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by raphman 15y ago
Spiegel Online has a good overview (in English): http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,783778,00.h...
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by raphman 15y ago
As someone on /. noted, Slashdot was also founded in September 1997, the same month that Steve Jobs returned to Apple. Maybe this coincidence influenced Rob's decision.
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by raphman 15y ago
The link just proxies http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxYnuHX3LCI The video shows someone clicking through the German Apple website, "discovering" German pages for an alleged iPhone 5. It is fake, as several people on YouTube pointed out.
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by raphman 15y ago
One more site that absolutely requires JavaScript. Disabling JS gives you a blank white page. While I understand such a decision for interactive apps like Twitter, I think quasi-static websites should at least have plain HTML fallback.
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by raphman 15y ago
And cache it does. Opera brought up a dialog box telling me that 5 MB wasn't enough persistent storage for NYT.
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by raphman 15y ago
Additionally, the CDF player desktop app for Linux is a 200 MB behemoth. When I saw this, I immediately canceled the download. (For comparison: Adobe Reader is about 70 MB.)
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by raphman 15y ago
Thanks!
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by raphman 16y ago
Fastmail.fm, the company that has been bought by Opera ASA to provide Webmail states that "Our main servers are located at NYI in New York City, USA." A geoip lookup of the hosts in the header of a test e-mail confirms this.
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by raphman 16y ago
56 and 107 now. Seems you are right.
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by raphman 16y ago
FWIW: The original paper is from 2009 and can be downloaded at http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~seclab/projects/torpig/ edit: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=593246
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by raphman 16y ago
However, duties of a PhD student vary a lot. I am not sure about Denmark but in Germany, CS PhD students usually work as full-time employees at the university.There is no grad school¹. You are expected to balance your PhD research (realist
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by raphman 16y ago
Just in case: http://savedelicious.pommepause.com/ (collaborative crawling of Delicious using a Chrome extension)
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by raphman 16y ago
TeslaTouch uses an effect that has been known since at least 1954 [1] and has been subject of some research so far. This does not mean that noone has IP on an implementation, though. [1] Mallinckrodt, E., A. Hughes, and W. Sleator, Percepti
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by raphman 16y ago
Correct, at the moment the whole area offers the same feedback. This means that multi-user applications do not work.
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by raphman 16y ago
From the comments on the linked page: Date: Tue Nov 30 01:34:15 2010 Pseudo: mjflick - Savannah Hacker Comment: re: HappyCrow, Only one project was targeted in this attack. Second, a postmortem will be forthcoming, as well as more informa
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by raphman 16y ago
Additionally, the higher fraud/error ratio might actually mean that US scientists make less methodological errors than other scientists. It should also be noted that PubMed only covers a small, non-representative part of the entire research
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by raphman 16y ago
Last week, a guy from Microsoft Research said that they got multiple cameras in the same space working, but that others in the lab had problems with it. Seems to depend on the setup, but is obviously possible
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by raphman 16y ago
Actually there is already a tool for enhancing anatomical features: "MovieReshape: Tracking and Reshaping of Humans in Videos", http://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/resources/MovieReshape/
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by raphman 16y ago
The article has some facts not completely correct: "The government provides citizens with free healthcare, free university education, and childcare." Healthcare plans are mandatory for most but not paid by the government. University educati
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by raphman 16y ago
Debian has just entered a hard package freeze to prepare for the next release (Squeeze). This means that no new packages may transition from "unstable" (where they are uploaded to) into "testing" (which will become the next stable release s