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by iwr 16y ago
Apparently, there is no XSLT version. Well, here is one: The XML file: <?xml version="1.0"?> <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="99bottles.xsl"?> <beer>99</beer> The XSLT: <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
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Remember that the great monopoly to be broken up by anti-trust law was in fact a government-mandated one: AT&T. Without the government banning competition, AT&T would have been very much different in 1974 (the time of the divestitur
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Ender was deliberately put in a position where he was forced to fight back or get killed. His "handlers" wanted a dehumanized person capable of everything, including genocide. "The task of the training battalions is to crush and completely
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This is great stuff!
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This looks interesting, I'll check it out!
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German 'Fleshmob' Protests Airport Scanners(wired.com)
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The cheapest small-traffic solution I've found is to hook one or more phones to a PC and communicate with them via Hayes AT commands. Can look a little hacky, but once you have the box set up, you don't have to worry anymore. Switching "gat
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Next step: build a Von Neumann Universal Constructor!
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It's strange how a society supposedly obsessed with safety nonetheless thinks normal to place a child in such an environment, then do everything to prevent them from defending themselves. It's a prison environment, only the inmates did noth
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In that sense, Intel is just making CPUs on top of x86 bytecode that runs natively. I wonder if a little extra firmware can eliminate the need for an OS altogether.
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Low blue sensitivity may be due to the eye's lens being opaque to UV (very bright blue). This is for good reasons because then daylight illumination would be painful and cause retinal damage over time. The blue color receptor can actually c
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Translation and interpreting is an AI-hard problem.
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For a foundation thinking ultra longterm, they have a flaky server. "Service Temporarily Unavailable The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to maintenance downtime or capacity problems. Please try again later. Apache/2
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For comparison purposes: using a Core 2 Duo @ 2.6GHz and the official bitcoin binary, it would take around 45 days before there's a 90% chance to get a block (50 coins).
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Even if an attacker can muster the computing power to overwhelm the current bitcoin network, these efforts would be very visible and traceable to a few sources. You could thus tell people are giving out fake coins. However, given the lack o
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The big boys' RepRap! But from the looks of it, the 3d printing process is for mold making rather than the finished product itself.
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Not to confuse OPML (Outline Processor Markup Language), used to aggregate RSS files with OBML (Opera Binary Markup Language). I was confused why or how OPML would serve Opera's purposes in this instance.
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Your ISP can act as a MITM and they can even poison DNS requests. Other than that, governments can corrupt the certificate-issuing authorities and present you with forged SSL credentials. http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/03/researchers-re
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Between 18 hours to a few days. Flares can take as little as 15 minutes (with early warning from satellites in L2). For high energy x-rays there'd be no early warning through other means than forecasting.
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Advertising expands as to fill the available computing power. Content may too. There'll always be a place for an optimized browser, even if just to save battery life.
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We could attempt to use an "unbound" version of a color sistem (i.e. RGB with -inf..+inf ranges rather than 0-255 for each channel). Even if the display medium can only handle a limited band of colors, more color information may be useful (
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The idea would be that human vision is more responsive to ligh intensity than color intensity, and so, to optimize a display medium, we can use more bits for lightness and less for other color information. And to do that, we need a color sp
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If your industry is being disrupted by technology, all resistance is... futile. You should hope or work toward getting a tech company to help you monetize your content before it's too late.
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Browsers should use two kinds of notifications: "encryption on" (green or red) and "certificate is present" (green or red). Websites that do banking or handle sensitive information should be green/green (SSL-on with verified cert), while or
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Do you have a relevant link with the plumber story? What's next, postmen's union suing too?
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I for one am waiting for the breast implant bomber.
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The alternative to being taken advantage of is not-working. If it's illegal even to be taken advantage of, it's illegal to work. Strictly speaking, there is always more work to be done.
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The idea is that robotic manufacturing would be the next stage of the industrial revolution. Meaning that lost manufacturing jobs are not necessarily a bad thing, but rather a natural procession to more advanced division of labor. Indeed, t
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That's not enough. As we've seen, government income can occasionally spike. You also need a flexible way to cut expenses further. It's probably not possible to economize on government budgets, why they periodically go bust (debt is cleared
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This could be a case of a "cartographer's watermark", a purposeful error. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartography#Cartographic_errors also this: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Copyright_Easter_Eggs#Exa...

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