lotsofcows

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by lotsofcows 11y ago
Unprofessional? It's really well drawn?
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by lotsofcows 11y ago
I found the first half interesting. Then suddenly a random "terrorist" appeared and a completely different book appeared. The first half read like a Stephenson, the second half read like The Cobweb. All the interesting stuff disap
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by lotsofcows 12y ago
Your support will put there life on the line for a customer? Wow! That's incredible!
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by lotsofcows 12y ago
Ah, but that's because it's not particularly pertinent to you; your (our :-) unhealthy addiction is entirely legal...
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by lotsofcows 12y ago
What? You stick switch parameters after the switches and general parameters on the end just like every other sensible command. "tar cf"? "cf"? There's your problem! If you follow the anachronistic "bundled flag
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by lotsofcows 12y ago
Password manager? Hargreaves Lansdown, a UK broker big enough to hold people's pensions, asks you for eg the first, third and eighth letter of your password. So not only no password manager but they are almost certainly storing my pass
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by lotsofcows 12y ago
You're right. We should change an established, proven design to make it prettier. I don't understand why it's taken so long for someone to speak out. Stop the presses!
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by lotsofcows 12y ago
Title should be "Turn any door intercom that calls a 'phone into ..."
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by lotsofcows 12y ago
John Nash?
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by lotsofcows 12y ago
I think you're complicating things. You don't need the car and the battery. Enough cars can act as a distributed power cache.
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by lotsofcows 12y ago
Er no, public school _and_ private school in the UK are the equivalent of private school in the US. State school in the UK is the equivalent of public school in the US.
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by lotsofcows 12y ago
Nice write-up! A couple of points: On CentOS, at least, gawk == awk which falsifies "patterns cannot capture specific groups to make them available in the ACTIONS part of the code". Eg: echo "abcdef" | gawk 'match($
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by lotsofcows 12y ago
Great, but why is there a limit in the first place? It implies you're not hashing passwords.
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by lotsofcows 12y ago
"'deserves to be in prison' does not imply 'deserves terrible living conditions'" - It might not, but that is what this article is about. His comments are entirely appropriate. "makes sense" has nothi
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by lotsofcows 12y ago
Yeah, want weDr.Dobbs needs is more flashiness and less quality content! Hell, it works for everyone else.
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by lotsofcows 12y ago
Apparently it's a surprise to Wired that a group that engages in hacking uses a tool commonly used for hacking.
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by lotsofcows 12y ago
Yeah, the whole article is based around the statement... "The collapse of Ukraine would be a tremendous loss for NATO, the European Union, and the United States." ...which he fails to justify in any meaningful way. If I was a cyni
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by lotsofcows 12y ago
Oh great, now people whose opinions differ are "trolls". I think we all know who the troll is...
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by lotsofcows 12y ago
What a puerile attempt at trivialising someone's concerns. Why do you think a file length is important? What you are demonstrating is the very lack of control that people are complaining about. Well done, you've replaced the stand
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by lotsofcows 12y ago
Yes, because every single GP is only in it for the money. Many people/doctors may be bastards; many people/doctors may be knackered; many people/doctors may only be in it for the money. But they're still the minority. I
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by lotsofcows 12y ago
Your hoarding problem is more socially acceptable than the one in the article.
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by lotsofcows 12y ago
Almost everyone¹ ¹ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite#Government_response
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by lotsofcows 12y ago
Exactly, it "sounds" so much better. It doesn't change the fact that, in most cases, you are a user.
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by lotsofcows 12y ago
The good guys? Who are the good guys? The integrity of which government departments do you trust?
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by lotsofcows 12y ago
One major reason for multi rotor machines is to avoid the classic helicopter problem of the rotor blade's leading edge approaching the speed of sound while the trailing blade is simultaneously stalling. Unfortunately, this would requir
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by lotsofcows 12y ago
"understanding fellow human beings (sociology and psychology)" You just defined fiction.
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by lotsofcows 12y ago
Replying to my own post with an eg: The "several reason for choosing PHP" surely apply to Python even more than they do to PHP?
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by lotsofcows 12y ago
You missed the comparison to "better" languages.
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by lotsofcows 12y ago
There is an element of that. University tends to throw you into a group of people from different backgrounds (at least, compared to school) and forces you to live fairly intimately with them.
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by lotsofcows 12y ago
We've been given a 6 hour maintenance window. They won't give us a smaller window or tell us when it's finished. Apparently, we should apply our own monitoring - fortunately, my tech chaps are psychic and can tell if monitori

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