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by srj 12y ago
I've lived in Seattle 7 years and have seen (and participated in) conversation with strangers on the bus. It's not impossible though it does seem rare here. Coffee shops and dog parks on the other hand are prime stranger conversat
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by srj 12y ago
"Internet interconnection has nothing to do with net neutrality; it’s all about Netflix wanting to unfairly shift its costs from its customers to all Internet customers, regardless of whether they subscribe to Netflix or not." Rea
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by srj 12y ago
All internet services pay transit providers but they don't typically pay last mile networks for access to their subscribers. Comcast is able to fight with Cogent while their own customer's connectivity suffers precisely because th
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by srj 13y ago
As far as I could tell Conlin hardly campaigned. I think it shocked local politicians that he lost.
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by srj 13y ago
I think it's tough to say. There's considerable overhead to packeted traffic. Also it sounds like they had a simple setup so there would be a delay in exchanging the DVDs after each one finishes. Uploads probably finished over the
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by srj 13y ago
What from the leaked documents tells you they lack credibility? From what I remember it was England's own GCHQ that was wiretapping the leased lines between Google data centers.
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Federal reserve meeting transcripts from the 2008 financial crisis released(federalreserve.gov)
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by srj 13y ago
I think that model oversimplifies it a bit, though for some implementations you're correct. Often however IRC servers are either a hub or leaf. A hub accepts no user traffic directly and its IP address does not need to be publicly know
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by srj 13y ago
I wouldn't say they're vulnerable, but just attractive targets. The decentralized network of servers allows an IRC network to be more resilient than many other systems.
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by srj 13y ago
Honest question as I'm wondering if I could have done something differently. I have a third-party library that has expensive initialization done inside of its class's parameterless constructor. Once created the library's inst
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by srj 13y ago
Using void* in C/C++ is to explicitly disable type checking for something like byte buffer i/o. Another circumstance is in a broad interface such as a callback method that will pass along an argument. In the latter case a top-leve
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by srj 13y ago
Considering there was no successor ready to take his place at the time of the announcement I think it's more likely that he was pushed out.
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by srj 13y ago
I wonder what punishing action the judge would take. Apple is one of the largest US companies and a national icon. I don't think the company could be fined privately because its books are public. Fining them publicly would only raise a
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by srj 14y ago
I realize it's a news headline but I feel obligated to point out that this doesn't rank as the 'biggest attack in history' except maybe for Spamhaus. It doesn't appear to come close to what the SQL Slammer, Blaster, or Sasser worms did. Sla
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by srj 14y ago
I believe each congressional body requires a majority of members present to have quorum and conduct business.
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by srj 14y ago
Googler here. I'm seeing POIs in Melbourne and Sydney - you're seeing nothing? Even zoomed all the way in? It sounds like a bug. Could you provide a link of where you're looking? If you tap and hold in the viewport, slide up the address pag
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by srj 14y ago
I believe the number of ads displayed varies based on the perceived usefulness of the ads in answering the user's query. The ad space above the organic search results shouldn't be lost space. Note: I work at Google but not on web search, ad
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by srj 14y ago
Strictly speaking those statements are indeed different as you've pointed out. The former has additional stipulations in that there must be multiple heuristic search algorithms used and they need to be organized in some modular fashion. Wha
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by srj 14y ago
It appears that for queries that don't have direct "answer" type response and will perform an action it displays a progress bar with the query it understood. Presumably this is so that you can cancel the action if voice recognition was wron
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by srj 14y ago
I started in 2007 as an intern on a project for Outlook. When I came back I joined a Forefront-related team where I stayed until the beginning of last year.
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by srj 14y ago
I too had a great time during my internship at Microsoft. I'll never forget the sense of adventure I felt moving across the country to work in a team that made news headlines and impacted millions of people. Working there full-time I found
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by srj 14y ago
The part of the codebase I work on in maps is written in C++, making it the language used most often within my team. I've finished a number of projects in python though, and I don't get any impression that I'm required to program in these l
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by srj 14y ago
While I agree generally I feel you've chosen the wrong example. The post office hasn't received tax funding for its operations since the early 70s when the Postal Reorganization Act made it responsible for its own finances. But even unfunde
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by srj 15y ago
What eventually gave detainees the ability to file habeas corpus writs was a decision that guantanamo bay is, even as a rented US territory, still under US federal court jurisdiction.
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by srj 15y ago
Actually I believe foreign nationals are provided many of the same rights that citizens enjoy when within US territory. This comes from the language of the 5th and 14th amendments, they refer to "persons" and not "citizens". Also I recall r