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by mirkules 13y ago
In other words, they are trying to prevent what happened with Assange. Speaking of which, is he still stuck in te Ecuadorian embassy?
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by mirkules 13y ago
B is the option I am precisely hoping for. I find it really creepy to get cross-targeted ads. I am willing to give up 90% of the websites I view (and pay for the remaining 10%) so I don't have to look at ads, and more importantly, so t
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by mirkules 13y ago
I can see this going sideways quickly: with active accounts accidentally being deleted, people's mail being read by others who registered them in August, people who thought they would log in on July 15th only to find Yahoo is using a d
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by mirkules 13y ago
Exactly. It actually got me thinking if burner phones are already modified (either hardware or firmware) to basically be the man in the middle. There was a big problem with Chinese-supplied hardware in the US gov't which was modified f
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by mirkules 13y ago
Question about cash: do banks keep track of the bills that are dispensed through ATMs? If so, it's probably safer to break your bills first. Also, be aware of cameras near the internet cafes or places you intend to use the burner phone
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by mirkules 13y ago
We will never change to the metric system because then we would have to call football "Approximately-One-Third-Meter-Ball". The field would have to be measured in meters - 91.44 meters. A first down would have to be 9.144 meters, and I don'
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by mirkules 13y ago
To add to this, there are real differences between the imperial and US customary systems: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_the_imperial_and_...
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by mirkules 13y ago
The problem is not that he was using a lot of bandwidth. If the usage didn't violate the Verizon ToS (no servers), he would have a good case. But he (presumably) agreed to the ToS when he signed up for the service, he violated the ToS by ru
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by mirkules 13y ago
What does that mean? Someone else above wrote "5% net 7" also and I have no idea how to interpret this.
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by mirkules 13y ago
I also wish we had a way to include "special"[1] characters in names. My name would have a "ć", so I could never spell it correctly and had to anglicize it. I guess including spaces is a good start, but it would be nice to have the ability
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by mirkules 13y ago
Considering that the gist.io post is (edit: was -- it seems to be deleted) about not neglecting the 10%, doing one thing and doing it well, and that gist.io focuses on delivering medium-sized content blurbs (between a tweet and a blog pos
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by mirkules 13y ago
There is a certain irony in requiring Javascript to view a post about not ignoring the 10% of the use cases.
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by mirkules 14y ago
Thanks for the light bulb. I honestly thought Randall Munroe made that term up in http://xkcd.com/806/ Edit: just realized it was cleverly modified to include "leet". And edit 2: which I then realized is a shibboleth inside a shibboleth
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by mirkules 14y ago
The way it is (attempted to be) quantified is by grades. Unfortunately, that's probably the best measuring system we have so far. The other problem with this approach to "group learning" is that it doesn't take into account freeloading stud
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by mirkules 14y ago
I agree with you, people need to be motivated about closing Gitmo. People won't be motivated to do anything about it as long as everyone inside Gitmo is labeled a terrorist. If Obama et al truly felt that closing Gitmo was a priority, the n
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by mirkules 14y ago
What I'm saying is nobody will blame his lack of effort. And, if history is any indication, he or his successors will keep trying until they do pass.
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by mirkules 14y ago
I really can't subscribe to that argument when you look at other national issues for which the President is fighting tooth and nail. Without straying too far from the subject, take gun control as an example [and please note, I am deliberate
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by mirkules 14y ago
"For anyone who actually understands politics, the failure to close Gitmo was not Obama's fault." I disagree. For anyone that understands politics understands that things can get done by applying a significant political push. I think Obama
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by mirkules 14y ago
Some Orthodox Christians still use the Julian calendar, if only symbolically, so Christmas falls on January 7th and New Years on January 14th (Easter is a much different story: http://christianity.about.com/od/faqhelpdesk/qt/whyeastercha..
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by mirkules 14y ago
Having employees be free of any consequences of what they say on the web (or otherwise) is a bad idea. Do you want your employees telling your customers or competitors what your next product feature is? Uncontrolled PR is an all around bad
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by mirkules 14y ago
Indeed. I don't know what version of Excel the parent is using, but Excel for Mac 2010 handles csv files just fine, even ones that have weird delimiters. I'd love to see an example of a non-readable csv file. Edit: I haven't tried different
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by mirkules 14y ago
I always believed that perseverance is 90% of what is required to be a great "anything". The other 10% is sheer talent. In every case I have seen so far, that 90% will make you good enough so that the talent doesn't matter much.
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by mirkules 14y ago
There is also a specific set of problems that require a question to be formed in, what I like to call "Google Gymnastics Language" - i.e. a unique problem space that uses common words to describe it so you have to alter your query. For exam
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by mirkules 14y ago
"I'd love to see a hack that lets one walk around in first-person inside an environment using Street View imagery, like a video game." There was a TED video in 2010 doing almost that: http://www.ted.com/talks/blaise_aguera.html
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by mirkules 14y ago
Point taken about Puppet/Chef. As far as same programs, I would still have to load them the first time and know what to look for. So in addition to stuff I need for work (e.g. LAMP stack), I would have to Google around (more than once) for
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by mirkules 14y ago
"I never understand why people spend ages trying out fifty different distros if they could get just what they want if they spent half that time actually installing/adapting one distribution with a reasonably broad package base." Because if
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by mirkules 14y ago
It's interesting to think about the consequences of dissemination of wrong information about yourself online (as a "non-important" person) by a largely well-respected outlet such as Google. As a far-fetched example, it's not uncommon for id
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by mirkules 14y ago
At some companies the only way to get email is to log in through VPN. It seems like such a strange concept, but I know for a fact that this still exists today.
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by mirkules 14y ago
"The 2007 variant resolves that mystery by making it clear that the 417 attack code had at one time been fully complete and enabled before the attackers disabled it in later versions of the weapon." The thing that struck me most was the use
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by mirkules 14y ago
My preference on an American keyboard is still curly braces, probably because of my typing style. In order to type { }, I hit the shift key with my right pinkie finger, which shifts my entire hand over and allows me to hit the brackets with

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