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Sane, Pretty, Smart. So hard to find all three in a woman these days. People who do crap like this have to be handled with care, engage them and it can lead to murder. Gavin De Becker spent his entire career (30 years ) dealing with this
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Douglas Hofstadter, Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies. This book will blow your mind. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluid_Concepts_and_Creative_Ana...
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16y ago
The best argument Microsoft has is: "You Too". Basically: "What I did wasn't wrong because the person complaining does it too."
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In java: public int nth_fibbonacci(int n) { if (n == 0 || n == 1) return 1; return nth_fibbonacci(n-1) + nth_fibbonacci(n-2); } //Would you accept that as a valid response even though it is terribly inefficient? It's what I came up wit
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16y ago
I'm not defending Jim Cramer. But Jim Cramer made his fortunes as a young guy day trading, read his biography, he comes across as a buffoon, but he only does that to categorize his show as "entertainment". This way he can get around the S
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BlockSite 0.7.1.1 A browser plugin that blocks websites you don't want to visit ever again. (You can put them behind a password making it a nuisance to turn it off)
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UNDELETED! Google Cache copy (for when the Google Cache expires) http://machinesentience.com/why_you_should_never_pay_for_onl...
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Google could sell a new operating system called Google-7 (for $100) which contains a Cracked Windows 7 Ultimate CD. When Microsoft complains about profiting off of MS labor, Google says: So what? Epic mirror attack.
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16y ago
wiki about everything we have found out about him: http://knol.google.com/k/eric-leschinski/recover-wael-ghonim...
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16y ago
Google has asked for my help, my idea is to start some collective action in getting information about him. I'm starting a wiki anyone can edit, help me learn everything about where he last was and where he probably is (assuming he was appre
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16y ago
Google should have kept quiet, and figured out how Microsoft is pulling data from Google. They could then create a script that would cause Bing to link new borrowed content to goatse.
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16y ago
The problem here is not asking a clear question. There are millions or billions of tools that are no longer being built today. I made one just now as I was writing this post, it will never be built again. Yes it is a cute conclusion, it o
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16y ago
The lottery system can now confidently continue to extracting money out of idiots who don't know better. Somehow this whole story leaves me feeling that nothing good has happened. The whole story just feels like a good Samaritan helping a
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16y ago
Did you buy a computer back in the 1960's?
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16y ago
What if there was a device that could prevent the people in egypt from communicating verbally as well as with body language. I shudder to think what kind of devistation Mubarak could have done if the Internet had more control over people.
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If you are thinking about this before you come into wealth then it sounds like you are the type of person to manage money well and use that wealth to create systems which not only edify your own life, but the lives of hundreds/thousands of
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16y ago
Scientific American had a piece on how to negotiate stable file transfer over risky connections with redundancy. The problem of file transfer over ptp cellphone is that you don't know which of your packets will make it through and which on
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16y ago
I'll bet genetic predispositions have a lot to do with these statistics. I'd like to see which groups are generating the most offspring.
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The tower-devices will be broadcasting their presence and location, so hiding them isn't as important as making them expensive and time consuming to remove or highly mobile (on UAV's or back pockets) to run away from the government.
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16y ago
I want a GPS, compass, infrared vision, gyroscopic (rotational sensors), accelerometers, optical zoom, be able to sense the frequency my cellphone is broadcasting on. I want to feel electrical and magnetic fields, be able to distinguish be
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We better shutdown and close all the libraries and bookstores too. The page-to-eye data transfer protocols are evil, we need to crack down on this kind of piracy.
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16y ago
How much longer until I can implant a camcorder in my eye and think about taking a video, having it take a video, then watching it again whenever I want?
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16y ago
Tax the rich too much and then they stop creating jobs for all you whiners who can't hold on to your money. The whole notion of taxing the rich more than the poor seems unfair, what makes you worthy of benefits and him worthy of a penalty?
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A first world country like America isn't going to kill the internet, it is just going to systematically disallow unauthorized content. What we need to worry about is not a kill switch but a "packet shaping switch", which turns off all non-e
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I sense there is going to be a special desire for non internet based phone-to-phone laptop to laptop network protocol for Egypt in the future. I thought OLPC was working on that kind of computer-to-computer network technology. Egypt looks
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Doctors can tell you which patients will be back, the problem is they can't, because if they do, that will be discrimination which would be grounds for burning the doctor at the stake. The software which does exactly the same thing, howeve
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I was just propositioned by a staffing agency for Microsoft and it was done poorly. I was treated like many of the Indian staffing agencies. A non fluent English speaker low-balling the rate and ratcheting down that rates before we even g
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Egyptian users could access twitter (bypassing the block) by visiting a web proxy in another country and then logging into twitter through there.
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When your mind wanders, it is dealing with necessary sub-thoght trails, don't abort unless necessary: http://discovermagazine.com/2009/jul-aug/15-brain-stop-payin... Learn to have an open mind, but not too open: http://goliath.ecnext.com
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Great show, but there needs to be another device (carried by the quad rotors) to create very strong bonds between the parts. If the quad rotors could carry this bond-making robot that temporarily attaches to the parts and joins pieces with
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