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12y ago
But, ma'am, I swear these mirrors on my shoes aren't for looking up ladies skirts. I just have them because I'm in a gang and I need to check underneath my car for car bombs every morning.
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12y ago
Last summer, in NYC, I was in central park almost every weekend. After I started counting, I counted like eight low-impact bicycle accidents involving twenty-something girls before it started getting cold in September (it averaged to nearly
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12y ago
...and oh yeah, by the way, my units were the wrong order of magnitude; should've been kiloliters (not just liters), on top of the exponential notation.
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12y ago
Wait, you're right. I think I dropped about maybe 4 zeroes off the exponential notation. Strike the "billion" and make it like 10^11th or 10^12th power. Either way, I think the ratios still work.
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12y ago
From the article: Sure enough, they found signs of wet ringwoodite in the transition zone 700 kilometres down, which divides the upper and lower regions of the mantle. From wikipedia: The transition zone is part of the Ear
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12y ago
Guess again. All that storage represents a virtually limitless crypto-space within which intellectual property rights holders can create one-time-pads, and disenfranchise future consumers with. When combined with ubiquitous 4G coverage, all
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12y ago
But given the level of expertise which would have supposedly been their target market, wouldn't this have been an ideal environment for security analysts to develop within? If you buy into the sales pitch, highly trained teams of devel
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12y ago
$23,000 is still a pretty penny.
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12y ago
I think it would've been pretty awesome if you proposed a slide deck composed purely of vaguely captioned images, and then got up there, and derailed the talk for 90% of your alotted time by just delivering an off-topic talk regarding
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12y ago
Then again, the experiment involves controlling the hot plasma of nuclear reactions using little more than a vacuum and magnets. Nothing like some miserable bureaucracy to separate the responsible adults from the children looking for new to
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12y ago
I have no idea what this guy is talking about.
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12y ago
Many "hackers" fall on the conservative right-wing side of the political spectrum, but this sort of personality doesn't tend to self-identify one's self as a "hacker" even if they share similar technical intere
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12y ago
So, cap it with concrete. It's not quite the scale of the Hoover Dam. Recover expenses later, by selling the natural gas that would've otherwise burnt off. How many cubic meters of gas have been wasted since 1971?