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by ordinary 15y ago
The US government is a big thing, they can do two things at once. In no way does going after these guys proclude them from also going after other instances of child abuse. Additionally, I have a bit of a problem with the way you turn this
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by ordinary 15y ago
Some radiation goes through walls. That said, I don't know what kind of radiation his experiments would have produced, so your statement may still be correct in the specific case.
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by ordinary 15y ago
For Firefox there's RequestPolicy: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/requestpolicy... RequestPolicy is an extension that improves the privacy and security of your browsing by giving you control over when cross-site requests
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by ordinary 15y ago
Small nitpick: using both k and M in the same sentence is a little confusing. [edit]Thanks!
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by ordinary 15y ago
It's that time again: "The greatest shortcoming in the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function" -Albert Bartlett
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by ordinary 15y ago
As a PC gamer who regularly encounters this problem, I'm a bit disappointed that they made no serious attempt to uncover the reasons why publishers release gimped PC versions of console games. Surely good games sell better than bad games, a
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by ordinary 15y ago
Arguably, silent spectators aren't part of the community they spectate. A bit like watching TV doesn't make you famous.
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by ordinary 15y ago
Future-proofing is a bit of a myth. You're spending a lot of money on a machine (and the electricity to run it) in order to have some tangible benefit a year or more down the line. But by that time, you can buy hardware that outperforms and
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by ordinary 15y ago
I've never quite understood the point of find's -exec option. What's wrong with a pipe?
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by ordinary 15y ago
But then it would be on their record, wouldn't it?
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by ordinary 15y ago
But you don't have fewer impressions. The number of ads you display doesn't change, you can display just as many targeted ads as you can untargeted ones. If each of the targeted ads has a higher conversion rate, the number of clicks goes up
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by ordinary 15y ago
Guy's checkers table was no more a "project for boys" than a project for your daughter (or, better yet, by your daughter) would be a "project for girls". The thing I took away from the OP was to support your children in whatever they do,
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by ordinary 15y ago
It's weird. I was /there/ in 1995 and I have trouble even remembering Windows 95 came on floppies. I feel old.
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by ordinary 15y ago
There are plenty of times in which what the computer is told to do (and consequently does, as is their wont) is not the same as what the user might WANT it to do. Compare the computer: "The user runs this program, the program tells me to wi
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by ordinary 15y ago
One could argue that if he'd spent all his life picking up 100 dollar bills, he wouldn't /have/ any other cash-generating assets. Anyway, it was just an analogy: my point was that applying yourself to your normal day-to-day activities on th
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by ordinary 15y ago
Remember: Bill Gates actually loses money if he takes the time to pick up a $100 bill in the street.
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by ordinary 15y ago
Here's the link to the original article: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/australian-it/hackers-put-te...
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by ordinary 15y ago
The list of things rms has had a hand in is pretty intimidating.
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by ordinary 15y ago
It automatically updated for me when I restarted it, without prompting. This is on Windows.
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by ordinary 15y ago
In fairness, the question mark was added on HN. The article title is "So, that's the end of Bitcoin then".
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by ordinary 15y ago
Yeah, Scroogle's front page is really bad. Here's a link to where you can put in the actual search terms: https://ssl.scroogle.org/
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by ordinary 15y ago
And don't forget that Firefox sends address bar input that doesn't look like an URL to Google's I Feel Lucky search. That's why a significant part of the Mozilla Foundation's income comes from Google.
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by ordinary 15y ago
You can alias trash-cli over rm, though it ignores -i, -r and -f and instead runs recursively, forced and non-interactively by default.
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by ordinary 15y ago
There's no reason to call someone a liar when it could just as easily be a simple mistake. Don't attribute to malice, etc.
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by ordinary 15y ago
Just some sensationalist reporting without proper fact-checking, then. Again.
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by ordinary 15y ago
I think you're confusing the end with the means. Collecting data is a method Google uses to be able to sell (more expensive) ads. The data collection is not where the money comes from, the ads are.
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by ordinary 15y ago
Einstein would be another example.
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by ordinary 15y ago
This is just the latest demonstration of the precautionary principle[1] at work. People in authority act as if the worst-case scenario will happen (regardless of the actual risk of that) because it's self-preservative. We're so focused on a
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by ordinary 15y ago
8 year old post. Interesting, though.
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by ordinary 15y ago
Yeah, exactly.

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