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811.
by ihsw 13y ago
The best defence is a good offence.
812.
by ihsw 13y ago
What's wrong with named return parameters?
813.
by ihsw 13y ago
Off-topic: thank you mods for changing the original submission title, it was quite inflammatory. Terrorism -- or (more to the point) political expression by violence -- is not at all a means to end violence, and it would be foolish to prete
814.
by ihsw 13y ago
I think the parent was suggesting a consumer-friendly method of that -- for example Gmail.com would provide a button that lets the user download a single file, and Outlook.com would accept such a file.
815.
by ihsw 13y ago
There faster, more efficient ways to cause your hair to turn gray and fall out than watching BTC's waxing and waning on an hourly basis. Personally I suggest looking at the 52-week moving average -- it's a lot more comforting and
816.
by ihsw 13y ago
As someone that grew up with snow and been to a beach more than I'd care to admit, I can't help but agree that it's quite the uncanny valley. I'm sure Disney et al will find ways to distract you enough not to notice. I&#
817.
by ihsw 13y ago
"Is It A Good Idea To Microwave An XBOX 360?" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzodemYzswQ "Is It A Good Idea To Microwave A PlayStation 3?" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rWyJXpezPs &quo
818.
by ihsw 13y ago
You're right, it's more of a conspiracy theory than anything else, but I can't get past the idea that tech corporations are suddenly interested in right's of users to privacy from their government.
819.
by ihsw 13y ago
One of the key points in their push for new legislation is establishing a universal framework for handling cross-jurisdictional legal conflicts -- one in particular is Google being indicted in the UK on privacy violations and them subsequen
820.
by ihsw 13y ago
If you've seen any PHP4 codebases then you'd understand that the pain is necessary -- sweat now so you don't bleed later. Universally, they were brittle and terribly insecure.
821.
by ihsw 13y ago
If hundreds of thousands of letters stream in and out of the US every second then you bet your ASCIIs the government wouldn't waste time "modernizing" the law to be more "aligned with international norms."
822.
by ihsw 13y ago
> I would got to a protest to DC, but hmm, facial recognition The GPS radio/cellular radio are used to find and pinpoint protester identities, at least momentarily. It is an eventuality that local police departments get such devices
823.
by ihsw 13y ago
Just goes to show that the NSA doesn't give a rats ass about defence other than penetrating it.
824.
by ihsw 13y ago
You can, but it doesn't come on by default.
825.
by ihsw 13y ago
You have no idea how comforting it is to see a Google search link that doesn't have a bunch bullshit parameters at the end of it.
826.
by ihsw 13y ago
How about Directed Energy Advanced Technical High Barrier Equipped Affixed Machine (DEATHBEAM).
827.
by ihsw 13y ago
Oh, how exciting. I work down the street from there.
828.
by ihsw 13y ago
> to protect people from shooting themselves in the foot with exorbitant bills As a matter of fact this is why new EC2 instances don't get swap -- running into swap can cost a pretty penny.
829.
by ihsw 13y ago
> after they move to Elgin This has not been confirmed.
830.
by ihsw 13y ago
My experience with Ruby and RoR is fairly limited, and I have no experience with unit testing (very embarrassing). I'm not sure I'd be a good fit for Shopify. :( That said, I've recently had a dire need for concurrency on a p
831.
by ihsw 13y ago
Another Ottawa developer here. I went to a few OCLUG meetings a decade ago (when they were still at the Main library branch) but I've been meaning to check it since they moved it to Shopify's offices. I think it might be fun going
832.
by ihsw 13y ago
Well, I'm not really going to get into the underlying rationale behind security theatre, but I would imagine that such actions would need to meet a certain threshold of how blatantly political they are.
833.
by ihsw 13y ago
An armed raid on a specific person's house house isn't random, however raiding any house in a particular neighbourhood would fulfil such a definition.
834.
by ihsw 13y ago
Terrorism is politically motivated, there is no evidence of that.
835.
by ihsw 13y ago
Simply and narrowly put, that may be terrorism, but to call this terrorism would be speculation -- it's not politically-charged attention-whoring in the strictest sense. Another staple of terrorism is random violence, and we're no
836.
by ihsw 13y ago
Seems like a throwback to TV -- you pay for the service and you get ads.
837.
by ihsw 13y ago
Here is a graph with zeroed X-axis. http://i.imgur.com/OAul7h2.png At the average rate of decline (constant ~4.5% decrease in mail delivered per year), it should reach 10% of 2008's usage by 2050. This obviously does n
838.
by ihsw 13y ago
What hypocrisy? Nobody is turning a blind eye to Russia's offences. The issue is America's hypocrisy -- we claim to be a shining beacon of democracy and shout down from our ivory tower. We impose restrictions on Chinese exports ac
839.
by ihsw 13y ago
If everybody has Google Glass on their heads, is there a difference between whether it's a drone buzzing above our heads and whether it's face-mounted cameras? Mobile phones are already used as spy devices -- do you really think t
840.
by ihsw 13y ago
Or you could sleep for a regular amount hours on a regular basis. This kind of brain-hackery bullshit is just marketing fluff. I envy and pity anybody with too much money and not enough brains, but this is just blatant pandering to nitwits

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