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by tod222 13y ago
Lenore Skenazy (Free Range Kids) blogged about this. [1] A commenter linked to a podcast with the school Principal. [2] [1] http://www.freerangekids.com/unsafe-playground-happier-safer... [2] http://podcast.radio
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by tod222 13y ago
I caught this too. So did one of the commenters: [1] Sorry it didn’t work out. “I can’t go much longer without a paycheck. But, I can’t imagine working for somebody else. I wish my wife understood that.” Change your perspective on this
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by tod222 13y ago
middleclick, perhaps you should read this Scientific American article: How the CIA’s Fake Vaccination Campaign Endangers Us All The U.S. was wrong to use health workers to target Osama bin Laden http://www.scientificamerican.com&
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by tod222 13y ago
verb: spike; 1. impale on or pierce with a sharp point. (of a newspaper editor) reject (a story) by or as if by filing it on a spike. "the editors deemed the article in bad taste and spiked it" stop the progress of (a plan or unde
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by tod222 13y ago
From the Bitcoin FAQ: But if no more coins are generated, what happens when Bitcoins are lost? Won't that be a problem? …The Bitcoin protocol uses a base unit of one hundred-millionth of a Bitcoin ("a Satoshi"), but unused
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by tod222 13y ago
For example, I was a little surprised when I was talking to a friend who was going to go on the radio. He does work on cosmology and astronomy, and he wondered how he would explain what the applications of his work were. "Well,"
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by tod222 13y ago
Look into the MATE Desktop Environment. [1] "MATE is a fork of GNOME 2. It provides an intuitive and attractive desktop environment using traditional metaphors for Linux…" [1] http://mate-desktop.org/
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by tod222 13y ago
> 17. Sendmail I'm very curious about the content of this chapter, given that Sendmail's deficiencies resulted in so many alternate MTAs being written (qmail, postfix, exim, etc.).
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New iPhone 5c has analysts talking about possibly poor sales(latimes.com)
26 points by tod222 13y ago|43 comments
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by tod222 13y ago
> This was one part of the Duke scandal (the fraud was much worse, but the Excel was sloppy)… Apparently a reference to Former Duke Cancer Researcher Anil Potti. [1][2] > …put egg on some Harvard Econ prof's faces - to the deligh
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by tod222 13y ago
> as opposed to the Captain Kirk types? What do you mean by "Captain Kirk type"?
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by tod222 13y ago
> it isn't at all a real proposal, but rather a sleight of hand to reduce buy-in to the CA HSR plan, which Musk opposes. Absolutely. People familiar with the tech industry should recognize this pattern: Announce a vaporware [1] prod
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by tod222 13y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topological_sorting
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by tod222 13y ago
> At this point since we've trained everyone, we get to drop some of the frills around the UI without suffering a substantial drop in usability. Do you have any data to back up your opinion? My anecdotal experience with unsophistica
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NSA can reportedly tap smartphone users' data(news.cnet.com)
5 points by tod222 13y ago|0 comments
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by tod222 13y ago
> Chicks dig scars Chicks? Really? Come on Linode, you should be better than this.
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Power outages caused by squirrels(nytimes.com)
46 points by tod222 13y ago|16 comments
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by tod222 13y ago
> Because the review panel is a joke . This is exactly right. This is a case of the government reviewing itself by packing the review board with insiders and sympathizers. Nobody who disagrees with the NSA's behavior has been selec
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by tod222 13y ago
Prior to the use of continuous welded rail there were gaps between each 39 foot section of rail. Nowadays with welded rail, careful compliance with construction standards is required. Slow orders are issued during heat waves and frequent tr
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NSA To Lay Off 90 Percent Of Its System Administrators(techweekeurope.co.uk)
114 points by tod222 13y ago|77 comments
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by tod222 13y ago
The issue was that none of the trio of shell scripts/awk/sed could stand alone, so the "language" by necessity consisted of all three tools. You'd write the main loop in shell and use awk and sed when required. Re
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by tod222 13y ago
What the NYT article omits is that a triangular grid [1] encoded by the grid cells is used to track movement, according to Wikipedia's entry for Grid cell. [2] Further questions: How many grid cells are there? What is the largest area
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by tod222 13y ago
No, the commenter admits to "knowing nothing about the subject." To be credible, a skeptic can't be ignorant.
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Universities Face a Rising Barrage of Cyberattacks(nytimes.com)
5 points by tod222 13y ago|0 comments
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by tod222 13y ago
The software is JGAAP (Java Graphical Authorship Attribution Program). [1] Reading the article makes it clear that it wan't an identification as much as a confirmation of Rowling as the author. The analysis was the result of suspicions
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by tod222 13y ago
> Except for a few thousand libertarians, the people most upset by this were Obama's most fervent supporters… No, Obama's most fervent supporters want to hang Snowden for treason, and Greenwald along with him. They're quit
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by tod222 13y ago
I edited the item to add articles indicating that Yahoo! has had a history of problems with email compromises and now none of the links are clickable. It's frustrating to have my attempt to cite sources trigger the anti-spam function.
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by tod222 13y ago
This is related to the ongoing Yahoo! email compromises [1] as BT outsourced its email service to Yahoo! [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5896977
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One in ten emails from BT accounts is malicious(pcpro.co.uk)
1 points by tod222 13y ago|1 comments
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Massive number of Yahoo email accounts compromised
18 points by tod222 13y ago|11 comments

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