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by jeangenie 12y ago
Tin foil hat meme: they want the ability to surreptitiously power on and root devices. This only works if it's juiced.
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by jeangenie 12y ago
"Harmful" is a meaningless term and contributes nothing to the discussion. Cars are harmful. Alcohol is harmful. Freedom is harmful. So what's your fucking point? I bring up death because that's the canard trotted out by
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by jeangenie 12y ago
> surveillance based business models OT but I was watching a docu- on Goldman Sachs and found interesting parallels between the rise of the "surveillance" model in the tech sector and the financial sector. They both succeed bas
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by jeangenie 12y ago
Oh dear! Someone awesome should create a directory of such locations/merchants so we can all avoid them.
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by jeangenie 12y ago
> specific to one milk product doesn't pass muster No it's not obvious. That's the point. The CDC has admitted those deaths were caused by a product (queso fresco) that is commonly contaminated after production. There are
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by jeangenie 12y ago
It exists but apparently is not used for consumer purchases: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchant_account#Level_2_or_Lev...
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by jeangenie 12y ago
I replied to the parent above but wanted to point you that you, too, are 'udder'ly mistaken. http://www.realrawmilkfacts.com/raw-milk-news/story/outbreak...
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by jeangenie 12y ago
> selling raw milk ... can lead to serious harm including deaths. Please STOP spreading misinformation. The only two deaths from raw milk in the last 20 years were traced back to bad queso fresco. In fact, over the same time period, ther
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by jeangenie 12y ago
For some users, of course, that 1% is all that matters (see Chromebook complaints). I don't find that a very compelling reason to seek out patent encumbered OSes but to each their own.
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by jeangenie 12y ago
It seems arrogant and entitled to many Americans as well, the issue is that unelected and unaccountable government officials don't care.
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by jeangenie 12y ago
This totally makes sense unless you actually think about it. Then it's just shit.
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by jeangenie 12y ago
I believe (but have no evidence) that Google does this to redirect users towards searches which are more likely to serve ads. The more results a search yields --> the more likely it is someone is paying to target it. This likely applies
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by jeangenie 12y ago
What a joke.
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by jeangenie 13y ago
Firefox 1.5 to Firefox 3.6 compatibility.
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by jeangenie 13y ago
Sounds like you're still addicted, just using a different way.
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by jeangenie 13y ago
Oddly enough they are hiring folks to prevent this right now: http://www.kickstarter.com/jobs/trust Not affiliated in any way just thought it was interesting.
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by jeangenie 14y ago
FYI the Greeks didn't have negative numbers. Philosophers were still arguing whether zero could truly be a number (there wasn't really a need for zero as a placeholder regardless, Greek numerals don't have a positional aspect). Source: htt
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by jeangenie 15y ago
I've heard that we've got a great existing rail infrastructure--the problem being that most isn't straight enough or suitable for use with high speed trains. For example, the last train trip I took stopped a handful of times while we waited
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by jeangenie 15y ago
http://teddziuba.com/2010/02/eventlet-asynchronous-io-for-g....
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by jeangenie 15y ago
>>It’s not an extinction level event but it’s pretty ugly . Depends on the intensity, duration, & proximity of the radiation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma-ray_burst#Rates_and_poten...
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by jeangenie 15y ago
on a related note: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxoplasma_gondii
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by jeangenie 15y ago
for crying out loud, stop saying objective; it's meaningless.
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by jeangenie 15y ago
the address on a letter isn't a substitute for a salutation; I typically start with a simple "Hi" or "Hello."
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by jeangenie 15y ago
from my understanding this is precisely how patent trolls like Intellectual Ventures work
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by jeangenie 15y ago
IANAL but it's bad for citizens because it gives federal courts wider purview on what they'll prosecute for and how they punish for it; needless to say, if your case is getting pushed to federal courts you're fucked, especially when you're
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by jeangenie 15y ago
any speculation on when the head crabs are coming?
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by jeangenie 15y ago
Marvin Minsky wrote a short, interesting paper regarding AI in the '50s: http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:7PLvFer1U3sJ:w...
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by jeangenie 16y ago
can anyone with some technical expertise comment on the quality of this write-up?
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by jeangenie 16y ago
you're so right. now that we have american idol nothing like that can ever happen again.
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by jeangenie 16y ago
agreed. science has never offered any simple narrative, it's a sprawling, incomprehensible, fascinating mess. it's a human story just like everything else.

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