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by redcap 17y ago
My current (2007?) MacBook Pro laptop battery dies in the arse at 78% if I leave it disconnected. I always leave it connected so I guess that goes to show. My previous iBook G4 battery also had some problems, but it died closer to 20%.
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by redcap 17y ago
Due to its user submitted content, isn't youtube just banned outright in China?
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by redcap 17y ago
who knows really as it's barely out, but I agree with the principle that there is far too much technical bullshit in most modern computers. Things should just work. If I were to break it down, you get a bigger screen over the iphone so you
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by redcap 17y ago
My grandfather lived through the great depression. When it came time for my grandparents to move to a smaller house that suited them better my Mum had to throw away so much stuff that he'd accumulated out of not wanting to waste anything.
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by redcap 17y ago
It's not so much that China is going to be the lone superpower - it's going to be more of a multi-polar world again as the US is still light years ahead at least in terms of military tech.
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by redcap 17y ago
If we're talking solar and battery technology I'm pretty sure that Japan has a huge number of patents in those fields so I wouldn't discount them.
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by redcap 17y ago
Note that this is only domestic US grosses. As a matter of personal preference I'm more interested in worldwide grosses. (Not a US citizen)
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by redcap 17y ago
I think the approach the article is making is that it pays to be methodical about deciding to invest in something, it's not about saying that startups will be predictable, but about reducing risk. Planes just happen to be a case where risk
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by redcap 17y ago
It makes sense in the background of a clockwork universe that the video was going on about - it was a kick in the pants to a whole lot of rigid thinking. A bit of hyperbole, but it apparently rocked the scientific boat.
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by redcap 17y ago
I wouldn't be that worried on my home environment as I'm not that much of a target and am fairly wary of dodgy emails, but I'd prefer it if more major companies with expensive stuff that can be stolen take computer security a lot more serio
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by redcap 17y ago
Thanks, that looks like a pretty interesting series.
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by redcap 17y ago
I don't know about where you live, but in Australia skin cancer used to be a big killer (as far as I can remember). My grandfather had a few operations to remove bad skin, and I believe he was lucky. There is the image of the bronzed aussi
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by redcap 17y ago
Every accessor needs the keys - all relevant field commanders, etc. They also need security clearances. The keys need to be stored and managed securely. They should also be updated regularly, which means that all commanders need new keys
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by redcap 17y ago
Key management is a tricky issue, especially when your neighborhood working with AT&T No Such Agency spies are the ones who get to dictate how keys are managed (i.e. same as if your adversary are soviet crypto-hackers).
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by redcap 17y ago
In the Iraqi case, I'm guessing the bandwidth of the signal would be prohibitive to send out on anything other than satellite. Also, if you send it out again you will still have a key management problem if the data is encrypted. I do agree
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by redcap 17y ago
Fwiw, it was the first time I read the article and it had at least some grains of interest.
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by redcap 17y ago
While I'm sure I can look that up on wikipedia and get some idea as to what that article is, can you give some examples as to why? The economist article did a good job of showing that an open and tolerant America is good at getting people t
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by redcap 17y ago
good article, worth reading just for this quote by bill paxton: “The words ‘No’ and ‘That’s impossible’ and phrases like ‘That can’t be done’—that’s the stuff that gives him an erection"
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by redcap 17y ago
I think we may have to wait a fairly long while before companies will switch browsers just because of Google Wave. Companies aren't getting onboard the usual sharing is caring experiece that most netizens are familiar with - they usually wa
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by redcap 17y ago
This professional looking webpage is brought to you by the following non-professional-looking names: A Thoughtcrime Labs Production In Association With The Institute For Disruptive Studies No one else thinks this is just a little bit dodgy?
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by redcap 17y ago
It used to be the case that if you were fabulously wealthy you would put at least some money to help the needy. Bill Gates does a lot of this today. I'd wager that a lot of the wall street fat cats don't do this. As you say what they do w
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by redcap 17y ago
I think I've seen the a picture of an PDA attachment that uses a laser to project a keyboard on a flat surface. Of course no tactile clickyness, but it's got to be better than 2 finger typing that happens with most smartphone inputs these
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by redcap 17y ago
There's stories about tablets and so on recently, so that got me thinking a little bit about what input devices would be like N years into the future? For programmers, are mouse and keyboard still going to be king? I can imagine that maybe
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by redcap 17y ago
I believe liquidity is a good thing, but can there be too much liquidity? These computer algorithms seem to be really good at making things very liquid, is there any inherent danger in that? I seem to remember reading an article that the a
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by redcap 17y ago
While there is a lot of horseshit being fed into the twitter system, I do know that it's being used as an alternative communication mechanism (maybe just because it's a fad?) and quite sucessfully in some areas - wasn't it doing at least so
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by redcap 17y ago
Sure they're making money particularly from being smart, but would someone be able to explain to me how making money from money contributes to something worthwhile to society? Is it just that they're being that much quicker in smoothing out
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by redcap 17y ago
Interesting article, but if you were after just the details on how fucked over artists are, check out the Steve Albini article listed below.
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by redcap 17y ago
And they appeared because they have been tagged with some RFID device they haven't been smart enough either to not have it put in in the first place or to have it removed by a doctor? I don't know about you, but I don't think anyone in thei
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by redcap 17y ago
So you can know that the family down the street is on holidays (in Wallyworld!) and you can now rob their house?
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by redcap 17y ago
Well fwiw Grail is rated higher on IMDB than LoB. And I can agree that some (a lot?) of the skits in Meaning of Life are pure gold, but overall it lacks the narrative that ties both Brian and Grail together. Life of Brian being rated as on

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