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by rixrax 8y ago
Archive.org also appears to have some old TSR AD&D manuals available as a pdf[0]. URL: https://archive.org/search.php?query=tsr%20manual
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Depending what their margins are, this is great. But wouldn’t it generally be a more sustainable to give x% from your profits to Y.
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What is especially frustrating that many sites don’t allow Mailinator and other similar ‘one-time’ email systems to be used for registering an account. No way I am going to give you my email address up front before seeing the product. Now t
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Exactly same story here. Second time that 2017MBP went for a repair I drove to a Best Buy and got a 2017 Razer Stealth. Life is suffering: on Razer I replaced Windows 10 with Ubuntu (which at that time wouldn’t work without long list of pat
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Anyone else think this is Super Creepy? Not long a go I would have expected to find this article from Onion News. So now platform that arguably actively participates in making people depressed has launched an human assisted AI to report peo
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This. Just had friends visiting. Their teenage son had had his wisdom tooth pulled last week. Dentist had then given him (as a standard practice?) prescription for Ibuprofen (800mg tabs?) AND some opioid based pain killer! Needless to say,
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I always wondered how people selling some of these audiophile gadgets can justify to themselves over long run what might appear as a scam to many outsiders. But then I was explained that this is little different than my|your|their wife spen
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Adding to wishlist: rotten tomatoes and IMDb score of each movie clearly visible when browsing in addition to Netflix rating. Maybe with a link back to IMDb/rt/... It’s infuriating that I need to have laptop or phone with me when
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Notably 'Snow White and the seven dwarfs' was released in 1937[0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Walt_Disney_Pictures_f...
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What happens when/if a company gets de-listed? Search engine gave me below[0]: "... company basically has two options. It can choose to trade on the Over-the-Counter Bulletin Board (OTCBB) or the pink sheets system...". Some
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What about situation where someone tries to commit suicide by jumping under the autonomous vehicle? Should this impact logic and in what way? And how would the vehicle determine that it's observing a potential suicide event?
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What I find frustrating is that there still has to be an exploit to have these crashes taken seriously/be blog worthy. We know that in c/C++ based programs input parsing errors carry high probability for arbitrary code execution.
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Exactly this. Thank You.
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I recall listening to a presentation in RSAC around 2013 or 2014 where Adobe CISO or CIO or someone pretty much said that they don’t give fucks about product security. E.g. zero impact on sales. I suspect it was thrown in as a bit of trolli
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California wants to tax text-messaging(mercurynews.com)
53 points by rixrax 8y ago|98 comments
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Just as a thought experiment - what if they actually never implemented this. But now through this announcement, everyone will think twice before leaking BETA etc. program screenshots and second guess which UI elements might be the ones that
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As you say you stream your videos. Now imagine getting that shiny new 4k video camera and start storing raw footage even after you have edited it. Rough ballbark of 120Mbits/s ==> 15MB/s ==> 900MB/minute ==> 54GB&#x2
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I realize this maybe a corner case and slightly off-topic, but it would be really nice to be able to boot Haiku via PXE boot in our network infrastructure. This would make it so much easier for people to play with it casually. It seems[0] t
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Also, possibly only one photo in this set with a non-white persons in it.
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URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfdZTZQvuCo& Penn and Teller on Vaccinations. This really drives home the point of herd immunity ( in ~ 90 seconds ).
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Many years a go in college, on some course one guy created a postscript file that when printed reprogrammed HP printer(s?) of the time to add one (1) zero to every number on documents that were subsequently printed.
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Or maybe they are too busy protesting[0][1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][..] instead of focusing on product ;-) Interestingly, before 2017, very few (no?) public news of them employees walking out or protesting publicly @ Google. It's almost l
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Al Lowe, if you're reading, I am humbly asking you to consider putting all the source code you have for Sierra etc. games up to GitHub for all of us to {gaze|look|worship...}. Let the collectors have the pleasure of having it all on th
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Nope. I'd like to hire their sales/marketing people though, for they seem to have an uncanny ability to solution sell it to execs who will then force it down on their organizations. :P Anyone here that actually had to use Asana, a
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Github repo with proof-of-concept code: https://github.com/oherrala/xipology
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Xipology: Exploiting DNS caching as a covert channel(medium.com)
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Answer is not to give choice in where to download apps. If you don't like Apple app store, then maybe switch to Android or BlackBerry. Or something else. I like being able to go to just one store and get my Apps there. Imagine the horr
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This comparison is a nice snapshot in time. Could this be developed towards the direction of Virustotal[0] where an image can be uploaded at any and all services would be compared. Combined with a 'reference' set of images that ar
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This is kind of funny. Until you realize that some people actually believe this stuff. Either way, burden of proof should always work the other way around. Other than strong believe, did this father-in-law actually offer some scientific evi
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CVE-2018-5407: side-channel vulnerability on SMT/Hyper-Threading architectures(seclists.org)
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