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by kiiski 15y ago
I tried it with Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Opera on a Mac, and didn't have any problems. Well, selecting text in chrome was a bit wrong, but not exactly broken.
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by kiiski 15y ago
What exactly is it supposed to be an acronym for? MAFIAA at least has a clear meaning ("Music And Film Industry Association of America"), but FBIAA seems to only stand for "Federal Bureau of Investigation Agents Association", which doesn't
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by kiiski 15y ago
Of course you have to remember that different tests use different standard deviations. For example, Mensa here in Finland uses a test with standard deviation of 15, so 130 is "only" two standard deviations smarter than average. The point is
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by kiiski 15y ago
One should also remember that not all languages use so many prepositions. In Finnish, for example, we usually change the ending of a word instead of using prepositions. For example, the previous paragraph in Finnish: "Pitää myös muistaa, et
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by kiiski 15y ago
If all the internets are accessible from anywhere, what exactly is the difference to the current situation? Each country already has its own infrastructure, which forms their own net, and is connected to the real internet. So is it really j
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by kiiski 15y ago
Where do you propose to get the info from? "...when I go to the users profile, it's blank."
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by kiiski 15y ago
"In many ways it is better to have this thing legislated: at least then it's out in the open. It's naive to think that large ISPs in countries without active legislation aren't linking intelligence agencies into their networks." How about t
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by kiiski 15y ago
I think the point is that Kings book would probably pay for itself very quickly, so the risk of him dying before that might not be so bad.
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by kiiski 15y ago
If the logo is the same as the splash screen, there are no crosshairs on the woman. That's the radar, which seems to imply targeting or finding, rather than attacking. So I would agree with duxup that it's a bit of a stretch to say it's des
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by kiiski 15y ago
I think he was talking about HIV.
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by kiiski 15y ago
You're probably right, but the post is titled "Girls and Computers", which kind of seems to imply some deep, and general, theorizing about girls and computers.
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by kiiski 15y ago
In comparison to the real one - which, for me, consists of a landing page - this is absolutely brilliant.
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by kiiski 15y ago
How did your customers like the food made by servers, and the serving done by cooks?
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by kiiski 15y ago
If it falls when exactly K nails are removed, I don't think it will go back up when you remove the K+1th nail. And if you remove k-1 nails first, and then remove 2 more simultaneously, the picture will fall anyway. So it's ">= K".
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by kiiski 15y ago
"Creating a new language just to write this seems highly unlikely." Of course, it might be that they didn't create a new language "just to write this", but because they're planning/already written other things in it.
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by kiiski 15y ago
I think the point is that while a sociopath might be more likely to volunteer for it, volunteering for it doesn't make one a sociopath.
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by kiiski 15y ago
Person A plays a game of chess and loses. Then he wont try again, because "I'm not good at it". Person B plays a game of chess and loses. Then he loses again. And again. Then he wins. (Then he finds a stronger opponent and starts again.) Pe
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by kiiski 15y ago
It's just convenient. Not all of us are old enough to know/remember what happened twenty years ago.
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by kiiski 15y ago
How well it _currently_ works is irrelevant from ethics point of view. Ethics are only concerned with how it could potentially be used. That's important to think about, so that the researchers know what direction to go and how to conduct th
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by kiiski 15y ago
I think an article named "The ethics of..." is meant to "dabble around ethics" rather than explaining the technology. There must be other articles/papers about that.
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by kiiski 15y ago
"Maybe it's time to add legal guarantees to the cloud?" So... Lets make it illegal for a site to lose your data by being shut down by the FBI? Seriously though, is it really a good idea to make more (artificial and unsolvable) problems for
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by kiiski 15y ago
Even if you had chosen "wrong" when you were 14, surely you could have switched to engineering when you were 20. I think that's what he meant by saying that some of his friends ended up with surprising careers despite studying programming.
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by kiiski 15y ago
Here in Finland people have two different paths to choose from after the first (compulsory) 9 years of studying. The academic path means going to an upper high school and then to a university. The other option is to go to a vocational schoo
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by kiiski 15y ago
Maybe it would be better to have people who don't mind it opt-in rather than expecting people to opt-out of something they might not even know they're in. "...anger about privacy violations should be directed at worse offenders." No, it sho
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by kiiski 15y ago
Surely the software can detect anything strange just as well as (or better than) a human could.
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by kiiski 15y ago
2000 plus what others throw there all the time and what was already there. That adds up to a <Big Number>.
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by kiiski 15y ago
The HTML doesn't tell the screen reader how to present the content; it just tells what the content is, and the screen reader then decides the best way to present it (web devs just aren't qualified to decide that).
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by kiiski 15y ago
It says at the bottom: "“Advent” was not a religious sanctuary, it was the demo room with the $3,000 projection TV[1] that we used for demos to Important People." [1]: http://i.ebayimg.com/t/Vintage-Advertisement-1978-ADVENT-VID...
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by kiiski 15y ago
With the same DRM they already use I suppose (I don't have a kindle, so I don't know any details). If it was possible to store the books somewhere else, people would be already doing that to share the books.
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by kiiski 15y ago
But rdl said "using telephone in general" (which I assume was meant in the context of speaking with customers) and people do that even if they weren't hired specifically for communicating.

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