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by sandworm 12y ago
That's up for debate. Some rights groups (the mpaa etc) see a vpn as "bypassing technical protections". Once upon a time some claimed it a CFAA violation in that you were accessing a computer system under false pretences, i
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by sandworm 12y ago
When I looked I couldn't find it on Amazon. It might be a licensing issue as I'm in Canada. (A VERY common issue north of the boarder.) Using a VPN to bypass such a restriction is just as much a copyright violation as downloadin
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by sandworm 12y ago
My family uses netflix. I don't. Every time I want to watch something I cannot find it. 10,000 titles is nothing in a world where The Simpsons has several hundred. Netflix needs more and deeper content. I won't admit to ever d
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by sandworm 12y ago
I know where it's going. My neighbourhood in Vancouver BC is covered in "for sale" signs. There are minivans full of Chinese investors paroling the sidestreets looking for houses. The downside is that, by my count, more tha
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by sandworm 12y ago
Anyone else spot that the kid likes fire? Every male I know went through a 'firebug' phase as a kid. A young boy playing with fire is imho as natural as a dog wanting to chase squirrels. There was a time when those of us who und
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by sandworm 12y ago
Forget the semantics. Pluto should still be called a planet because it was called so historically. Let it stand as an illustration of the discovery process. You don't see lawyers getting mad every time someone uses the term "rel
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by sandworm 12y ago
People have commented on the pumps v. station issue, but what about time? The most accurate measure of the infrastructure might not be how many plugs are around, but how many cars can be charged per day. Or perhaps how many vehicle-kilomet
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by sandworm 12y ago
A hosting service pretends to be a dropbox-style service for backing up and sharing important files. A cyberlocker abandons the pretense, all but calling for people to share files they don't own in exchange for money. For me, the line
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by sandworm 12y ago
Rapidshare died because the market moved on. "File hosting services" like rapidshare have been replaced by cutthroat "cyberlockers" like Keep2share and rapidgator. The most successful cyberlockers do what Rapidshare dec
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by sandworm 12y ago
I'm also part of the problem. I teach one course a year. So it's far from a fulltime thing. The pay is about 100$ per hour OF LECTURE. Considering the prep time needed, and the mandatory unpaid interaction with students after
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by sandworm 12y ago
More info here: http://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/2kghua/falcon9r_boos... It looks like they indeed perform a u-turn, with the proviso that some of the return is accomplished by pushing higher, inc
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by sandworm 12y ago
Near the launch site? That seems a little ambitious, and expensive. Are they planning on doing a u-turn in high atmo? The energy required would be massive. Or are they planning on doing an orbit of some sort? Doesn't the falcon hea
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by sandworm 12y ago
That's why I am so interested. I could see how getting blind drunk once a week might actually reduce total mortality. Perhaps those who get blind drunk only occasionally under planned conditions have fewer accidents than those who dr
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by sandworm 12y ago
I'm old enough to believe that meeting on an online forum doesn't qualify 'met'. "I met the President on twitter" doesn't count.
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by sandworm 12y ago
I'd be interested in reading a study of drinking patterns beyond simple measurement of total consumption. Every study I read measures volume over a time such number of units per week. But there is a difference between downing a bottle
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by sandworm 12y ago
Docx doesn't play nice. At a time when they could have contributed to open standards such as odt, and as projects like Openoffice were getting a handle on the doc format, Microsoft rolled out DocX to stir the pot. DocX has some silly
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by sandworm 12y ago
Windows is a proprietary ecosystem where choices are made for the benefit of microsoft's shareholders and nobody else. It is full of compromise. From DRM to hamstrung "student" versions, Windows is not your friend. Microso
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by sandworm 12y ago
It's a flaw. A bad one. But things like this get patched every day. Only an idiot would believe there aren't plenty of other undiscovered security flaws in windows, or any other OS. What matters is whether this flaw was ever e
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by sandworm 12y ago
The exemption already exists. (1) The DMCA, and for that matter copyright law generally, creates private rights of action in the copyright owner. Even if something is infringing on their rights they need not act. The decision is up to the
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by sandworm 12y ago
It was a mistake to release this today. Everyone knows that legally questionable moves should always be made on a friday. That allows everyone in government to cool down for a couple days. By the time the weekend is over all the news outl
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by sandworm 12y ago
There are lots of things to fail. On most military aircraft it is rare to fly with every tiny system running at 100%. Five or things can break during a flight without any real risk. Not the engines, but something like a datalink antenna o
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by sandworm 12y ago
Higher than the B-2? (3million+ per aircraft/month according to some). Maybe the C-5 has highest not-classified operating costs. For perspective, the Canadian Sea King helos are rumored to take 50+ man-hours for every hour in the air,
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by sandworm 12y ago
They did keep it around for the two things only it and shuttle could do: bring things back from orbit and execute single orbit missions (ie the cross-range ability to return to base after a single orbit.)
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by sandworm 12y ago
But does the A380 carry it's own tow bar? Or have a massive cargo nose? Or have a floor that can handle heavy cargo pallets? Can it kneel? How many spare parts fly with the plane? Total apples and oranges. The AN-225 is built like
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by sandworm 12y ago
For sure, but an order-of-magnitude disparity in lifespan remains huge. And the Buran was no "attempt". It was a working shuttle that flew to space and was in many ways superior to shuttle. It just didn't make economic sens
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by sandworm 12y ago
"3740 flying hours" ... Since built in 1988! "The lifespan of the airplane is 8000 flying hours, 2000 takeoff-landings or 25 calendar years." A 1980s 747 could expect 100,000 hours or more. I'd be interested in lea
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by sandworm 12y ago
Who really wrote this? Some sort of Nasa lobbyist? I'm a fan of manned spaceflight and think it has some scientific validity, but who else could write such an article without any mention of alternative approaches, the political histo
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by sandworm 12y ago
In my work (legal) i often find myself overdressed and overstressed about decorum and timetables. But corporate decorum, working 9-5 m-f, has a place. I remember one incident where a thursday meeting at a startup was canceled because a dep
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by sandworm 12y ago
That is IF we assume Anthem's statement are "the truth". I don't make that assumption. In fact in these situations I assume every statement from such a corporation may or may not be true. Without backup from external
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by sandworm 12y ago
They have evidence of an attack going back to Dec 10, a Wednesday. "Anthemfacts.com" was registered on Dec 13th which was, assuming US rather than GMT, the following friday. The proximity and order of those dates cannot be coincid

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