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by jbeales 10y ago
What vulnerability might this be? I saw nothing else related to security this weekend. Might they just be super-slow in reacting to the CloudFlare thing from a couple of weeks back?
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The Canada Revenue Agency Fixed Their Mysterious “Internet Vulnerability”(cra-arc.gc.ca)
3 points by jbeales 10y ago|1 comments
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by jbeales 10y ago
Came here to post that - it's not experimental at all - it's dead.
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by jbeales 10y ago
Candles are still magical. Henry Sugar is part of the reason.
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by jbeales 10y ago
This is called the "grandparent scam." It's a common tactic. Your grandfather's a smart guy and avoided it.
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by jbeales 10y ago
Too bad. My UP3 is pretty new, so I can't comment on longevity, but I like the idea of something that doesn't try to be a watch, and, in the case of the UP3, knows its limits and doesn't try to measure active heartrate when i
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by jbeales 11y ago
datalist
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by jbeales 11y ago
"If you are building something which is genuinely extraordinary, that’s always the right answer." The gold rush is never over for extraordinary companies.
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by jbeales 11y ago
That's not an absurd statement. If you're trying to fly "to a destination" and don't have an IFR-qualified pilot, and the weather changes, you'll be in IFR conditions without someone who doesn't have the t
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by jbeales 11y ago
That's probably what he did - it's the best practise, I believe.
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by jbeales 11y ago
Yup. Finished the article before I realized the design was all wrong, (figured Paul Graham had a guest poster or something).
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by jbeales 11y ago
It might be worth trying to get in touch with Balsillie - he may be willing to spend a couple of dollars to get something like you describe up & running - if he hasn't already started on it.
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95-year Old Shipwreck of the Ituna Discovered Off San Francisco(nbcbayarea.com)
1 points by jbeales 11y ago|0 comments
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How a Charity Fundraiser in Nova Scotia Became a Months-Long Weekly Party(theglobeandmail.com)
1 points by jbeales 11y ago|0 comments
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‘I’m Stalin’s daughter’(news.nationalpost.com)
74 points by jbeales 11y ago|69 comments
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9,000-year-old case of ritualistic beheading may be oldest in Americas(theconversation.com)
1 points by jbeales 11y ago|0 comments
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by jbeales 11y ago
If I had a bug that met the criteria I'd give Apple first dibs. That way the bug would get fixed, and I'd still get my $1M.
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by jbeales 11y ago
When I saw the HN headline I wondered what "Hack the North" was. As a Canadian I wondered if it was to tackle "uniquely northern" problems, then went down the pessimistic path if it was for northern problems, it would be
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by jbeales 11y ago
I didn't realize that parental controls could restrict purchasing, but it makes sense. It's true that you can lend ebooks, there are just a lot more hoops to jump through ;) I can't lend my ebooks, because I don't h
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by jbeales 11y ago
Good to know, thanks. It's not a huge amount, but it looks like if you do fairly well on ebook vs. hardcover, and sell a decent number of books, it'll be a nice little bonus.
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by jbeales 11y ago
It's a pretty huge piece of software, megabyte-wise. I've installed & uninstalled it a few times. The ebooks I own are scattered around my hard drive, so it would be smart to put them into some sort of library, but it hasn&#x2
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by jbeales 11y ago
Do you know what happens to the money that would be spent on printing when an ebook is sold? For example, if someone buys your $15 ebook, do you get more money than if someone buys your $15 dead-tree book, or does that money go to your publ
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by jbeales 11y ago
Then I have to buy an extra Kindle while not getting a discount for buying the ebook, and I can only lend to one person at a time, and anyone I lend to has to be trustworthy not to make purchases on my account.
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by jbeales 11y ago
Yeah, "renting for life" doesn't bode well for passing a first edition ebook on to your children ;)
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by jbeales 11y ago
Zero physical space can be pretty important - I get that - but yeah, priorities. Also, it drives me mad that families have to have some weird hacky system to share ebooks - either have all ereaders use the same Amazon/Kobo/Whateve
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by jbeales 11y ago
Keeping Amazon from becoming dominant is the only reason for jacking ebook prices that makes sense. > [Amazon] accounted for 64% of the U.S. e-book market, by units sold That's actually lower than I thought, but higher than publishe
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by jbeales 11y ago
When an ebook costs over 90% of the price of a hardcover, am I going to buy the ebook, which I can't lend, resell, or give away, or the ebook, which can only be read by me? The answer is simple, I'm going to buy whatever the cheap
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by jbeales 11y ago
I'd like to see a comparison of accidents, (or better, deaths), per million miles of personal vehicles vs. trucks. I'm pretty sure trucks will come out as causing fewer accidents/deaths. I actually did the math for the 2009 -
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by jbeales 11y ago
That's the kind of data I was looking for too! I'm also on the software fringes of trucking, and that was my reaction to the 2009-2013 statistic. Pretty much anything driven by economic activity is up over that period, we should b
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by jbeales 11y ago
I'm not convinced this guy isn't on some vendetta. He only quotes total numbers, not accidents per thousand miles / deaths per thousand miles. If I understand the these DOT numbers[1,2] properly the number of truck miles from

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