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151.
by stox 13y ago
Yes, and if I find your laptop and login as Administrator and try 1-2-3-4, I am a felon. There is currently no requirement of any due diligence in protecting a computer.
152.
by stox 13y ago
Wow! You telling me that working as a jumper at a Nuclear Plant might have been good for me? The mind boggles.
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by stox 13y ago
Just wait until AWS East goes down. Not if, just when. But Heroku is in AWS East, too. I am so happy to have gotten out of AWS.
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by stox 13y ago
"I'm really happy with the results and look forward to sharing them as soon as I figure out how to load music onto iTunes, hopefully in the next few weeks." It might be a while.
155.
by stox 13y ago
I always preferred UTSL ( Use The Source, Luke ), instead of RTFC.
156.
by stox 13y ago
Only cowards will sacrifice freedom for security.
157.
by stox 14y ago
TCE is used for degreasing and for dry cleaning clothing.
158.
by stox 14y ago
Oh fun! I lived for a decade next to Illinois's largest TCE leak, Lockformer. Nasty stuff, and it has some rather interesting properties when underground.
159.
by stox 14y ago
The first computer I learned to program, an IBM 1130, had a Selectric as the console.
160.
by stox 14y ago
Wingz, reborn yet again.
161.
by stox 14y ago
I have a GTX680, and it supports three monitors out of the box using the proprietary Nvidia drivers on Linux. No hacks needed.
162.
by stox 14y ago
One note, Postgres is well over 18 years old. Postgres using SQL is 18 years old. Postgres had its own query language which was replaced with SQL in Postgres95, which in turn became PostgreSQL.
163.
by stox 14y ago
What I would like to see is a Turbine/electric hybrid. It would answer most of the issues with running a turbine, and be able to burn a very wide range of fuels.
164.
by stox 14y ago
And the most important question of all, "Are you a big enough sucker to believe I will give you the $50,000 I promised for building the invention I asked for?"
165.
by stox 14y ago
Since 1997. Prior to that Bill donated zip, zero, nada to charitable causes. I suspect that Melinda is the driving force behind this.
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ISPs Must Suspend Data Caps Until They Can Count(publicknowledge.org)
1 points by stox 14y ago|0 comments
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Thumb on the scale? Broadband meters are inaccurate(gigaom.com)
2 points by stox 14y ago|0 comments
168.
by stox 14y ago
This is the same company that claims that how they measure your usage to determine DSL data caps is Proprietary. I think the time to put them under full regulation has come again.
169.
by stox 14y ago
Pretty much a self fulfilling prophecy.
170.
by stox 14y ago
I think the reason for the response to Aaron's suicide is that people are finally opening their eyes to the behavior of our government. Justice is no longer the prerogative of our legal system. This has to change.
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by stox 14y ago
There is nothing new about this behavior, Len Rose went through much the same 20 years ago. Maybe we are finally getting a clue that the system is, in fact, broken.
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WBC to picket Aaron Swartz Funeral(twitter.com)
4 points by stox 14y ago|0 comments
173.
by stox 14y ago
Gerry's work filled my imagination as a young child. He was a genius! Thunderbirds are GO!
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by stox 14y ago
Chicago has a huge number of startups, mostly in the HFT sector. Many are just under the radar. You also forgot to mention the National Laboratories, Fermi and Argonne. Over the course of time, how many companies has spun out from under Bel
175.
by stox 14y ago
Looks like LinkedIn is down at the moment.
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by stox 14y ago
Upon hearing this, the astute listener will realize just how much George Lucas lifted from this to build the Star Wars story lines.
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by stox 14y ago
This has been speculated for some time, and one solution would be a Fusion Ramjet: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bussard_ramjet
178.
by stox 14y ago
The concept of a teletype predated ASCII by decades. I would not use this article for any historical references.
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by stox 14y ago
I miss gebaca.
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by stox 14y ago
It was, especially, the jump and slide problem. The WE32100 and WE32200 rocked.

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