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by smegger001 10y ago
perhaps they were poorly programmed philosophical zombies
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by smegger001 11y ago
Or is it knowledge that most of the cost are going to growing administrative costs and bureaucracies and not to actually provide the services they are their ostensibly to provide. It reminded me of when my home towns school district had bud
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by smegger001 11y ago
considering the cause for him needing to liquidate is known, he has major tax penalties he has to pay, exchanging them now won't cause as big of a stir as if he did it when he was anonymous and would lead to suspicion of some sort of p
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by smegger001 11y ago
I know of a local clinic where I live that has decided to stay on Windows XP and just told their staff "not to surf" as their way of dealing with security issues. While in the waiting room when I took my sister in for an appointme
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by smegger001 11y ago
As a species it very good thing as it provides awareness of them and lets the public learn about them and want to protect the species as individual animal it kinda sucks.
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by smegger001 11y ago
Just because it requires real hardware does not mean it may be able to spread all over the world. It may just do it by setting up virtual machines in data centers all over the world, or as a botnet with a distrusted processing approach simi
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by smegger001 11y ago
How do you respond to openly barbaric group that wants to commit genocide against you in a civilized fashion? You can try to negotiate and they will kill your ambassadors. You can try to ignore them and they will slaughter your innocent ci
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by smegger001 11y ago
Soylent Green: The "miracle food"
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by smegger001 11y ago
He could just be changing his user agent to normalize it.
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by smegger001 11y ago
You mean like the EFF...
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by smegger001 11y ago
Why would being a servant be considered ugly or unappatizing? Is it different really than any other service industry job? So instead of being a fry cook at burger king for minimum wage they prepare dinner for someone that is more affluent a
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Presidential canidate John McAfees answers Slashdot interveiw(politics.slashdot.org)
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by smegger001 11y ago
Why not issue each citizen, immigrant, business, legal entity, something like a RSA SecureID token with a associated public privet key pair?
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by smegger001 11y ago
Wouldn't that change though based upon the isotopes of the atoms in it? For example H2O made with Deuterium (1 proton 1 neutron and 1 electron) or Tritium (1 proton 2 neutrons and one electron) vs Protium (1 proton 1 neutrons and 1 ele
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by smegger001 11y ago
I hope that sort of price drops continues to similar devices like the MXB Motocross-boards (motocrossboard.com) I have been looking at them for a while as alternative to driving, as work home and classes are not exactly close together for w
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by smegger001 11y ago
The problem only happens when no one bothers to learn how something works. Look at all of those big iron systems out there that few people know how to program, there is reason Cobol and Fortran programmers still make good money. Oh and refr
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by smegger001 11y ago
I do not seem to understand, so forgive my ignorance if you will but; Why do we need a /Apps directory isn't that what /bin /sbin and /usr/bin are for? And as for /LocalApps is that not what /home&#x
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by smegger001 11y ago
Well the article title and the HN headline did not specify that. In fact after a quick reread the whole article never said what type of radiation. What are they talking about? Alpha radiation, Probably not it is mostly harmless
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by smegger001 11y ago
IPFS is essentially web (here meaning htmls css & javascript) over torrent + a distributed hash table. Correct me if I am wrong but isn't this just freenet without the anonymity or kind of like tribler but for websites instead of p
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by smegger001 11y ago
One of the first things I was taught in network security was "When installing SSH always set it to key based login only NO Password login allowed" Passwords are not to be used here they can be broken by automated distributed attac