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by sorbus 15y ago
> All my points mentioned are relevant to see where these fellas are coming from and why they won't succeed. From your original comment: > Most of them are obese. And usually don't shower. And don't know how to dress. It's pathetic.
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by sorbus 15y ago
You should probably read the guidelines again. http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by sorbus 15y ago
Yeah, they're all DDoSes. Look into the Low Orbit Ion Cannon; it used to be (and may still be) the tool that they used. The hacks that are attributed to Anonymous seem to be mostly be the work of a small core of actual hackers who either us
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by sorbus 15y ago
> I would assume by even false scanning 5 ports, the attacker gets immediately null-routed and still get no response. So run the scan using a botnet. Each machine makes one attempt (there are some really big botnets out there). There's
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by sorbus 15y ago
Nope, HIV immunity is pretty much the same thing. You see, there are receptors on white blood cells - which are involved in lots of things the immune system does, if you're interested you can find an explanation elsewhere. Normally, HIV use
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by sorbus 15y ago
Is a model of the human brain, in which the same interactions between neurons occur as in a real brain, conscious? There currently doesn't seem to be a definitive resolution to that question, and there probably never will be. However, I wou
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by sorbus 15y ago
So, are you saying that your solution to crime is getting rid of punishment?
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by sorbus 15y ago
So they've patented surveys.
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by sorbus 15y ago
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=facebook+like+trademark From the first result: "Facebook also has no fewer than 14 applications pending to trademark the word "like.""
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by sorbus 15y ago
It adds no value to the discussion.
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Radioactive turd, meet punchbowl(antipope.org)
10 points by sorbus 15y ago|0 comments
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by sorbus 15y ago
I interpreted it as being quieter than the previous model, and can't really see how "its new model was three times quieter" can be interpreted to refer to the inside being quieter than the outside. So I suppose that there's room for confusi
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by sorbus 15y ago
There's no information in the article about how they did it - whether using EC2 was actually necessary (because they needed a lot of processing power) or whether they just used it to cover their tracks a bit further (using a stolen credit c
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by sorbus 15y ago
> don't destroy the stocks because you may need them to recreate the vaccine. It's worth noting that the US has a gigantic stockpile of smallpox vaccine already - and they're actually increasing the size of the stockpile because of worr
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by sorbus 15y ago
Read the article: "a one time fee of between $295 to $500." And from their website: "starting at $295 with no monthly fees for our basic service."
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by sorbus 15y ago
SSDs don't break if you drop the computer that they're in, throw it on a bed, or otherwise treat it badly. HDs do. Reducing the failure rate of Chromebooks is almost certainly worth it.
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by sorbus 15y ago
They don't recommend a specific netbook to use for the installation (or I just missed it), but as far as battery life goes: the Acer Chromebook is rated at 6 hours, and the Samsung at 8.5 hours. My Eee PC 1005HA was rated at 10.5 hours, and
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by sorbus 15y ago
I would guess 24in60.com - people occasionally respond not to the comment they mean to but that comment's parent, and the only other discussion on keane's comment is about 24in60.com. That's just an educated guess, though, as there's no way
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by sorbus 15y ago
You're able to edit comments for an hour after they're originally submitted.
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by sorbus 15y ago
Radioactive material entering the water table causes huge explosions? And nuclear material in the water table falls out of the atmosphere[1]? Bullshit. Are you even paying attention to the claims you're making? [1] Fallout specifically refe
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by sorbus 15y ago
Given the timing on this, I can't see it as anything but an attempt to distract from the fiasco currently going on with Facebook hiring a PR firm to smear Google. That said, this is a pretty cool feature, and seems to play into Facebook's o
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by sorbus 15y ago
With difficulty. The most likely way I can see is regulation of exchange markets (which could actually be beneficial to the markets, as a way of showing credibility).
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Color code your Google Calendar events (gmailblog.blogspot.com)
1 points by sorbus 15y ago|0 comments
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by sorbus 15y ago
Eh. Decentralized censorship, maybe. Even a few flags are counted fairly heavily for moving submissions down, I believe. Don't blame the community as a whole, or the people running the site: blame the few people who don't understand what fl
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by sorbus 15y ago
Either it's not getting the volume of upvotes to keep it on the front page (fairly likely), or people are flagging it which is combining with the low volume of upvotes to push it away from the front page. Either way, it's a pity, as it mean
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by sorbus 15y ago
The bandwidth each computer has access to is almost certainly not the entire bandwidth that Google gives its employees access to - if so, the per person bandwidth would be quite low. Of course, not being a Google employee, I wouldn't know f
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by sorbus 15y ago
Possible in theory, unlikely to be practical anytime soon. Algae is a cheaper (and simpler) food source, and one more likely to be used for basic requirements. I could certainly see stem cells used to grow meat - as currently exists - to su
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by sorbus 15y ago
> he's allowing somebody who couldn't otherwise afford it to buy a long-lasting machine like yours. Only very slightly. He's selling it for almost the same price he bought it for, but happens to have a student discount that makes it 15%
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by sorbus 15y ago
Common sense would say that she was lying about being given the card, especially as she wasn't able to find the person who supposedly gave it to her.
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by sorbus 15y ago
It's not much better in context, though (I will admit that I did not look at the context, however). You could just have easily made the same point by saying "the insular nature of many communities and focus on karma (or whatever arbitrary m

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