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by specialp 11y ago
I have commented on this in the past, but I have worked in the lab industry. It is very highly regulated, and what is happening now is exactly what should have been expected. The bottom line in the lab industry is you can market yourself ho
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by specialp 11y ago
I would take this with a grain of salt as this man is known to plagiarize and make up content in his previous posts. Also given that he took a picture of everyone and everything you think he would not do anything in the world to get a pictu
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by specialp 11y ago
taxact.com is entirely online too. No app required.
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by specialp 11y ago
A good thing about being laid off by Nokia is that they will often give money if you are starting a company as they mentioned with one of the start ups formed by laid off employees. When Nokia laid off the Maemo/MeeGo folks, they gave
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Valve Offers Unconditional Refunds on Sketchy Steam Game(steamed.kotaku.com)
2 points by specialp 11y ago|0 comments
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by specialp 12y ago
They are better off not selling handsets anymore. Even Samsung and Apple will start to feel massive pressure on their margins sometime soon. Handset technology is leveling off and generic manufacturers are getting better at making them. It
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by specialp 12y ago
Well for me personally it makes sense if you are not of very large scale. Real hardware is cheaper but the costs of electric, transit, and colo space are not your only costs. If you are going to do physical hosting right you need to be in s
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by specialp 12y ago
The problem now is that GMail is so big, it becomes "well your emails are being filtered in GMail so you need to fix it". With smaller providers it would be that they were being too aggressive with email filtering. Fixing the prob
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by specialp 12y ago
I had that experience with Yahoo. I sent a single email to my brother whom has an account on Yahoo with SPF, DKIM, and not in any blackhole files. I received their 421 response "All messages from x.x.x.x will be permanently deferred; R
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by specialp 12y ago
This is implying that people actually want to upgrade full releases. Perhaps I would like to make a Linux box and have it last a few years, and only patch it for security fixes as it is working fine. Yes if I do have to upgrade that system
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by specialp 12y ago
Google does not want to be in the telco business at all, it just has to be to protect the source of its revenue which is people connecting to them via some ISP. They are purposely building out in cheap to build areas. If they started hookin
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by specialp 12y ago
By that logic every single case that the FBI prosecutes is fruit of the poison tree. I am in no way in support of NSA activities, but in order to make your claim you need some proof unfortunately. If it were ever proven that the FBI regular
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by specialp 12y ago
Why don't you read the court documents of the facts that he pled guilty to. He hid his laptops and put out a decoy device when he knew the feds were coming. He threatened to kill the feds on Youtube and Twitter. Those 2 things are not
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by specialp 12y ago
"Interference with the execution of a search warrant" (18 USC 1501)
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by specialp 12y ago
For those that are interested, here is the court document outlining the charges against Barrett Brown: https://freebarrettbrown.org/files/BB_factualresume.pdf
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by specialp 12y ago
Do you have any cases where NSA illegal wiretaps were used as evidence in court in a standard trial like this against a U.S. citizen? If the FBI said well our evidence is a confidential informant that would not be valid as the defense has a
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by specialp 12y ago
People forget this. I remember in the early 2000s when he was known as Kimble and ran pump and dump scams, and had a website of him on private jets and fancy cars partying with his illicit gains. Now he is known as some anti authority hero
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by specialp 12y ago
Adafruit, Sparkfun, et al are also working out of cheap locations, Not malls and other high rent retail locations. I ordered from Adafruit once and it shipped from an apartment in Brooklyn. Radio Shack is a retail store with many locations.
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by specialp 12y ago
Radio Shack cannot make money selling hobbyist things to support their expensive retail locations. We all love that kind of stuff but admit it, that business has gone online to places like Adafruit. Even hardcore electronic component retail
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by specialp 12y ago
If you have ever been to NYC you would know that if the parking regulations were not enforced so zealously the city would be a mess. The only reason why $40 parking garages are full is that you know if you park illegally on the streets of M
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The Physics of Beer Bottle Tapping(physics.aps.org)
5 points by specialp 12y ago|0 comments
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by specialp 12y ago
I am a bit weary about this though as there are no details at all proving this person was raided or actually ran an exit node. There is a BTC address to donate to, but no name, no location, no news article or torrc file. I think skepticism
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by specialp 12y ago
Well Redis is NOT the solution for many things too. I find it is a huge problem in the DB community that people think there has to be a solve all solution. Every DB strategy has strengths and weaknesses. I use Redis and Postgres they are bo
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by specialp 12y ago
Not sure they are not caring or stupid. Perhaps they decided that Twitter is NOT a platform for conversations. I use Twitter as a real time platform for announcements, status updates, and just general sentiment. I do not really want to read
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by specialp 12y ago
Honestly this is no surprise. I am a big Amazon fan, but if you are selling a restricted platform item you have to sell it at a loss. I do not know what they were thinking. It was priced higher than comparable flagship phones while being so
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by specialp 12y ago
http://www.fai.org/records/news-of-records/37017-baumgartner... Here is the list of records set by Baumgartner. The record set today is the highest exit altitude. So yes the record is broken. Baumgartner will s
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by specialp 12y ago
It could also be that he is breathing gasses at far less than the pressure at sea level. The suit is probably pressurized to a very high altitude.
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by specialp 12y ago
I believe from reading the article that he planned this in secrecy and the lack of publicity is intentional.
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Alan Eustace Jumps from Stratosphere, Breaking Felix Baumgartner’s World Record(nytimes.com)
816 points by specialp 12y ago|236 comments
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by specialp 12y ago
That is NET worth not annual income. $250k is a very high annual income, and very few people attain this working for someone else. Most people bringing in that amount or higher are running a company.

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