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841.
by iwwr 15y ago
Still, land was not being colonized at least until 500m years ago and substantial biomass had not accumulated until around 400 or so million years. 750m years ago there was probably not much microbial life on the continents (outside water h
842.
by iwwr 15y ago
During those times, land was a barren desert. No soil, no crawling things, no plants, just barren sand and rock. If you left an apple out in the dirt, it would grow no mold and probably just dry out. It's hard to imagine a world like that.
843.
by iwwr 15y ago
What if the bankers get pissed off and sabotage it by not working hard enough to sell the issue. Have things become so bad that companies must ingratiate themselves with 40-50% tributes to the banks?
844.
by iwwr 15y ago
Power doesn't come from the gun, but from public legitimacy. In the same manner that it would be considered legitimate for someone to defend themselves with a gun.
845.
Amazonian tribe has no abstract concept of time(uk.news.yahoo.com)
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846.
by iwwr 15y ago
You have to pay taxes and also settle debts in the official currency. That alone gives it more than mere 'perceived value'. Oh, needing it to buy oil also helps.
847.
by iwwr 15y ago
The curse of having too much money perhaps?
848.
by iwwr 15y ago
Or $1000 for every person sitting in a coffee shop in SF.
849.
by iwwr 15y ago
Vested interests at work. They have an economy of scale in the political realm. More often than not, laws are drafted by the lobbyists themselves.
850.
by iwwr 15y ago
"Copyright owners have said the legislation has a series of legal checks and balances built in and would be geared only toward pirate sites." Any information on what these 'checks and balances' would be?
851.
by iwwr 15y ago
For hackerdom at least, it's good PR. Consider Sony's case, they might have shut out a large number of talented people by the way they handled the PS3 hacking affair.
852.
by iwwr 15y ago
So the solution is not to rely on a single disk for filesystem redundancy (when was that ever considered a good idea, ZFS or not?). Use RAID in a typical setup.
853.
by iwwr 15y ago
You can't get into any car and drive if you have not been properly trained.
854.
Intel rewrites 'inadequate' roadmap, 'reinvents' PC(theregister.co.uk)
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855.
by iwwr 15y ago
A case in point that experts can handle complex interfaces, as long as they provide more control.
856.
by iwwr 15y ago
Intel could buy VIA, couldn't they?
857.
Is this the first practical quantum computer? (D-wave 128 qbit box)(dwavesys.com)
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858.
by iwwr 15y ago
Relativistic travel would be one-way essentially. It would allow one to travel the visible universe within a current human lifespan (of course, with ridiculous power requirements). Anything left behind would have experienced thousands of mi
859.
Apple and why you're not allowed to change a hard disk(theregister.co.uk)
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860.
by iwwr 15y ago
You can hardly expect politicians to understand the ramifications of the legislation they're proposing. Most of it they haven't even read. Though, to be fair, malicious hackers are the people they're out to get, just that well-meaning peopl
861.
by iwwr 15y ago
This is self-reported survey data. Has there been live testing of this behavior?
862.
by iwwr 15y ago
The title is a little bait-y, but the piece is worth reading. What decision-makers are not really thinking is that by threatening legitimate security researchers (or well-meaning insiders), they leave the field open to the malicious hackers
863.
by iwwr 15y ago
The Core Wars, on a huge canvas.
864.
by iwwr 15y ago
They do employ masses of quants, though, who can chew through this sort thing quite easily.
865.
by iwwr 15y ago
One interesting aspect about driverless cars is that they can be used for traffic optimization. http://trafficwaves.org/trafexp.html tl;dr driving smoothly and leaving traffic gaps ahead can prevent traffic jams or slowdowns Having just a
866.
by iwwr 15y ago
Interestingly, if Telstra has any US assets, servers or domains, they can be seized.
867.
by iwwr 15y ago
When they can railroad through just about any piece of law they want (in the interest of 'national security'), they're not exactly bound by law.
868.
The Bipolar Lisp Programmer(classic-web.archive.org)
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869.
El Reg's in-depth analysis of Intel's 3D transistor(theregister.co.uk)
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870.
by iwwr 15y ago
Tor is far from safe, especially if your opponent has the ability to intersperse a majority of treacherous nodes into the network.

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