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by poutine 17y ago
In China I found that using a UDP based OpenVPN to Slicehost was higher performing than the TCP on top of TCP issues that you get with SSH Tunneling when there's packet loss. There's even some pretty decent desktop clients for OpenVPN, see
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by poutine 17y ago
I'm starting a new age of privacy by deleting my Facebook account. Bite me Zuckerberg.
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by poutine 17y ago
Personal accounts on the new rules from flight crews and passengers: http://www.airliners.net/aviation-forums/general_aviation/re...
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by poutine 17y ago
Well, the reason why speculation about Apple is posted so furiously is that a lot of people do care. After all, Apple controls some 90% of the high end PC market (>$1000). Don't like the posting? Don't read it.
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by poutine 17y ago
On Rogers in downtown Vancouver on an iPhone 3GS and I've never had a dropped call. Data is fast, no issues. It's AT&T, not the iPhone.
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by poutine 17y ago
A demographic implosion of China is all but inevitable now. The 4-2-1 problem (one child must support 7 people: 2 retired parents and 4 retired grandparents) will strain the society to the breaking point. And it's too late to do anything
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by poutine 17y ago
I bought my iPhone in Beijing for 4800RMB, this included delivery to my apartment. It was unlocked, jailbroken and had WIFI. This let me use it with my mobile account on China Mobile since few people use China Unicom. I have many friends
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by poutine 17y ago
Read why OpenDNS does this: http://blog.opendns.com/2007/05/22/google-turns-the-page/
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by poutine 17y ago
Well, the problem here is that we're talking about a possible run away greenhouse effect that will condemn most of humanity to death. The point being is that you must act now in order to stop it and that this is the rational approach even
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by poutine 17y ago
Basically, yeah.
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by poutine 17y ago
Correct, it doesn't really guide you here. It just tells you that you don't need to be certain of the outcome before acting due to the potential extreme costs of inaction.
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by poutine 17y ago
No, Pascal's Wager is foolish since you could not possibly select the correct god from the myriad of gods available (Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, etc) given that belief is mutually exclusive. At any rate it's not the same thing.
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by poutine 17y ago
The climate is an enormously complex thing with so many variables that it's difficult to analyze. If you do not believe the claims for Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) I suggest you consider the Precautionary Principle: http://en.wikiped
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by poutine 17y ago
The DNS tools are considerably better IMHO. Take a look at the screenshots on their site. It's pretty cheap so if you have a significant amount of hosts with Slicehost it's worth picking up a linode for a month just to test yourself.
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by poutine 17y ago
I switched from Slicehost to Linode and haven't looked back. Their management GUI is complicated but way more powerful.
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by poutine 17y ago
It's a fallacy that OSX has less viruses due to market share. The reason there's virtually no viruses is because there's separation of privilege on OSX. You don't run as administrator the way you do commonly under Windows.
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by poutine 17y ago
Very spectacular but the normal Beijing people were kept well away from the parade. Like many things it does this display demonstrates the weakness of the regime rather than the strength. It needs such a display to attempt to show to its
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by poutine 17y ago
Google does proactively censor: Search for June 4th: google.com 2,780,000 hits, google.cn: 164 hits Try posting a blog entry and reference "June 4th" in it and see if it ever shows up in google.cn Don't be evil, unless there's yuan at stak
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by poutine 17y ago
I've done exactly this. There's a huge number of cheeses. And they're quite distinct.
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by poutine 17y ago
Cool stuff, much appreciated. I notice that the code contains the use of 'goto' to handle an error condition. Seems clean. Being somewhat of a intermediate programmer I've always read to stay away from 'goto'. Anyone care to comment on t
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by poutine 17y ago
This would be extremely interesting as this area is one major weakpoint for available Ruby frameworks.
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by poutine 17y ago
Exactly. People have been going on how much the Chinese owe the US but it's that old classic line about "if you owe the bank a billion dollars". One of three things will happen: 1. A US president will stand up in front of the people and
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by poutine 17y ago
Everyone always gets stars in their eyes about China, don't believe the hype. Few foreign companies actually do well. Ask Blizzard for instance how it's going for them with WoW. If you're not Chinese you will be manipulated and milked f
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by poutine 17y ago
In which case you should be using your own shortener if you want to preserve your own links. Or if you're a company scanning other links then you should be resolving the short urls as you receive the entries.
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by poutine 17y ago
This whole link rot is massively over stated. Most short urls are used on Twitter. Who is reading old Tweets on Twitter? Almost nobody since Twitter is about now, not yesterday. By the time you switch over to some 301works archive the l
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by poutine 17y ago
To understand the situation a bit better you should listen to this Podcast that covered the story behind it which is quite a bit different than what is being spun in TechCrunch. http://techzinglive.com/?p=101
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by poutine 17y ago
Seems that bit.ly has a fair bit to lose given that similar data to what they're claiming is so valuable is now going to be open to anyone. Wouldn't want to be a bit.ly investor today. Well, I wouldn't want to be a short url investor any
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by poutine 17y ago
Not sure why people are saying the whole business was based on tr.im. Was pretty clear in the articles I read that tr.im was a side project for Nambu. Seems that Nambu acknowledged pretty clearly that URL shortening isn't a business.
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by poutine 17y ago
$10k for the tr.im domain alone is an offer that would be obviously turned down. Total publicity stunt by bit.ly.
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by poutine 17y ago
A lot different than most people here assumed in the discussion a couple days ago.

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