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by idm 17y ago
Wow. Shameless linkjacking. That's straight-up plagiarism. There's 0% original content. Seriously, where's my pitchfork?
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by idm 17y ago
I hate to repeat it, but it's really true. Firebug makes it so easy to debug CSS due to the saneness of the CSS UI. WebKit's inspector UI is a nightmare for tracing a CSS calculation.
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by idm 17y ago
Exactly. Why is the word "how" in the title? Here's a choice quote from the article regarding that question: "Exactly how the credit industry does it—through sophisticated data-mining techniques—is a closely guarded secret. " Well great!
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by idm 17y ago
I am totally interested. Edit: I'm not sure how well the "vote for a day you're available" thing is working. When I checked on the spreadsheet, there were 4 names but 7 votes for April 29. That made me suspicious.
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by idm 17y ago
Mozilla ships with a root certificate, and they don't know who has the private key portion. Therefore, some rogue could be signing SSL certificates, executing man-in-the-middle attacks, or something else. These rogue certificates would be
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by idm 17y ago
Circa 2002, the rogue cert was checked into the mozilla dev CVS by the Man ... in the middle.
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by idm 17y ago
I was having the same problem. It's a geo-IP thing; switching to a US proxy causes the warning to display.
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by idm 17y ago
It's still okay to blame them for bullshitting. I assume your point is that they've never experienced negative outcomes for their previous bullshitting, so there's no reason for them to do anything different, and I'd have to agree...
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by idm 17y ago
So now I'm curious - is that the full article? That's what I see, too, but I wonder if there's more to the article that is behind a paywall?
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by idm 17y ago
Damnit - I clicked the link... But you're right, it's a novelty account, and if I had known that, I would not have clicked - out of principle. EDIT: okay, I read the article. It's totally worthless, except maybe as an example of how plagi
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by idm 17y ago
:) Well, it grew on me. I didn't like it as a kid, even though that's who (I assume) it was originally targeting. I think I saw it as a series of bad things happening to the Coyote. Now, I really like the cartoon because of the way the w
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by idm 17y ago
I've seen better instances than this one (like the EFF's DMCA takedown Hitler[1]) ... but ... there's more to this meme than it simply being Hitler. It's like the Looney Tunes coyote-vs-roadrunner. Honestly, how entertaining is it to watch
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by idm 17y ago
Yes and no. I can only speak for myself, but I could see elements of his Six Lessons in my own public schooling. Yes, some of my classmates' souls were basically crushed by public schooling, but I also know some people who were set free,
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by idm 17y ago
Well, a database dump is fine if you have some new metadata to manage it. Basically, a versioned schema ... Imagine that you end up wanting to synchronize your DB dump with someone else's DB dump. The thing that's nice about the API is t
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by idm 17y ago
If you can borrow a mac, Grapher is waiting for you. It's free with OSX, it's current, and it easily handles a set of 3d coords. I highly recommend it.
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by idm 17y ago
I immediately assumed GraphViz too, but I think the "viz" generally refers to "visualization."
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by idm 17y ago
A relevant quantitative prediction would be of this form: When participants are randomly divided into two experimental conditions, "donation" and "no-donation", participants in the donation condition donate significantly more than no-donati
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by idm 17y ago
It's the dinosaur; here's where I first saw it [the dinosaur]: http://www.qwantz.com/index.php
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by idm 17y ago
You're doing your science wrong. The upvotes are because the conclusion is novel.
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by idm 17y ago
USB data blocker - totally awesome idea. It could double as a protocol sniffer if it had a buffer.
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by idm 17y ago
Funny name, but completely wrong. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rasterisation Rasterization or Rasterisation is the task of taking an image described in a vector graphics format (shapes) and converting it into a raster image (pixels or dot
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by idm 17y ago
I was surprised to find a comment thread as negative as this one, but the comments are all apt. That article was completely devoid of insight. Remarkably so. The comments were so negative that I was actually compelled to read the article,
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by idm 17y ago
Hmm... Neat video, but I'm in the "I suspect sock puppets" camp.
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by idm 17y ago
Totally! Of course, if it didn't need to be plugged in, a la Airnergy[1]^, and if it used wifi... and maybe if it were weatherized, then it would never need to be indoors in the first place. As long as it was never delivered to a place w
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by idm 17y ago
Okay - this counts. It's art. It's rare, so it could be valuable. It's a smart idea, so it could get exposure. It's plugged in with ebay, so it's social and self-promoting. Really, it's one step away from a basic (parasitic) life form.
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by idm 17y ago
I'm really skeptical that the demonstrated setup will provide adequate cooling. As a simple example, why not just run your hardware in a big pile on the ground? Answer: your exhaust is too close to the air intake, creating a positive feed
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by idm 17y ago
whoah, whoah.... I have really wanted to use cross-site http requests, but I'm having some trouble understanding certain decisions here. Why are they using a new set of HTTP headers to describe scenarios that are already covered by HTTP re
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by idm 17y ago
Ugh... Since Forbes can probably make this argument based only on the facts, why did they have to invent a "79% tax rate" for this person? It's simply not true. Paying college tuition is not tax, and student financial aid usually does not
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by idm 17y ago
Sure, you don't see science-related injuries yet... ...but we don't want the first science-related injury to be a mushroom cloud. </sarcasm>
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by idm 17y ago
Funny, but there's something serious lurking in this comment. Think about how US dollars declare, on the face of the bill, that the currency is good for all sorts of transactions (all debts, public and private). Even a beggar can get in on

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