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12y ago
Yes, yes, they do. Otherwise, I'd like to have Justin Beiber locked up in jail tomorrow. along with every other insipid pop artist and creators of other things I don't like. It's okay not to like things, its not okay to force
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12y ago
Well that, and his comic book store sucks. The store I go to has an entire rack/shelf/section for kids. On that rack is MLP, Lego, Minecraft, and a lot of other stuff. Options exist, that store didn't have them available and
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12y ago
The men are sexualized too. Just not in the hyper masculine sense.
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12y ago
It was also part of a larger conversation about how little rocket and aerospace technology has advanced since the 60's because they're afraid of trying anything new.
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12y ago
I don't mean to make fun, but this is for you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQ_3g2hUCn4
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12y ago
Grab the torrent of the list w/ passwords. I will say that the passwords are usually very old, grabbed from some forums, and have probably been out in the wild for a while. So basically, as long as you don't use the same password
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12y ago
Exactly, they have zero evidence it was ran outside the competition. And if they downloaded it and ran it themselves, then they've given express consent, or if someone else ran it on someone else's machine after modifying it signi
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12y ago
Yes, I've actually read the book, that's why I thought it came originally from the TMRC as one of the many slang terms or jargon they came up with.
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12y ago
They aren't the brightest people, they think this is some deep web evil hackers and probably think they have some secret code that hacks the DoD or something.
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12y ago
The original term hacker came from the MIT Model Railroad Club. It came from when they "hacked" together some phone switching equipment to control the relays on their model railroad. Someone who used something other than its origi
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12y ago
It's been in the news before. It's spectacular fishing from NJ state attorney, it could in theory violate the law as written if deployed on a website and mined bitcoins without implied consent by the client (but then again I could
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12y ago
I heard the same story from Adam Savage, but it was Con-Air, not Rush Hour 2.
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12y ago
It's anecdotal, but one of my best friends would read something like a book a week because he got to look forward to pizza every weekend if he did. His reading comprehension speed is 4-5 times that of mine as a result today.
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12y ago
Relevant Colbert Word of the Day: http://thecolbertreport.cc.com/videos/z1aahs/the-word---wiki...
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12y ago
Why stop there, throttle the Congress and White House IP's for being complicit. I'd throttle every US government IP block myself.
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13y ago
If you're a US company doing business in a another country, you have to comply with the laws of that country, and part of that is confidentiality. If the NSA, FBI, whoever can secret warrant any data overseas on companies that operate
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Original report (as you can see most of it has been "censored for abuse" by dev. https://github.com/opencart/opencart/issues/1286 Screenshots of original posts and responses: http://imgur
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OpenCart project responds with profanity and censorship to GitHub issue
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SparkFun: We Hear You
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13y ago
I don't know why football practice can't just be a PE replacement credit. Other than your PE coaches can't be two places at once if they are also team coaches.
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13y ago
Teenagers aren't lazy when they won't get up in the morning, their bodies actually require 9-10 hours of sleep normally to be awake, where as a normal adults require 8 hours to function at peak. They're still growing/dev
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13y ago
As someone who was diagnosed with cancer back in August at the age of 33, I can relate, thankfully, it was easily treatable, testicular cancer that by all appearances had not spread. I literally gave my left nut to get rid of it. That was t
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Which actually worked better, because typing speed was on your side. This doesn't really work for me because you have to alter your typing pace to navigate through pipes. While challenging/frustrating, I don't see that increa
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13y ago
It is now anyway, even with DRM. Actually Netflix is easier then pirating, which is now why Netflix consumes more traffic than torrents.
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13y ago
Then they can keep it and they won't get my money, and everyone will just end up pirating it anyway. You don't combat piracy by locking it down and making a pain to access your content, you compete/combat piracy by making sur
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13y ago
There is a book somewhere that talks about this in detail, its not just animals, but in third world countries, people don't sit with their legs and back at ~90 degree angles. Chairs are actually the most unnatural position for our bodi
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13y ago
You don't need one, it's got gorilla glass, it's basically the same screen you'd get on a high end tablet.
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13y ago
I've never seen a laptop actually get 9 hours. Even a Netbook or Air won't last much past 6. I think people tend to exaggerate. If you say 9 hours, I'd believe 4.5 hours. I mean if I left it to idle for 9 hours yeah it would
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13y ago
Yeah, but not one that thin (small battery).
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I compared this to a Macbook Pro 13", which is the closest comparable hardware. It came out better in features and cost ($300 cheaper then a Macbook Pro with similar SSD and memory), and was thinner and lighter. I wanted the Macbook Pr
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