sorbus

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811.
by sorbus 17y ago
Or they could send someone through multiple times, giving them a prepared briefcase each time, but only put a bomb in it the last time, but telling them that there was a bomb each time; eventually, even an idiot will get used to it, and sto
812.
by sorbus 17y ago
But not in airports, so clearly they're doing something right there. At the very least, blast-proof glass and bomb-proof boxes for suspected bombs are a great idea - making the airport more modular, so only tiny areas of it have to be evacu
813.
by sorbus 17y ago
Technically, if you're in space you're among the stars, at least as seen from earth, even if you're actually far away from them, slowly using up all of your oxygen in a ship which will soon become your tomb.
814.
by sorbus 17y ago
They're both news aggregators; it's not so unusual to see the same content on both, as it's certainly an interesting article, and the identicalness of the titles is due to the fact that that was the original title.
815.
by sorbus 17y ago
Using the link in the article, it appears that it's already been taken down (link leads to a 404 page). However, from the comments in the article, it's been mirrored at http://cryptome.org (at the top of the list, in fact, filename is tsa
816.
by sorbus 17y ago
It's easier to fix a really bad reputation when you're really good than to get really good when everyone is measuring you against a really good reputation, but you're actually really bad. In the first case, people will be surprised if you d
817.
by sorbus 17y ago
One of the core parts of modern science is reproducable results - to allow anyone to take data, follow through the methods used, and locate errors (or see if something is an anomaly, in the case of experiments). Without it, science is basic
818.
by sorbus 17y ago
There are lots of examples, if you look around - but I'm not sure how many of them were successful, as I haven't looked for data on that. John Dies at the End was originally published in a serial form online, though it has since been taken
819.
by sorbus 17y ago
Under Firefox, I consider Adblock and Noscript to be essential. I also use Tab Mix Plus (so that I can change tabs by hovering the mouse over them, without needing to click, and also for the changing of tab color when I haven't look at one)
820.
by sorbus 17y ago
If this is also representative of what the delay would be for a more major event (whatever one might consider one to be, with the added caveat that getting the knowledge quickly be very important), it's quite relevant, albeit in a more "thi
821.
by sorbus 17y ago
4.6k, for 2 lines of code and 66 characters (in C). Wow.
822.
Redefining Death to Save Organ Donations(wired.com)
9 points by sorbus 17y ago|3 comments
823.
by sorbus 17y ago
My wristwatch runs for years on a single battery, and is literally always on. You can pry it from my cold, dead wrist.
824.
by sorbus 17y ago
The article addresses that, albeit very shortly: "It may seem arbitrary to focus on X, one of 23 chromosomes, but it has 8 percent (1,529) of all our genes, including some for fertility and intelligence, which affect reproductive success."
825.
by sorbus 17y ago
Those are not in-game implimentations. They might be diagrams of the linkages necessary to impliment it, though, but I can't understand them.
826.
by sorbus 17y ago
The ideal customer is someone who pays for a fast connection, and then uses it to check their email once a week. Lower bandwidth usage leads to more profit for the ISP, since they can get away with overselling their infrastructure. Thus, IS
827.
by sorbus 17y ago
Then simply have the same side facing up each time; in that case, there would be no difference between a coin which is biased and a flip which is biased - the bias remains in the same direction, and thus the method works.
828.
by sorbus 17y ago
The entire thing hinges upon the fact that the set is defined to be infinitely dense, and that if you divide infinity by two (or, really, more), you will still have infinity - thus, if it is possible to subdivide a sphere into two sets with
829.
by sorbus 17y ago
Seems fairly obvious; one child per family/couple will result in the population decreasing over time (it's not even enough for replacement). Added to the cited 119 to 100 ratio of male to female children, it's a pretty major issue. Not to s
830.
by sorbus 17y ago
http://torrelay.com/ It works fairly well, though a while back (as I recall) they shifted from freemium to pay-based because they couldn't make enough money to operate otherwise (too many people using up limited bandwidth and not giving a
831.
by sorbus 17y ago
"Test subjects chose whether to push a button with their right or left hand; seven seconds before they experienced making the choice, their brain activity already predicted their final decisions." Who takes seven seconds to decide which han
832.
by sorbus 17y ago
It seems safe to assume that, if there are any other civilizations out there who would care (either enough to try to visit or enough to look), they'll know that we're here - after all, we've been sending bunches of stuff out into space for
833.
by sorbus 17y ago
Present the top few apps (representative of the content of the store, I assume), and then give them the option of taking a quiz about their interests which will give them a more specific list which they might be interested in? Not that good
834.
by sorbus 17y ago
As I recall, having eyes fairly close together (not on seperate sides of the face) is something which tends to be associated with predators/carnivores, while herbavores tend to have their eyes very far apart to increase the area which they
835.
by sorbus 17y ago
Upvoting a submission also adds it to a list of saved submissions. Thus, if one uses that list to remember interesting articles, discussions, or things that one wishes to read, upvoting many articles which one does not necessarily want save
836.
by sorbus 17y ago
Mousepad or Gedit.
837.
by sorbus 17y ago
It might be because he has a script to mirror milw0rm - line 1387 states "If you by any means mirror milw0rm / exploits, you are a target and you _will_ be rm'd. only a matter of time." Maybe not the primary reason, but probably a contribut
838.
by sorbus 17y ago
It's possible (but extremely improbable). By which I mean, if anyone has the capabilities to do that, they're just as likely to extract whatever information they need from your brain, or rewrite your mind to make you want to give it to them
839.
by sorbus 18y ago
I'm fairly sure that, a few years ago, I saw a program about an EMP generator about half the size of a car, with a range of 50 yards. So, yeah, a bit confused by the article, which says that it's been considered to be a few years off for a
840.
by sorbus 18y ago
As a lurker, I sort of agree. That is, I don't think that I'm a real part of the community - being more the type to hang around the edges, listening to the conversation - but I think that that is a valid way of figuring out community standa

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