ocschwar

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901.
by ocschwar 11y ago
Would you please hop on a ferry to Oostende first? Principled idiots are of more use to mankind when they're on the loose.
902.
by ocschwar 11y ago
You need to leave the UK. No amount of corporate charter red tape or offshore server hosting will let you get away with developing a secure product if Theresa May doesn't want you to.
903.
by ocschwar 11y ago
As a bike commuter who rides as far down as 10F (-10C), I can say the cold itself really is the problem. The problem is that for too many routes, either the traffic is so crazy that if you wipe out on black ice the cars will run you over, (
904.
by ocschwar 11y ago
Huh. News to me.
905.
by ocschwar 11y ago
You dare challenge our demand in court? Impudent serf! We'll demand more then!
906.
by ocschwar 11y ago
Try riding the Minuteman Bikeway in the north of Boston. It was installed in the 80's. It's not been repaved since. Bikes just don't add enough wear and tear. There are some tree root issues that have to be addressed now and
907.
by ocschwar 11y ago
Because in the major cities in the US, we tax real estate to pay for the roads. I pay my city $40 a year for the privilege of owning a car and living here. That's barely enough to cover salting in the winter. The rest of my city'
908.
by ocschwar 11y ago
From what I've seen in Holland, it's simple etiquette there that an office commuter is expected to keep his speed low enough to avoid breaking a sweat. And since the prevailing speed in the bike lanes is set by middle aged office
909.
by ocschwar 11y ago
And even if it's not hacked, it will be used by the next Whitey Bulger.
910.
by ocschwar 11y ago
All true. But until word comes down from legal about what to say, you can't blame the PR flacks for saying nothing.
911.
by ocschwar 11y ago
And it won't be. But cut their public relations staff some slack. They can't tell Richard Stallman from Gregory Rasputin, and before saying or doing anything they're going to be bringing themselves up to speed on what the GPL
912.
by ocschwar 11y ago
Steel for spokes. Rubber pneumatic tires. Ball bearings. Then if you want to get a safety bicycle rather than a penny farthing, you need a cheap process for bike chains.
913.
by ocschwar 11y ago
Like learning to love an abusive spouse.
914.
by ocschwar 11y ago
The scary thing is some of the political hacks Snyder put in place in the DEQ are so used to being political hacks that it never occurred to them that deliberately biasing lead tests to come out low is, well, WRONG
915.
by ocschwar 11y ago
In the Boston area, there is no more industrial space left for illegal lofts. I fully expect bohemians to start illegal squats in unused office parks in the coming years.
916.
by ocschwar 11y ago
desmogblog is pretty good for that.
917.
by ocschwar 11y ago
If the people displaced by climate change don't get any assistance relocating, then they are the ones paying.
918.
by ocschwar 11y ago
Wondering about a turtles-all-the-way solution: A web-socket based protocol that opens up a new SSL session with non-MITM'd certificates. So you'd open up the snoop-me HTTPS/1.1 connection, do some GETs, then say "GET &#
919.
by ocschwar 11y ago
Bangladesh alone is 100,000,000 people looking for new digs. $1T is about right. And someone is going to pay it. Only question is who.
920.
by ocschwar 11y ago
The data might be noisy, but what is decidedly not noisy is the intrusion of sea water into the groundwater on those islands. These people used to keep vegetable gardens. Now they have to raise them and rely on rainwater tow after them. On
921.
by ocschwar 11y ago
Peak oil and peak uranium are a simple deduction from the fundamental theorem of calculus. The only thing to dispute is "when."
922.
by ocschwar 11y ago
We took it out. Can anyone share a cached copy ?
923.
by ocschwar 11y ago
Again: it IS available to all. There's bound to be a copy of the definitive edition in your local library.
924.
by ocschwar 11y ago
That was done years ago. "Anne Frank - The Definitive Edition" was published in 1997, and contains the material Otto Frank censored (nothing particularly surprising - it was the 1950's, and not at all a surprise that he would
925.
by ocschwar 11y ago
Just showing that using copyright to suppress something is not new.
926.
by ocschwar 11y ago
A credible threat of being bankrupted in a lawsuit has kept many of those cockroaches under a rock where they belonged, and for a long time. Otto Frank himself sued one guy.
927.
by ocschwar 11y ago
It's also about having a means for giving a legal smackdown on Holocaust denialists who are itching for the material to come out of copyright so they can chop it up to produce their own material. That's also why Disney does everyt
928.
by ocschwar 11y ago
If you want to do research into something interesting and worthwhile, you can't expect to just have a fully fleshed out programming environment with no rough edges to deal with. To use an analogy, you're walking behind the guys wh
929.
by ocschwar 11y ago
I really find this off-putting. The same things he labels as "bullshittery" are those things that meant when I got into CS, I didn't have to hold a soldering iron, enter the CHS triplet from a hard drive's label into the
930.
by ocschwar 11y ago
There's historical precedent. The reason the American Revolution was in Massachusetts was that Boston was full of apprentices sent in from the countryside. Young men, barely paid, under pressure, and fully aware that of 7-8 apprentices

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