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by plorg 12y ago
The Andromeda image can be found here: http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1502a/ The Pillars of Creation image can be found here: http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1501a/ Be
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by plorg 12y ago
Don't forget, the robots can now also plug themselves in.
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by plorg 12y ago
Well, looking at an example, my behavior definitely trips the 'not not a bot' detection for NoCAPTCHAs for whatever reason. I'm not too shook up though - it's really no more inconvenient than before.
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by plorg 12y ago
Anecdotally, I block cookies and tracking scripts from Google and even run some custom javascript to remove the link shim in search results. I have yet to encounter the "we think you're a bot" detection filter, except when pe
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by plorg 12y ago
In the case of the GCHQ, I believe there's a system which picks two random words to concatenate. The intention is that the codename would not reaveal anything about the program to which it refers.
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How Stradivari Came to Dictate Violin Design(nytimes.com)
27 points by plorg 12y ago|3 comments
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by plorg 12y ago
No problems so far in evince.
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by plorg 12y ago
I don't disagree that one is better off buying used furniture (if and when it can be acquired in good condition) if new furniture is too expensive to buy. However, if you are a businessperson offering to rent furniture, and if you beli
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by plorg 12y ago
Isn't there an ethical question, then, with preying on such people? If, as a business owner, you know that all (or many) of your customers are overextending themselves and ruining their finances, is it ethical to continue preying on th
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by plorg 12y ago
The TV, no, but it is entirely possible that the iPad is being used for internet access. At this point in time a person without internet access is at a serious disadvantage to the larger population.
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by plorg 12y ago
Or, perhaps, as a tool for an individual user who, for miscellaneous reasons, wants to store his or her received snaps for use later. Again, the point, as given by the author and expanded by me, is that the Snapchat system contains a large
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by plorg 12y ago
My first programming experience was in VB6. A local college had a week-long camp for middle-school kids to learn various things. A few of my friends and I took the programming unit as one of our two choices, and they taught VB6 (this was pr
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by plorg 12y ago
I have three different routers running DD-WRT (I couldn't manage to find usable packages of the other three firmwares you mention). Of those, one is running kernel 3.2.12, one is running 2.6.34, and one is running 2.4.37. I know for a
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by plorg 12y ago
> Without identification by the Government, it was impossible to pinpoint the 19 lines in the access logs showing the date and time of law enforcement access to the .49 server. Unless I missed something, this is the only point in the do
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by plorg 12y ago
A recent Supreme Court ruling[0] makes it unlawful for authorities to search confiscated cell phones without a warrant. They could, theoretically, confiscate your phone based on probable cause, but searching it would be a different matter.
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by plorg 12y ago
In most cases dhclient scripts are written in bash. In any case they are executed by dhclient-script, the shebang of which - at least in Ubuntu - calls for it to be executed by /bin/bash for the specific reason that the maintainer
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by plorg 12y ago
My updated 14.04 (bash version 4.3.11(1)-release) doesn't appear to be vulnerable to this third exploit.
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by plorg 12y ago
It's not clear, though, that this benefit is positive. The article seems pretty clear on the fact that Uber has pulled a bait-and-switch, offering drivers a living wage only to drop their rates (and thus their wage payout) substantiall
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by plorg 12y ago
I don't know how it works for outside developers, but I've discovered that they use it heavily for some of their own media projects including, for example, their video product Yahoo Screen. What that means for longevity is probabl
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by plorg 12y ago
It should be obvious, but taxing consumption disproportionately affects low-income people who are the least able to afford it. Conversely, as the sister comment alludes to, if a person has less money, they are far more likely to spend the
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by plorg 12y ago
I typically set my browser to clear cookies every session. Is there any provision for such a scenario? The authentication flow seems to suggest that if the browser was closed and cookies cleared, the user would not be allowed to install Dro
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by plorg 12y ago
Somewhat off-topic, but every time I visit a FastCo page the only thing I see immediately is the slideshow at the top of the page. I often don't even bother scrolling down, because it doesn't seem that there's anything more t
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by plorg 12y ago
Seems to rely heavily on the following source, including subsequent parts of an ongoing series of articles: http://digboston.com/boston-news-opinions/2014/08/boston-tro...
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by plorg 12y ago
The paper says they used a Phantom V10. I'm not knowledgeable about such devices, but various Google results suggest such a camera might top $100,000 depending on the mounts, lenses, and accessories (e.g. data storage and transfer equi
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by plorg 12y ago
I have created my own set of userscripts which do this and a couple of other things. They aren't of terribly great quality, but I've put them up on GitHub in case anyone else wants to mess with them: https://github.com&
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by plorg 12y ago
Also, the not-apparently-in-jest use of the phrase "you'll never guess what we found" in the article body suggests to me that the author is making a ham-handed attempt at a viral story.
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by plorg 12y ago
If I'm reading the figure in the article correctly, 1GWh/month of electricity works out to something like 1.34 MW average load. That much electricity could be supplied by a total of three (1.5MW nameplate) utility-scale wind turbi
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by plorg 12y ago
What would be the justification for removing the discounting term for subsequent goals in the Elo model he mentions? Silver mentions that it was the lopsidedness of the score that made the game so surprising, and that the Elo model discount
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by plorg 12y ago
If a cursory googling is any indication, it's probably the following link: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/24/magazine/the-brilliance-of...
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by plorg 12y ago
It annoys me a good bit that when I choose the 'recent stories' feed rather than the 'top stories'...whatever it is...that the setting gets reverted every time the app is restarted, or occasionally in the web version as

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