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by kijinbear 15y ago
I completely agree with the author's argument about smartphones and tablets, but I think @nextparadigms is right about the MacBook Air. It belongs in a completely different market segment, along with $2,000 "ultraportables" from Lenovo and
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by kijinbear 15y ago
Full-disk encryption. You enter the key whenever the system needs to be rebooted. I know at least one company that does this with all of their US-hosted servers.
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by kijinbear 15y ago
Not nearly as dramatic as Réunion, but I've personally seen 900mm (35.4") of rain in one day. It was August 31, 2002 in the East Coast of South Korea. It felt like a reenactment of the Biblical deluge or something. Really scary stuff.
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by kijinbear 15y ago
That will only tell you if somebody has hacked your Gmail account. The OP is for checking if somebody may have hacked one of your other accounts (e.g. Sony) where you used your e-mail address.
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by kijinbear 15y ago
There's no way Chrome will do this until Google can find a different way to insert AdSense ads on third-party sites. Currently, third-party scripts are the best way to achieve this. iframes are inelegant, and telling webmasters to update th
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by kijinbear 15y ago
Reminds me of Microsoft in the pre-Firefox, pre-Chrome days. It is extremely difficult for someone who has a virtual monopoly to innovate and listen to its users all the time. We can't just assume that it won't happen to X because X has som
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by kijinbear 15y ago
Yes, the SQL example was lame. There are too many PHP "tutorials" which attempt to demonstrate one concept while blatantly ignoring basic security principles. In this case, the example should have used prepared statements with either MySQLi
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by kijinbear 15y ago
I think it has to do with neither pride nor discipline. It's all about business. Microsoft won't make much money by breaking backwards compatibility; in fact, they'd lose billions if they did. Think of the hundreds of millions (if not billi
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by kijinbear 15y ago
I totally agree with your concerns, and I also love your small touchscreen idea. A full touch interface gets really awkward, not to mention expensive, once your screen gets bigger than 10-15 inches. All these full-screen apps with touch fun
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by kijinbear 15y ago
Given how configurable Firefox is, I'm sure they'll add an option to disable automatic updates even if it becomes a default feature.
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by kijinbear 15y ago
Unfortunately, there is no such thing as a tech-savvy "Internet generation". Most of those kids who know how to use Facebook inside and out would be just as clueless as today's senators are, if they had to deal with anything remotely techni
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by kijinbear 15y ago
I'm in Canada and I pay for music. Now I want my tax back on all the blank CDs I ever bought.
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by kijinbear 15y ago
I hated it when Ubuntu switched from Gnome to Unity by default, but I like this move away from GDM. If there's one thing in Ubuntu that's less customizable (in terms of look-and-feel) than Unity, it's GDM.
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by kijinbear 15y ago
Yeah, jQuery tends to break backwards compatibility a little too often. But I don't think they can keep doing that forever. Sooner or later they'll have to settle on a stable API. Maybe in jQuery 2.0.
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by kijinbear 15y ago
I wonder how long it will take before browsers start shipping with jQuery by default. Chrome might do it first, given its willingness to bundle commonly used plugins such as Flash.
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by kijinbear 15y ago
Driving can still be cheaper than flying if you have 2 or more people traveling together. It would be tough to beat trains and buses, though.
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by kijinbear 15y ago
Not if you're holding onto it using a magnetic field, or any other method that doesn't involve direct contact.
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by kijinbear 16y ago
Yes, it's possible to use up to 32K characters in the path if you use the "\\?\" prefix. Support for this feature may be hit-or-miss, though, so I wouldn't count on it.
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by kijinbear 16y ago
TrueCrypt is OK if you only use Dropbox for backup. But as soon as sync comes into the picture, all hell breaks loose. Remember, a TrueCrypt volume contains an entire file system inside. File systems seriously don't like it when you modify
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by kijinbear 16y ago
> all around us right now (if you live near leaf-dropping trees in a temporal zone), leaves are turning yellow and looking a little dry and crusty. At first, I was like "Huh? Do they have NPR in Australia too?" and then I remembered to
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by kijinbear 16y ago
You actually gain weight immediately, due to the conservation of mass. Eat an ounce of sugar (or anything else) and you gain an ounce, until you poop it out. You just don't feel it because the amounts involved at any given meal is small. Bu
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by kijinbear 16y ago
Warrants are issued by judges. There are few things that a politician hates more than having to answer to a judge. All of the Internet surveillance and censorship policies proposed and implemented around the world attempt to bypass judges.
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by kijinbear 16y ago
Proposals like this can win votes from law-enforcement circles. After all, warrantless disclosures and always-ready surveillance equipment would allow cops to gain information about a person with just one phone call. They hate having to fol
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by kijinbear 16y ago
It's usually not the base system that causes issues. Most instabilities I've come across have to do with distro-specific UI customizations and proprietary add-ons such as Flash. For example, Ubuntu Natty Desktop Edition will come with Unity
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by kijinbear 16y ago
This guy has a point. Ubuntu's constant meddling with the Desktop and adoption of immature software as default is why I left it for Linux Mint. LM 10 has "just worked" for me so far, and LM Debian Edition also look spromising. By contrast,
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by kijinbear 16y ago
They don't all work on the same part of the kernel.
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by kijinbear 16y ago
Extroverts can be bad team members when they're assholes. Assholes come in many flavors, but an extroverted asshole often makes a worse team member than an introverted asshole. Introverts can be effective communicators when they've thought
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by kijinbear 16y ago
I like this idea. Software changes over time, so I always have to double-check the date when reading other people's reviews. Especially if the software is developed at a very fast rate, such as Redis. Another option would be to provide a hi
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by kijinbear 16y ago
"A few hours" could be anything between 2 and 8-10 hours. When I was a teenager I'd get in front of the computer as soon as I got back from school and keep the computer on until I went to bed. That added up to ~6 hours a day on average. Any
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by kijinbear 16y ago
Haha, didn't think of that. What if the retired billionaire just ran for President himself?

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