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by sehugg 11y ago
Wow .. could their PR be any more defensive? NPR and ProPublica were "creating ill will in the community, which may give rise to a security incident," the email says. "We will hold you and your news organizations fully respo
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by sehugg 11y ago
Awhile back the NY Times (sort of) committed to having their site on HTTPS by the end of 2015, is that still on track? http://open.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/11/13/embracing-https/
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Ars too: http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/06/federal-agency-hit-b...
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by sehugg 11y ago
Hadean Lands (recent IF game by Andrew Plotkin) is all about trying to figure out the rules of the magic (alchemy) system and it's relation to the world.
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by sehugg 11y ago
Remember Second Life? http://m.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/20/sadville_flyers/
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by sehugg 11y ago
The first time I played it was in the arcade. I was flabbergasted when I realized the NES version was exactly the same.
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by sehugg 11y ago
You could always sing Steven Colbert's royalty-free birthday song: http://thecolbertreport.cc.com/videos/3si7rs/warner-music-s-...
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by sehugg 11y ago
Yeah, mentioning MapQuest without regards to their OSM efforts seems like a bit of an omission. Intentional or no? http://open.mapquest.co.uk/
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I transferred most of my disks in the mid-90s and even back then many of them were corrupt. (I also lived in the south FWIW)
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by sehugg 11y ago
That might work for most but not all schemes; spiral encoding encodes data while the stepper motor is moving, so you'd need some very fine-resolution imaging and some very accurate hardware simulation to make everything work properly
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NSA Phone Program Not Authorized by Patriot Act, Says Appeals Court(wsj.com)
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Seems plausible to me too .. they use antique diesel trucks on-site because they don't have spark plugs or onboard computers: http://www.autoblog.com/2014/04/24/national-radio-astronomy-...
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by sehugg 11y ago
This was a PITA for us, since we had been using App Requests as an invite channel, not snarfing the entire user graph like other sketchy apps do. Then Facebook changed the rules so that you had to be in the Games category to use App Request
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by sehugg 11y ago
You get a discount on your insurance if you let the company monitor your vehicle and fitness tracker. To get a job your employer might need to see your Facebook history. It's coming, it's just going to be decentralized and (arguab
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by sehugg 12y ago
You won't get very many perspectives from pre-1995 without reading books, though.
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So it's like the Dwarf Fortress of driving simulators?
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I don't know if the problem is just water pollution; according to NOAA aquaculture is 20-30% of shellfish production. In the U.S. at least the preference for chicken and beef has displaced our willingness to eat "critters" in
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by sehugg 12y ago
The article briefly touches on this, but substituting more efficient (< 2 to 1 conversion ratio) meats like chicken and farmed fish seems like a good idea. The high price of beef right now certainly has changed my shopping habits, and I
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by sehugg 12y ago
Yeah, extracting would be the easy part (the engineer did say as such in the episode). I doubt they would have transcribed it by hand in 1983. Writing the spec was the hard part, it actually took nine months and a team of 15 to produce the
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by sehugg 12y ago
FWIW a lot of this history is covered in PBS's "Triumph of the Nerds" documentary without the dramatic license. Kudos to the producers for attempting to make BIOS reverse engineering look exciting, though.
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by sehugg 12y ago
So much Ultima influence! Some of those tiles look, er, very familiar :) I wonder if Carmack ever dreamed that in 20 years he'd be building rockets and the author of Ultima would have traveled to space. (Incidentally, in Ultima II, you
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by sehugg 12y ago
Some did use the 160x100x16 graphics mode (using some of the same techniques in the OP) but one drawback is that they didn't always look 100% correct on clones, and some eventually broke when VGA cards came out. http://nerdl
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"Right to Repair" laws have been in the works (and opposed by the auto industry) for at least 15 years and recently passed by Massachusetts. One goal is to level the playing field between dealers and independent shops by forcing m
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by sehugg 12y ago
Also improve the review system. It's almost certain that if you don't beg for reviews using Appirater, you will get practically none. And if you update the app, the reviews reset -- which gives developers an extreme disincentive t
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by sehugg 12y ago
In my town someone has gone up and down the main road selling variously-colored LED light strips, and many businesses have used them to outline their windows, doors, trees, fences, etc. In many places, the LEDs are so bright you can barely
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by sehugg 12y ago
Doom 3 was written in 2004, and was in C++, not to mention Carmack's other scripting langauges and VMs he wrote for his other game engines .. not to take anything away from your comment.
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No one likes spam, but invitation channels are certainly drying up. I sometimes wonder how fast Facebook would have grown if email spam filtering in 2004 was as aggressive as it is today, especially considering that its early growth was amo
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by sehugg 12y ago
I don't think Twitter has anything against scraping lists of followers of public accounts -- after all, that's available to everyone. (One exception I think is geolocation data which can't be stored.) It's then using tha
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by sehugg 12y ago
WordNet has this. You can see it in action here [1] but you have to enable "Show Frequency Counts" in the pulldown. It has frequency counts for each "sense" of a word, not just the word. [1] http://wordnetweb.
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by sehugg 12y ago
The stamp machines surreptitously took portraits of users in 2004, it's likely the self-service package kiosks do too. https://epic.org/privacy/postal/

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