y ago
Pliny was trying to be comprehensive by communicating all that was believed about a subject, whether verified or not. In fact, given the limitations on travel and communications at the time, it was rarely practical to confirm the stories co
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Actually it was a dispute between EMI and Apple Corps (not invoking Apple Computer Inc) over royalties that held up the Beatles music licensing.
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In case anyone was confused and thought you had a Wildcard EV certificate for subdomains/customer-specific logins, that (still) isn't possible, what you probably meant was that you have a regular wildcard certificate for the subdo
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by huxley 11y ago
I had my freakout about ClamAV back when I found out it is owned by Cisco: http://blog.clamav.net/2013/10/cisco-community-and-open-sour...
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Doesn't seem like it, it's a GUI app that runs CLI commands and flags for ClamAV, which is separately installed, according to Mark Allan, the developer of ClamXav: https://www.clamxav.com/BB/viewtopic.php?p=23
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I've started writing my own ES9 specification to get a jump on the really cutting-edge stuff, it's influenced by functional languages but only ironically.
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He said, not she. It is a guy complaining his wife can't change her user id. "He told me that my wife was out of luck."
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by huxley 11y ago
You definitely aren't stuck defaulting to the email address for iCloud, I just switched the default on my iPhone, if that was ever the case, it isn't in iOS 8: Go into Settings/iCloud/Advanced/Mail You can then pick
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by huxley 11y ago
Conversation? The linked article is an incoherent rant by a man who is upset because he thinks he can't have his wife's iCloud login changed, while cynically trying to frame it as a case of sexism. Apple provides up to 3 aliases p
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by huxley 11y ago
It doesn't hurt if your mom is on the national board of the United Way with the President of IBM.
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by huxley 11y ago
The parent's comment is dripping with sarcasm
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Reminds me of the classic Mac shareware "Talking Moose" http://youtu.be/1X_Uui4wLvI
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by huxley 11y ago
MobileMe was supposed to have a 2 month free trial that became a 3 month free trial due to the glitches during launch (and some people even got 4 months due to a payment screwup where they were billed for the full year in advance rather tha
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Yeah, it was related to QuickTime. San Francisco Canyon Company was hired by Apple to port QuickTime to Windows, later it was hired by Intel to do some work on Indeo. Intel and Microsoft used the work done by San Francisco Canyon Company t
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by huxley 11y ago
This doesn't seem like something a quick patch can fix. The section of the paper on mitigation suggests that it is non-trivial to correct without significantly re-architecting the app-OS relationship, if the paper is accurate, Apple is
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by huxley 11y ago
Boffin just means someone that has an esoteric or difficult-to-master skill.
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For anyone who liked the "Kid's Story" and "A Detective's Story" segments, those were done by Watanabe Shinichirō who directed Cowboy Bebop and Samurai Champloo, two amazing anime series.
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I remember typing in programs from magazines and printouts we'd get from friends. My "computing" teacher in Junior High School used to get floppies and tapes sent to him from some friends in American universities, so we got t
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by huxley 11y ago
"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway." — Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Computer Networks (1989)
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David Simon is talking about one particular administration, he later says in the same interview: "And tellingly, when his successor as mayor allows a new police commissioner to finally de-emphasize street sweeps and mass arrests and in
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by huxley 11y ago
I wonder if you can still get a free elk or buffalo from the Department of the Interior.
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by huxley 11y ago
Patrick McNaughton thought so too: "I'm pretty sure that Java's 'interface' is a direct rip-off of Obj-C's 'protocol' which was largely designed by these ex-NeXT'ers" http://cs.gm
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I didn't have insomnia as bad as some on the thread and with the caveat that every case of insomnia seems to be different enough that there isn't a single fix for it: I found melatonin helped to get me started on a sleep schedule,
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Not quite, the influence was mostly indirect. Java was most heavily influenced by Objective-C, Patrick McNaughton was really into NeXTSTEP and almost left Sun for NeXT but was given a carte blanche by Scott McNealy to create something new.
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by huxley 11y ago
"I often talk about the 6D’s of exponential thinking ..." [turns off computer for the day]
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My back of the envelope calculation is that it is equivalent to 5 GHz of wrongness
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Listen to some of the people that are reaching out here. Sometimes I've felt like I've had crossroad moments for a major part of my life, stuck with deep paralyzing fears because of stupid things I've done. Find someone to ta
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by huxley 11y ago
50 million Tolkien fans can't be wrong http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eucatastrophe
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The significance is that the human is being used as the "measure of all things" The scale is based on the ratio to the size of a human being (human being = 1 or 10^0), so if we were in the middle that would be why we'd be the
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by huxley 11y ago
Safari 8.0.6 too

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