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by lobster45 8y ago
The Oscars have always been political and can be "gamed" by savvy studio heads. Remember when Weinstein got Shakespeare in Love to win Best Picture over Saving Private Ryan. https://www.quora.com/Why-did-Shakespea
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by lobster45 8y ago
Back in 2002 I worked in IT for a California sports management firm. They had several NBA players as clients as well as NFL and MLB. One of the guys that worked there told me that the NBA was fixed. Everything included the lottery. Their
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by lobster45 8y ago
I wonder how much they chared for a second line back in the 1950's
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by lobster45 8y ago
Interesting, the authors of TrueCrypt was always a mystery
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by lobster45 13y ago
What does white have to do with this?
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by lobster45 13y ago
I only update the apps when I had a chance to read the reviews. Often the latest versions have bugs and may reduce the functionality, so I make sure there is an improvement before updating. For example, I have my old kindle app from 2011 t
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by lobster45 13y ago
The US government printed hundreds of millions of dollars in physical currency and shipped it to Iraq and Afghanistan.
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by lobster45 13y ago
Have you seen the size of those cards? I have a GTX 670 and it is a foot long and uses close to 200 watts of power. You cant compare high end graphics cards running on that much power and size which are costing over $400 for an integrated
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by lobster45 14y ago
When I visited South Korea 2 years ago, 95% of their computers that were in the hotel rooms were IE 6. I know that was two years ago, and those were only in hotel rooms, but I was surprised to see so much IE 6. Good thing I had firefox po
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by lobster45 14y ago
Thanks for this story. I am ordering a fire extinguisher for our server room now.
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by lobster45 14y ago
You would pay $100 for a BioWare game, but how many other people would?
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by lobster45 14y ago
EA is a publicly traded company that answers to shareholders only. Profits is the only thing that matters. That is why they are into cranking out sequels, loading up on dlc as well as all the other "profit generating" things. They are no
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by lobster45 14y ago
There are many employees that are as productive working from home, as they are in the office. It does depend on the employee's ability to manage their time, as well as the management structure to manage their workload and collaborate with
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by lobster45 14y ago
He first said it is preperation. Something to prepare for. He is saying take your jackets and lets run. The best is yet to come. When he runs into the group he describes that it was flying overhead. Then he points to the smoke saying it
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by lobster45 14y ago
I have an 8 bay Drobo Pro with eight 2 TB drives, and I have a drive go out every few months. Of course this is because we went cheap with WD Green drives. However the Drobo Pro offers to use two drives "as protection" so you can have two
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by lobster45 14y ago
There is no privacy online. Period. A few years back when Mark Zuckerberg's pictures leaked out, he kept quiet which was a great PR move unlike this time.
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by lobster45 14y ago
This is why I always use two-factor authentication with my google account
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by lobster45 14y ago
This may be a stupid question, but is there an equivalent Android app?
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by lobster45 14y ago
Even though the price is $35, you can not get it anywhere for $35. Most of the places sell them for $40 and over.
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by lobster45 14y ago
The HP Proliant servers are better designed than the HP PowerEdge servers, but that is about all from HP that I would recommend
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by lobster45 14y ago
My view on this is this is another example of a free market system of supply and demand. If you have an individual willing to spend money on having their lunch delivered or their car washed without moving a muscle, and on the other side yo
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by lobster45 14y ago
This has been a known vulnerability for dns, as they are susceptible to DOS. We use network solutions for DNS but they can be taken down in a similar manner as GoDaddy. BTW one of the servers we needed to access did not resolve, but I was
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by lobster45 14y ago
Imgur is beyond simple. http://imgur.com/ Drag and drop or control + V is all you need
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by lobster45 14y ago
Back in 2006 someone hacked my paypal account and used my credit card that was attached to paypal to purchase a few ipods. The criminal had them sent to their home address. They also changed my paypal password so I was not able to login.
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by lobster45 14y ago
It all depends on the service being used. tor is especially slow because your traffic is routed through many points online. Hotspotshield is slow because of the bandwidth limits for the free service. If you pay for a legitimate vpn servi
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by lobster45 14y ago
1600x900 is too low for a 20" tablet. The 7" Nexus 7 is 1280×800
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by lobster45 14y ago
Looks like part of their infrastructure is still up. website is down, but I can connect on my mobile using baconreader app
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by lobster45 14y ago
I agree that this is more of a problem with elastic cloud services than reddit engineers. I am sure that they anticipated the load and did what they could, but the traffic is surely immense
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by lobster45 14y ago
I would have to say Apple killed Linix. As many others have noted here, OSX has improved to the point where many Unix admins run OSX and it runs the tools they have for their work. Also Mac hardware is better than PC hardware so you buy a
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by lobster45 14y ago
When we closed our house we not only read through the entire stack of mortgage papers, we had a several hour session where the escrow representative went line by line and explained everything to us. It is always good to understand what you

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