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by martey 16y ago
The wikipedia article about the sticky bomb - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sticky_bomb - notes that it was made by the British for use in the event of a German invasion, and so only saw limited front-line use in North Africa and by the Fr
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by martey 16y ago
If you go to "about:plugins", you can disable the built-in Flash plugin.
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by martey 16y ago
I do not think it is that surprising. Being part of the same political entity, there should have been a decent amount of intermingling and cross-travel in both directions. There was a NYTimes op-ed today about colonists from Massachusetts w
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by martey 16y ago
The justice's name is Stevens, not Stephens.
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by martey 16y ago
Maybe it would be worthwhile to distinguish between customers who had actively cancelled their accounts and those who had passively stopped paying? With the former, there is the expectation that you will not retain their data. As the origin
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by martey 16y ago
The article claimed that the new data plans would cause people to use their phones less. I do not believe this is true, but I do think it will either cause people to use wifi more and cellular data less (if they are heavy data users like th
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by martey 16y ago
In the short term, I am not sure that this is that big of a deal. My data use would be 3 to 4 times higher than it is now (and thus approaching the author's) were it not for the fact that most of the time I am using my phone on a day-to-day
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Facebook Privacy Check(f-secure.com)
12 points by martey 16y ago|3 comments
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by martey 16y ago
I think the Guardian article was especially insightful because Munson reveals an important reason why her husband "turned around": "His sister got cancer and her husband had just left her and she had five children and she actually died las
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by martey 16y ago
What about http://status.net/ ?
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by martey 16y ago
Looking at the websites of the Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation < http://www.ppnf.org/ > and the Weston A Price Foundation < http://www.westonaprice.org/ >, both linked from Price's Wikipedia article, I am not convince
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by martey 16y ago
I think it is better to use a full disk encryption product (which encrypts information) or encrypted disk images (which only encrypt sensitive information) as opposed to FileVault. FileVault converts your entire home folder into a encrypted
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by martey 17y ago
While the motivations of the creators of the privacy policies and options might be pure, the fact that the settings are confusing enough that people are exposing information that they want to keep private is pretty damnable. If Facebook car
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Why Apple Shareholders Should Be Cautious(online.wsj.com)
15 points by martey 17y ago|28 comments
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by martey 17y ago
The hard drives in aluminum PowerBooks, older MacBook Pros, and virtually every other Apple laptop except the MacBooks and unibody MacBook Pros are not user-serviceable.
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by martey 17y ago
Being that all three of those phones are made by HTC, I think jrockway's point still stands.
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by martey 17y ago
From the actual report: "Apple discovered three facilities that had previously hired 15-year-old workers in countries where the minimum age for employment is 16." Hiring 15 year olds was illegal in these countries. The "Western point of vie
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The Future of Money(wired.com)
2 points by martey 17y ago|0 comments
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by martey 17y ago
While a booby-trapped building might have been more "Hollywood sexy," a shooting at an University faculty meeting which kills 3 people is more interesting news than I want to hear any day of the week.
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by martey 17y ago
The issue is that by making your long URLs short, they also obscure them, making it harder for you to determine whether it is a good idea to visit. In my ideal world, the URL shortener would not block you from visiting the site, but would d
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by martey 17y ago
I think that this article makes several points about why high school and college students (who are often spending their parents' money) gravitate toward Apple computers. However, it fails to explain how this will cause them to either purcha
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by martey 17y ago
I agree with you completely in the difficulty of being certain that a computer is clean once infected, but some people (a la http://xkcd.com/694/ ) are not willing to deal with "starting from scratch" because it means having to backup the
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Why Can’t the I.R.S. Help Fill in the Blanks?(nytimes.com)
65 points by martey 17y ago|52 comments
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by martey 17y ago
Raytheon is a defense contractor. In Antarctica, they support the National Science Foundation's work. http://rpsc.raytheon.com/
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by martey 17y ago
This article is from 2005. Are its precepts still valid?
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by martey 17y ago
This reason was dismissed in the article: You say it's a patent issue? Nothing's changed since the last time I walked that lonely road: I still have yet to see an Apple patent that covers the pinch-to-zoom gesture, and Palm, Microsoft, and
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by martey 17y ago
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?navby=CASE&... As the CNet article noted, Justice Blackmun and the 3 judges that agreed with him thought that there was a distinction between the phone numbers the petitioner dialed (obviou
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by martey 17y ago
It's a special holiday gift for you from pg! Seriously, I clicked on an internal link and freaked out a bit. I could not remember whether the previous page was similarly colored (and I just did not notice), or whether the change just happen
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by martey 17y ago
T-Mobile phones in the US are almost entirely 850/1900. Being that 850/1900 are AT&T's 3G bands, I think you might be confused. I just looked at T-Mobile's and HTC's websites; all of the 3G phones I could find operated on either 2100
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by martey 17y ago
AT&T's femtocell (the "3G Microcell") is out, in "select markets." See a review of it at http://paulstamatiou.com/review-att-3g-microcell My experience with AT&T has been that I have more problems in large cities, and less when

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