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by jbuzbee 10y ago
McDelivery is leaking personal data for more than 2.2 million of its users which includes name, email address, phone number, home address, accurate home co-ordinates and social profile links. I know the world has changed, but many of us r
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by jbuzbee 10y ago
Every single modern movie has that lawyer-require statement just in case they get sued.
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by jbuzbee 10y ago
It was documented in ancient times that Alexandria the Great's tomb was in central Alexandria at a cross-roads, but exactly where is lost to history.
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by jbuzbee 10y ago
I recall back in the day being very confused when I first saw the US release, but then several years later watching the original. I didn't know the back-story of the film. I recall thinking "I've seen this movie, but this sce
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by jbuzbee 10y ago
they can actively filter hate speech or abusive posts just fine And how, pray tell, do you identify "hate speech"? Who's the judge? You're going to get a different answer in Iran than you do in Switzerland. Not to ment
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by jbuzbee 10y ago
If collecting jokes tells you what the "common man" is thinking, the Russian intelligence agencies must be having a field-day with the current situation in the US...
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by jbuzbee 10y ago
Although it's widely used for general censorship, the DCMA is supposed to only cover copyright issues. So the parent comment's concern about "anti-ageism" posts would not be a DCMA issue.
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by jbuzbee 10y ago
Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act protects services from being responsible for what users post: "No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provide
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by jbuzbee 10y ago
this was going to happen anyway As pointed out by other comments here, this is not happening as much in Asia where labor and regulatory costs are lower. The parent comment has a valid point. It's a balance. Higher labor and regulator
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by jbuzbee 10y ago
Paying people below a certain level is tantamount to taking government subsidies. And the flip side to that: A minimum wage higher than the market rate, is tantamount to employees taking company subsidies which inevitably is passed on to
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by jbuzbee 10y ago
They've already done it for dogs: http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/myl/llog/FarsideDogTranslat...
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by jbuzbee 10y ago
Brings back memories. If I recall correctly, when you had this turned on, files would get a hidden extension of .1 .2 .3 etc. And you could specify how many revisions to keep around? I also recall on our system, most of the time this was t
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by jbuzbee 10y ago
It's been a long time since I've used VMS, but one neat feature I recall was sort of a system/group/user concept of environment variables. For example if you set an environment variable at the system level, the new value
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The hydrogen-powered generator that was almost a home-shopping hit(engadget.com)
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by jbuzbee 10y ago
Anyone remember Tom's Rescue Disk? This linux-on-a-floppy was a must-have for rescue and recover back in the day... The web site lives on, but many of the links are 404'd http://www.toms.net/rb/
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by jbuzbee 10y ago
And returning that money to shareholders (dividends) would incur income tax to the recipient, thus the tax-man gets his due. A much better outcome than just holding cash overseas
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by jbuzbee 10y ago
Of course there's a danger to the company in this. " My bonus is tied to my diversity goals. I've tried hard, but I'm way behind and my reporting period is almost up! Quick, bypass the standard screening and qualificatio
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by jbuzbee 10y ago
I wonder how these self-driving systems are going to deal with wildlife or even domestic pets running wild. It's fairly common on my commute to see deer grazing along the roadside just a few feet from the pavement. I typically slow way
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by jbuzbee 10y ago
Huh - I've done that tons of times. Out in rural Australian and even at a castle in Germany using part of my three-word German vocabulary - "Zimmer?"
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by jbuzbee 10y ago
Let me get this straight. He claims his system has correctly called every presidential election since 1984. But he predicted a win for Gore in 2000. He says that was correct since Gore won the popular vote. In 2016, he called the election f
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by jbuzbee 10y ago
What I found most interesting was that it was right in the middle of London. You'd think that his bunker would be out in the countryside far way from the attacks of the blitz. But then again, I guess he needed to be close to the politi
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by jbuzbee 10y ago
More coverage here: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20161103/11502935958/heres...
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by jbuzbee 10y ago
Yeah, there's no way to prove these claims. But since The George is near the Globe and was active in Shakespeare's day, it's fun to think he might have had a pint or two right where you're sitting!
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by jbuzbee 10y ago
The view of King’s Head Inn, reminded me of "The George" which against all odds, is still up and running since at least the 1500's: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_George_Inn,_Southwark
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by jbuzbee 10y ago
"Question to landlords: does rent control hurt your bottom line?" Of course. If rent remains constant and every year the cost of other factors such as insurance, upkeep, salaries of employees, etc. go up, eventually, the bottom li
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by jbuzbee 10y ago
I'm a big believer in index funds and have been putting my money into them for a long time. But... you have to wonder where this is all ending up as more and more people move to passive index funds. The power of the market is based on
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by jbuzbee 10y ago
No. AT&T owns Direct TV, not Dish Network
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by jbuzbee 10y ago
"What's wrong with native apps?" Can you even imagine having a native app for everything we do today in browsers? An app for each Credit Card I hold. A native app for each news site I read. A native app for every social media
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by jbuzbee 10y ago
From the article: "Higher wages were necessary, Ford realized, to retain workers who could handle the pressure and the monotony of his assembly line." So in Ford's case, he was simply paying the going rate. Supply and demand.
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by jbuzbee 10y ago
Agreed - These are even worse than the dual-taps. It looks like you can get warm water out, but as you said, when you put your hands under the tap you're getting independent streams of very hot and very cold water. Strange (and painful

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