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Humans got immunity boost from Neanderthals, study finds(latimes.com)
2 points by srl 15y ago|0 comments
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The Latest Terrorism Non-Menace: Pilot Potty-Break Attacks(theatlantic.com)
3 points by srl 15y ago|0 comments
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by srl 15y ago
Correction to the title: this earthquake was a 5.9.
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by srl 15y ago
Indonesia has significant earthquakes multiple times most days, thanks to it's being Indonesia. Probably not connected.
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by srl 15y ago
Felt it good and strong in Maryland (4th floor). Physicists, apparently, are just like Californians - very laid back, and pretend not to notice any earthquake <8.0. (Yes, I reported to USGS.)
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Argentine ISPs Use Bazooka to Kill Fly(eff.org)
33 points by srl 15y ago|12 comments
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Publishers Decide They'd Rather Pay Songwriters Than Lawyers(eff.org)
2 points by srl 15y ago|0 comments
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by srl 15y ago
You've gone 15 years without ever having the misfortune of being stuck in an environment where all you could do was think about how boring what you're doing is (and, quite possibly, how incompetent those around you are). You've spent 15 yea
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by srl 15y ago
Nicely done. It'd take considerably more effort, but it'd be nice if it wasn't so blatantly copied from wikipedia - it should be possible to perform minimal word-order changes without too high a risk of breaking things. (Also, forcing sente
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by srl 15y ago
It won't change - it's not user-visible, it's just for other developers, who do, in fact, have an interest in the version.
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by srl 15y ago
Firefox isn't going to gain any valuable publicity that they don't already have by announcing "Firefox X is here". Unlike Chrome, they're not in a position to be making rapid gains - a large portion of what's left of the market is companies
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by srl 15y ago
DISCERN is old - this researcher has apparently been working on it since 1990. According to popular mechanics, the article was published in the online version of Biological Psychiatry . This seems to be the issue in question: http://bit
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by srl 15y ago
The US doesn't want an Internet kill switch for nothing. Quite OT, but this sentence makes me cringe. There's a common misconception that the proposed "Internet kill switch" would allow the executive to order ISPs to turn off access in ex
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Perseid Meteor Shower: Shooting Stars After Midnight(abcnews.go.com)
1 points by srl 15y ago|0 comments
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British Prime Minister Does a 180 on Internet Censorship(eff.org)
7 points by srl 15y ago|0 comments
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by srl 15y ago
In about:config, change browser.sessionstore.resume_from_crash.
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by srl 15y ago
This patent appears to have gone almost 4 years between being filed and being issued. One wonders what they spent that time doing. Looking through their car's user manual for prior art, perhaps? (Or perhaps they took that phrase literally,
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K computer(en.wikipedia.org)
7 points by srl 15y ago|0 comments
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New Meteor Shower Discovered; May Uncover New Comet(news.nationalgeographic.com)
2 points by srl 15y ago|0 comments
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Microsoft v. i4i(eff.org)
1 points by srl 15y ago|0 comments
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by srl 15y ago
Anonymous posted to twitter concerning OpFacebook. The three posts that (I think) are relevant: #OpFacebook is being organised by some Anons. This does not necessarily mean that all of #Anonymous agrees with it. We prefer to face the rea
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by srl 15y ago
Have any of the "official" (whatever it means) Twitter accounts said anything against FacebookOp? No. FacebookOp has gone entirely unmentioned by #AnonOps. Not because #AnonOps is unable to post - both Twitter and the blogspot account hav
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by srl 15y ago
Highly unlikely, except perhaps in Jake Davis's wet dreams. Remember that an actual hack requires a both a great deal of skill and great deal of luck, especially when reasonably secure installations (FB obviously qualifying as "reasonably s
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by srl 15y ago
This attack is scheduled to come soon after anon switches from LOIC to a "new cannon" dubbed #RefRef ( http://anonops.blogspot.com/2011/08/new-hacking-tools-by-ano... ). They're probably way overconfident in their abilities (#RefRef's descr
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Tohoku Tsunami Created Icebergs In Antarctica(nasa.gov)
1 points by srl 15y ago|0 comments
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by srl 15y ago
Either the user is using the same password on multiple sites. Then this would be a real security issue, independent of the fact if some of the sites store the password in plaintext. Nevertheless, the vast majority of users do - and that's
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by srl 15y ago
The current theory is that the organic material actually originated on the asteroids themselves - on a class known as "CM2 Meteorites". ( http://www.nasa.gov/topics/solarsystem/features/dna-meteorit... - last couple of paragraphs) Also acc
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by srl 15y ago
NASA is confident that these, at least, did. (Of course, they could also have simultaneously been created terrestrially - but that doesn't change the fact that they were also created in space.) We have three lines of evidence that together
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by srl 15y ago
Quick, which tech powerhouse's flagship mobile product came out dead last in a systematic survey of the openness of eight open-source software projects? You'd be forgiven for saying 'Apple'... This makes it sound like a comparison of iOS
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by srl 15y ago
Yuck. She claims that what we're doing to preserve old data isn't working[1], so the solution is to emulate what vintage video game fans do - keep circulating the same old games and pouring a great deal of time into preserving them and (rar

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