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by seabee 15y ago
An upside to more precisely targeted advertising is that it lowers the cost of advertising, by way of reducing the number of eyeballs on an ad. A website with 1 million uniques can sell the space for $X to a big national business to whom it
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by seabee 15y ago
If American Tobacco had the best interests of the public in mind, do you think they'd still exist in any form? Being philanthropic is not mutually exclusive with owning an amoral or even unethical business.
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by seabee 15y ago
That clearly isn't the answer, as the article spends many paragraphs explaining. The answer is "do things that encourage competition and investment". The US government fails at this, but it is neither a limitation of government per se or
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by seabee 15y ago
My memory is rusty and the link doesn't corroborate your figure from what I could see. What I remember is that methane is more potent a greenhouse gas than O2 but it has a significantly shorter half-life in the atmosphere.
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by seabee 15y ago
'Switch account' works well for me - is there a use case where this is not an option for you?
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by seabee 15y ago
People expect others not to jerk them around. They will bitch about how they've been jerked around long before they'll cut the jerk from their life. Hopefully, because said jerk will change their behaviour, in a perfect world. There is also
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by seabee 15y ago
That is brewing temp , mister. I'd be surprised if my coffee was hotter than 75 once it came out of the French press and into a mug.
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by seabee 15y ago
I didn't downvote you, but I think they object to your overly literal interpretation of "one ball is heavier than the others" given it was contrasted with the original phrasing "one ball is a different weight". This is a math puzzle, not a
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by seabee 15y ago
Huh, well I never. Still a UNIX though, so let's say NT was the first one they designed, perhaps.
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by seabee 15y ago
But if the cardinality of the sets are equal, as is the case in each step of the solution, the set containing the max-weight ball is necessarily heavier. Can you explain further?
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by seabee 15y ago
If I was HR I'd think you failed the test. (see the comment about 12 balls completed in three weightings, at least)
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by seabee 15y ago
"[Unix permissions] were much better than what was available in Windows for the longest time"? Try DOS. Windows 1.0 - Me were never multi-user operating systems, which was largely the purpose of having permissions, until the world realised
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by seabee 15y ago
The best loadout IMO is the one you get by default. I won't deny that the other weapons are tons of fun to play with, though. (Everyone has to play a Demoknight at least once!). But you will be competitive without a single drop. The guns
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by seabee 15y ago
Hey, a client running in a web browser is still a client. You should also probably realize the point of using XMPP is that it's an open standard, and anyone is allowed to make their own implementation; contrast with the uneasy interoperabil
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by seabee 15y ago
The official client never got video chat support either. It's received very little love over the past couple of years. Personally I think the only native client they are interested in anymore is Gmail in Chrome...
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by seabee 15y ago
Given the nature of public transport I think we can discount the "out of my control" factor. We can even remove the human element; driverless trains are found in quite a few places and nobody is screaming in terror on them. http://en.m.wik
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by seabee 15y ago
Some webcams have manual settings, I know mine does. Just enabling those should get you 90% of the way of a tethered digital camera, "all that remains" is getting sufficient dynamic range and fixing the curves/compensating for human percept
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by seabee 15y ago
Narrowing yourself to 'git users' is a silly thing for two reasons: 1) there are many Windows devs out there who require a VCS 1a) ...who will only use a GUI-based VCS (seriously) 2) there are many users of other VCSes (e.g. Subversion) The
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by seabee 15y ago
It's been usable for over a year, even. Grandparent's comment is really dated. I mean, it's not as if GitHub don't have Windows instructions... http://help.github.com/win-set-up-git/
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by seabee 15y ago
Your alternative method is Chrome behaviour (of course it gives suggestions even if you don't prefix with ?, but the keyboard shortcuts are there)
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by seabee 15y ago
I don't think it does answer the question, though. The data is the evidence rather than the medium it exists on. What guarantee is made that the disk wasn't tampered with that cannot be made by a cryptographic signature... ...or is the answ
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by seabee 15y ago
You overestimate people's understanding of security. Clearly Passpack have had enough customers request the feature or complain about its absence to be worth writing about it.
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by seabee 15y ago
> and the feds likely fear that just taking virtual disks would lead to evidentiary issues at trial. Honest question: why are physical hard disks more valid as evidence than virtual ones? Aren't they equally easy to tamper with?
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by seabee 15y ago
Accessed from my mobile, didn't register for obvious reasons - I hoped it might use location services!
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by seabee 15y ago
Except that some countries tax blank CDs for this reason. (good job, content creation lobby)
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by seabee 15y ago
And game modders distribute their mods using it, since pushing a several GB download to thousands isn't that cheap, and more importantly everyone can download a newly-released torrent right away rather than maxing out the server's bandwid
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by seabee 15y ago
> Can anybody tell me where the harm in underprotecting "intellectual property" comes from? I will speculate that, without any protection, there will be significantly less investment in intellectual property, and any projects will be
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by seabee 15y ago
I don't think AMD or NVidia want to be blacklisted in WebGL implementations because their driver isn't secure enough. Only one or the other could get blacklisted. If it was both of them, what remains? The Sandy Bridge GPU? WebGL needs the
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by seabee 15y ago
Also foolish to forget that time is money, you pay knowledge workers for the time they spent studying. You too can "save" $10,000 by doing security yourself, but only if you spend several years training and understanding the domain.
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by seabee 15y ago
I think a reasonable comparison to the Citibank security flaw is leaving bank statements on a table in front of the window.

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