kevindication

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by kevindication 15y ago
Go with "impossible." Gov't agencies don't just upgrade every time a new kernel comes out.
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by kevindication 15y ago
Amazingly timely given that I'm about half way through A Deepness in the Sky. (A diamond asteroid figures into the plot.)
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by kevindication 15y ago
The post is part tongue-in-cheek. You can't call him clueless just because the domain is only worth $200 to him.
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by kevindication 15y ago
Friend of mine came back from Defcon complaining of some of the exact same symptoms as those listed by coderman and said he'd be DBANning his phone later.
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by kevindication 15y ago
FTA: "But the evidence is, so far, weak."
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by kevindication 15y ago
Yes, really. There was a class action lawsuit. Your anecdote isn't helpful except to prove that yes, there can be exceptions.
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by kevindication 15y ago
It's still not unlimited (DVDs) since Netflix throttles you if you are too quick to watch and return your movies.
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by kevindication 15y ago
(thats gillion dollars, not g-forces)
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by kevindication 15y ago
You may have been one of the few using ICQ and MSN after AIM. ICQ was much earlier in the chronology (we used to play with it when we got bored on IRC) and no one used MSN. :-P
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by kevindication 15y ago
National Harbor area, Maryland Several positions open for Web Developers/Designers and system administrator/engineers. Requires active TS/SCI. http://woti.jobs
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by kevindication 15y ago
Scalable networking doesn't require multiple cores, just good use of the select/poll mechanisms at your disposal (well, and bandwidth). If you've got a CPU bound problem, you might farm that out to something else.
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by kevindication 15y ago
Works just fine on Ubuntu.
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by kevindication 15y ago
Wouldn't it be possible to override this with a user agent stylesheet?
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by kevindication 15y ago
Stupid question: Why is the 34 character password easier to crack than the 8 character password? (Upon re-reading I think I may have missed the assumption that the long password only contains english text, no punctuation, numerics, etc.)
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by kevindication 15y ago
Understand regarding parenting. I do that myself. :-) I do see your point about Sony, and they may in fact be an outlier here. I think I've been accustomed to the story of customer information breaches from large corporations though, and so
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by kevindication 15y ago
"Any" is probably an exaggeration. I'd cede that and accept "most." We can hope that Google is an exception because of the caliber of employee they hire, since obviously they also have a lot of domain knowledge. But, I think that only mea
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by kevindication 15y ago
I had to stop a previous employer from doing just that in 2003. It was bad practice then, too. Big companies are just more susceptible to these kinds of short-cuts. Especially shortcuts with no clear benefit except to a lazy programmer. I r
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by kevindication 15y ago
Disagree on absurdity. I'm certain that if you focused enough eyes on any company with as much surface area exposed to the internet you'd poke just as many holes.
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by kevindication 15y ago
It's easy to see what's wrong with invalid HTML. What's wrong with valid HTML?
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by kevindication 15y ago
The difference being that you have to decide to install this harmful extension. ActiveX just gets loaded during regular browsing.
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by kevindication 15y ago
The point of the article is in fact that because the companies have acted in their (perceived) best interests, we have lost freedom. And that maybe we should care.
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by kevindication 15y ago
On debian (and derivatives) the package is called "ack-grep"
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by kevindication 15y ago
Canon, Nikon, et al are making those cameras for photographers, not smartphone users. The interfaces may be alien to a newcomer but are really just power tools for working photographers.
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by kevindication 15y ago
Name spinner returned a huge list of available names with a suffix appended to my seed, but then that list was repeated as unavailable beneath it.
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by kevindication 15y ago
There is apparently a lot of hate among the downvoters today. Disagreeing with a pro-OSX comment is death here.
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by kevindication 15y ago
This comment implies as well that laptops didn't sleep reliably before OSX.
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by kevindication 15y ago
Apt is the only system I've ever felt fully comfortable with when doing upgrades. It was neither a problem under Debian nor Ubuntu. Do you have a tendency to make system changes that get in the way of the upgrades? (i.e., where has it gotte
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by kevindication 16y ago
Because every surface from the bathroom to your desk isn't covered in the germs of everyone else? Personally, I look at exiting the bathroom as a chance to strengthen my immune system.
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by kevindication 16y ago
One piece of advice: don't let the job ad make you think you're unqualified and stop you from applying. Employers often a) don't know what they want/need b) throw everything they can think of in that ad. It may be a challenge to get past
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by kevindication 16y ago
My experience is flight attendants that don't know the current policy, and assume that all phones have to be off. Maybe I'm just unlucky.

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