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by kijinbear 16y ago
This is really cool. For example, Canada's primary source of power is hydroelectricity (over 60%). Electric cars in large parts of Canada would be literally running on water!
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by kijinbear 16y ago
> The Ultimate answer to Life, the Universe and Everything is... 42, and in its' purest form 101010. Source: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2010-Octob...
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by kijinbear 16y ago
If these systems can be trained to learn your habits, you might be surprised to find your car driving you to that spot where you used to see the other girl...
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by kijinbear 16y ago
Same as today, I guess -- whoever is responsible for the bug, but only if criminal negligence can be proven.
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by kijinbear 16y ago
According to the article, Google's lawyers decided it was OK, because a human was sitting in the driver's seat ready to override the system at any time. I guess it's a little bit like student drivers being supervised by experienced drivers,
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by kijinbear 16y ago
Another interesting fact: Both Taiwan (40%) and South Korea (43%) have piracy rates comparable to Singapore (37%), but 5-6 times more IE6 users (32-38% vs 6%). The correlation is not particularly strong there. Other factors might be at play
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by kijinbear 16y ago
These guys did exactly what's being proposed in the article. http://www.win.tue.nl/hashclash/Nostradamus/ In November 2007, they posted the MD5 hash of a PDF file containing the name of the winner of the 2008 election. That of course does
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by kijinbear 16y ago
Seriously, anything except a pedestrian should trigger the sensors. Car, motorcycle, bicycle, wheelchair, or a freight train from your subconscious trying to crush everything in its path... whatever it is, if it's sitting in front of an int
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by kijinbear 16y ago
DNS is not the only place where an ISP can block a website. They could block the IP, or sniff your unencrypted requests. Look at China, they even do keyword filtering! I can see this "feature" being marketed as parental control or whatnot..
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by kijinbear 16y ago
Two words: selective enforcement. It's impossible to enforce copyright thoroughly on the Internet. Any website that accepts user-submitted content is bound to have at least a few pieces of infringing material. Nobody can shut them all down.
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by kijinbear 16y ago
If by "legitimize internet censorship globally" you mean the US would set an example of censorship for other countries to follow, I guess that makes sense. Remember, Hillary Clinton took Google's side in criticizing China's internet censors
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by kijinbear 16y ago
PostgreSQL forces you to write proper queries. MySQL is designed to accommodate lousy practices, and all those implicit type conversions and non-standard syntax will come back to bite you as a big WTF. Other reasons I like PostgreSQL: more
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by kijinbear 16y ago
Even worse, IE6. The fact that it initially offered crappy implementations of some features that users were looking for doesn't make it any less crappy.
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by kijinbear 16y ago
+1 for template engines. Cheap scanning services only go so far. Any sane template engine should automatically escape all strings when outputting an HTML/XML document, unless the developer explicitly tells it not to. Django does this perfec
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by kijinbear 16y ago
I can see it coming... Judge: The program says that the defendant should be put in jail for 3 years. Defense Lawyer: My expert witness says that the program is buggy. Prosecutor: Can you prove that? Defense Lawyer: I would, if the program w
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by kijinbear 16y ago
Does the firmware password also cause the hard drive contents to be encrypted? I don't think so. Anybody with a screwdriver can take the hard drive out, pop it into another box, and bypass whatever password you've set up. After all, why wou
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by kijinbear 16y ago
And worse, go to war with each other. It happened back in 1812 you know...
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by kijinbear 16y ago
Nosscule! (rhymes with minuscule)
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by kijinbear 16y ago
Not exactly a tongue twister, but here's something similar from Korean: 가가가가가? (gagagagaga?) In the Southeastern (Gyeongsangdo) dialect of Korean, this means "Does he have the surname 'Ga' ?"
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by kijinbear 16y ago
It's possible that somebody higher up with an enterprisey mindset just signed a deal with Zend. Including paid support and whatnot.
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by kijinbear 16y ago
More like acronyms, I'd say. For example, "HTTP" = hyper-text transfer protocol. It's funny that the word 사자성어 (meaning: 4-character idiom) is itself a 4-character idiom. East Asians like 4-character groups so much, they even read numbers i
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by kijinbear 16y ago
It would be pretty darned difficult to make a standardized test "match" folks who are illiterate or just barely literate, which this Granny seems to have been. BTW, literacy rate in South Korea is around 98% (most of the remainder being old
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by kijinbear 16y ago
The fact that Hangul closely mirrors spoken Korean is also probably due to the fact that Hangul is a relatively new invention as writing systems go. Chinese characters and the Roman alphabet have been around for millennia. By contrast, Hang
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by kijinbear 16y ago
He should have sued Oracle too.
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by kijinbear 16y ago
IIRC, SpiderOak doesn't encrypt your files "immediately after uploading". Files are encrypted on the client side even before they're uploaded. Therefore SpiderOak never even sees unencrypted data. That's their "zero knowledge" policy. They
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by kijinbear 16y ago
No, CPU seems to be an exception. Even on the smallest plan, you can often burst all the way to 400% (4 cores). So it depends on what other customers are doing, and if everyone else were idle, you'd get the same CPU in both plans. But the h
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by kijinbear 16y ago
Linode is pretty much a pay-per-use service in the guise of a VPS host. You use twice as much resources, you pay twice as much. You stop using your VPS for a day, your account is credited back for that day. Overage charges are very similar
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by kijinbear 16y ago
F = 15