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by rmk2 13y ago
I'll bite (woe is me, poor karma...) HN is all about showing people how extraordinary you are (or at least, how extraordinary you think you are). Normal is equated with a state of stasis that needs to be overcome (or, as the cool kids&
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by rmk2 13y ago
Heise.de[1] has a second source confirming this, including further descriptions and a screenshot, albeit in German. [1]: http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/BlackBerry-spaeht-Mai... [german]
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by rmk2 13y ago
Be that as it may, I cannot change your government. I can, however, stop relying on any of the companies who are complicit in spying on me. The problem here is the divide between national government and international corporations, where
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by rmk2 13y ago
You don't even have to be an IT-student to qualify for Dreamspark, the only thing that matters is whether your university is a member.
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by rmk2 13y ago
AdBlock Plus confirms most points via heise.de (updated half an hour ago): http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Schwere-Vorwuerfe-geg... > In einer Stellungnahme bestätigen die Macher von AdBlock Plus die von
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by rmk2 13y ago
> Fuenfzehn Mitarbeiter, davon zwei Geschaeftsfuehrer, weitere Stellenanzeigen sind geschaltet, Bueros im Koelner Clusterhaus? Und das einzige Produkt ist eine kostenlose Browser-Erweiterung? Wie kann das funktionieren? Fifteen employees
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by rmk2 13y ago
You extrapolate from your own experience to "the English major" to "the humanities". Studying a language (with its multiple aspects, i.e. culture, literature, linguistics) opens up a variety of uses, from a cultural plan
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by rmk2 13y ago
Well...Russia does seem a bit bitter about other spying incidents: http://www.interfax.com/newsinf.asp?id=425431 So it's not just the spying on citizens, it's also the...uhm...spying in general.
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by rmk2 13y ago
Pirate Party: Snowden has a stopover at Gardermoen According to the Russian news agency the possibility exists that Edward Snowden will stay overnight at Venezuela's embassy in Moscow. On Monday a plane will leave for Havana. This has
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by rmk2 13y ago
These things certainly do exist. Everything that you buy per crate is usually returned as a a crate with empty bottles again. Case in point: beer bottles. Depending on brewery and type of bottle, I used to get beer that had the name of anot
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by rmk2 13y ago
The most important sentence is this: "Eine starke Verschlüsselung mit PGP gilt als sicher, wenn es Angreifern nicht gelingt, den privaten geheimen Schlüssel, den nur der Empfänger besitzt, und sein Kennwort zu stehlen." A strong e
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by rmk2 13y ago
This picture supposedly[1] shows exactly that: http://pbs.twimg.com/media/BLnx94jCIAE8yQ9.jpg [1]: I use supposedly since there is no obvious way for me to validate this, though the language on there is turkish...
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by rmk2 13y ago
> If you want to look at your glasses themselves, bespectacled-people learn to flik their eyes I still fail to see the point. Maybe because I never try to look at my own glasses... edit: When I want to look over the rim of my glasses,
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by rmk2 13y ago
I'm sorry if I'm being a bit dense, but I don't understand your comment. :( If I physically move my head, nothing I am looking at is moving with me, i.e. the computer screen does not move to where I look. The point is that you look through
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by rmk2 13y ago
I think the UK examples are quite good though. They show that you don't even have to change language to run into massive problems with addresses. More than being anglo-centric, the issue of addresses is often even more specific, i.e. US spe
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by rmk2 13y ago
Of course its a "pro-systemd explanation", it's Lennart Poettering's blog. Not that it takes anything away from his explanations, it's a good post. One can at least assume he knows what he's talking about...
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by rmk2 13y ago
I think this brings up a good point, not just regarding git, but also in general. I noticed something similar also for my dotfiles. My emacs config has my full name and email address (whereas the email address also includes the full name,
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by rmk2 13y ago
What you fail to see though is that the Holocaust in itself is part of a development process. It started with the Polizei-Bataillone and SD-units behind army lines, moved to widespread incarceration and ultimately to the erection of the fir
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by rmk2 13y ago
While Windows 8 total sales might be on-par with Windows 7 sales, the total number of devices is not. This essentially suggests a decline in overall (total) market share for Windows.
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by rmk2 13y ago
It has been named in this thread before, but you might not have seen it. I used to run foobar under wine, but honestly, deadbeef[1] works better from an integration point of view (global shortcuts, GTK etc.). [1] http://deadbeef.sourceforg
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by rmk2 13y ago
Not Sweden, but the UK (and Germany) have the same thing. Usually, they just tell you on the shelf's price tag: Bigger Font: 1.50€/£ Smaller Font: 0.75€/p per 100g/100ml etc. That way, you can see that sometimes it makes sense to buy 2x 400
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by rmk2 13y ago
Unless your distribution of choice implements /tmp as tmpfs, which iirc Fedora does! ;) But yes, /tmp works as well!
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by rmk2 13y ago
I don't know what OS you are using, but on linux, I save all of those files to /dev/shm. Since this parks it in shared memory, once I restart my computer at some point, they will be gone. The same can be done by using a tmpfs as your defaul
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How is CipherCloud doing homomorphic encryption?(crypto.stackexchange.com)
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by rmk2 13y ago
What you see as expressions of freedom and liberty can just as well mean the polar opposite. Calling somebody "rebellious" means they do not fit in a given system (which is bad if you represent the system concerned), while calling somebody
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by rmk2 14y ago
How is "counting lines and spaces" not reading?
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by rmk2 14y ago
I am well aware that Western notation is not the only one, however, I cannot see how music theory works without any notation. Whatever form of notation you choose to encode information in will still have to be decoded, i.e. read. The re
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by rmk2 14y ago
They are only "proficient" in a very limited sense, then. I'm sure we can argue semantics here, but a musician needs to understand the concepts that govern music. And these concepts can only be understood and visualised by using notation.
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by rmk2 14y ago
> I also think there's too much yielding to the car coming from much smaller streets on the right. That's a feature though, since it is usually used in residential areas to slow down traffic and force people to stop more frequently, ins
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by rmk2 14y ago
I am already in the midst of it. Regardless, the PhD is not meant to build vocational skills. However, you usually find humanities PhDs in all walks of life, simply because they do teach you some things: In doing it, you are mostly on your

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