stirfrykitty

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by stirfrykitty 7y ago
Ditto on favorite. The man has the knack and the knowledge to put out some fantastic stories. I've often wondered why no one has picked up Crytonomicon for a film. I think with the right directors and actors, the movie would be fantast
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by stirfrykitty 7y ago
Good to know; thank you.
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by stirfrykitty 7y ago
This is precisely one of the reasons why OpenBSD was developed in Canada (crypto). No such regulations barring import/export of crypto. In the end, it's impossible to police the use of strong encryption. Things like Waste and many
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by stirfrykitty 7y ago
I'm rather fond of Yandex. They have great engineers and make a solid product. Being Russian doesn't bother me, as I have nothing against the Russians. Yandex search has a fantastic image search that rival most others. And the fac
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by stirfrykitty 7y ago
Please explain. Even without the revelations from PV, it's patently obvious Google, et al are biased. Anyone can see it. Silicon Valley is a bloody echo chamber. If the videos by PV were not damning in the least, why did 4 different co
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by stirfrykitty 7y ago
- Packages with mutually exclusive dependencies are troublesome in the RPM world - yum/dnf take extraordinary amounts of time compared to apt - debs are all in one source. Upstream sources are clean, predictable, and easy to troublesho
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by stirfrykitty 7y ago
Having said what I did above, though, can anything compare to SUSE's command to update? "zypper -up" Best command ever...
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by stirfrykitty 7y ago
After spending years messing with RPM packages in the sysadmin world, I now breathe a sigh of relief with Arch/pacman. Building/maintaining/installing RPMs is painful compared to Arch or Debian's dpkg.
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by stirfrykitty 7y ago
No worries. Chocolate is terrible for animals, particularly dogs and birds. I was shunned for a few weeks by some Marines when stationed in Japan for sticking up for some seagulls. Our barracks was situated along the coast (literally) and t
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by stirfrykitty 7y ago
Knowledge itself is really not much unless it's applied. Corvids apply their knowledge/intelligence. I'm sure some is innate and some is learned. My children do the same. My youngest son was brainy from day one. There is noth
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by stirfrykitty 7y ago
Agreed. I would like to see an add-on that sends a sick amount of clicks to the 3rd party and costs them a fortune. If there was no ROI, ads would diminish. Content does not need to be free. I pay for email. I pay for other online services
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by stirfrykitty 7y ago
Captchas are hell on the blind and vision impaired. There are add-ons for this, but they mostly suck. Things like Webvisum exist but they are invite only.
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by stirfrykitty 7y ago
Good info. Thank you. And in keeping with recent revelations on Google's manipulation of search results, I think they have really gone beyond the pale. I un-archived my old iPhone two days ago and went back to iOS after the James O&#x2
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by stirfrykitty 7y ago
The crows where I live are fond of Cheez-its. They also like peanuts and popcorn (unsalted), but I tend to not feed them too much junk food. I did this to show my children that crows are good birds and will protect the area from bad birds l
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by stirfrykitty 7y ago
Some people have actually gone so far as to have an outside wall taken out, a bat house installed (prevents ingress into the house at large) and then sealed up save the small bat entrance. They enter, hang, sleep, exit. There is a tray that
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by stirfrykitty 7y ago
I think we humans don't fully understand just how intelligent animals are. The ability to relay information across town rapidly is but one aspect, and it's fascinating. And they could do this while we were still wearing animal ski
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by stirfrykitty 7y ago
Well, Australia has two massive issues: mosquitoes and cane toads (poisonous). Both species are invasive. They developed an agent that should, within a year or so, kill off 80% of the population of mosquitoes, which the cane toad eats. Sinc
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by stirfrykitty 7y ago
Bats are the single best resource for keeping the populations of bad insects down. Some places have actually imported bats for this reason.
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by stirfrykitty 7y ago
Not dismissing the danger to bats in general, as they do provide more good services to nature than bad, but let's not forget, that in numbers, bats comprise more than 1/4 of all mammals. Losing a few, while likely (hopefully) prev
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by stirfrykitty 7y ago
There was a similar article (2014) that is also interesting. I think too many of us see new and shiny and immediately glom onto it, forgetting that the UNIX/regex fathers knew a thing or two about crunching data. https://ada
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by stirfrykitty 7y ago
Some ornithologists believe that raven and crows surpass even dolphins and apes in intelligence. While I agree that dolphins and apes are intelligent, from my own observations, I would agree with that bird expert. I've seen ravens and
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by stirfrykitty 7y ago
I've had an interest in crows and ravens for years. Most corvid researchers agree that ravens top the list in intelligence due to their larger brains. Crows tend to squabble over resources whilst ravens tend to be loners (mating pairs
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by stirfrykitty 7y ago
Edited to remove last paragraph. Thank you for the info and link.
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by stirfrykitty 7y ago
Slavery was a democrat policy. Fact. And I'm not a Republican--they are too liberal and too soft. I've always been opposed to slavery. Just because some prisons and policies have been wrong doesn't mean prison labor is wrong.
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by stirfrykitty 7y ago
Thank you for your civil reply. Nothing political or ideological in stating that prison labor for the public good is a good thing. It is. That's a fact. Prisoners owe the public for their malfeasance, hence their serving time to pay ba
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by stirfrykitty 7y ago
I don't know about anything other than the USMC. In the Corps, everyone works, even officers. Our SgtMaj as well as our Colonel were frequently seen filling sandbags when deployed, out on the rifle/pistol range training during dep
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by stirfrykitty 7y ago
Nothing at all wrong with using prison labor for something related to supporting the public, particularly a school. Taxpayer money keeps them locked up and by dint of this, we should get return on investment. Here in Texas, prison labor is
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by stirfrykitty 7y ago
Kudos to Project Veritas. I always suspected Google were intentionally manipulating people. Now we know for certain. I cancelled my Google accounts yesterday after watching. As a conservative, (not a Republican-they are too liberal), I find
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by stirfrykitty 7y ago
We use Screenly. It's rather basic and managed from a cloud account that can see the devices. There is no SSH or other "admin" access beyond the Web GUI that allows you to name/rename/remove and group screens based

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