mburns

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by mburns 12y ago
That quote is about memorizing a relatively arbitrary number (5,280 feet to a mile) which is only relevant when you have systems that can't be easily reasoned about. This is precisely why the metric system, or uniform length of months,
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by mburns 12y ago
Hardware support in the form of many, many drivers.
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by mburns 12y ago
No, they don't. There is an option to upload an encrypted version of your private key, but you can simply choose not to.
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by mburns 12y ago
>in actuality NFL players live longer ... then the average male http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/health/2013/01/29/nfl-player... The NFL seems to disagree. Do you have a citation to back up your c
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by mburns 12y ago
NANOG[0] warned about it in May, and there is a blog post [1] that expands on the risk. Cisco 6500/7600 (if they are set to hold the complete BGP table) are known to be affected. [0] http://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail&#
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by mburns 12y ago
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis#Enabling_Electrolysis
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by mburns 12y ago
It's the very next definition of the page you are quoting. Poach (verb) "to trespass for the purpose of stealing game; also : to take game or fish illegally"
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by mburns 12y ago
These ad tiles only fill space before your browsing habits emerge. They won't override your existing options, so you aren't likely to see them until you reset your profile.
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by mburns 12y ago
You're misquoting the article. "...is not in the public domain, but can be accessed in small pieces..." (emphasis added) Besides, this data should absolutely be provided in an API. An exporter tool that queries the API is
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by mburns 12y ago
Occam's razor would suggest DPR lied and that he ran the operation from the start.
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by mburns 12y ago
You can turn it on in Firefox Nightly. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis#Enabling_Electrolysis
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by mburns 13y ago
Just "write some software and get it certified"? Sounds so simple, why doesn't everyone do it? Because it isn't just getting a body of code certified once. Someone has to maintain that specific code and either upstream o
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by mburns 13y ago
I'm sure they do, too. It isn't that simple.
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by mburns 13y ago
I think you're missing his point. The success of bittorrent as a swarming protocol is that each client tries to download the least available snippet of the file it wants. This increases the chances that other clients will be able to fi
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by mburns 13y ago
I know Google will exist in 5 years. How can you be sure Dropbox (an unprotifable startup) will be?
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by mburns 13y ago
That is what rel='nofollow' was invented for.
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by mburns 13y ago
Voxer, San Francisco, CA Voxer is solving hard problems at massive scale using Node.js, Riak and Redis all running in the Joyent Cloud. We are working to build the most effective solution to modern communication: instant voice that is avail
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by mburns 13y ago
Computers are extremely modular already. Plus, you don't need to buy a proprietary interconnect and case that only one vendor provides.
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by mburns 13y ago
I'm not panacea, but I wonder if a design similar to headsets that drape over/hang from your neck could be used as a (limited) battery pack to Glass and avoid a cable running down to your pocket. http://i.imgur.com&#x2F
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by mburns 13y ago
Policing is a state issue. No executive order is going to solve this problem.
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by mburns 13y ago
Training Missions would be a great use for OpenBadges. http://openbadges.org/
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by mburns 13y ago
It works, but not well. Case in point: It took 18 months for this user to be discovered.
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by mburns 13y ago
Does IMAP not work for you?
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by mburns 13y ago
Or over wireless. Absolutely. If there was data corruption in the HTTPS stream, it wouldn't decrypt correctly or the packet wouldn't checksum correctly and it would be retransmitted. TCP works just fine over wired vs wireless.
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by mburns 13y ago
> In these two cases, the effect on the reader might be identical, but in one essential information about the character was held back and in one it was developed later. But we aren't talking about the reader. We're talking abou
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by mburns 13y ago
The Chinese government has the Windows source code for a decade. Microsoft's press release: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/press/2003/feb03/02-28gs...
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by mburns 13y ago
And if you or one of your parents were one of the <who knows how many> lives he affected in a negative way... you'd still be allowed to make informed decisions and not be painted by a single circumstance because people are more c
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by mburns 13y ago
One that has been done, fwiw. https://about.me/
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by mburns 13y ago
He made billions, essentially conquered his industry. Why bother being greedy into old age when he can buy a legacy and still live a billionaire's lifestyle. Best of both worlds.
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by mburns 13y ago
> They're afraid to break the web. They tried a fix and it broke YouTube. So it seems like a reasonable fear. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=349259#c54 > The patch ... is literally to remove "!

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