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by ratsmack 11y ago
I would have to say that my problem has more to do with too many easily available distractions, instead of procrastination. I made a point that while at work my browser was never used for anything except work and email was only to be read a
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by ratsmack 11y ago
Ignorance is the largest point of failure regarding anything to do with issues of security and understanding the pitfalls of electronic commerce. I don't know what percentage of people fully understand how these system can be used agai
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by ratsmack 11y ago
"Some" really isn't good enough. From what I've been able to put together, the whole thing seems choreographed if not outright rigged. Why is it that Putin and Assad seem to be the only targets with the initial release?
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by ratsmack 11y ago
Apple should maintain a standard of quality control. If this is representative of that control, then what she is saying is correct in that their work is not representative of what they espouse.
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by ratsmack 11y ago
As usual in these pay gap discussions, I see nothing about aptitude or capability. Until all factors are addressed, it's a non issue with me.
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British judge approves extradition of “flash crash” trader to U.S(in.reuters.com)
2 points by ratsmack 11y ago|0 comments
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by ratsmack 11y ago
Color it by any technicality you want, but it is taking something from somebody and in common vernacular, that is theft.
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by ratsmack 11y ago
This is the thing right here. We should be expending more energy having a discussion on what constitutes real terrorism. It seems terrorism has become an excuse to bleed money from the general populace to fund initiatives to build police fo
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by ratsmack 11y ago
Yes, backslash hell. Every time I start using backslashes and quoting along with regular expressions, I make sure I've packed a big lunch because it's going to be a while before it gets sorted out.
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by ratsmack 11y ago
This may sound rather vindictive, but I have personal reasons for this statement... and that is I hope I can live long enough to see the smoldering corpse of Goldman Sachs being buried in a grave covered with a thick layer of cement. They
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by ratsmack 11y ago
Time is simply a measure of change, so if there is nothing to change how can there be time?
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by ratsmack 11y ago
I have seen many articles change their titles after they are initially published. Maybe it is from companies or readers pushing back when they feel the headline is unfair.
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by ratsmack 11y ago
I have to ask though... would any of these people have better lives, young or old, than they would have without mining these materials? If they are kidnapped and forced into slave labor, that is not good, but if they work of their own accor
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by ratsmack 11y ago
I might note that a lot of that wealth is in the unrealized labor of the many people that are in debt. I guess you could say that if all of those indebted people suddenly died, the wealth would evaporate.
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by ratsmack 11y ago
But that isn't a problem with the software, it's just human laziness. I don't know of any system that prevents a person from making poor choices.
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by ratsmack 11y ago
People go to casino's every day and for every winner there is a looser, and in the middle the house takes a cut. The Lottery is no different except that the pot is a little larger as in the case of Powerball. It is entertainment pure a
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Why Paul Graham's Defense of Income Inequality Is Wrong(inc.com)
28 points by ratsmack 11y ago|0 comments
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by ratsmack 11y ago
KPI's can be can be useful if correctly employed, but the overzealous desire to apply metrics to everything, even things that are so abstract that they seem random, causes moral breakdown withing the ranks. I've seen so many peopl
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by ratsmack 11y ago
I prefer this C-style arbitrary precision calculator rather than bc. http://www.isthe.com/chongo/tech/comp/calc/
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by ratsmack 11y ago
There are many names that are exact duplicates. Searches that are correct for one person may not be correct for the other, so I cannot see a definitive resolution for the problem.
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by ratsmack 11y ago
How about the meeting where the non-problems and false concerns are beaten like a dead horse by people without the knowledge or skill to be in the discussion. But you have to just sit there with your face in your palm because if you say any
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by ratsmack 11y ago
When you're having a good time a "few years" is pretty short. :-) Our RM80's were trouble free from what I can remember. We had an air conditioned, electrostatic filtered clean room for our systems which also included so
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by ratsmack 11y ago
That is about the same price as the VAX 11/780 we bought in 1979 (serial number 13) to run CAD/CAM software. I remember the price was around $350K, which included three RM80 drives, a vacuum column 9-track tape drive and giant bat
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by ratsmack 11y ago
The heads need a gas of some sort to float on.
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by ratsmack 11y ago
People with weak character, poor morals and low IQ will probably be in poverty. I can't tell if the study takes this into consideration.
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by ratsmack 11y ago
I wonder how many geniuses there have been in the world that never had the opportunity to expand their natural skills because they were to busy just surviving.
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by ratsmack 11y ago
And there is nothing more awkward than trying to manipulate file ACL's in those tiny dialogues that you can't resize. I would think that it would be easy to fix the resize problem, but its almost as if they had some compelling rea
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by ratsmack 11y ago
Many people work long grueling shifts in stressful positions for years and don't see the need to binge on alcohol and cocaine to manage. I feel sorry for anyone that dies, but I see this as a situation where this person suffers from sy
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by ratsmack 11y ago
And I believe the these incremental improvements are being stifled by the current patent situation, unfortunately.
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by ratsmack 11y ago
I use Waterfox, which is the 64bit version of Firefox. I always use the builtin search located in the upper-right corner of the browser which allows me to choose which search engine to use on the fly. I use all of the most popular search en

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