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by mrbill 13y ago
I miss Sun's "use our enterprise software, only pay if you need support" licensing. Oracle deep-sixed that as soon as possible, along with the pseudo-hobbyist licensing terms for the OS, effectively killing a large portion o
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by mrbill 13y ago
You don't need a CHL to have a firearm with you while traveling in Texas. Wikipedia explains it well: "Gov. Perry also signed H.B. 1815 after passage by the 2007 Legislature, a bill that allows any Texas resident to carry a concea
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by mrbill 13y ago
Concealed Handgun License. Also known (depending on location) as a Concealed Carry License, Concealed Firearms Permit, etc.
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by mrbill 13y ago
Grew up with both parents in law enforcement. The one time I risked name-dropping my mother in another county about an hour away, I lucked out and the guy knew her and gave me a warning - and I was in a vehicle with out-of-state plates (ha
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by mrbill 13y ago
I have a Kwikset pushbutton combo deadbolt. I can use either my key, a button combo, or my ZWave-enabled home security system via my phone to unlock the front door. Cost around $150 and took 10 minutes to install.
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by mrbill 13y ago
Am I wrong in that kimsufi's not available to people in the US?
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by mrbill 13y ago
The latest release is ONLY seven years old.. http://ftp.netscape.com/pub/netscape9/en-US/9.0/
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by mrbill 13y ago
Yep. A quick summary: http://www.damninteresting.com/smoke-detectors-and-a-radioac...
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by mrbill 13y ago
A lot of smoke detectors use the radioactive isotope americium-241 in an ionization process to detect smoke. Get enough smoke detectors, and you can have a good amount of radioactive material. Read up on David Hahn, who hit the news in &#x
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by mrbill 13y ago
Surely I'm not the only Charlie Stross fan who immediately thought "SCORPION STARE"...
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by mrbill 13y ago
I fully agree that Frost's UI/UX is nowhere near Simple's, but it lets me do what I need to do online, and I can deposit checks via my Android phone now. Good enough.
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by mrbill 13y ago
By the time I finally got a Simple/BankSimple invite, the online features and offerings from my local/regional bank (Frost, for those of you in TX) matched "close enough" to what Simple was offering at the time that ther
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by mrbill 13y ago
Having read Suarez' "Kill Decision" last night, which talks about using computer models of weaver ants for control of autonomous killer drones... wow, coincidence.
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by mrbill 13y ago
Taking down the game tomorrow isn't going to stop the flow of ad income from already-installed copies.. plus, generates a rush of people downloading "before it's gone". Genius.
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by mrbill 13y ago
Wonder how hard this is going to hit the Austin/Round Rock area this time (again).
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by mrbill 13y ago
It's not a $50K Twitter username unless someone actually paid $50K for it at one point, is it? "Not accepting an offer of $50K for a twitter username I didn't use" doesn't really count...
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by mrbill 13y ago
My thought after reading this article: "Must be easy to feel good about walking away from making more money, and make a career of talking about it, when you've got that nice cushion of a few million in the bank already."
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by mrbill 13y ago
I can see their point about "We need to keep this VAX around because building on actual hardware is different from building on emulation", however I'm sure there's bits of infrastructure, CRTs hooked to KVMs, etc, that c
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by mrbill 13y ago
Surely I'm not the only one that kept checking to see that the date on this article wasn't April 1st.
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by mrbill 13y ago
The ZTE Open is noticeably better/faster/more responsive after manually installing the FFOS 1.1 update. Not keeping me from giving it to a friend, though - I was not as impressed with FFOS as I thought I would be.
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by mrbill 13y ago
The "but.. but.. look at what these other sites are doing!" stuff just comes across as bad and childish.
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by mrbill 13y ago
Closeness to regional shipping hubs (rail / air)?
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by mrbill 13y ago
"On the Edge: the Spectacular Rise and Fall of Commodore" by Brian Bagnall covers quite a bit of the Amiga development. http://www.amazon.com/Edge-Spectacular-Rise-Fall-Commodore/d... However, the rewritten &
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by mrbill 13y ago
While "fuck you" is a bit harsh, you've got just as much right as anyone else to criticize their use of certain terms. Apology accepted. Just FYI, I have been (officially) diagnosed with a minor case of OCD, but it's ce
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by mrbill 13y ago
This is awesome, but "generater" instead of "generator" is making my OCD twitch.
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by mrbill 13y ago
A lot of places are switching to this; see NYC for an example. Instead of getting DC from the power company they get AC and convert it to DC on-site. ConEd shut down it's DC grid in '09 I think?
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by mrbill 13y ago
Not surprised, their installation instructions should have had "update firmware" as a step...
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by mrbill 13y ago
Bought one just to have as a spare/beater/toy-around phone, even though I just went from a N4 to an N5. This price point is what the US has been needing.
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by mrbill 13y ago
For just needing an off-site VM for backup-relay-host/testing/debugging purposes, you just can't beat $5/month. Been very happy with them, and the fact that I can just throw $50 into my account and not have to worry abo
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by mrbill 13y ago
The Beaglebone / BB Black does exactly this - you can have it connected with a single USB cable.

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