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by srl 15y ago
He ... doesn't have an attorney, of course. Because if you're not paying people you owe, how you gonna get a lawyer? Good luck to you. (At least you can be guaranteed you won't be coming up against a brilliant legal defense.)
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by srl 15y ago
Apparently, p-lisp does still exist: http://www.flownet.com/ron/plisp.html .
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by srl 15y ago
[IANAL] Of course, it's also blackmail to threaten to approach the police about crime B if crime A is not rectified - that A is a crime is irrelevant. Not that it's applicable here.
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by srl 15y ago
It would be a fascinating (and somewhat frightening) world if cheaters and criminals acted intelligently. Luckily (for most of us - unluckily for bored police detectives) they don't. Writing a check may feel like a temporary solution, even
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by srl 15y ago
Don't use one. (Shouldn't this be one of the options as well?) (Disclaimer: I've also never owned one.) Half of my reasoning is specific to the various platforms. I don't want to use an iPhone because of Apple's usual obsessively controllin
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by srl 15y ago
> Seven out of ten isn't all that bad. Actually, it's pretty terrible - bear in mind that they could have picked ten (reasonably well-known) people at random, and chances are 8, 9, or all of them would be "has-beens" in four years.
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by srl 15y ago
"Again you are mistaken, my dear Paganel." Care to elaborate? (Preferably in English.)
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NASA Lauches Jupiter Probe (Juno)(nasa.gov)
1 points by srl 15y ago|0 comments
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Android development pulls hot chicks. Who knew?(esr.ibiblio.org)
4 points by srl 15y ago|0 comments
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by srl 15y ago
Sickening. More sickening still: many people's reaction to this magnitude of brutality (or, actually, to any magnitude of law enforcement's abuse of power) is to rationalize it by saying that the victim was "a criminal". The unstated logic
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Spain: Linking to Copyright Infringing Material Not Infringement(eff.org)
51 points by srl 15y ago|16 comments
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by srl 15y ago
(Heard of it, but did not associate the name with the experiment.) More interesting (to me) are the various experiments that followed, which took after Milgram in various ways. (Such as the Stanford prison experiment.)
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by srl 15y ago
> China will surpass the United States in soft and hard power eventually. This is demographically and economically inevitable. As far as I can tell, this conclusion can only be reached via naive interpolation of current trends. I can't
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by srl 15y ago
I doubt it. The people who are worth catching for the sake of their minds ... don't get caught. At least not nearly as easily as this group.
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NASA Picks Rover Destination: Mountain on Mars(nytimes.com)
1 points by srl 15y ago|0 comments
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by srl 15y ago
I'm not sure why this problem (the general problem - the risk of valid accounts being arbitrarily blocked) isn't an easy fix for google. Most spammers/fraudsters seek efficiency, so just take that efficiency away. When an account is first s
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by srl 15y ago
Neither can I find the duplicator story - the particular strip in question, however, is here: http://www.progressiveboink.com/jon/images/calvinhobbes/jon3...
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by srl 15y ago
"I know it's frustrating for you all but please bear with us -- I promise you having to work on a Sunday afternoon rather than dozing on the sofa is just as frustrating for us!" Somebody is /really/ bad at PR: complaining about having to wo
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How Little Things Change: a Pascal-to-Javascript Converter(iottmco.wordpress.com)
15 points by srl 15y ago|9 comments
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by srl 15y ago
The lack of an href is not required. Google explicitly will not fault you for links /to/ your site from "bad neighborhoods" (for the obvious reason). An automatic redirect (w/ javascript) would probably be the best way to go, with a message
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by srl 15y ago
They have a 1/10 chance of catastrophe whether or not I build the plant. A 1000 year earthquake is going to cause much bigger problems then a nuclear meltdown. Would you construct a house that could withstand the sun going nova? Again, not
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by srl 15y ago
I think it's too easy, with all this talk about nuclear meltdown and the world's worst industrial disaster (really?), to loose the following nugget of context: Japan just got hit by the fifth largest earthquake since 1900. They have bigger
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by srl 15y ago
It is great. Quality linux support for nvidia optimus cards is pretty important for a lot of people I know, and bumblebee appears to provide it. (Apparently, optimus cards act /really/ strangely without a proper driver.)
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by srl 15y ago
Isn't it a tad early for them to be preparing for 5.0 when the latest version in the 4.0 branch is 4.0.1? Just doesn't seem that they've actually made any changes worthy of a new major version. Perhaps they're getting jealous of chrome havi
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by srl 15y ago
Of course, the proper algorithm, when all are single digits, is to use an array [10]int.
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by srl 15y ago
cia.gov does not appear to be behind akamai or similar. Usually (always?), when a site is using akamai, a reverse DNS lookup for the site's IP yields some akamai domain name, rather than the original one. (This is the case for whitehouse.go
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by srl 15y ago
Down here too (east coast). LulzSec feels (to me) like just a group of bored teenagers messing around, randomly attacking whatever websites they can. I suspect if the gov't wanted to scare people, they wouldn't just sponsor/create a group d