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by sfk 17y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tofu_(disambiguation)
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by sfk 18y ago
Thanks for the link. This statistic does not have a separate category for high speed trains and consequently cannot be used to make statements about them. The relative drop in rail traffic is much more likely due to the fact that local
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by sfk 18y ago
Have you done some research that shows this statistic to be correct? Perhaps you might want to take a look at who is sponsoring this "statistic": http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/cato-institute
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by sfk 18y ago
"These assessments are confirmed by the actual experience of high-speed rail lines in Japan and Europe. Since Japan introduced high-speed bullet trains, passenger rail has lost more than half its market share to the automobile. Since Italy,
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by sfk 18y ago
Ah, Jon Harrop pushing F# or Ocaml again. He has a long history of trolling in various newsgroups, so I would take everything he claims with a grain of salt.
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by sfk 18y ago
"Seems to me to be an understandable principle that it's okay to consume and share nonrivalrous [sic] good which are available on the net for free." I keep hearing this argument that the owner of the original file does not lose anything if
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by sfk 18y ago
I voted this up, mainly because of the clever picture at the top. The text says "Listen to your nose".
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by sfk 18y ago
If you have "thoughts" about RMS, kindly post them in a relevant thread instead of abusing the submission system. FLAGGED
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by sfk 18y ago
apple.com is very difficult to navigate for me. It is optimized for people who are conditioned to click on large glossy pictures. Examples of good usability would be http://cr.yp.to/ or - if you are looking for a corporate example - amazo
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by sfk 18y ago
The content isn't Spam, but it looks like someone is testing the moderating procedures. ==> Flagged
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by sfk 18y ago
I hope that John Foust had Dr. Whitten's permission to publish this apparently private mail. To the people who say that Whitten is arrogant or bitter, please read Joel's disrespectful comments first: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/printer
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by sfk 18y ago
As an aside, the official "compression" algorithm is just unbelievable. DJB's comment in dns_packet.c is quite apt: /* DNS should have used LZ77 instead of its own sophomoric compression algorithm. */
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by sfk 18y ago
Yes, but I understood that tptacek's point was that we shouldn't try to keep up appearances here. (Which is not what you are doing, but other people are.)
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by sfk 18y ago
Thanks for seeing the point, which was that beyond a certain stage a website should not be able to maintain an "impartial" stance. Your list will not look shocking any more if you add a line for the respective sentences: Pirate bay
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by sfk 18y ago
If a site has been running for several years and a substantial portion of the ads are illegal and during all that time the site admins have repeatedly refused to remove illegal ads, then yes, the site admins have some responsibility.
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by sfk 18y ago
I do not know the Swedish law either, but let's take it to an extreme: If someone were to run a site called Assassin Bay, where clients could post .target files specifying jobs and hit men could accept those jobs, I'm sure that the site wou
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by sfk 18y ago
Just a clarification: You have to read the whole thread, otherwise the subject I chose does not make sense. Here is the post where Plauger actually defends copyright: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.c/msg/810d733c01e55...
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P.J. Plauger on copyright [comp.lang.c](groups.google.com)
1 points by sfk 18y ago|2 comments
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by sfk 18y ago
I disagree. Should the pirate bay win, politicians can argue that current laws aren't strong enough to prevent illegal activities on the Internet. Thus, freedoms that we enjoy nowadays might be taken away in the future. This is a classic ca
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by sfk 18y ago
I'm not quite sure what you mean by innovation: http://www.procmail.org/procmail.HISTORY.html
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by sfk 18y ago
Use w3m: http://w3m.sourceforge.net/ For reading, I find it much more pleasant than Firefox. Posting is perhaps a bit awkward.
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by sfk 18y ago
I don't understand why Google is dabbling in all sorts of areas while neglecting their core business. The Usenet search and the groups interface were truly wonderful a couple of years ago. Now the interface is a web 2.0 abomination and the
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by sfk 18y ago
I would like an option to hide the scores of comments, since I find them distracting.
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by sfk 18y ago
Sarcastic answer: Ask Daniel Barenboim. Long answer: If you are asking others for objectivity, please be objective yourself. The issue here is that nowadays a lot of people in Europe tend to be on the side of the underdog, which in this ca
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by sfk 18y ago
> The market optimizes everything for the better if it is allowed. Such as financial products? I think we have enough evidence right now that people are not mature enough for a totally free market.
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by sfk 18y ago
Worldofquotes attributes the quote to Theodore Hook, source: Bubbles of 1825, in "John Bull" http://www.worldofquotes.com/author/Theodore-Hook/1/index.ht...
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by sfk 18y ago
Looks that way. Of course I can only speculate about the reasons, but if I were in his position I'd turn down a Google offer.
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by sfk 18y ago
It all comes down to the fact that for Google the browser is an advertisement delivery tool. Hence every browser improvement has the potential to increase revenues for them.
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by sfk 18y ago
VMware has real security? I do not think that everyone agrees: http://kerneltrap.org/OpenBSD/Virtualization_Security On a side note, Google has tried to hire Theo de Raadt. Perhaps they wanted him to work on this project.
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by sfk 18y ago
Please wake me up when MacBooks start shipping with a matte 4:3 UXGA display.

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