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by specialp 13y ago
Not to mention that if I were riding in the summer there is no way I would want something wrapped around my neck as it would decrease my ability to cool myself down. Sure, having something on your head is not much better but helmets these
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Assured information locking with quantum cryptography(physics.aps.org)
1 points by specialp 13y ago|0 comments
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by specialp 13y ago
The low end is being destroyed by "white box" Android phones from China. There is simply no way to compete with them on price since they do not have to develop software and sell nearly at cost. This will be the same with high end
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by specialp 13y ago
They lost their reputation long before they went to MS. Symbian had over 3000 developers yet their interface was very confusing, and full of bugs. The N95 was a decent phone in 2007 besting the iPhone in many ways (fast CPU/GPU, 3.5G,
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by specialp 13y ago
I was an owner of a N9 and really enjoyed the OS. Most of the employees that developed Maemo and MeeGo are carrying on at jolla.com. They still have not shipped a phone yet and I have been following them for nearly 2 years now. As much as
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by specialp 13y ago
We are a Apple/Linux shop here with a couple of hundred employees. We use Active Directory (switched from LDAP) and we have the Macs on load sets. We recently outsourced our email to Google. It is not as easy as with Windows. Microso
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by specialp 13y ago
When Amazon first introduced Prime I was able to get any of their products next day regardless of what warehouse they were in. I live in NY and occasionally some stuff would come next day air from say Arizona at probably a large loss for A
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by specialp 13y ago
It is almost always true that consultants work out cheaper than full-time employees. However, full-time employees can spend time in your business domain for a while and develop a product. The examples given like "wire this up to elast
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by specialp 13y ago
Hopefully in 30 years people will be able to read such seminal messages. Now that a lot of discussion is happening on proprietary platforms without a standard it may not be the case.
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by specialp 13y ago
Maybe it is some very elaborate ruse by the PHP team to create regression bugs that break frequently used functions badly so when they slipped in the NSA bug it would go undetected but I doubt that. I lost count of how many times a PHP sta
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by specialp 13y ago
I am not sure if there is any advantage at all of using a debit card over a credit card. Bottom line is that debit card fraud comes straight from your bank account and can cause problems with other payments etc. These days it is not possib
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by specialp 13y ago
There are but XML schemas are well understood, standardized and have been around for a long time. Even if they did this project today, XML is the right choice due to its maturity and suitability for documents.
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by specialp 13y ago
Yes the machine producing insulin pumps would be in a state of continuous integration/deployment. Then one day at 3am a developer on a binge of Monster Energy and pizza would push an unchecked bug to git and have it deployed.
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by specialp 13y ago
In the USA this is the predominant model. In Europe and Russia customers prefer to buy a SIM unlocked phone and not have a contract. These carriers were getting killed selling subsidized iPhones because it is far cheaper to import an unlo
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by specialp 13y ago
I went to school in the UK and there was a rape near my university. They had a program where males can come down and "voluntarily" get a cheek swab to "assist" in the investigation. This is also the country that has the
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by specialp 13y ago
Yubikey does not store passwords, it generates them. It generates one time passwords for two factor authorization that expire very quickly. So if your password is stolen, the attacker would also need your Yubikey to generate a one time pas
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Designing Better Materials for LEDs(physics.aps.org)
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by specialp 13y ago
See http://openresolverproject.org/ . Someone was trying to use them to attack someone else. Misconfigured DNS servers can be used to amplify DDOS attacks exponentially. If your DNS server is open to recursive queries for outside hosts i
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by specialp 13y ago
No, when utilizing a REST protocol it is not desirable to have long requests. The correct way to do something that could potentially take a long time would be to process it in the background queued and then have the client poll the server
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by specialp 13y ago
Google is basically twisting everyone's arms to join G+. Here is the Google progression of things: 1. Hey we support all open protocols all you need to do is use our FREE service that is superior to all others. 2. OK now you need to unify y
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by specialp 13y ago
New York City has taken a similar approach. They have now started fighting many more lawsuits even though the settlement amount would be less than the cost of defense. The problem with settling is that it emboldens others to come in as th
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by specialp 13y ago
I actually work as a developer for non-profit society. I agree that having paywalls around content is bad and prevents the dissemination and access to fundamental knowledge. We generate most of our operational revenue through journal subs
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by specialp 13y ago
How is it NSFW? It is an article that is about video streaming on scale. Yes it does mention it was for a porn site, but it really does not have much to do with the article. If you work somewhere where this would be viewed as inappropria
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by specialp 14y ago
I think that if they do this, they should require all states and localities to commit to updating an online clearing house of tax rates for their locality based on location and product type. If you fail to do so, merchants are under no obli
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by specialp 14y ago
Google here is doing what they do best which is sticking to their core business of advertising/search while spending a bit here and there to disrupt businesses that they see as threatening to their core business. It is to Google's advantage
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by specialp 14y ago
While I am very concerned about things like this, this article starts off with unfounded FUD. At the beginning their premise is that drones will be used to track gun owners to violate second and fourth amendments but the documents they cit
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by specialp 14y ago
For example 1: The reason why the hospital charges so much is the fact that it gets stiffed for a lot of emergecy patients without insurance. Many hospitals are on the brink of bankruptcy especially in poorer areas. This does not always
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by specialp 14y ago
Yahoo finance is the biggest finance site on the internet. Sure we like to look at Yahoo as the old internet site that consists of former AOL users, but they do have massive traffic . I think it is a bit pretentious say that many people d
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by specialp 14y ago
I think the whole idea of having air blasting into a sink is asking for sanitation problems. Sinks are very dirty and if you are blasting air into them it would then create aerosols of the grime and spit in the sinks!
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by specialp 14y ago
I was in the Federal Reserve gold vault a few weeks ago and you realize that gold is just a very heavy metal that is inconvenient to store and move around. The NY Fed keeps this gold for free, and having this gold in their vault is forgive

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