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lreeves
15y ago
It seems to me that the reward for no sick days would create an incentive for people to come in with a cold/flu and spread it around.
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15y ago
That's a pretty narrow view of global access to things. Yes, probably most households in the US have access to CNN - but I'd bet a much larger slice of the planet has Internet access and therefore can reach Twitter.
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lreeves
16y ago
No, they synchronize a selected folder from your Dropbox account and then host it externally.
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lreeves
16y ago
Sure you can; I used mine in the tub (a Sony Reader) all the time with no I'll effects. If you're paranoid though just throw the reader into a ziploc bag to protect it.
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lreeves
16y ago
Generally datacenters are weary of photos due to housing hundreds or thousands of different customers, many of which who do not want photographs taken of their equipment or even to have the geographic location of their equipment exposed (go
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lreeves
16y ago
Ah, didn't realize that.
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lreeves
16y ago
Choosing Windows on either Amazon or Rackspace adds quite a bit to the cost, and it rules out using the very cheap instances (micro and what not).
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lreeves
16y ago
I had issues like that after upgrading to 4. I exported my bookmarks and created a clean profile, which seemed to fix the issue.
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16y ago
Two examples as to why people say it's hard to control access to your content of the top of my heard are a) by default applications that your friends install can access your content. b) Facebook has several times changed their privacy defa
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lreeves
16y ago
Just an FYI, there's several apps for IOS that can grab poscasts from the device itself with no need for an iTunes connection. I used Podcaster and it works pretty well.
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lreeves
16y ago
You should have explained to your auditor that Debian backports security patches to the shipped version of OpenSSL.
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lreeves
16y ago
Zugo can certainly take some flack for having a toolbar without an uninstaller, and an FAQ URL that doesn't work. When something becomes purposely difficult to uninstall for end-users it crosses over into malware territory.
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lreeves
16y ago
Skype has a setting to sign-off after a certain period of time when it runs in the background, and the default non-infinite setting is most likely what you're seeing.
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lreeves
16y ago
I believe there's quite a few companies selling styluses that work with the iPad.
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lreeves
16y ago
There's actually quite a few ads on Reddit that I've seen about "Avoiding the Obama Homesexual Agenda" (not to mention Scientology), so it seems more like Conde Nast is protecting their specific interests. Or at least, not allowing ads tha
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16y ago
EVE handles it fairly well though; there's a large area that's mostly secure in the center of the game universe for Empire space. Players can stick to that area and be almost grief free the entire time (aside from the rare suicide attack).
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lreeves
17y ago
I'm not the parent poster, but I also love mine as a phone and a computer and would totally buy it again given the choice.
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17y ago
"The future of media consumption (well, at least music consumption) is from streaming services, which don't make you deal with syncing." Wow, that would certainly stop me from listening to my music on the subway. Or anywhere that data roami