illumin8

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by illumin8 15y ago
Right, the breach was terrible, but I like to think that the fast food restaurant that gave everyone food poisoning one week is probably the safest restaurant to eat at next week. I know it's not popular to do business with someone that le
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by illumin8 15y ago
Personally, I sold some Bitcoins on TradeHill and was able to withdraw some cash using Dwolla, but then TradeHill complained about fraud on Dwolla, and removed that as a withdrawal option. The only way to get my cash out was to have them m
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by illumin8 15y ago
This is correct. It's not tagged that stole money from you - tagged is just a merchant that someone purchased gold at with your stolen wallet. You did what you're supposed to do and filed a dispute with your card issuer. Tagged most like
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by illumin8 15y ago
Stock indexes are more like: heads you gain 10% (average year), tails you lose 50% (every 5-10 years).
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by illumin8 15y ago
Have you considered that the chart merely shows the value of gold in US dollars, and that it could be, this time, that the US dollar is the speculative bubble that has been bursting for some time now.
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by illumin8 15y ago
Why are you being downvoted? Your comment is spot-on. Look at the market performance of 2011 and you will see why: Stocks: +0.93% US Treasury Bonds (Long Term): +33% Gold: +10% He's exactly right about Buffet. Buffet makes all his money
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by illumin8 15y ago
I hope you can keep out the script kiddies - I just saw one of these: I'm a <script>alert('lulz')</script>, and I currently make $40,000 in <script>alert('lulz')</script>. I'm ONLY interested in jobs as a &#
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by illumin8 15y ago
Or the inevitable - "Joe, you there?" 10 seconds of silence - "Sorry, I was on mute."
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by illumin8 15y ago
These stories are actually impossible with keyless entry. My car has keyless entry (2009 Hyundai Genesis) and if the key leaves the vehicle, you get a beep and warning message immediately that says "Key not in vehicle", and the car continu
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by illumin8 15y ago
You are probably more right than you know... I've always suspected something like this; although mainly that's just from my personal experience when I haven't used ESD, sometimes I've given a board a bad shock and it still miraculously wor
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by illumin8 15y ago
I used to be a Sun field engineer. I had a foldable static mat with wrist straps in the pockets. It literally took me less than 30 seconds to unfold the mat, slide on the strap, and throw whatever system board I was repairing on the mat.
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by illumin8 15y ago
Every field engineer is trained on the proper use of a static mat and wrist strap. It takes only 30 seconds to put one on. Just because the field engineers are lazy and are ignoring their training doesn't make the risk of ESD any lower th
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by illumin8 15y ago
This is what 864GB of RAM looks like after you laid it all out on a table without using ESD (electro static discharge) protection. A few of these DIMMs are probably bad now, but you won't know which ones because you're going to stuff them
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by illumin8 15y ago
I'll tell you what should be a huge wake up call to most congressmen: When I was petitioning my 2 senators on PIPA, I found that their web form for constituents to submit letters were truly terrible. Each one required that I pick a catego
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by illumin8 15y ago
Off topic, I know, but your posting reminds me of Paul Rand, the man who designed the Next logo for Steve Jobs: http://www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2011/october/jobs-v-...
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by illumin8 15y ago
This is a very cool idea. I see two main uses for this: 1. Testing and QA across multiple devices/browsers. 2. The bigger use I see is educational. Students and classrooms can have shared browsing experiences where the instructor can au
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by illumin8 15y ago
Wait, maybe I'm late to the party - purchased Instapaper over a year ago for $4.99 on my iPad - does Marco want to charge me a renewing fee now for my use of his server time? I suppose that's fair, but it is a change of policy and I'm wond
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by illumin8 15y ago
+1 look for "Just Scan" as a display mode on your TV. On my LG and many Samsungs this does a 1:1 pixel mapping from your source input.
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by illumin8 15y ago
As a non-sports fan, I find it depressing that it takes this level of stupidity to get the masses angry with the cable companies. I voted with my wallet (the cable companies don't get a dime of my money) years ago. Perhaps this level of st
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by illumin8 15y ago
Facebook doesn't want to make it easy to revoke access to your data. They intentionally made it 3 clicks, just to make it more difficult. If it was super easy to revoke access to apps, developers might not be so interested in writing for
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by illumin8 15y ago
Agreed. Being cross platform at the expense of having to write your own OpenGL and OpenAL renderers for each platform seems almost as bad as writing hand-coded assembly for each processor architecture.
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by illumin8 15y ago
The hybrid's battery failed earlier than expected. If Honda advertised the battery as lasting 10 years, and it failed after 5, a used buyer of a 3 year old car might have no idea it was about to fail.
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by illumin8 15y ago
The sad thing is not that she didn't "go through the proper channels," the sad thing about this story is that the passengers in line behind her were more worried about missing their flights and started to yell at her to quit holding up the
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by illumin8 15y ago
I stand somewhat corrected, but you must admit you are in a very small minority in your home country, and your salary probably reflects that. What I've noticed from working first-hand with outsourcing companies is that they promise degrees
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by illumin8 15y ago
Please, tell me, what senior engineers in the Phillipines or India have 15+ years of software development experience. They don't exist, because the software industry has only been there for the last 5-10 years. So please, take this "our se
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by illumin8 15y ago
Probably, because Amazon has a record of your EC2's instance IP address (even if you only use it for a few hours, I'm sure it's logged somewhere), and if they get a subpoena from the MPAA or similar they might be forced to give them your pe
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by illumin8 15y ago
I agree with what you said. We should not be mad that he hasn't done it, we should be mad when a presidential candidate makes the ridiculous claim that he could do anything in the first place. I love candidates like Ron Paul, but even he i
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by illumin8 15y ago
First, the president's only legislative power is the power of the veto. He can't sign a bill that isn't presented to him, so if congress never presents a lobbying reform bill, he never gets to sign it. Secondly, the purpose of the judicial
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by illumin8 15y ago
I think the problem exists when a normal person, presented with the 2 tablets side by side, can't tell the difference between them. For example, if you took an expensive Coach designer purse, and a knock off product and put them side by sid
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by illumin8 15y ago
I disagree. The family would not have had to stop working during their son's treatment in any country with universal health care. The US family medical leave act is ridiculous in that it only allows up to 12 weeks in a calendar year of le

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