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by jasonjei 13y ago
Sadly, the signs although being humor could easily become reality in the next few years.
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by jasonjei 13y ago
We at Levion use Zimbra. It's not a bad mail system and I wish it were a tad bit more lightweight, but it has served us well. Of course, we have Zimbra running in its own ESX.
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by jasonjei 13y ago
Speaking as somebody born in 1986, PC Magazine and Ziff Davis ignited my interest in software and computers as a child. It will always have a special place in my heart, even as a relic of print media (Ars Technica and AnandTech have replace
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by jasonjei 13y ago
It goes down the tubes when it gets to the terminating station :) I'm sure they can design it like an airplane or bus cabin with regard to disposing of human waste, a small lavatory will probably be OK.
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by jasonjei 13y ago
There was always a shred of truth to tube transport in Futurama and the Jetsons . While it may not work exactly like that and may require attendants to ensure safety similar to airplanes, it's amazing how fast you can go without air
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by jasonjei 13y ago
This is a long post and merits a long response. I apologize if I'll be using HN as my draft board until I have answered or conceded to your points. As far as your point that it's pro-Union versus pro-North, the Union in the 1860s
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by jasonjei 13y ago
As I said, I apologize for the confusion, mikeash. My bad.
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by jasonjei 13y ago
Please, let's avoid the fate of Godwin's Law by avoiding personal attacks. I didn't say Lincoln preferred slavery. However, I did say that if it were possible to keep the Union (e.g Northern influence) and slavery, Lincoln wo
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by jasonjei 13y ago
I think my comment about Lincoln and emancipation is being misconstrued. Lincoln genuinely believed in ending slavery, but as you mentioned, he cared more about preserving the unity of the Union. However, I don't believe I said he pref
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by jasonjei 13y ago
The thing about our pro-North viewpoint of the Civil War was that while Lincoln emancipated slaves, it was used more as a political weapon. Lincoln once said that if he could keep slavery and keep the union, he would have done it. However,
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by jasonjei 13y ago
Some of the comments on the linked article are ridiculous. To paraphrase some, many seem to be blindly trusting Obama with all this data (I'm sure they'd be asking for his pardon under Bush), while others believe this ``meta data&
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A dumb analyst could inside trade large amounts by eavesdropping on privileged conversations with a corporation and its public auditor (and eventually be caught for the size of transactions). A sophisticated NSA analyst could make many trad
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by jasonjei 13y ago
I just wanted to point out the irony of assuming that Americans making binary decisions is also taking a binary view of Americans :) We are a little more complicated than that, coming from vast diverse backgrounds and education (I'm Ch
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by jasonjei 13y ago
Just because it pisses the public off, that is no excuse for anyone to leak information at will, let alone be pardoned for it. By that logic, anyone who freed slaves in the South during the Civil War shouldn't have been pardoned by t
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Ask HN: is anyone doing a movie on Ed Snowden?
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I'm Chinese American. My parents are from Taiwan. I was born in Phoenix. Among all the places I've traveled, I've found California and New York's racial diversity unmatched by any other part of the world. There is no oth
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by jasonjei 13y ago
I agree--a reason could be invented. If you read between the lines, they seem pretty pissed at the US about the hacking. Letting Snowden catch his flight is payback.
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Wow, I bet Hong Kong is thrilled that a technicality allowed Snowden to leave their turf and free them from a potential diplomatic headache... meanwhile defending the right to privacy of their citizens...
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Not elected officials like the President. They are exempt from the OPM/USIS investigations.
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In a way, his work supports the work of UNIX and Ritchie. He states that tech work on a large scale is often like setting pavement. UNIX APIs are a progression of that. The fact that many can use a computer without understanding the underpi
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by jasonjei 13y ago
Another possibility: the kid is a teen parent...
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by jasonjei 13y ago
I think it really depends on the person. I always get an energy boost heading to the gym and I find my mind is clearer from the endorphin rush. Some people are clearer out of bed; I have had allergies to pollen and the environment all my l
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by jasonjei 13y ago
``History does not repeat itself, but it does rhyme." -- Mark Twain
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by jasonjei 13y ago
I'm really hoping there's a GUI way for the average user to disable it. Otherwise, writing to plist is not something easily done by the average user. Some apps aren't readily updated. Another thing Apple might do is publish
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I suspect that this technology works by optimizing the kernel process scheduler by using some heuristics to determine what should be put to the background (e.g determining what sort of syscalls are made, etc). Will this technology be intell
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by jasonjei 13y ago
If you see something, say something. That's funny. That's the slogan they have plastered all over New York's subway system.
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by jasonjei 13y ago
In theory, couldn't BitCoin be redesigned for an electronic voting system? I would probably avoid using any system that is electronic, but a public ledger of votes that could reasonably protect the franchised (and its privacy) through a pub
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by jasonjei 13y ago
What about a crowd-sourced decentralized list of known bad-CAs or certificates known to be used by Government security services? At the very worst, it will raise some warnings and let the user think twice before connecting to that service (
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by jasonjei 14y ago
All I can say is that this guy is slightly insane for dealing with Excel VB, but kudos to this guy's perseverance! I know I wouldn't have even bothered if I knew I had to implement it in Excel :), it's almost as bad as writing obfuscated C!
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by jasonjei 14y ago
If the user consents to receiving special deals or time limited sale announcements, I don't see the harm. But Apple's TOS seems at best capricious and unevenly applied. I'd like to see them pull Southwest or another popular brand who offers

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