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by skolor 17y ago
If you go to the actual link ( http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pjGlYH-8AK8ffDa6o2bYl... ), you can sort them 3 ways (Date, Event Name and Speaker).
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by skolor 17y ago
Fascinating read, and its nice to see he brought up a lot of the concerns that were mentioned here. A few things that I noticed: He mentioned that 1 Disk uses 120 MB/s, so 5 of them is 600 MB/s. He then says that converts to 6 GB/s. Now, I'
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by skolor 17y ago
Right, so trying to balance this cycle by pumping it back underground doesn't seem to be the right solution (unless these synthetic trees can operate without being powered). Otherwise all we're doing is creating a second, closed loop of: Pu
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by skolor 17y ago
The thing about CO2 and O2 is that its a loop. We breathe in O2 and breathe out CO2. Plants "Breathe" in CO2 and "Breathe" out O2. It just seems very dangerous to me to sequester a lot of that underground, more so than climate change.
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by skolor 17y ago
I'm sorry, but these "Synthetic Trees" seem to be incredibly stupid. Trees (real ones) serve several funtions, the ones most important to this being: They remove CO2, and the turn it into oxygen. All that these Synthetic trees do is take CO
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by skolor 17y ago
It looks (to someone who has not done any of the necessary research to draw any real, useful conclusions) that they are proposing a balance of sorts. You are safest (in this theory) when sleeping. You are likely holed up some where, hidden
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by skolor 17y ago
While its no more than an anecdote, I've found this to be true. I only seem to have trouble sleeping when I'm working on a project that keeps me thinking all day long. When I am, I sleep light, waking often, and frequently only sleep 5-6 ho
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by skolor 17y ago
I've heard a little bit about this bill, particularly about the "President can shut down the internet" part. Can anyone explain how shutting down the internet could help national security? I was under the impression that a cyber attack's po
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by skolor 17y ago
That is because malware is a very general term, since it applies to everything from a full blown virus that destroys your computer to a tracking cookie that reports back to a server what you do online. The reason malware is able to run ramp
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by skolor 17y ago
This is precisely how I feel. I would not be willing to FTP through someone else's site, no matter how convenient it was to use. On the other hand, I would be willing to pay a reasonable licensing fee (say, $20-30 a year, w/ updates, or $30
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by skolor 17y ago
Right, but the iPhone user would find it a lot more noticible. The reason botnets can exist are because they users of the infected computer don't try to fix it. With a phone, the incentive to fix the problem is much biger: it eats up 100% o
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by skolor 17y ago
This seems odd: I don't know any person who is a directly anti-wikipedia, but I do know several people who are against wikipedia. They don't active talk bad about it, but they're the type of people who say "You can believe anything written
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by skolor 17y ago
The great thing about phones though, is that they work both ways. You get one line going in, and one going out, and that's all you can work with. If that was regularly being tied up, you'd notice fairly quickly and expect someone to fix it.
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by skolor 17y ago
Really, we're not talking about being the gatekeepers to the iPhone, Apple is the gatekeeper to the App Store, nothing more. It doesn't seem that big of a deal for Apple to continue to review applications for the App Store, but allow anothe
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by skolor 17y ago
A CD isn't just a CD, that there is some implied contract that limits use. Well, no. You should be able to do anything you want with that CD. The music on it, however, is covered by copyright, which should be protected on some level. As f
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by skolor 17y ago
It doesn't, but it depends on what you want out of life. If you want to have a successful business, traveling all the time isn't for you. If you want to see the world though, putting it off until later isn't going to help you any. The longe
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by skolor 17y ago
Its relatively cheap to travel abroad, especially if you're willing to live simply while you're there. If you plan significantly far in advance, you can usually find airfare for $500-750 round trip, or cheaper, depending on where you want t
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by skolor 17y ago
I'd really like to visit Sillicon Valley, experiencing the culture there might actually be useful to me. That right there is the way to find useful experiences. It sounds like your thing isn't "Go see the Grand Canyon" or "Go to the Eiffe
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by skolor 17y ago
I can't find that anywhere either, and would be interested in seing it. In fact, all I can find is: A bucket can be located in the United States or in Europe. All objects within the bucket will be stored in the bucket’s location, but the o
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by skolor 17y ago
Except that it isn't a reproduced product, and they largely won't be competing against each other. Stackexchange is offering a solution for it, Solace is just the software. They don't directly compete. Now, I'd guess them being released on
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by skolor 17y ago
Not the same thing. Showing a correlation between the number of years of schooling a person had and their IQ is not the same as a decrease in IQ before and after schooling.
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by skolor 17y ago
I was not trying to say the article had supporting evidence, simply that the study (showing a decrease in scores after having been in school for 18 months) helps the argument, rather than the argument simply being a anecdote. "School dumbs
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by skolor 17y ago
A previous intelligence test, taken about a year-and-a-half previously, had won them entrance to gifted primary schools. So how many of the kids still classified as gifted just eighteen months later? Only half Now, that's disappointing. N
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by skolor 17y ago
Interesting, but Amazon doesn't guarantee most of those things. They guarantee a 99.99% uptime, but that isn't counting a complete datacenter failure. In fact, it sounds to me as if they have a similar set up to the backblaze people. 99.99%
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by skolor 17y ago
I would assume they don't care about any of the hardware, just the data. If you look at the setup, and how the drives are raided, there 45 drives are sub-divided into 15 raid arrays, of which it would take 3 to die before they lost data. Es
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by skolor 17y ago
Oooh. I never looked to closely at that one, I had figured it was mostly just the same kit, plus the plastic cards, but going through it all, it definitely looks worth the extra $20. It looks like the one I linked was enough to get someone
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by skolor 17y ago
That was one of the places I had looked at, and was seriously considering: http://www.adafruit.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&#38... . My primary concern was whether or not that would be able to get me from "Huh, these sound cool" T
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by skolor 17y ago
While not entirely related to the article, I've been wanting to start playing with an Arduino for a while now. I have a little bit of experience with circuits, but not really anything that goes beyond soldering a longer wire onto something.
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by skolor 17y ago
And that, unfortunately, is the biggest problem with IT policy. It is deceptively easy to give permission for an application for one or two people, but once you start trying to take anything away you have a total shit-storm on your hands. T
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by skolor 17y ago
The risk of legacy is fairly simple: when your brand new app crashes, you have most of the team there, ready to fix it. When your 10 year old legacy app has a catastrophic failure, you have a maintenance programmer, one of a long line of ma

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