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by theon144 14y ago
>might use I feel like the author just provided an example how the drug companies could be exploiting the fact that they do not have to disclose the information about the placebo, not necessarily accusing them of it - I know I wouldn'
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by theon144 14y ago
http://www.isup.me/sf.net http://www.isup.me/sourceforge.net Looks like it's just that particular domain. I didn't investigate more, but I'd guess some DNS problems.
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by theon144 14y ago
How do you suppose one should make sure the exit node you run won't be used for sharing of child porn? And how is he automatically an idiot for running a TOR exit node? All node operators run them knowing they could be used for illegal acti
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by theon144 14y ago
That feature was added a month or two ago, I think.
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by theon144 14y ago
But then, why do I get a picture of some garden when I move my pointer in the top right corner?
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by theon144 14y ago
Torrent != copyright infringing downloading. What the commenter you're replying to meant was something like what Humble Indie Bundle did - after you buy the bundle, you can also officially and legally download it using bittorrent (as oppose
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by theon144 14y ago
Also: Piracy doesn't hurt sales as much as you might (like to) think, and DRM is not a good deterrent against piracy anyway.
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by theon144 15y ago
Yay! I wanted to contribute to duckduckgo a while ago, but found it quite daunting, this is perfect!
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by theon144 15y ago
Maybe Amazon could add a new category of HITs, "real-time HITs". Someone (the "turk", or whatever Amazon calls them) keeps an open window (and is optionally paid for each minute with the window open), so new HITs would appear immediately, a
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by theon144 15y ago
Honestly, who decides what characters should be included?
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by theon144 15y ago
Or middle click.
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by theon144 15y ago
Hey, don't bad-mouth Microsoft out of all giant tech companies. Have you seen what Microsoft Research has been putting out? (Not to mention they finally brought 3D scanning/mo-cap into the consumer price range)
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by theon144 15y ago
Absolutely. The concept video they released did nothing for me, but I'd absolutely love to tinker with them. Let's hope they aren't going to be too expensive, and that they will be open to modifications (though knowing that this is Google,
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by theon144 15y ago
Why? (Honest question, I don't know much about JavaScript or backend development)
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by theon144 15y ago
Does anybody have the video for download? It's unwatchable in the flash player, I get about 5 FPS.
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by theon144 15y ago
Hacker News, for one. Anyway, NoScript isn't an extension to disable javascript (there's already a checkbox for that), the point is to selectively enable it.
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by theon144 15y ago
>"Eve became very, very sick. Patrick ... worked every night for a month desperately trying to cure her. ... Eventually, based on gut instinct, Patrick concocted a mixture that included calcium and nectar and fed it to his patient, drop
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by theon144 15y ago
Well that's an unpleasant mental image... However, cockroaches actually aren't any better at surviving radiation than any other species, mythbusters tried it.
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by theon144 15y ago
I absolutely agree with you on the passwords. When I once accidentally typed my password into the username field, I thought: "...this is what my password looks like? This can't be right."
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by theon144 15y ago
No search function?
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by theon144 15y ago
>To address this, the standard does not dictate what package format the software system must use for its own packages, merely that RPM must be supported to allow packages from third-party distributors to be installed on a conforming sys
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by theon144 15y ago
Wait, I didn't know that and I use Arch - what's with Arch and LSB?
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by theon144 15y ago
Why not use the same system any web service in existence already uses - nicknames? Any text string is still easier to remember than an arbitrary number.
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by theon144 15y ago
Most definitely, otherwise opensource software wouldn't be that big of a deal. It's not very probable though, they don't have much to gain by doing it.
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by theon144 15y ago
And since SMS cost money, this could be a paid service, I'm sure people would pay for it, and it might turn up enough to sustain itself.
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by theon144 15y ago
Even in best case scenario, I'm not sure GPS would be accurate enough, as it's only accurate down to few centimeters, you'd probably need more if you'd like to perform that kind of acrobatics as shown in the video. And what about the height
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by theon144 15y ago
Very cool, but notice what kind of room they fly in - they're using cameras to control the quadcopters, they're not autonomous, which means that if you put them outside, they wouldn't work. Still, pretty damn impressive.
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Collision detection in Sonic the Hedgehog(info.sonicretro.org)
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by theon144 15y ago
Oh, thanks. One more question: Why didn't you get the pdf version? I also want to participate in the reddit collective reading, but since you've chosen a paper book over a pdf, it makes me think that I shouldn't use the pdf version. (I'd bu
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by theon144 15y ago
Not having read the book, may I ask why is the formatting (not the illustrations, that's kind of obvious) so important?

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