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by mc808 11y ago
I'll create a GUI interface using Visual Basic that prints Tracking IP address ... [30 seconds] ... Failed! Message delivered!
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by mc808 11y ago
I'm fairly sure the revenue attributable to Firefox dwarfs what any of the bigger competitors are spending on their browsers, so it's not really for lack of resources if Firefox falls behind. But it's the cash cow that subsid
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by mc808 11y ago
Interesting, how about: if $5 then pizza if $2 then beer $6! The priority might be to acquire the most valuable item (pizza), or to spend the most money (3 beers), or to have the most money left over with nothing left to bu
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by mc808 11y ago
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.
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by mc808 11y ago
So it is "stealing" to produce a superior, cheaper, but otherwise virtually identical product or service that sells better and displaces a competitor's revenue? Strange, I thought that was the whole basis of market economics.
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by mc808 11y ago
It's in the public interest if encryption and digital security are in the public interest. People like this have a voice that's actually heard when those topics come up. It's just a gentle reminder that actively sabotaging se
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by mc808 11y ago
Matthew Cole had an interesting talk a while back about how Italy was able to implicate the CIA in a kidnapping and identify several agents, using cell phone tracking technology provided by the US. (Edit: Oops, Matthew Cole, not Jacob App
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by mc808 11y ago
The vans are used to scan for "drugs and explosives," i.e. "[drug money] and explosives," i.e. "[drug money]." I think the public would be slightly more comfortable with this type of stuff if it was actually be
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by mc808 11y ago
I'm not sure but would hope that traditional forensic labs and processes are also open to scrutiny. E.g. if the defense suggests that some important mark on the body could have been introduced while it was being handled, it should be p
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by mc808 11y ago
But how can you verify that the two independent companies aren't both using the same faulty code? You could ask someone under oath, but how would they know whether an employee bought or stole code from the competitor, or they both ma
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by mc808 11y ago
I used to do data entry and transcription for $12/hour (not adjusted for 15+ years of inflation) and was able to reach about $4-5/hour on Mechanical Turk when I tried it. As I was out of practice, I think $7/hour would be fea
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by mc808 11y ago
Out of curiosity, how did it go with Mendeley? Were they able to recover your account?
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by mc808 11y ago
I'm not sure which is worse: that this ancient song is/was still "protected" by copyright, or that Warner has been able to collect so many millions without a valid copyright claim.
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by mc808 11y ago
> for the last 2 years Still solid gains over the last 2 years, but the chart forms a classic "head and shoulders" bearish pattern centered at the beginning of this year. I'd say there's a 50% chance that it will cont
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by mc808 11y ago
It's also possible that Neanderthals prevented modern humans from leaving Africa until their populations were already in decline for other reasons (disease? inbreeding? infighting? overhunting?). In that case we may have just sped up t
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by mc808 11y ago
"Tree" is also a mental construction. It is just a bunch of particles that form a recognizable pattern in the features and scale we've evolved to discern in the world. Examine two trees in enough detail, and the vast differen
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by mc808 11y ago
One of my favorites, the SETI Institute hosts a ton of seminars on astrobiology, physics, etc: https://www.youtube.com/user/setiinstitute/videos
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by mc808 11y ago
A good experiment might be to watch 1,000 hours of educational videos and see if you've actually learned enough to test out of an introductory course on the subject. I could see that happening with, say, Khan Academy, but less so with
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by mc808 11y ago
I'm still waiting for the patent to expire so I can try this knot: http://www.google.com/patents/US5997051 (I just noticed it says the fee has lapsed. Does that imply it's free to use?)
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by mc808 11y ago
For me it's usually ctrl-, ctrl-, ctrl-. I'd like to read more than 20 lines of text before scrolling. That's why I don't still use CGA.
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by mc808 11y ago
I have good ideas and reasonably basic skills. Nothing I've done has even come close to attracting 1 million users. :/
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by mc808 11y ago
Technically ~21% more reduction (e.g. saving 15k on top of 70k), but I suppose specific files probably deviate more than that anyway.
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by mc808 11y ago
I've used "Untyped" and "Trim" from this collection[0], and they were plenty readable. They take care of ambiguous characters and provide a wider space character than general-purpose proportional fonts. [0] https:&
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by mc808 11y ago
Not yet, but wasn't there recently a big national ID program enacted and then repealed? Eventually people will be too weary to push back. In the US, it's very common for police to "request" identification in routine enco
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by mc808 11y ago
Also, what will police do when they can't count on almost everyone carrying a state-issued ID card on them at all times? Dollars to doughnuts (no pun intended), carrying ID will become mandatory as driver's licenses become less co
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by mc808 11y ago
Apparently it does matter which unit prosecutes the case, at least to whoever set up the units. Who knows, it could be as simple as the National Security unit treating it as possible espionage but then going with the trade secret charge. Th
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by mc808 11y ago
Yes he had already left once, but that was about 4 days before anyone noticed the database activity.
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by mc808 11y ago
I'm not sure who I would call first, but if it led me to the FBI then I would probably expect the Computer Hacking and Intellectual Property Unit (from leereeves link) to do the investigation/prosecution. It also seems odd that th
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by mc808 11y ago
I've never heard of the "Special Prosecutions and National Security Unit", but it doesn't sound like something that should care about some online game's analytics data. Combined with the guy being arrested as he was
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by mc808 11y ago
I'm happy to view content supported by ads that are not animated, are not hosted or tracked by third parties, are not disguised as normal content, and which do not execute scripts. It's also easy enough to sneak that type of ad pa

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