ta12121

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by ta12121 14y ago
There's a tendency here (and yes, reddit) of people submitting, and others upvoting, a random well known thing that happens to be significant in the real world, but with zero actual novelty. The Stallman interview from the 80s that was pos
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by ta12121 14y ago
Are they going to issue company scrip too?
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by ta12121 14y ago
I have great sympathy for the position proposed in the article, with one major fear: those trained in science typically traffic in ideas that are either right (true) or wrong (false). I fear that this would dispose them toward authoritaria
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by ta12121 14y ago
http://public.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/impactful.html
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by ta12121 14y ago
"impactful" is not a word. please stop using it. please. I beg.
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by ta12121 14y ago
Second to last paragraph: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/04/make-your-email-hac...
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by ta12121 14y ago
The US government spends an enormous amount of money on medical research, and many medical treatments would simply not exist if it weren't for such Evil Communist behavior. The market is a tool useful for some problems. It is not the alpha
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by ta12121 14y ago
You mean the guy who thinks you should email yourself your passwords to store them safely?
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by ta12121 14y ago
Who forgets that? This is pretty well known.
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by ta12121 14y ago
No, but it could have been without them knowing it. Just because an exploit hasn't been found and publicized by a security firm, doesn't mean black hats couldn't have found the bug and been using it without it being widely known.
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by ta12121 14y ago
Why must time be earth centric? Because time is ultimately for human end users, and humans live on Earth.
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by ta12121 14y ago
MaxwellKennerly above provided references to prior art. You disputed said references by claiming that other products copied Apple. I pointed out that just because it was Apple who made these features popular, leading to other products copyi
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by ta12121 14y ago
The Detailed Explanation given by Lucas concludes: So, on some machines, using a "less than" comparison might save one machine instruction. This was relevant in the era of sub-megahertz processor speed and 1:1 cpu-to-memo
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by ta12121 14y ago
I wish I knew, but I got downvoted for a constructive attempt at pointing it out.
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by ta12121 14y ago
Grandparent was pointing out that the extra procedures were not due to his being an immigrant or tourist. Most countries have somewhat fewer hoops for their own citizens than foreigners. He wasn't asking for preferential treatment, he was s
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by ta12121 14y ago
Perhaps they were trying to motivate you into bribing them.
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by ta12121 14y ago
The top voted answer explains that the premise of the question and therefore the title of the submission is wrong.
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by ta12121 14y ago
Many breakthroughs are invented multiple times before they stick. The patent doesn't belong to the one who made it popular, but the one who made it first.
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by ta12121 14y ago
Well, you'd have to work out the details.
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by ta12121 14y ago
I have always had a fantasy that we could make roads from laying down lava that wouldn't have to be resurfaced every 5 years.
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by ta12121 14y ago
Perhaps you mean, he left ? ( http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?MathematiciansWhoHaveLeft )
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by ta12121 14y ago
OK, but why? I mean, who here hasn't seen this or know about it?
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by ta12121 14y ago
Most people don't drive their cars 24/7. Even on road trips it's more like 12 or 18 hours. Once battery capacities reach the point where you only have to charge it at night for a full day's drive, you've solved the problem and you don't ne
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by ta12121 14y ago
I assume because the cars need to be charged while parked so you can get home.
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by ta12121 14y ago
Fedora. Yes I know it's bleeding edge and probably has vulnerabilities, but I can't imagine what kind of organization lets a single developer patch OpenSSL without oversight and then ship it. For me, its a matter of principle, not practic
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by ta12121 14y ago
I really wish I could use Ubuntu, but I can't bring myself to use any Debian derivative after the OpenSSL debacle.
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by ta12121 14y ago
I guess that makes sense, but doesn't the mixed content warning make it moot? Doesn't that mean unauthenticated javascript can be inserted?
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by ta12121 14y ago
Is there any particular reason the link is HTTPS, especially considering that the page contains no sensitive content, and a warning about non-SSL content when it's loaded?
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by ta12121 14y ago
Why do you need a SWAT team to arrest someone for copyright infringement? Great great grandparent used the words increasingly and expect , not simply are .
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by ta12121 14y ago
I don't use Linux because I enjoy annoying kluges.

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