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by jff 13y ago
Thank god.
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by jff 13y ago
That would be rather foolish of them, since classified information does not become instantly unclassified upon leakage.
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by jff 13y ago
Hi. I'm a member of the US Militia. You probably are too, if you're a male citizen between the ages of 18 and 45. See the Militia Act of 1792. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Militia_Act_of_1792 (Edit: this was
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by jff 13y ago
It's also almost certain that they're including suicides in the gun number: "The two major component causes of all firearm injury deaths in 2009 were suicide (59.8%) and homicide (36.7%)." (source: http://www.
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by jff 13y ago
What is an "MG"?
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by jff 13y ago
Why does everything have to be described as "beautiful"? Yes, it looks nice. It's not fucking Beethoven, it's a website that appears to do a damn fine job of managing RSS feeds. Yet every damn day we see another HN front-page article about
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by jff 13y ago
It's your own phased array radar system--oooh such a scary word! It's an input device. If you're worried about it telling Google that you spent 30 minutes on the toilet this morning, then either monitor the traffic for odd connections or ju
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by jff 13y ago
Well, if the eeeeeeevil doctors are really recommending things like x-rays based on profits, her problem would have been caught on the first visit, presumably.
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by jff 13y ago
Well, you don't rise to the top of the food chain unless you're able to kill every other animal out there. Hail to the king, baby.
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by jff 13y ago
I have absolutely no doubt that humans could effectively eliminate a wild dinosaur population in short order. Think of the trophy mounts!
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by jff 13y ago
I use it to this day to keep my dynamic DNS records up to date. I also use it daily, although not explicitly, when the various Debian cron jobs run. Logrotate, that kind of thing. It's the idea that all this shit should be rolled into init
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by jff 13y ago
> Not only does it combine cron, at, and other daemons into init itself I think I found the reason.
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by jff 13y ago
It's a good thing they didn't use a goto, or this guy might have had an aneurysm.
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by jff 13y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErRHJlE4PGI
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by jff 13y ago
Exactly; it would be effective , but inappropriate.
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by jff 13y ago
I've considered just answering with "fuck off" whenever somebody comes up to me unasked, but I'm just not rude enough.
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by jff 13y ago
I would, of course, reply to "Are you after pants or tops today" with, "I'm a man, you idiot, I don't wear 'tops', I wear shirts"
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by jff 13y ago
We always say no because, at least for me, it's pretty rare that I actually need help. I am, in general, capable of following signs and locating where in the store I need to be. Maybe I'll have to ask where they put the widgets, because it
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by jff 13y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=jonas_maj You're like the Microsoft version of Gruber
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by jff 13y ago
Screens are traditionally measured diagonally. This worked fine when everything was a 4:3 ratio. Now that ratios are more variable, but we still use that measurement. Microsoft's claim about the diagonal measurement is absolutely true; they
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by jff 13y ago
It's a different whey, although they're trying to use it for the same supplement market.
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by jff 13y ago
Same here, aside from Slashdot and breathless Hackaday posts where someone has shoved 8 beagleboards into a suitcase.
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by jff 13y ago
Or you could presumably log in to your Live account on their XBox, play the game while you're visiting, and then log out? Has the added advantage of continuing to save achievements to your account, giving access to savegames if you want the
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by jff 13y ago
Well, the plexiglass case was custom-made by a shop with a laser cutter. As for the hardware: * 7 of these: https://www.gumstix.com/store/product_info.php?products_id=2... * Each of the Stagecoach boards needs 7 Gumstix boards. Anything i
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by jff 13y ago
"The GA144 comes in an 88-pin QFN package and the 144 nodes — each core is a self-contained F18A Computer with 64 18-bit words each of ROM and RAM — are arranged in an 8x18 grid. Those around the edge of the grid are equipped with I/O rangi
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by jff 13y ago
I'd like to first point out that the name "Beowulf cluster" is pretty silly in general; allow me to enumerate the incredibly complicated setup procedure for a Beowulf cluster: 1) Install Linux on a bunch of networked computers, 2) "apt-get
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by jff 13y ago
My employer pays for my time and talent. Freelancing programmers are paid for their time and talent. I, however, assign copyright over my works to my employer, because that's part of the terms of my employment. If photographers want to exto
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by jff 13y ago
"Liberal", "good", and "Democrat" are not necessarily synonyms.
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by jff 13y ago
What's that you say? Vice is using insubstantial reports from one side to create a sensationalist narrative? Why I never!
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by jff 13y ago
I'm just ducking in to take a leak; removing the glasses would double the time it takes, and the dev pair I tried didn't seem to fold up like regular glasses to slip in a pocket, so what, I'm expected to carry around a Glass purse to stash

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