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by ryusage 14y ago
Reading the link that the techdirt article is based on, the document is about an analyst with Top Secret clearance who had been actively expressing support for Wikileaks. The document suggests that he could be charged with "communicating wi
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by ryusage 14y ago
You know, at first glance, it seems like 3d printing has exactly the same issues as music and movies, but you make an awesome point. It's actually far, far more complicated.
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by ryusage 14y ago
If you think about it, that's actually a pretty easy conclusion to come to, even before stories like this. Every new technology we make is meant to enhance our abilities, and they're always getting smaller and easier to use. What's smaller
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by ryusage 14y ago
I think it's pretty safe to say then that the weight just started falling off because you were taking in less calories. That'll happen. I don't think there's any reason to assume that the same thing wouldn't have happened if you had cut out
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by ryusage 14y ago
I think you're misunderstanding things a bit. In the context of DNA as a data storage medium, it no longer functions as a "building block of life". It'd be like taking some binary image data and overwriting it with binary audio data. You ca
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by ryusage 14y ago
I'm a little surprised that they aren't showing what the stretch goals are. Presumably, they'd be features the players would want, so it seems like it would help funding if they at least mentioned them.
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by ryusage 14y ago
It's awesome that they've been involving the public so much in the details of how the rover mission really works. I'd actually been wondering about this exact question, since it seems to be one of the limiting factors for the quality of ima
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by ryusage 14y ago
It mentions in that spreadsheet that the $0.004 the artist gets per stream is minus the 9% that CDBaby takes off the top. So, it's really like CDBaby gets $0.0045 per stream, and they give 90% of that to the artist. It occurs to me now, tho
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by ryusage 14y ago
Anyone know what the real number is? I can't seem to find it anywhere.
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by ryusage 14y ago
I suspect it depends on whether you see it as just viewing a flat picture, or as actually seeing from the rover's perspective. Personally, I see it as the latter, so I would actually find it unintuitive if the controls were reversed. It's k
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by ryusage 14y ago
Reminds me of biology. It's always intrigued me that we often want to make computer systems as "good" as humans, and yet our acceptance of human faults is far higher than what we accept from computers. Any small part of a body may have some
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by ryusage 14y ago
Interesting. It looks nice enough, but I wonder how well it will be able to differentiate itself from Android? I guess, at any rate, it's good to have some more competition in the mobile space.
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by ryusage 14y ago
According to the document referenced on the al-qaeda wikipedia page (which, you know, may or may not be accurate), their goals stretched all the way out to 2020. They didn't intend for the US to change its policies or willingly withdraw, th
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by ryusage 14y ago
You're right, for sure. It seems like a less likely scenario. That being said, the abstract at the bottom of the article makes it sound like the patent involves profiling your normal movement patterns and then using that to determine if the
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by ryusage 14y ago
I think dmix's point was just that it would be a mistake to assume that the root cause of the problem is rampant misogyny, because it's not. That's probably an issue as well, but it's not really fundamental to this attack - the real problem
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by ryusage 14y ago
I'm not at all familiar with IETF and the creation of new codes. What are the chances this becomes a real, widely used HTTP code?
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by ryusage 14y ago
Good point. That would definitely be a good use for this code, and the real title is more politically correct. In the poster's defense, though, the tone of the document really does seem biased toward government censorship activities.
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by ryusage 14y ago
The released passwords are hashed with SHA1. Assuming you use the same algorithm and linkedin does not use a salt (they probably do), then you could just compare the hashes.
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by ryusage 15y ago
Can you elaborate? How did newspapers thrive before the current traditional business model?
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by ryusage 15y ago
Your description of depression makes it sound like, if only depressed people would stop taking medication, they would naturally find the "actual problem" (which you assume exists), solve it, and then no longer be depressed. I don't know how
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by ryusage 15y ago
It seems similar, but one significant difference is that, in a drug bust, it's pretty cut and dry as to whether the targets are doing something illegal. The mere presence of drugs automatically makes it so. That's not really the case here.
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by ryusage 15y ago
I thought the point of the graph was that it didn't matter how or why the people died though? Isn't that part of why it's so surprising?
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by ryusage 15y ago
From what I recall, students can be covered by their parents' health insurance until they're 26 as long as they're still in school. That's what most college students do. If they're not in school, and they don't have their own job that provi
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by ryusage 15y ago
It also says "in our sole discretion", though. I think it would be a difficult case to win.
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by ryusage 15y ago
Looking at the methodology [1], I have some doubts about the validity of all these numbers. Apparently they're at least partially user-submitted, which implies to me that there's likely to be some bias, depending on who actually took the ti
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by ryusage 15y ago
Honestly, I've never really understood networking in great depth, so this may be a dumb question, but isn't bypassing SOPA as easy as specifying a new DNS server for your network connection?
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by ryusage 15y ago
I don't think that's practical. In an industry with very few players, it could work, but there are tons of small banks, credit unions, and online banks. Do you really think the big banks could convince every single one of them to just accep
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by ryusage 15y ago
> Note that I don't have a problem with us evolving into something else. If we are evolving, then there will be a selection function that we had get pretty damn good at meeting. That's how evolution works, though, of course. Some indivi
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by ryusage 15y ago
The most interesting fact about the self-checkout systems, in my mind, is that they actually have no designated area or instructions for how lines should form. People just intuitively wait outside the general self-checkout area, and use the
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by ryusage 15y ago
Why not? I'm seeing numerous, huge advantages to the driverless cars. The only advantage to a normal car is that sometimes they can be fun to drive. Frankly, I'd be more than happy to make that tradeoff, and I suspect I'm not unusual in tha

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