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by iwwr 15y ago
Non sequitur
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by iwwr 15y ago
The plane probably tried to send a signal, failed, then tried again an hour later, eventually succeeding after the third try.
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by iwwr 15y ago
I'd be interested to see their claim of untraceability tested somewhat. It's hard to believe this sort of traffic can't be profiled.
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by iwwr 15y ago
The only difference is the greater bureaucratic procedures in handling this data, but there is technically nothing off-limits (information-wise) to law-enforcement or security agencies. This is especially true in the wake of anti-terror leg
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by iwwr 15y ago
Growth is just another word for efficiency and innovation. We are far from having optimized away all possible production processes on this planet.
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by iwwr 15y ago
Any money they get goes to pay credit cards, student loans and for the smart and fortunate into savings. What's wrong with THAT?
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by iwwr 15y ago
It's not as if EU governments have any more qualms about the privacy of their citizens.
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by iwwr 15y ago
Very well in fact, pillows stuffed with dollar bills can do that.
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by iwwr 15y ago
This can clear up some misconceptions about cosmological distance http://www.atlasoftheuniverse.com/redshift.html
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by iwwr 15y ago
Not to mention that operator phones tend to be crippled, locked-down versions of the original hardware. So I wonder why people don't just take consumer credit or pay in full for a device rather than use it on an operator contract.
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by iwwr 15y ago
The atmosphere seems to be so rife with paranoia that it looks best not to take any digital device with you there.
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by iwwr 15y ago
The point being that after a while, everyone is related from a mixed lineage, but male-only or female-only lines may die off, either a man having only daughters or a woman having only sons, or having no children at all.
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by iwwr 15y ago
I wonder what the degree of relatedness (assuming inbreeding) these descendants actually have with Genghis Khan. We know that family trees break down into direct acyclic graphs over the longer term. Note that the title assumes just patrilin
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VMware backs down on vSphere 5 pricing(arstechnica.com)
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by iwwr 15y ago
It would be nice if we had some screencasts of the winners at work.
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by iwwr 15y ago
It's weird because from the tone of the presentation it sounded like a parody. Then it felt like a running gag everyone seemed to be in on. So they were actually serious?
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by iwwr 15y ago
Higher pay for lower skill levels.
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by iwwr 15y ago
It's a government organization, working on a political logic. So likely, they won't be able to attract consistent quality applicants (to the extent a big tech company could). They may however be able to get ideologically-driven people (thos
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by iwwr 15y ago
A patent that is truly so original that somebody else wouldn’t arrive at the same solution by applying normal engineering skill is useless as a defensive patent. ... This is indeed amazing.
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by iwwr 15y ago
Apparently, these panels work on the thermoelectric effect (different from the photoelectric effect), they're Peltier piles working in reverse. Thermoelectrics are Carnot-limited, but photovoltaics are not.
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by iwwr 15y ago
There is an interesting IP minefield in the fledgling area of procedural generation. That is, if you can define a procedural texture that looks the same as another procedural texture (but different generating rules), are you breaking copyri
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by iwwr 15y ago
Not considering this case in particular, but it is rather shameful how every single unusual weather event (and now 4 polar bears) is being exploited to promote the global warming political agenda. Not saying that the science is bad or that
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by iwwr 15y ago
Is there a way to massage this so that Wolfram Alpha can graph it in whole?
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by iwwr 15y ago
We could surely use something like GPL for patents.
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by iwwr 15y ago
In places like Russia or the CSI countries, Opera is the leading browser, with between 24% to 40% market share. It's not a browser you want to ignore if you want to appeal to those markets.
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by iwwr 15y ago
There's at least another asteroid following Earth in a quasi-orbital fashion: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3753_Cruithne
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by iwwr 15y ago
How do we There is no 'we', people act individually. If people will have enough savings, they will retire earlier, if they don't they keep working. The increase in life expectancy would be doubled with an increase in health and fitness at
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by iwwr 15y ago
On the other hand, the subject of life extension meets with so much hostility it's actually easy to argue that we as a culture are not ready for this yet. Only from the Malthusians.
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by iwwr 15y ago
And yet, in Germany or Austria, 'Maria' can be a man's name.
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by iwwr 15y ago
Is there some credence to the rumor that having a g+ account could shut you out of other google services, like gmail?

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