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by sorbus 15y ago
Chrome's market share is above 20% now (Firefox's is below 30%, and IE's is below 50%).
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by sorbus 15y ago
You would have explained the origin of the encrypted data on the laptop, and they would either drag the person who was the origin into the case as a defendant or have him testify. It's really quite simple; they're not just asking "what is t
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by sorbus 15y ago
The standard method is to use one operating system in normal, day-to-day operations and another (in a hidden volume) whenever you're doing something sensitive or potentially illegal (you would also change the MAC address, not use it on your
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by sorbus 15y ago
The legal system allows them to do things analogous to that, such as compelling someone to open a safe to enable arbitrary access to the contents (as mentioned in the article). Presumably they must suspect that the safe contains documents r
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by sorbus 15y ago
That's nice, but it doesn't answer the question of whether two days is a normal amount of time to grow a trachea or if they used a growth stimulant.
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by sorbus 15y ago
You could run dialup over a satellite phone, though it would be extremely expensive.
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by sorbus 15y ago
The current tests have very low accuracy (the article says 40%). These tests are likely being administered by trained professionals, and if the cost of each test is sufficiently high (for materials, and that it would take several tests to g
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by sorbus 15y ago
In case anyone else is mistrustful of shortened links, that one leads to a page entitled "Grounds for opposition to registration of national trade marks" on www.ipaustralia.gov.au
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by sorbus 15y ago
Neither of us are lawyers; we are not qualified to have a discussion of which laws he violated. I am pointing out that - ignoring the legality of what he did (I suspect the response might involve suspicions of keyloggers present in the his
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by sorbus 15y ago
Apply the same logic to using computers in an Apple store to launch a DDOS. You hardly have to change your argument, and yet it reveals how absurd it is.
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by sorbus 15y ago
> internet access as a Constitutional right. You mean Human Right.
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by sorbus 15y ago
The article seems to have updated. It now reads "In reality, an MMS or email is anywhere from a thousand to a hundred thousand times more data than an SMS." Given that the previous paragraph says that it's an "email containing photo(s) and/
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by sorbus 15y ago
But the sun isn't a perfect sphere. If you're using pi to calculate the circumference of the sun, and need any sort of accuracy, you're doing it wrong - you're answering a question with no relation to reality.
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by sorbus 15y ago
Having removed *.co.cc from their index, is Google going to continue to index it? There doesn't seem to be any reason for them to do so (they would just be throwing the information away), and if they don't then they would never become aware
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by sorbus 15y ago
You're confusing cynicism with paranoia. A cynic would think that Google has lost faith in its algorithm and is taking to manually blocking spammy sites; a paranoid would think that Google plans to have websites pay to be included in search
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by sorbus 15y ago
You are definitely not the only one (although I never watched Indiana Jones; pop culture osmosis is an amazing thing). The article did mention that a lot of the historic pieces are probably going to end up in museums, depending on the outco
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by sorbus 15y ago
> What if one of them wanted to take their phone number off the site? What if one of them wanted to hide their information from you specifically? If you've downloaded it already you're depriving them of the right to control their own d
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by sorbus 15y ago
> What would it take to get this running under OS X? Getting it running on Linux is as simple as throwing the source at GCC (with the -lSDL flag), so in theory it would probably be a similar level of difficulty on OS X, if you already h
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by sorbus 15y ago
The last paragraph of the post acknowledges that, and points out the problem: "Nowadays, Ninite finally shows up on the front page on Google for “automated software install”, so the problem’s fading away for them. But in your early days of
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by sorbus 15y ago
Canada has one per 887892 citizens, so Mexico is still lower (I would rather live in Canada than Mexico, though). Of course countries which don't make any requests would be lower still, but I neglected those as it would cause divide-by-zero
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by sorbus 15y ago
The USA makes one request per 66726 citizens. France makes one per 61328.6 citizens, Australia one per 63405.5, and the United Kingdom is at one per 54216.9 (The best estimate I found for the population was 63 million; using the figure from
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by sorbus 15y ago
Devil's Advocate: There already is a face to face interaction, though; right before you get into the checkpoint, when they check your ID and ticket. Adding an extra 30 seconds on to have a bit more interaction wouldn't slow things down much
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by sorbus 15y ago
If the only way you can make money off of a good idea is by suing other people who are using it, then it's not a good idea.
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by sorbus 15y ago
Google expressed an interest in using the patents defensively, and implied that it would share them with the open source community. If the coalition intends to use the patents offensively, which is very plausible considering the companies i
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by sorbus 15y ago
If you use folders to keep things separate and take advantage of the compressed view (accessed by pressing "2"), I find that Reader is extremely usable for dealing with large numbers of feeds - I'm at 116 subscriptions right now. Admittedly
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by sorbus 15y ago
I'm not seeing the text ads being moved in either of the new themes; perhaps they're A/B testing it?
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by sorbus 15y ago
As someone who jumped from Windows XP to Linux (Knoppix, Ubuntu, and Arch) and now back to Windows 7: 1) No driver issues. I've heard bad things about Nvidia Optimus drivers for Linux. 2) I don't have to worry about not being able to instal
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by sorbus 15y ago
They can be found for around $30/oz; the first google shopping result for "conductive pen" is 9 grams (0.317 oz) for ~$10. It seems to be the same one you linked to on amazon (is that the mobile version, by the way? Because there's practica
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by sorbus 15y ago
This happened on a sunday originally, right? Hence a small number of users logging in to the website. Pinpointing affected users could be as simple as finding the small number of accounts which were logged into from new IP addresses. Altern
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by sorbus 15y ago
The important thing about this bug is that it allowed log-ins without passwords. No passwords were compromised. Therefor, asking users to change their passwords would have been FUD, as well as making it more difficult to identify which user

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